Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. .."''I ._T. ":.m" ..1^?_ ^.1 - M' ... LOOKING BACKWARD T?kcu From the File* of The Chronicle Fifteen mid Thirty Yeara Ago 1 I. I .ii. " HFTKKN YKAK3 AGO December 19, 1919 Merchant* of the city have unusually attractive show windows and looking for large Christmas trade. Stephen I^ewis Clyburn, eldest son of Jaroes H. Clyburn, Clerk of Court, gets promotion with Marines in liepublic of .San Domingo. "Tilly Alcartra," prize cow is guest at a business men's luncheon in Tortland, Oregon. She is seven years old and has produced 150,770.1 pounds of milk yielding 0,140.00 pounds of butter. Camden ilose Company No. One holds annual banquet . A. G. Whitaker and W. R. Watkins catch red fox alive and when released fifty horsemen give chase but negro lad kills fox as it crosses his yard, thus disappointing the ones giving chase. Invitations issued to marriage of Miss Anne Kennedy 'DeLoache to Rufus Randolph Thurman, December 27th. Many parties given for young couple. Kirkwood Rook Club met with Mrs. C. P. DuBose. Admiral Sims und family here for the soason. They are occupying a cottage on Camden Heights. Mrs. R. C. Worsham, of Oxford, Ga., comes to (Camden an" Red Cross community nurse. Definition of word "Gossip" given: "Gossip is a humming bird with eagle wings and a voice like a fog horn, i It can be heard from Dan to Bersheba and has caused more troubles than all the bed bugs, grasshoppers, boll weevils, army worms, rattlesnakes, sharks, sore toes, cyclone, earth- ; quakes, yellow fever, gout and indigestion." lv II. Dibble, Jr., son of E. H. Dibble, well known and respected colored . citizen has been licensed by 'State Board of Medicine to practice medicine. THIRTY YJKAKti AGO December 23, 1904 Officers Kitting Star Chapter No. 4 K. A. M. are: F. L. Zemp, E.^H.; J. B. Wallace, King; J. W. Oorbott, Scribe; E. O. McCreight, Treasurer; C. E. Koynton, Secretary; W. Geisenhcimer, P. S.; C. 11. Yates, Captain of the Hosf; E. I. Snyder, Royal Arch Captain; W. R. Zerap, Master of Fret V.; W. 11. Zemp, Master of Second V.; IS. K. Adams, Master of Third V.; C. li. Moseiey, Sentinel. A Mr. Graham, young man of the factory hill found dead m bed. Death brought on from natural causes, it was decideDeKalb cotton mill sold to George F. Wright, of Union, for $106,000. Dr. T. M. McGonnell, of Georgia called to Camden Presbyterian church as pastor. To begin duties January first. Joseph Fletcher, of Flat Rock lout five bales of cotton and a new buggy from fire. Hannah Brown, colored woman arrested as the one guilty of setting fire to the building in which the goods were. I jaw re nee and Edward McDowell left Wednesday for Jacksonville to spenjd Christmas witb an uncle, Edward Niles. Students home from the various colleges of the state are: Medical College of Charleston? Sumter Rhame, Edward vBoykin; Clemaorv-^lEddie O. McCreight, Allison DuBose, Thomas Ancrum, Robert Kennedy, Sydney Zemp; Citadel? Lynch Deas, Dade llaum, Willie Trantham; St. Mary's?Misses Emily Carrison, Mary Villepigue; Female College of Columbia?-Miss Marie Zemp. Letters To Santa ClauS" Cassatt, S. C. Dec. 17, 11)34. ! I >i'.ir Santa, j 1 am a little hoy eleven years old. I am in the sixth grade. 1 hope you will come to see me Christmas. Please bring me an air rifle, harp, a football and lots of fruits. Be good to all other little girls and boys. Your friend, Guy Bowers, Cassatt, S. C. Dec. 17. 11)34. Dear Santa, I thought I would write you a letter to let you hear from tne. I want you to bring mo an ink pen, fruit, nuts and some curlers Christmas. Yours truly, Francis Baker. Cassatt, S. C. Dec. 17, 1934. Dear Santa, I am a little boy in the fifth grade. I am twelve years old. I want you to bring me a twenty-two rifie Christmas and fire works and some fruit. Your friend, Conway Robinson. Cassatt, S. C. Dec. 17, 1934. Dear Old Santa, I am a little girl in the fourth grade and nine years old. Please bring me a pencil 'box, harp, and a story book, and lots of candy and fruit. Your friend, Viola Bowers. Cassatt, S. C. Dec. 17, 1934. Dear Santa Claus, 1 will write you to toll you what I want . I want a toa set, and a bod for my doll. I also want some dandy, and Minif nuts. I am in the fourth grade. 1 am nine years old. Your friend, Ivdna Baker. Camden, S. C. Dec. 9, 1934. Dear Santa Claus, I am a little girl seven year old. I want you to bring me u bicycle, wrist watch, a baby doll and tent, some fruit, candy, nuts and fire works. Please don't forget any little boys and girls, mother and dad. Lovingly, Janet Lewis. Westville, S. C. Dec. 17, 1934. Dear Santa Claus, Santa, I am a little girl five years <>id. I live in the country. Mother and daddy say I am a smart girl. Santa ,please bring me a tricycle, a stove, cabinet, football, and some nuts, candies and fruits. I want you to bring all the other little children something for Christmas. Don't forget mother and daddy. Love, Marjorie Ann Clyburn HP Bethune, 'S. C. Doc. 17, 1934. 