Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? ? ! LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the File? of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yearn Ago : I KIKTKKM YBARS AGO Dtcemlxr 12, 11119 Highway Department reports road from Columbia to Camden: "Passable, but bumpy near Camden." Hughey Ttndal, of the Carolina Motor Company took a flight Wednesday over Camden and distributed circulars, two were marked good for motor supplies, and the tinders are requested to present thefce and claim the goods. Northwest storm warping* out and cold wave headed this way. Cards issued announcing the engagement of Miss Henrietta Block to L. P. Rich, of Orangeburg. Kershaw County jail visited by State Board of Charities and Alex Boone, jailor reports: "Prisoners? one white man, one negro man." Torrential rains at Augusta cause flood and eight cotton mills at Augusta ami in the 'Savannah river valley forced to suspend operations. Marguerite Halsail and Hazel D. McOaskill wedding invitations received. They are to be married in Charleston, December 17, ut St. Andrew's Lutheran Church. Young couple to live in Kershaw. Eggs reported selling in Chicago at $l.l>0 per dozen. J. C. Hurst and Wilcox DesCh&mpa, two Sumter aviators here carrying passengers. Some of those riding were: E. W. Young, J. W. Wingate, M iss Rhetta Del^oache Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Shannon, Bennie Marshall, Hughey Tindal, J. F. Jenkins, Miss Dorothy Smith, A. K. Blakeney, Ferris McDowell and Wylie Sheorn. Alexander Barkman and Emma Goldman, America's tw*> most notorious anarchists detained at Ellis Island by immigration authorities, upon demand of the Department of labor. THIRTY YKAKti AGO Drcember 10, 1904 Plan to burn a million bales of cotton at Scottsboro, Alabama, so as to reduce the supply and raise the price. Farmers organizing in Alabama, Texas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Georgia, to hold the crop for ten cents per pound. Editorial: "Put your faith in your homo enterprises. Spend your cash with those of our home merchants who have accommodated you during the year." Annual Conference of Methodist church in session in Darlington. Women's Exchange opened at home of Miss Cornelia Micklc on Broad street. Workman Hotel discovered on fire but excellent work by firemen kept the flames from doing much damage. Invitations received here issued by Mrs. Sumter Means to the marriage of her daughter, Miss Frances Geddes to William Shannon Nelson, at Trinity church, Columbia, December 2Kth. Camden Historical Society had meeting. E. C. von Tresckow read paper he prepared on the history of "Lafayette Hall." Also paper written by K. P. Mills on historical places of interest in and around Camden was enjoyed. Dr. S. F. Brasington has bought and had installed at his office over Zemp & DePass' Store an X-Ray machine. Wedding invitations received to the marriage of Miss I^ouise Beardsley Richardson to Randolph Withers Kirkland, December 31st, at East Lake, Georgia. "Pretty Baby," a musical comedy to be at Opera House, December 15th. Death Of "Pauper" Uncovers Riches Springfield. Mo., Deo. 1.?James B<?< kflman, 7-3, who lived the life of a pauper, today in death was disclosed to he a man of means. Police called to his dingy cottage , found his body on the kitchen tloor. Apparently, Bockelman had been dead for ,-everal days. < ancelied cheeks showed that he recently bought $ It ,000 worth of bonds at a bank here, and officials at another bank said he had bonds there worth $0,000 and $1,000 on deposit. Other papers showed that the aged man had several thousand dollars loar.ed on property. Police found $K0 in old bills hidden in a pocket book. Officers were notified of the death by Mrs. J. D. Young, mother of Jennings and Harry Young, who committed suicide in Houston, Texas, after killing six peace officers at their farm home near here January 2, 1932. Mrs. Young and her daughter, Vinita, were questioned very closely, being the only known friends of the frugal recluse, but they claimed they knew him "only as a friendly old man who said he had a lot of money." In Bockelman's home, searchers found a complete file of newspapers clippings of the Young farm massacre story. Put that, said Mrs. Young, wie imiy a coincidence. Bockolman was a former U. S. marshal in north Arkansas. Tax On Checks To End January 1 * The two-cent tax on hank checks which has been applied since June. 1932. will be removed January 1. 