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LOOKING BACKWARD J Takeu From the File# of The Chronicle Fifteen mid Thirty Year# Ago * THIRTY YKAItH AGO * November IK, 1904 latest returns from forty-five states gives victory to Itepubljc^nH, | Theodore Roosevelt's popular vote Urgent over given 'a candidate fori President. Serious storm does much damage in North, worse since 1888. New York cut oir from outside communication, by wires 'being blown down. Thomas J. Cauthen, 88, of Westville community dies. Christy Brothers Minstrels to be at Opera House, November -24th. Protracted meeting held at Presbyterian church, two services daily,. Sumter to have Seaboard connection at McBee. Corporation to be named "Sumter and Northern railroad," maximum capital stock $00,000. Corporators are; K. K. Curnes, W. It. Scarborough and J, E, Stuckey. Fifteen real estate transfers listed. "Bloomsberry" open to Northern guests, several reservations for next week have been made. Jurors drawn for special term of court are: ?. B. Brunham, W. T. Pitts, J. W. Blackwell, J. D. McCaskill, S. B. Stokes, A. B. Kabon, B. F. Truesdnle, Adolphus Rose, J. A. McDowell, W. A. McDonald, J. A. Itabon, J. K. Catoe, S. F. Kelly, It. L. Smyrl, It. Eubank,s, J. J. Sanders, W. It. Roberts, W. E. Elliott, Jas. Stokes, B. F. Sowell, Jas. Robinson, E. P. Shedd, W. T. McLaurin, R, It. Robs, W. II. Catoe, W. T. McCaskill, It. E. Mungo, It. T. Mickle, A. G. Bradley, P. A. McDowell, It. W. Hammond, B. B. Branham, T. E. Goodale, iS. N. Hammond, A. McCaskill, W. M. Stroud. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO ^ November 14, 1919 Albert Borden, of New York City I in a private plane piloted by K. K. ' llei lue, of Canadu lande<i on the polo i field and spent the week here, the guests of W. II. Kirkbride at Cool Springs. Gasoline War on in Camden, price drops from 30 to 26 cents per gallon. K. C. Johnson, of Charlotte visited his parents, Mr. an/1 Mrs. W. E. Johnson. American Railway Express Company waging light against accepting "quurt a month" whiskey package. Miss Marceline Estridge and L. K. Yarborough, of Bethune married by Rev. J. M. Forbis at iPresbyterian Manse in Bethune. Major Har^son Baunders, U. 8. A., 26 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Saunders, of "Hill Crest" Stateburg died from Injuries received when he landed his plane at I^awton, Okla. He had just completed a trip from Galveston. Miss Katherine Zemp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Zemp marries Mtlames It. Murphy, of Columbia. * The Ivee County correspondent to the Chronicle reports long staple cotton selling at til 1-2 cents per pound. Miss D. E. Brown sold her beautiful home "Villa Roseland" to Steve Robinson. Four doaths and twenty serious illnesses caused from drinking bad liquor in Columbia. Weather man predicts freezing temperatures over North and South Carolina. Robert Dennis Fatally Injured Funeral .services fur Hubert ..Sidney Dennis, ii.'l-ycar-old farmer of the Rembert section of/t he county, who was fatally injji^4 yesterday in un accident at Ji^eotton gin, will be held at tXis afternoon' tit Trinity churchn?umter county. The funeral party will leave the Shellcy-IJvun.son Funeral Home at "J:dO o'clock this afternoon. Interment will be made in i in- church cemetery. Following the accident at the gin Mr. Dennis was rushed to the Tuomey Hospital, but died a short time after admittance. Mr. Dennis attended Clemson College and the University of South Carol ina, where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Dennis of Renrvbert; three brothers, Albert Dennis of Columbia; Patrick and Raymond Dennis of Rembert; four sisters, Mrs. D. I. McLeod, Mrs. J. T. McLeod, Frances and Martha Dennis, all of Rembert.?'Sumter Item. Practice Condemned By Grand Jury Greenville, Nov. II.?The Greenville county grand jury, in a presentment in general sessions court Thursday, condemned the alleged practice of State Senator C. 10. (Mountain Lion) Sloan in using his influence to get lines and jail sentences of bootleggers ! ed Ui ed "It ha- come to the atention of the grand jury." said the presentment, "that Senator C. F. Sloan, of Green\ille county, is engaged in representing bootleggers in attempts to reduce their tines and sentences. This official has admitted this practice and confessed that he is being paid for these services. We are informed that tins is not in violation of the law, but we do regard it as a violation of the ethics of his office. We condemn this practice in the strongest possible terms as being destructive to good morals and law enforcement." Science Nibbles Plant fossils unearthed in California prove that 100,000.000 years ago the climate of that region was tropical. Texts at Wisconsin university indicate that photographs do not reveal the personality traits of subjects. The drug at-abrine has been found to be many time