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LOOKING BACKWARD i Taken Frotn the FileH The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yearit A#o THIRTY Y KAK8 AGO Dercmbvr 9, 1904 Fifty-eighth United States Congress holds last meeting of year, Senate in session 12 minutes; house &.'! minutes. President Theodore Roosevelt's annua! address read before each body. New cattle <li sense kills muny calves arid yearling cattle Christmas holiday rates over Southern railway advertised. Duncan Jitnaon and Miss Mattie Burdell ma mod. Mr. and Mrs. F. Barron tirier and young dntighters, of Greenwood visit Mrs. drier's mother, Mrs. Nannie Withers. Annual state meeting of U. D. C held at Orangeburg with Mr:1. \. W. Burnet, of Camden, resident piesiding. Miss Sallie Davis, of Charlotte, formerly of Camden visitor at home of Dr. and Mrs. D. 1). DoXaussure. New Are alarm system inspected by Mayor 11.41. Carrison, Henry Walkings, Robert McCreight and Robin Zemp and found to be O. K. Handsome French china doll, valued at $1H to be given away Christmas Kve night hy the Camden Millinery Company, to lucky child receiving most votes. Dr. and (Mrs. Charles Helden,, of Stratford, Conn., die, within few days of each other. Miss Sara Boykin hostess to "Acorn Club" at her home "The Terraces." A .1 . . J 1 . 1 i hktkkn ykaks ago December 5, 1919 South Carolina Methodist Conference held at McColl and Dr. W. W. Ihuiiels returns to Camden an |>a?tor of Lyttleton Street M. K. Church. Miss LuKoy Caddy and Arial C. King married in Bennettsvdle. Vernon Keels, well known planter of the Rembert section of Sumter county die*. Was brother of Miss Annie Keels. Mrs. K. L. Phelps died, is survived b) her husband an<i two daughters, Misses Helen and Ada Phelps. Broadus Thompson kills eagle, with wing spread of seven feet. Fuel scarcity causes stores to close early in evenings. Diamond fouryi in Premier Mine, South Africa valued ut $500,000, thought to be world's second largest diamond. Acute shortage of news print, due to heavy advertising over nution. \V. O. Hay's (iarage gets new machine for grinding valves. Clarence Dunn, Htudent at Duvid-* son home for Thanksgiving., Lambert DoPush, Dick iSingleton and .John K. deLoach, home from University of South Carolina for holidays. Mrs. Tom Thumb, one of the World's most famous Liliputians dead at age of 77. Georgia firm given advice as to best way to tight boll weevils. Camden Negro Heads Association Kugene Washington Rhodes of Philadelphia, editor of the Philadelphia] Tribune, and the president of the National Negro Par association reached Columbia lujjL night from Camden, whore ho is visiting relatives. Rhodes, a graduate of Benedict college, is about 3H years old, went North several years ago, wb^re he has become one of the leading Negro leaders in the North. President Coolidge appointed him us an assistant Tutted States district attorney for Philadelphia district. With the election of President Roosevelt two years ago, he resigned his office when the Democrats look over the national government. But in the recent campaign that has just closed, Rhodes through the editorials of his widely read weekly called upon the Negroes of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania to support the Democratic candidates for governor on down the line. The Democrats were elected, and along with the Democratic governor, three Negroes were sent to the legislature from Philadelphia. While in the city, he is the house guest of Seymour Carroll at Oak street. He will return to Camden tonight, where he is a guest of his uncle, the Rev. J. W. Boykin, pastor of the Mt. Moriah Baptist church.? Monday's State. Native OF Camden Washington Rhodes, above referred to, was born and reared in Camden and as a lad was employed by the late M. Baum & Co., nt that time the leading mere-ant ile establishment of this section. His aged mother, is -till living in this city and resides with her brother. Rev. J. W. Boykin, and for the past five years has been in poor health. Rhodes will be remembered by many of the older residents who are pleased at his .-ueeess and recognition. Deer Hunter Found By Searching Party David Honeycutt, of Fayelteville, N. I'., who was lost in the Santee ::ver swamp near Pinewood Thursday afternoon while on a deer hunt, i 'orated hy a party of Sunderj men shortly after 1 1 o'clock this this morning and brought safely from '.he swRirtp. j Mr. Honeycutt vva.- placed on a -tand yesterday afternoon, but after the drive apparently wandered off and v v,;]d not be found by his compan.orts. <iid not suffer any ill effects from his night in the woods, r.owover, having remained under a tree for protection from the rain throughout the night. Mr. Honeycutt was in Sumter \isiting Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Walsh.?Friday's Sumter Item. Mathis, Plyler Win Trips To Chicago Clemson College, Dec. 1.?E. B. Mathis, Jr., of Sumter and Bruce Plyler of Lancaster are re-presenting South Carolina 4-.H club boys at the National 4-H Club Congress in Chi-j cago, November 30- December H. They will also visit the International Livestock Show and the National Hay and {(train Show, the plants of the International Harvester Company, Armour and Company, Wilson Company, Swift and Company, the Chicago Board of Trade, and other places of interest. The boys won their trips, awarded by the Barrett Company of New York I City, on corn and cotton production respectively. Since joining the 4-H club in 1931 young Mathis has averaged '.