'Dear Santa Claus, I am a little girl three years old, and I want you to bring me a blackboard and chalk, a tea set, and a doll. Please remember my little brother. He wants a tiny wagon and a l>ouncing horse. Love, Esther Lee Waters. Bothune, S. C. Dec. 17, 1934. Dear Santa, I am a little boy five years old. I want you to bring me a knife, motorcycle, fruits, candy, and nuts. I thank you. Your friend, John Dan Horton. Bethune, S. C. Dec. 17, 1934. Dear Santa, I am ten years obd and I am in the fifth grade. I have tried to be good this year and I want you to bring me a pair of gloves, pencil box and a big ball and fruit, candy and nuts. I thank you. Your friend, Nell Horton. WestvilLe, S. C. Dec. 17, 1934. Dear Santa Claus, I am a little girl. I go to school and am in the first grade. I want you to bring me a pretty doll that will cry and go to sleep and long curly hair, a cabinet, a stove, an iron and ironing board, a tricycle, some fire works, all kinds of nuts and fruits. 1 am not asking for as much as I have a little brother, so please don't forget him and the other little children. With lots of love, Betty Jean CIyburn. Westville, S. C. Doc. 17, 1934. Dear Santa Claus, 1 am a little boy ten years old and in the fifth grade. I study hard and am hoping to make my grade. I want you to please bring me a watch, a knife, a cap pistol, fire works, a pair boots and all kinds of nuts and fruits. Please don't forget-all the other poor little boys and girls. Your little friend, Billy Clyburn. Camden, S. C. Dec. 9, 1934. My Dear Santa, I (don't want you to forget us this iChriatmas. Wc are sot going to ask for much. But please bring us both a rubber doll and a little red trunk, ulso the clothes to fit the dolls. Please don't forget about our little baby sister, Billie Joan. Bring her a doll and chair and anything else you have for babies to play with. We are three good little girls and .be sure and come to see us. Will leave a piece of cake under the tree for you and Mrs. Santa. Good Bye, Bobby Gene and Betty June Mass*beau. Every Boy Needs A Dof There is a little boy who corner to our house who Alls me with overwhelming pity. He is a well-dresM*! little boy, with nice manner* aaul a likeable personality. lie ip fed the proper thing* and ha* none of the irritating habit* *o many little men lutve ehoved ui>on them by their parent*. But he i* starved just the aatne. Starved for something alive. For something to care for and call hi* very own. His eye* alight with eagerness when he play* with our boy's dog, his little fuce reflects a wistfulnort* as he watches the antics of the kittens. I almost hate to have the little fellow come because I am so heartsick after he goes away. His mother doesn't like dogs. ISometimee 1 am even afraid that maybe she doesn't like little boys, because little 'boys and dog* are so much alike?always dirty, and hungry and noisy. IBut I dare/not ask. All I can do is be a nice lady while he is here, and when he trudge* down the street wave goodbye to him just before he turns the corner ? Little Boy's Mom. A 10-year-old boy took hit* 6-yearold companion on his back for eight miles to Milledgeville, Ga., in freezing weather, to secure medical aid. The younger boy was in serious condition. The lives of passengers were not covered by the liability insurance carried on the Morro Castle, $4,600,000, when it was destroyed by fire off the Jersey coast. Camden, IS. C. Dec. 14, 1934. Dear tSanta Claus, Please bring me a doll, a carriage arud a stove, nuts, fruit and candy. 1 am 8 years old and in the third grade at school. Margaret Pearce. Camden, S. C. Dec. 14, 1931. Dear Santa, I am expecting you to call on me Christmas so will tell you what I'd like for you to bring. Please bring me a cowboy outfit, a bow and arrow set, a whip, a Mickey Mouse book and lots of fireworks and fruit. Don't forget my little cousin. Love, Leonard Hammond, Jr. Cassatt, S. C. Dec. 7, 1^34. Dear Santa, I am a little boy in the sixth grade. I am thirteen years old. I want you to bring me a twenty-two ride and some fruit for Christmas. I had better close for this time. Your friend, James Robinson. Camden, S. C. Dec. 14, 1934. Dear Santa Claus, I want you to bring me some candy, a truck with real lights on it, a new step ladder so I can climb higher up. Also bring me a horn and some fire works, candy, fruit and nuts. I am a good 'boy and large for my age. Good bye Santa, R. E. McOARTY. Bethurve, S. C. Dec. 15, 1934. Dear Santa Claus, I am a little girl three years old. First of all I want to thank you for what you brought me ltust year. You should, have seen me when I peeped under my Christmas tree. This is what I want you to bring me, a big snoozie doll that cries ana sleeps, a tea set, a cooking set with a sifter in it, a piano, some bananas, grapes . and nuts. Don't forget mother and sladdy and other little children. I will be a good little girl and wait for you. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Your friend, LaRue Grantham, Westville, S. C. Dec. 7, 1934. Dear Santa Claus, 1 will be so glad when Christmas Eve comes. I have been a good girl. 1 am in the third grade at Baron DeKalb. I want you to bring me a typewriter Ohirstmas and a machine. Love, Nancy Lee Owens. Kershaw, S. C., Dec. 4, 1934. Dear Santa Claus, Please send me a basket-ball and a doll which can walk. talk, and cry. with real hair and a carriage and dresses', also send me some fruits, nuts and candy. Please look for my stocking, Christmas night. Bye, bye, Santa Claus. Love, Thelnva Boone. Cassatt, S. C. Dec. 17, 1934. Dear Santa Claus, I thought I would drop you a letter to let you hear from me. I want you to bring me something Christ- ' mas. 1 would like to have a pocket book r.nd a pair of beads and apples, oranges, nuts, candy. Well, I will close, hoping you come to see me. Your friend, Fay Bowers. Camden, S. C. Dec. 9, 1934. Dear Santa Claus, I am a little girl four years old and I have a little 'brother two years old. I want you to bring me a doll and carriage, a piano and a tea set, fruit, nuts and candy. Sonny wants a football, an aeroplane, carpenter's set, fruit, nUts and candy. We will be a good little girl and boy. Don't for; get us. Your little friends, Billie and Wendall Oak man Smith. | Lights of New York by L. I. STEVENSON F1nhJug U fur from b^lng Sport for the men of the beam trawler* that operate In the vicinity of New York. Some of the atout craft that tow the great net a-?a beaut keeps them open, hence the name?have power operated equipment, which lightens the labors of the fishermen somewhat. But on many, the only power ts that of human muscles. Once every hour the net Is pulled aboard, a long and toilsome Job and one requiring skill, since there Is the possibility of losing a portion, If not all, of the catch. As the net rises, It ts clamped shut carefully and as much rubbish as possible scraped off. Finally, when ft has risen Its leugth above the deck, with cascades of salt water pouring over the fishermen, a string Is pulled and the catch pours out Not until then do the fishermen know what luck they have had. As quickly as possible, the net goes back Into the ocean and the boat steams ahead another hour. The crew does not loaf, however. The catch has to be sorted. Varied Is the take from the sea. There are evil looking skates and blowflsh, along with other "trash." There are green turtles, which eventually will make soup along Broad; way. In fact, there are all sorts of marine life. Much of It Is worthless and goes back overboard along with the rubbish scraped up by the net. The marketable fish are then cleaned and placed on Ice. When that Is done, It Is time to haul In the net again. And so It goes hour after hour. Beam trawlers are accustomed to finding many strange things In their nets. In the days of prohibition, bottles were often part of the catch. Sometimes trinkets of various kinds are salvaged from the sea. But the crew of a trawler operating off the Rockawayg recently had a real surprise. The net came In slowly and the captain reckoned that they had something more than a ton of fish. The catch wasn't fish, however. It was an airplane motor with a propellor attached, the whole weighing 8,000 pounds. The motor had been lost from a plane, which had crashed while being tested for the government While beam trawling Is extremely hard work at all times of the year, In winter It Is even more than that. Gales may blow, Ice may cover lines, decks and even men, but fishing still goes on. Asked Capt. Charles HanfT, who commnnded a beam trawler? the captain works right along with the crew?for many years, enough years In fact to send a son through college, why men chose such an arduous occupation. He replied that he didn't know?unless It was because they liked It! New York Is noted for Its chiselers. They seem to be everywhere. Nothing escapes their attention. But to my mind, the meanest of them all were those who crashed the lines where 8-csnt milk was being sold to those too poor to pay the regular retail price. Because of the chiselers, several thousand of the poor were unable to obtain milk badly needed for children. And a check also showed several thousand chiselers on the welfare rolls. There should be some special kind of punishment devised for such alleged human beings. For instance, they might be made to take the place of those they chiseled out of food. For no reason at all, there comes Into my mind at the moment the tale of the gentlemnn who attended one of those pent-house parties. Wandering out onto the terrace, he glanced