more effective in the treatment of malaria than quinine. Soviet scientists have successfully raised such crops as wheat, rye and barley in the Kara Kum desert without irrigation. It has now been proven that cosmic radiation varies daily. Meters showthat it reaches its height at noon and its minimum between iCOO P. M. and P>:00 A. M. It has been learned that insects in or on plants can be killed with short radio waves without injury to the plants. It is just possible that this might be of future importance.?The Pathfinder. I The net profits on the Century of Progress foir for its years is said to be 1*44,??. j ? Darlington Woman Gets Life Sentence Darlington, Nov. 7.?Sallie McFarland, twenty-eight, was convicted of the murder of her husband, Robert ( rawford, on June 24 near Hartsville late Monday in crimnal court here and sentenced by Judge 10. Dennis to life imprisonmetn in the state penitentiary. The jury had recommended her to the mercy of the court. She killed her husband with an axe after the latter had returned to his home drunk and a quarrel had ensued. The head w^s practically severed from the body of the dead man and the body then hid in woods for several hours. Southeast Prosperous Returning to Washington last week from a visit to the southeastern j states, W. I. Myers, governor of the h CA, said: "The rural southeast began to work out of its financial trouibles last year, and this year it is in better position." ! Dr. Myers visited Louisiana, MissI issippi, Alabama, Georgia and the j Carolinas and called on leading bankj ers and merchants in these states, j Continuing his summary of what he ; learned, he said: "Merchants repeatedly told me that farmers were paying their back debts and again have become purchasers of goods. The statements by merchants are in line with the experience of the 1* ederal Land banks of New Orleans, ( olumbia and St. Louis, which loan in the territory I visited. Officials of these banks told me collections had been much better than for a number of years." Dr. Myers added that he noted marked improvements in farm real estate markets in the territory, and said that if the New Orleans Land bank continued to sell farms at the present rate it will dispose of $2,000,000 worth of property this year. The statements made by Dr. Myers are based on facts which are observable to every one in this section. While sections of the north and west were suffering severely from the disastrous drouth of last spring and summer, the southeast had the average amount of rainfall, which resulted in good crops of practically every form of farm produce. This, coupled j with advanced prices, and augument| ed by payments by the government for acreage curtailment, gave the farmers of this entire section more | ready cash than they have had for several years. Added to all this is the fact that itho live-at-home movement begun three years ago has resulted in a great increase in the number of farmers who now raise their own food and feed, thus keeping in this section hundreds ot millions of dollars that have gone north and west in the past. When prosperity comes to the farmer, that prosperity is passed on to merchants and others in every community, and for that reason the southeast now leads all other sections ir. the come-back from previous hard times.?Southern Cultivator. Chester C. Davis, farm administrator, says that the prevention of future calamities in agriculture is to he the real eorvico of the AAA adjustment program. Scientists Intrigued % Carolina Cypress Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 8.?North Carolina's 65-foot cross-section of cypress, cut in Tuckahoe nwarpp a id now on exhibition in the state museum, has set scientists U> wondering if the weuther map of nearly 1,000 years is not recorded by its 840 rings. Harry T. Davis, curator of geology at the museum, says that the treesection undoubtedly lias distinguishable weather marks through the series of rings, and John H. Parker of the United States bureau of plant industry, stationed at Kansas State college, Manhatten, concurs. Not long ago Mr. Davis got a letter from Mr. Parker inquiring as to whether a bulletin had been issued on the specimen. No such pamphlet has been printed, but Davis believes that experts can determine whether certain years were wet, dry, abnormally cold or unusually warm by examining the rings, t&tudies of this character have been made of cross-sections of trees from Arizona and other states. For example, Davis points out, an expert could take the ring representing 1492, when the North Carolina specimen whs a part of a tree then 419 years old, and figure opt whether the Indians living in this section had a tough time that winter, or just what the weather conditions were the season that Columbus made his memorable voyage. The giant Tarheel cypress started its upward journey 142 years before King John signed