1935, according to Thomas M. Daniel, chief state bank examiner. The tax was begun as a source of revenue for the federal government and has brought in a considerable sum to the government. At the same time, however, ft has been a source of great inconvenience to bank officials as well as those who used the check system of payment. Hence its removal is anticipated with no little degree of relief. Mr. DanieJ said that the tax was first applied June 21, 1932, and was to have continued until July 1, 1934, but was extended until July 1, 1935. A new revenue act, however, substituted January 1, 1935, for July 1, 1935, and so the tax will come off with the close of this month. St. George Papers Now Combined At a meeting of the stockholders of the Record Publishing Company, held at- the office of the Record W ednesday at 12 o'clock noon, the I)or^, chester County Record and all equipment was sold to T. N. Burgess and II. B. Magill. Immediately thereafter Messrs. Burgess and Magill entered into an agreement with Mr. I. E. Mims to purchase the Dorchester Eagle. The two papers will bo consolidated. and beginning next week, will be issued under the name of the Dorchester Eagle-Record, with Mr. Burgess and Mr. Magill as sole owners. The plant will be located in the building now occupied by the Eagle. I The mailing list of the two papers , will be combined and all subscribers I will receive the Eagle-Record. | The Eagle, the older of the two i papers, was established by M. P. Eelder in 1899. Mr. Felder who is now engaged in the grocery business in St. George, can the paper until 1925, when he sold it to W. B. Tarkington. A few years later it was i purchased by I. E. Mims. ' The Record was established in 1927, and published by the Record Publishing Company, of which Mr. Albert Orth of Charleston was president. Its first editor was George R. Koester who is now editor of the Greenville Observer, The present management j took charge of the paper September 2 t of this year. i Annual Football Tolls Show Less I j New York. Dec. 5.?An auto thief doing a four-to-six year sentence in .i Connecticut prison, a nine-year-old school boy and 16 high school students were among the 26 players who lost their lives playing football this season, a compilation by the Associated Press today shows. I The death of John Daviduke, 24, as a result of injuries received in a j game inside the walls of Hartford State prison was the first among prisjon players since Warden L. E. Lawes of Sing Sing first made football a part of prison routine several years ago. The death list, although still high in the high school classification is below totals for 1931. 1932 and 1933, the three previous years in which the (Associated Press has kept records. R EAL ESTATE RENTS COLLECTED, FARM AND CITY PROPERTY HUNTING PRESERVES Repairing and Cam-Taking of Property ALL FORMS OF INSURANCE DeKALB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO. Cmeknr Building ? Telephone 7 , 1 a Flat Rock Citizen Dies Suddenly Samuel K. Broughton, 39, died quite suddenly at his home in the Flat Rock section about 10 o'clock Monday morning, December 3. He had just finished chopping some wood and had gone into hi# house to get ready to go to Cainden. He seated himself on i the bed and very soon after fell back-1 ward on the bed dead. The funeral service# were conducted from the J Hanging Rock Methodist church, Tueeday afternoon at 2:80 o'clock by I Rev. J. M. Neal and Rev. J. H. Hunt-' er, and the interment followed immediately after in the cemetery on the church "ground. Mr! Brougnton was a member of the Thorr. Hill Baptist church and was a highly respected citizen of his community. He i# survived by hi# widow, three sons, Edgar, Jr., Lindsay and Cecil, and one daughter, Agnes. .His stepmother, Mrs. V.,, L. Broughton, the following brothers, Dan, Furman and Melvin of Kershaw; Walter of Fort Mill, and Chalmers, of iSalisbury, N. C.; and the following sisters: Mrs. M. A. Bowers, 'Heath Springs; Mrs. L. J.j Humphreys, Camden; Mrs. W. A. I.athan, Mt. Holley, N. C.; Mrs. M. M, Grant, Chester; and Miss Alma Broughton, Kershuw. Mrs. Sam Hammond, Kershaw, a half sister, and two brothers, 'Herbert and Allen Broughton, Kershaw, algo survive.?Kershaw Era, Three Electrocuted At Raleigh Prison Raleigh, Dec. 7.?