down at adjacent apartments and what he saw interested him so that he borrowed a pair of field glasses from his host. Handing the leather case to a friend, he started a slow circuit of the terrace, the friend following with the case dangling from . his neck. "What are you doing, anyway?" demanded another member of the party. "Oh," replied the case carrier, "I'm acting as caddy for a peeping Tom." Bus top eavesdropping: "I'm telling you, Evelyn, he ain't tryln* to highhat "nobody. He has to talk like that? he's studyin' to be a radio announcer." ?. B?ll Sxndfcat*.?WNU Bm-tIm. Romeo and Juliet Enter Lives of Young Russians Moscow.?Borneo and Juliet, Hamlot, King Lear and other Shakespearian characters are taking their places along with Marx and Engles In the literary diet of Soviet youth. For some years after the revolution, only the reading of books which accentuated "class consciousness," or gave technical Instruction was encouraged bv the state. Cat Picks Own Home; Refuses to Be "Lost" Bucyrus. Ohio.?Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Hlgglns fed the stray, yellow cat which came meowing to their doorstep, and adopted their house as Its home, but they didn't want the animal. ... They took It In their car 38 miles td a place In the country. Two days later the doctor and wfe returned to their home. Curled up at their hack door was the stray yellow est ' Bankhead Law Favored By Votes December 16?South Carolina farmers tonight stood 98.8 petncent in favor of retention of the Bankhead ooUon control act. George Olsen, secretary of the stats Bankhead allotment hoard, announced Late today the final vote by official count was.81,471 for and 6,784 against A total of 87,266 South Carolina farm em, Olson said, voted iri the referendum, conducted hi all the cottongrowing states yesterday to ascertain the attitude of growers toward the production control measure. A tabulation of official returns sliowed the act won support in every county in the state by an overwhelming. The ipwrcenrtage of the majority in favor of retention of the measure was "very nearly the same" in all tlhte counties, Olson said. The percentage for the state Was given as 98.8. South Oaroliea fatter? indicated in county meebteigs ?awl a statewide meeting last month that they favored retaining the Bankhead act but v/ith modifications, and assurances have been voiced l>y political and (conomic leaders that amendments will be sought at the next session of congress. Governor Blackwood in a brief (statement today on the outcome of the poll termed the results "most gratifying" and added the question is now on a basis upon which evils of the control plan may be corrected aind administrative difficulties iroaied out. In Kershaw county the vote was heavy, many negroes having express ed their opinion also on the -measure, the vote being 1,939 for and 117 against. Lewis Blackmon I Found Dead! Lewis Blaetawn of Kershaw wa?B found dead near the Kerahaw CottoA mill village on Thursday morninA and Dr.R. C Brown, county yhysiciaJ oa examining the body gave ^ opinion that he had been <W f<A nine or ten hours when the body wa?l found early In the morning.Dr. Brow* jyaid that he believed tlutf death w;J ! due to *a heart attack or a stroke anA that the examination showed that hi had lived for some time after ho ielA in the yard of a neighbors' reeidetuA and his body was found in the nvornB vng near steps of the negro huraeB No marks of any description were qA the body so that foul play is mot suaS pected tout it was decided that an irA quest should be held acid CoroneA Fegler left on Thursday morning f0* Kershaw to look after this matter, A Mr. Blackmkm wa|a about sixtA years of age and had been living u* the Kershaw vicinity for Some tiraeA He leaves three vdaughteati and a nunA ber of relatives. While the result of tifre h.quest iA not known at this writing it is bcliov* ed that the deceafcsed came to his dcat A from natural cause s.-7-Lanoasteu' New^K KERSHAW OFFICERS OFF TO NEW YORA Sheriff J, H. McLeod and Polic^B Officer Jim Raley left Saturdi^m afternoon for New York to appear witnesses in the trial 'of Tony Carlo* who was captured here ih Soptembe* and turned over to'New York author* ifcies for the alleged murder of ^B white inuim, Charles H. Verity, ofl Mineola, N. Y. I Tlhde Negro, Carlos, is alleged txH have struck down his employer, Mt^B Verity, breaking his takull and killin^B liim almost instantly then robbing hin* of several hundred dollars. Carlos is a native of Kershaw coua* yt and after evading New York auH thorities fled here, where he was cap* rtured by Kershaw and Lancaster * county officers. Italy is negotiating for the purB^ chase of 1,600,000 pounds of daring American tobaccov . V?SF*~ ' < I REAL ESTATE | I RENTS COLLECTED, FARM AND CITY PROPER! 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