Magna Charts at Runnymede and 419 years before Columbus took San Salvador in the name of Isabella. The tree was there when the English and Spanish were campaigning for supremacy in North America. The tree grew on while the Tuckahoe swamp was under the rule of Indians, British, colonialists, the United States, the Confederate States of America and the United States again, Davis points out.. The section on exhibit in the museum was cut from a point in the trunk that stoo l 20 feet above the ground, the diameter of the stump's having been 1 1 feet. During the years of its slowest growth it took the tiunk 23 years to add an inch. Restoring Farms And Farmers Quite a few years ago there was a well-defined movement to secure colonization of worthy farmers on government directed farms, the lands to be sold the farmers on long time contracts with small annual pay- ] ments. This movement took definite steps to achieve the results desired. The editor of The Press and Standard, accompanied By Dr. W. W, Dong, of Clemson College, and others interested, made a trip to Wilmington to inspect the settlement of Hugh McRae who had demonstrated that industrious farmers could earn a living on ten to twenty acres of well tilled and fertile land. Another trip was made to Washington where Dt. Hubert Work and others interested were in conference. In South Carolina a large tract of land was selected at Mt. Holly, twenty miles from Charleston, as a site for this development work. It was thought that it would go through and that controlled settlements would be tried out with a number of small farms cut from this large tract of land. It was, we think, the war which broke up these plans, and nothing came of the movement, except the determination of the value of the plan. Now a large tract of land has been acquired in Lop county and settlement upon this of 200 families of farmers is well under way. Homes will be built and the government will select those farmers from the ielief rolls of the state, and will supervise their planting and marketing. Thus again in South Carolina will the idea of controlled settlements be given a chance of a tryout. We believe in such a plan, and feel sure that, with proper safeguards, U will succeed. Another idea is being tried out in each of the counties. In Colleton county, C. P. Fishburne, Ls in charge of rehabilitation work, and he will have a half hundred farms, rented from owners and cultivated by worthy farmers now on relief rolls. The government will furnish horse-s, mules and cows, as well as hogs to these farmers, and will supervise the work done. Money will be advanced these farmers to buy fertilizers, food and feed. Properly administered this should succeed if markets can be provided at proper prices for the products. The Press and Standard believes in helping the people to vork out their own salvation. This can be done. The Ix*e county farm development proposition and the rehabilitation work in the counties are along the proper linos. We shall watch and await results, and we trust they will succeed.?Waltereboro Press and Standard. The coroner at Winston-Salem, N. C., is of opinion that the deaths of Robert Haith, negro barber, and his wife, was a case of murder and suicide. Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Get MoGee, Copyright, 1928. MIKE 18 PLANNING TO GET OFF THE RELIEF PAYROLL doer mr. odditor:? plese allow me apace in yore valluable paper to sty a few words about a mule that i am now in the market for. i have benn infarmed that the govvernment will feed everyboddy and his mule, if he has one, and rent some land for hipi and his mule to work, and give him groceries and tobacker while doing so. i have everything on hands alreddy except the mule in question. if anny of yore valluable readers should happen to have a nice mule which will suit the govvernment for this purpose, plese tell them to get in touch with me at once, but she must be gentle enuff for my wife to plow, and strong enuff to held me up when i ride her to town, and she must not eat up her troff in the stable like my last mule did befoar she dide. i want a mule that can plow enduring the day and live in the pastor at night, that i?