-North Carolina, for the first time in its nistory today exacted the lives of three white men of one family on & single day in the electric chair at state's prison for the crime of murder. The triple electrocution, which was the second time three men had been put to death in three weeks at the prison-, saw a father, Bascom Green, 14; hi= son. Lester Green, who would have been 23 on Monday; nnd R. E. Black, 25, .son-in-law of the elder Green, walk their "last mile." The men all lived in High P<pint when they were arrested and all received the death sentence for corri' plicity in the attempted robbery of the Merchants and Farmers' bank of j 1 aylorsville, in which T. C. Barnes, (the cashier, was fatally shot and Solon Little, another employe, was seriously wounded. The state required but 49 minutes to exact the death penalty of the.trio. Mike iStefanoff, a Bulgarian Immigrant and the fourth man convicted in the same case, went to his death in the chair early last summer. Electrified Fence Kills Fine Hogs The Dispatch-News was told Tuesday afternoon of a rather 9trange occurrence on the farm of V. U. Harmon, who lives about two miles from Lexington. According to the story, the young grandson of Mr. Harmon, nine or ten years of age, fastened a wire to a wire fence. He then attached the end of the wire to a rock and threw the wire over the high tension wire of the power company, turning the full voltage into the wire fence. The fence enclosed a large area and connected with another wire fence, it was said, the whole becoming electrified. Two fine hogs belonging to Mr. Bill Hatfield were electrocuted when they came in contact with the fence, it was said. The lad may have known nothing about electricity, but if he didn't, he was quite fortunate when h^ attached the wire to the fence before ho threw it over the high tension wire.?ILexington Dispatch-News. About Our Presidents Some interesting personal facts about our presidents: Washington was born on a Friday, and died in the last hour of the last day of the week, in the last month of the last year of the century. Adams and Jefferson died on the same day, July 4, 1826. Van Buren was the first persident not bom a British subject. Taylor, being a regular army officer, never voted prior to his election as president. .John Adams lived longer than any other president, more than 90 years. Tyler was a member of the provisional Congress of the Confederate states, and was a membor-elec: of the permanent Confederate Congress at the time of his death. Lincoln was the first president-to wear a beard. Grant was the first to wear a moustache, and also wore a beard. Buchanan was the only president , "who never married. Cleveland was a bachelor when inaugurated, but, married -soon afterward. William Hem-y Harrison was the oldest president upon taking office, 68; Theodore Roosevelt, the youngest, 42.?Monroe Enquirer. Camden Graded School Honor Roll Grade 1A --Donald Campbell. Harry Candy, Chapman Graham, ?Sam NichoUon, McKay Norris, Bobby Olmsted, Gary Ogburn, Lucy Deans, Margaret Holmes, Caroline McFadden, Juanita Outlaw, Lilli* Peebles, Barbara Hay, Joan Schlosburg, Virginia Stokes, Annie IAtt Tyson. Grade 1/B?Tommy Ancrum, Arliss i>eBruhl, John delx>ach, Skottowe DePass, Shannon Undsay, Tommy Little, Dallas Mahoney, Hilly Williams, Mildred Dlackwell, Alice Cameron, Peggy Hasty, Ida Scarborough, Mary Sheheen, Bernice Stewart. Grade 1C?Jack Harper, Willie Huggins, Jr., M. L. Humphries, Mary Nolan. Grade 2A?-Henry Frost, William Keasonover, Wiley Sheorn, Ben Smith, Joe Tobin, Charles Zemp, K. C. Wooten, Betty Barnett, Mary Nell Campbell, Carolyn DesChamps, Mary I^ngston, Janet l^ewis, Fay Lomansky, Molly Kuth Hedfearn, Joyce Smith, Rosemary Robinson, Inez Wooten. Grade 2B?fiteve Connell, Carol Cox, Alfred McCaskiil, Margie Elliott. Grade 3A?-David Barnes, Jack Boykin, Marion Brown, Briant Cox, I>avid Partin, Robert Thompson, Billy Waters, Lnntye Williford, Carolyp Baruch, Doris I^ake, Annie Robinson, Doris Rush, Jane Thomas, Jacqueline Davis, Jane Devine. Grade 4A?(Edward Ogburn, Billy Smith, Luther Watts, Caleb Whitaker, Mary Cameron, Azalee Dixon, Ruby Evans, Ivouine Hancock, Ethel Ann Mauldin, Beth Wilson, Margaret Sanders. Grade 4B?-Odell Harris, Margaret Robinson. Grade 5A?Charles Boineau, Alva Rush, Frank Sullivan, Thomas Turner, Artie Dixon, 'Cary Guthrie, Jane Hoffer, Jeanie Holmes, Mary Pitts, Gwendolyn Shirley. Grade 5>B?Jack Stein, N'ern Parker, Dora Mae Robinson, Margaret Wil-j liams, Virginia Joyncr. Grade 6A?Charles McCaskiil, Carolyn Cooley, Mary Smith. Grade 7A?Jerry Hancock, Jack Marshall, Herbert Moore, Billy Pitts, Billy Wilson, Betty Boineau, Marjorie Creed, Zelene DesChamps, Ida Mae McManus, Anne Whitaker. Superstitions About Cats Columbia. Dec. 10.?A student at the University of South Carolina has made a partial collection of the many superstitions among the negroes and the mountaineers of the south concerning cats. Aside from the usual bad luck accruing from a cat's crossing your path, there are many others. When a cat washes her fur the wrong way or sits with her tail toward the fire, it is a sure sign of bad weather. It is very dangerous to let a cat sleep with you, for it can suffocate you by sucking your