>4 bushels of corn per acre on his demonstrations, his yield ranging from H4 to 124 1-2 bushels. This year he also 'grew an acre of cotton from which he harvested nearly two bales. "Four-H club work has meant a lot to me," says E. B., "because in it I have learned how to judge livestock, how to play fair and cooperate with other people, how to grow corn and cotton, and how to do many other things. It has intluenced me to go to college since I have been able to start a good bank account from my 4-H club earnings." Bruce Plyler, who first joined the 4-H club in 1929, has grown corn, cotton, and calves for his demonstrations. This year he grew two bales of cotton on his club acre. "I can hardly say in a few words .just what 4-H club work has m^ant to me." says Bruce. "It surely has been both pleasant and profitable to me." These boys will be accompanied by A-distant County Agent T. O. Bowen of Sumter. Olin Horn, Jr., another! 1-11 club boy of Sumter, will accompI any this club delegation to Chicago. i WHAT A TK Ad KI) Y On A mistice Day. workmen in a! | huge factory at Crayford. Kent. Engi land, paused two mintues at 11 o'clock in the morning in silent tribute to 'their countrymen who had lost their lives in the World war. Then they went hack to their work of turning out machincguns, rifles, gas-projecting maahines, and other munitions manufactured by the Yickers Compai ny, Ltd. They must get ready for the next war which will snuff out the i lives of more of their countrymen.? Monioe Enquirer. In Spain, where divorces were unknown up to 20 months ago. more than (>.000 legal separations have been grunted since the adoption of divorce law s. Three Memphis. Tenn., firemen were killed Sunday by the collapse of a wall of the building in which they were fighting a fire. | REAL ESTATE 1 I RENTS COLLECTED, FARM AND CITY PROPERTY HUNTING PRESERVES j | Repairing and Care-Taking of Property ALL FORMS OF INSURANCE I I DeKALB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO. I I Crocker Building ? Telephone 7 I 1 1 Farm Calendar For December Guidance Clcmuon College, Dec. 1.?Even in December funnel's myst keep busy ! with important activities, chiefly looking towards the future, aa indicated in these December suggestions by extension specialists. Agronomy?Wea ther permitting, turn heuvy soils that have no cover crops. Put cotton under cover to prevent lof?H of $5.00 or more per bale. Clean up briars and plum thickets around edges of fields. Bed down stalls and barns with leaves, pine needles, or grain straw; the bigger the manure pile the smaller the fertilizer bill. Horticulture?Prune fruit trees and bunch grapes. Make garden plans, get catalogs, and order seeds before seedsmen are out of desirable varieties. If fruit trees have not already been set, do so this month; fall or winter planting in the South is preferable to early spring planting. Prepare hot-beds for sowing in January. Prune scuppernong vines to December 15. Propagate grapes and ornamental deciduous shrubs from new cuttings. Insects and Diseases?Burn trash and weeds in gardens and fields to destroy hibernating insects. Burn orchard prunings to destroy shot-hole borers. Plow under old stalks to destroy insects. Burn twigs severed by girdlers. Apply lime sulfur or oil emulsion dormant sprays after trees are completely dormant. Agricultural Engineering??U s e tractors freely for belt jobs, sawing wood, feed grinding, etc. Cut in cotton stalks and other material with a disc harrow. Build and repair terraces now so that they may settle before the hard spring and summer rains. Build or repair fences for better handling of livestock. Store the cultivating machinery and grease parts that are likely to rust. Build a meat-curing ic.-box to save farm meat. Bankhead Act Up To Farmers In submitting the referendum on the Bankhead Act to cotton producers, the Government will in no .sense seek to impose its view upon farmers to influence their decision, according to Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. "It is my hope," he says, "that cotton producers will examine carefully all available facts on the cotton situation and reach a decision based on considered judgment as to whether the Bankhead Act is needed to assure the attainment of the objectives of the cotton adjustment program. "Cotton farmers must decide whether the adjustment of cotton production under voluntary contracts is sufficient to rheet the requirements of the present emergency or whether the efforts of a small minority of noncooperators, the tendency toward more intensive cultivation, and the possibility of new lands coming into cotton production combine