^-unless the govvernment will furnish all of the feed, as i have none, i suppose they will get me a farm with a pastor affixed to it, as i plan to let them buy me a cow also, and you know that she will want to graze on grass ansoforth. if the govvernment will not pay for the mule hisself, i will give a fifth mortgage on my cotton and corn crop for her, but that is the best i can do onner count of the govvernment and the landlord and the guanner company and the garage will want the first, aecont, third, and fourth morgage for what they let me enjoy while being rehabilitated ansoforth, and the mule can allso stand for herself, this plan will take me and her both out of the breadline and off the f. e. r. a. i want a black mule, if possible, allso the harness must be throwed in; the govvernment mought forget a few of these miner requirements for farming, fherefoar?i don't want to miss nothing. i do not want a dee? or a blind mule, nor one that sec-saws in her stable, or hollers for food at night when there aint no food to holler for and keep us awake, she must be broke to a hoover buggy, as I i plan to get one of them if i do not get a tag next year. kindly run this request in the front part of yore paper where it is likely to get read, when a feller reads the first and secont page of some newspapers, he don't find nothing in it, he always throws it down and turns on the radio, i can't get rehabillitated without a mule, so plese do yore part about the mule and i will do mine about her when she is furnished. j yores trulie, j mike clark, rfd, j govvernment farmer. MIKE CLARK'S WEEKLY MARKET LETTER Cotton ..december started off the fust of the^,week verry strong on news from j texass that Oklahoma will plant more cotton next year and less hogs, and will fight the boll weevil with airplanes instead of sweet pizen, soaking rains were hell in south georgy and Virginia and this influenced southern selling, but the long side looks better than the short side, therefore i recker-mend straddling if possible, bombay and livverpool are thinking of closing down for christmus, so our local cotton buyer says, therefore, i suggest that all speckerlators get in on martch and out on may, and keep on fighting the addministration in sympathy with the republicans. Small Grains ..oats for mules and breakfast foods are scarce, high, and strong, but wheat seems to lean towards com which is short, it will not be a bad idea to watch arginteen and chilly, as each of these countries mought have rye and barley for export, and that will force chicargo and winniepegg to ease off to the pressent world price lewel which is lower than boston or new york, and possibly new Orleans, some moisture fell in kansas and nebraska and snow is being looked for every day from now on to keep it from freezing after it comes up. i advise going slow on futures and buying present requirements the day after you need same. Stocks and Bonds . .rails and gen. motors gained 2 points each last tuesday on news from Washington that the ne^deal is going to watch wall street only 3 days per week .instead of 7 days as they are doing at present, safety razor showed a sharp break near noon thursday, while curtis airplane soared to a new high, air reduct. showed some expansion onner count of not, gass, but beth steal was no stronger than usual, broken milk was sour at noon, while auto .lite was a bright spot along with sun oil. i advise watehing for an advance and the dimmercrats. if you can't hold, you mought as well sell and get out on margin. bonds . . muny-cippals are weak where citties have benn run by politick instead of brains, therefoar, if you are looking for investments, it mought pay you to trade in yore france 8$ and yore itlay 7$ and yore great brittan | K* for a bicycle or a secont-hand moddel "t", and then swap it for a few bundles of 6$ now in default by hick towns which was trying to be new yorks and bostons enduring the boom, these bonds mought come in ok if the towns who owe same can borry some monney from the rfc and the cwa and pay up all defaults, otherwise?hold yore government 3$ and yore tongue. yores trulie, mike dark, rfd, investment expert. Farmers' Money, * Goes To Uncle $am A. I*. Cotton reports that his "Crop Production Association," covering Or-I angeburg and Calhoun Counties, is raking the platter clean on collec?j tions. The best, it i^said, in the state. 90 per cent of over 2 hundred and a quarter thousand dollars, turned loose for the "blue bales," htqf already been garnered. And practically the rest of the 100 per eent is expected before Christmas. Mr. Cotton says the Federal Land Bank also reports heavy collections on real estate and Home loans. This probably explains the complaints- from othars about slow collections. Good crops and high prices have been a big factor. There is another reason that probably cuts considerable ice. Talking about getting "Uncle Ham" out of business, is a joke. He is in business, head over ears, and can't get out if he tried, for-years to come. Not only farmers, but home owners and others realize this, and they are pulling for that sugar barrel next season. The old lien merchant and crop banks have gone to the iboneyard. Most of the private money lenders have either busted, gotten cold feet, or been' shunted aside. Human bipeds are like sheep In one respect. When the bellwethers jump the fence the flock follows. There has been a regular stampede to get under Uncle iSam'a strong and expansive wing. A man, in a position to know, says that many never thought by the rabble, to borrow from anybody, are now riding