breath. If a cat looks at you first after washing itself, that is a sign you will soon be married. To keep a kitten at home, put it under the cover of your bed and leave it until it crawls out. Another method to keep a cat at a new house is to take it to the chimley and ,dip its forepaws in the soot. Frank H. Daniel, former president of the Federal land bank in Columbia, died suddenly at Henderson, N. C., Friday. Honor Roll For Camden High School Grade 8A?Jean Bell, -Neta Kijrkland, Olive McGuirt, Vesta Player, Lottie Smyrl, Lorena VanLandingham, Aileen Belk, Elsie Redfearn. Grade 8B?William Christmas, Robert Little, M&ssenburg Trotter, David Wallnau, John Carl West. Grade 8C?Lewis Anderson, Albertus Rush, Dally Jackson, Maggie Trantham. Grade DA?-Annie M. Clarkson Iyouise Mickle, Iva Ma# Broome, Mamie Louise Ford, Paulefcte West. 1 Grade UB?Jack Richards, * Jack Villepigue, Beulah Graham, Betty Holland, Alva Lee. Grade DC?-Elilee Pate, Wilhelmina Strak. | Grade 10A?-Minnie (Sue 'Bruce, Eleanor Kirschner, Caroline Nelson, Elizabeth Pitts, Jean VanLandingham, Alma Ward. I Grade 10B?-William DeLoache, Rebecca Rush, Florence Savage. I Grade 11A?Jerome Hoffer, Joe Jordan, Edith Copeland, Fannie Mic! kle, Lena Stevenson, Helen Tindal, Barbara Zemp. Grade 11B?Emily Sheorn, J. A. Rast. Honor Roll For Pine Tree School | Grade 1?Betty Bobo, Ernestine Conyers, Mazie Knight, Louise Langley, Evelyn Parker, Leroy Frith, Richard Caulder, Wallace Davis, Sam McDowell, Ted Davis. Grade 2-Ph.?James Shirley. j Grade 2-Mc.?Leroy Davis, Mary Frances Berry, Doris Houser, Mary Driggers, Madeline Hasty, Sara Kel- i ley, Doris Sullivan, Gertrude Thames,! Aftgus Kelley. Grade 8-Gillis ? Marjorie Kelly, Ophelia Dixon, .Doris Thompson, Bunny Shaw, Jack Davis. Grade 4A?Charlie Cameron, G. B. Player, Ethel Broome, Ollie Horton, Frances Mooneyhan. Grade 4B?Luther -Broome, Jeter Guinn, Betty Brown, Doris Crolley, Mary Thames. Grade 5?-Bessie1 Frith. Grade 6?-Nezzie Lee DeBruhl. "AN EMPLOYER GIVES UP" I (By Edgar A. Guest) And I came to a place and the streets I were still, I And the grass grew high at a factory I door ' Where workmen once gathered, but I now no more, "What huppened, I asked, "such t I dream to kill?" An old man answered: "Time was I we knew I The sound of hammer and lathe in I here. ,7 j We worked at the benches year by I year # And slowly but surely the village I grew. I "But we were the toilers who worked I for hire. Ours were the bodies that had to bear i Day after day in that factory there I The weights of the loads and the heat I of fire. "One day there appeared at the fac-1 I tory gate j A stranger who poisoned our minds I with distrust I He called our employer unfair and I unjust And he taught us to quarrel and I taught us to hate. . j "We fought with him, hectored him, I asked more and more; i Called him names until stand it no I longer he could. I 'Since to hire men is evil," he said I 'I'll be good!' | And he closed up forever that factory I door." i Birmingham Age Herald I The Greenville Observer. I Belmont Branham, three-year-old son of Mr. nn^ Mrs. Allen Branham,? of Blythewood, was accidentally shot I in the head and seriously wounded I when a .22-calibre rifle in the hands I of a brother, Clyburn, five, was dis- I charged. The wounded ohild was I rushed to a local hospital Where his condition was described as serious. I I How Is Your Wardrobe? I Check up on your wardrobe now and let us have your clothes for cleaning* so you will be ready for the I I Christmas festivities, whatever they may be. I I Call 17 and one of our carriers will come for the I I garments. I I CITY LAUNDRY CAMDEN DRY CLEANERY I Oldest Largest Best I 1 For your Protection always I I Watch tor the New Ford From what we believe to be reliable information we are convinced that it will be to the advantage of the motoring public to defer buying ANY CAR AT ANY PRICE until they have seen the 1935 offering of the Ford Motor Company. We quote below the outlook for the automobile industry as seen by a Wall Street authority: "Activity on 1935 models is rapidly increasing, with production of numerous manufacturers expected to expand sharply over the rest of 1934 and early next / year. The estimated 40 per cent gain in unit production this year should be extended in the coming twelve months although keener competition,particularly from i Ford, will tend to limit earnings gains for most companies." v ! Watch for further announcement of the first showing of these new models, at which time we will have a formal opening of our new Sales and Service Headquarters on West DeKalb Street. Redfearn Motor Company SALES SERVICE Telephone 140 West DfjCalb St.