The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 16, 1934, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
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