on the good old Uncle's capacious coattails. It is now the fashion and the last throw of the dice. Those who look beyond their snouts, realize this, and that, if they fail to grease the old man's skillet, lard will be scarce, or none, in the coming rainy days. So they are wisely paying up, even though the little checks and balances due the smaller fry hither and yon, jare left in the cold. You hear the question often asked: "Why, with present prices, does business seem no better than usual?" Easy to answer brother. Did you ever see more new automobiles, or half as many? In addition to that enormous drain, going, every dollar, to Yankee-land, there is the new pipe line through which flow millions of dollars in crop and other loans, that used to fall like the gentle dews on the domains at home. How will it' all pan out? Time only will tell. One thing is certain. Politics is (and often are) fickle. We are now sailing smoothly on Democratic waters. Big fish in the mill pond. When the "Repubs" come on the scene again, as they will some day, in the natural course of things, they may make tadpoles of us over night, as they usually do with' the Dixieites. This is written before the general election. The bo torn may drop out on November 6th. We hope and believe not, however, though a gentle tap on the noggin may be a wise reminder, and a warning for the Democrats to slow down. iBe that as it may the government is in big business to srtay. Bureaucracy is on the increase, under either banner, with its tentpoles too deep in the earth to extricate, and too many who have le?amed the path to easy pie.?Caihoun Times. >j\CKS COUGH DRop . . . Real Throat relief! Medicated with ingredients of Vicks VapoRub ! Ends a ColJ SOOMRl I \fgftjv j. W. English^ I Passes Awil Another of that rare circle of J has passed away. J. W. English,? of the four remaining Confedej? veterans of Lee County, died ?t home of his daughter, Mrs. J. wi? ipan Smith, Monday, November 5. had been in ill health for quite H' i,l time. He was eighty-seven y^g? age. Besides Mrs. Smith, deceased I survived 'by another daughter, Mrs.1 W. HesChamps, of Bishopville. ' Mr. English was a member | officer in the Bishopville ifep| church for many years. The funeral services were held? the Bishopville Presbyterian churl Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. | services were conducted by the J T. Littlejohn, pastor of the^B ceased and the Rev. D. M. Mch? pastor Presbyterian church. The death of Mr. English leal only three Confederate veterahsl the county. However, he was | last member of the Lee County Cft? Confederate Veterans. One by| they are "passing away to the gi| beyond, leaving a vacancy that c| not be filled, for they were woncfl ful men. So with our old and i| pected citizens, Mr. English, he | fought his last fight; answered | last roll call; made his last ma| and now has crossed the fiver | rests under the shade of the tree| Bishopville Messenger. I Spain's Revolution! Costs Dear! Madrid, Nov. 10.?Spain's rev| tion, now all but a lurid memory, v|! the bloodiest and most destructive? many decades. Although chiefly confined to As| rias and the Autonomous region ^! Catalonia, it was estimated that |! movement had cost ten times I many lives as all the rest of Spanish, revolts in the last 50 ye| The government has refrained fr| issuing any official casualty lists, f| cencorship has prevented conjectu? But data carefully compiled by | Associated 'Press would seem to mi| the following estimates fairly c<| servative: Head, 3,600. Wounded and injured, 10,000. Property loss, 4,000,000,000 pese| (almost $500,000,000 at current change). The Austrian phase of the revfl accounted for about 3,000 of the de| about 7,000 of the injured and proximately one-half of the prope| damage. The capital city of Oyi'c? once a delight to the eye, must tually be rebuilt. About 100 were killed in Madi^! The Catalonian death toll was es^B mated at slightly more. ? Prisons are crowded with rebels a? the overflow is handled by mercha? marine and war department vass? converted into prison ships. It *H estimated that more than 20,000 p?f sons were arrested. The revolt is suppressed, the go? ernment believes today. But politi^B troubles gp on, and there are ous rumblings, which portend nflj troubles for Premier Lerroux. Six Deer Killed Manning, Nov. 5.?A group I Manning men returned late Frid? afternoon from the Santee where they killed six large bu? Warren Dickson, Jr., proved to be t? luckiest, as he brought down ti? This is the second time this seaa? Mr. Dickson has gone on a drive^B returned with two deer to his ere? The other four bucks were killed! Hugh Plowden, Ike Bagnal, The?*? Stuges and Robert Reaves. Real estate j rents collected, farm and city proper1y hunting ' preserves r R?P?iring a?a C*r?-T.ki?? of Property all forms of insurance PeKAlB WSURAMCE^ AND REAL ESTATE CO. I