to increase total production above the point which seems desirable. "The responsiblity of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in submitting the refendum consists of providing cotton producers with the facts needed to guide them in reaching a decision and of providing the opportunity for voting. It is for the cotton farmer to choose whether or not we shall continue to use the mechanism afforded in the Bankhead Act as a supplementary control to the current efforts under the Agricultural Adjustment Act." Medium Fat Hog For Home-Dressed Meat Glemson College, Dec. 1.?That a medium fat hog is most desirable for home-dressed meat is the opinion of Prof. I,. V. Starkey, chief animal husbandman here, who states that a 225 pound moderately fat hog produces the "family" size cbts of pork. These statements Prof. Starkey makes in connection with his advice Gnat every farm family cure a sufficient supply of meat for home use. A 225-pound hog moderately fat will yield hams and three-rib shoulders weighing about 16 pounds each, bacon strips and loins weighing 10 to 12 pounds, according to state experiment station and U. S. Department of Agriculture tests. These cuts are of desirable size to cure and store after smoking, and they can be cut into satisfactory economical slices or roasts for cooking. Heavier hogs normally produce a greater proportion of lard. They also produce bacon and hams that some | families consider too fat. Good-qualjity thrifty hogs normally produce the most desirable meat. Precaution should be taken to see i that all animals dressed are in a healthy condition. Prof. Starkey says. A new trial has been refused Robert A. Edwards, convicted of the "American tragedy" slaying of his sweetheart, Freda McKechie, and now under death sentence in Pennsylvania. Kills Husband With Stick of Stove wood Columbia, Nov. 2'J.?Mm, Mary D.! Thomaaon, forty. hold in jail to- i night pending a coroner's inquest tomorrow into the death of her husband, Ralph Stewart Thomason, thirty-seven-year-old laundry superintendent. Thomason died at a local hospital last night from a wouftd on the head,) and Police Chief *W. H. Kawlinsonj said today Mrs. Thomason admitted striking her husband with a stick of wood after he had attacked her while drunk. Her original story, police said, was that she found Thomason on a bed in their home bleeding from a mysterious wound on Uhe head, and when arrested this morning at the home of a sister, she reiterated that he was in bed when she came home and that his only action was to ask for a piece of bread. C arried back to the home for questioning, Chief Itawlinson said Mrs. Thomason recounted details of the altercation. Exclaiming "Lord knows I didn't want to hurt the man," she told offi-l cers, "he was lying across the bed drunk when I came home. He followed me into the kitchen and asked for a piece of bread. When I started to get it, he stuck his hand in a bowl of salad on the table and threw it in my face. Then he hit me with this chair. "I got over to the woodbox some-! how and got a piece of wood and hit! him with it." iShe reached into a woodbox Chief Rawlinson said, and pulled out a bloodstained piece of wood about two by two inches square and fourteen inches long. Mrs. Thomason was quoted by police as saying she administered treatment to her husband's wound but did not call a doctor because she did not think he was seriously hurt. The Happiest People "Who are the happiest people on earth? This question was asked by an English newspaper, and prizes were offered for the best answers. There were four prize-winning answers: | "A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done." A little child building sandcas, ties." "A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby." "A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation and saved a human life." No millionaires among these are happy, one notices. No kings or emperors. Riches and rank, no matter how the world strives for them, do not make happy lives. A sandcastle does that far better than a palace. It would be a sad day for -earth if only the great could be happy. But happiness is for everybody, not for a few.?[Selected. Seven business blocks of Los Angeles, Calif., were deluged with tear gas Saturday night as police tried to disperse a mob of 5,000 street car strike sympathizers. ' Warren E. Eaton, 46, of Norwich, N. Y., was killed in the crash of a motorless airplane when the machine crashed just off the coast of FTorida at Miami, from an altitude of 1,600 feet. ?.?1? Gets Reprieve For Murder Of , Son London, Dec. 3.?A reprieve for the gray-haired mother condemned to death for the "mercy slaying" of her imbecile son was issued today in communication from the office of the home secretary, where hundreds of appeals for clemency have been received. The frail, 02-year-old mother, Mrs. May Brownhill, was removed from the shadow of the gallows in an official action set a record for speed in recent appeal cases in England. The home office revealed the action in a communication to George Lansbury, labor leader, who had been one of the prime movers against a judge's sentence and a jury's conviction which was to have sent Mrs. Brownhill to her death for the slaying of her son Denis, to whom she gave an overdose | of sedative tablets and gas. Court testimony revealed her action | was caused by fear for the future of her son, whom she had nursed for j 30 years, when she was faced with an operation which might mean losing her life. Several members of parliament joined with Lansbury and George , Bernard Shaw and others in urging clemency. Knowledge that a reprieve was to be granted came only a few hours after a petition for one had been formally filed. I Since Mrs. Brownhill was sentenced, ; however, it has become known that I she must face another operation be- j fore she can be restored to health. A I previous one, which she had feared, never to survive, v^as partially sue- | cessful. I A reprieve recommendation from j I the office of the home secretary is. equivalent to the actual granting of! a reprieve. The action removes the death sentence, but whether there was to be a full pardon for Mrs. Brownhill, granting her freedom, was a separate matter which must be passed upon by the king if the home secretary recommends a pardon. In the scramble for the speakership of the lower house of congress, with many aspirants, Representative Sam Rayburn of Texas, is said to have the backing of Vice President Garner. The banking commissioner of the state of Massachusetts, has announced the advancing of a Christmas present of $5,696,000 to 100,000 depositors in eight closed Boston banks. George (Dutch) Schultz," New York's public enemy No. 1, who surrendered to Federal authorities at Albany, is being held under bail bond of $100,000 to answer charges of evading income taxes. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All parties indebted loathe estate ^ of J. II. Ratcliff are hereby notilied to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, if any, having claims against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, within the time prescribed by law. W. H. iRatcliff Reese Hall, Executors of Estate of J. H. Ratcliff. Camden, <x C., I>ecember 3, 1934. Braggart "Next case," called the clerk, and a middle-aged Irish couple vyas ushered into the court room. They made a pitiful picture?the strong, healthy, tall, broad woman, and her poor, meek, battered little husband. The magistrate adjusted his glasses, then turaed to the man and said, "You I are accused of beating your wife. What have you to say 7" "Guilty, sif," replied the little man, I without a moment's hesitation. "Seven dollars or seven days," said I the magistrate. 1 After the session was over, one of I the court officials asked the magis- I trate if he hadn't been rather severe I in punishing the little fellow. <1 "Oh, no," exclaimed the magistrate. I "I had to give him something for I bragging."?Kablegram. I Isn't It Odd If the air were absolutely pure it I would be black. Tiny is the name of a township in I Ontario, Canada. A black egg was laid by a black I duck on an Illinois farm. Kissing in public is forbidden in I Italy, except at railway stations. ; Your body contains from one to one I and a fourth gallons of blood. 1 Henry Huss, of Meaford, Ontario, I Canada, drilled a hole through an or- I dinary pin without damaging it. I How One Man Met Danger I Si. Snodgrass and his wife Sapphira I heard a burglar in the night. Si took I his faithful old shotgun and his wife I lit a lamp and Stood by him. The burglar seemed to be in the cellar. Si I whispered to his wife: "You go ahead, I Sapphira and I'll bring up the rear." I iShe insisted he should go first, so I he could see where he was shooting. I "No," said Si. "One of us is liable I to be killed. ' It's (better for you to I go ahead. I can stand sorrow better I than you can." * , COUGH DROP I . . . Real Throat relief! I Medicated with ingredi- I ents of Vicks VapoRub j Green Leaf Villa Opens for the Season, Monday, December 10th LUNCHEON - TEA - DINNER GIFTS Telephone 547 Broad Street r Watch for the New Ford 1 ??????? From what we believe to be reliable information we are convinced I that it will be to the advantage of the motoring public to defer buying i ANY CAR AT ANY PRICE until they have seen the 1935 offering of j the Ford Motor Company. { i j We quote below the outlook for the automobile industry as seen ! I 1 by a Wall Street authority: ^ II 1"Activity on 1935 models is rapidly increasing, Ml with production of numerous manufacturers expected II to expand sharply over the res? of 1934 and early next j ; year. The estimated 40 per cent gain in unit produc- II tion this year should be extended in the coming twelve j j jj months although keener competition,particularly from II Ford, will tend to limit earnings gains for most comp- II anies." | ' i j Watch for further announcement of the first showing of these new i ^mpd$ls, at which time we will have a formal opening of our new Sales II and Service Headquarters on West DeKalb Street. 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