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LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the Fllea of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yearn Ago V ...III FIFTEEN YEARS AGO June 4, 1920 City schools close successful year. Tint rod Literary Society holds exercise* and officers are: George Wittkowsky, president; Miss Sue Mailt', vice president; Mia* Joyce Steedman, secretary. Increased salaries for postal employee* amounting to approximately $23,000,OdO wiih recommended la a report to Congress. E. 0. Von Tresckow, secretary of I he James Leroy Helk Pout No. 17, American Legion calls monthly meet- i V fng Campaign Itnerary for Htate officers 0 pelt a In Columbia, aeiiate and congre.an in Sumter. Misses Sara Wolfe and Rosalie Miock arts home from Ooucher's Col- < I. Ke t I Hen David, for nearly ftO year* a i well known figure in Columbia, dies t tit liaplist'hospital after an Illness 01 W t-ekn. I* the -year Of the seventeen year loeusts and their appeurance has ' heen noted in Abbeville county. I ' aJalito, noted Spanish toreador meets death hi the ring at Madrid, {' Spain. I William II.' Stokes and Miss Mamie h Anthony, of Weal villa, married at Hethillie. May 2Xth by Jtev. J. M Forbes. ' Dr. and Mrs George Voirin and ' daughter MiHs I'aulette Voirin, of Marie Due, Metisc, France are gnosis 1 of Dr. and Mrs. Carl A West. Mrs. ' West Is a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 1 Voirin. . , The teacher and pupils of the eighth grade honor the graduating class of the high school with a party tit the home of Mrs. J. T. Nettles, Sr., on Lytlleton street. Hermitage base ball team defeats ^ th?* team from Darlington Mills 12 to ft in a game at the Fair Grounds. , , t D C. Shaw, representative of the | New York Life insurance Company , is winner in a contest, having made i a record ol $172,000 paid insurance within two months. lie will receive , i a trip to New York. The shoe industry of Massaehus- | ~ thirty ykakh ago June 9, 1905 One hundred and ten convicts in the state penitentiary were made deathly w|< k ut dinner Tuesday hy eating polaoned food. I'pon investigation It was found tliat arsenic had been put In the VeKetabW'M. Itace riot is in progress at Duah, Aiken county. K<4 fur one white man is dead. his hoii mortally wounded and two negroes dangerously wounded. Graded school diolds commencement exercises at Opera Houho. Total enrollment of Bchool Ih 352. Mrs K. C. Zomp Hpent laHt week in Kershaw, the gueHt of her brother, K. I), Hlakeney. John Miekle met with un accident >n Southern Kailway, near Keesvllle ust Friday, when Home heavy timbers fell on hiin. lie lont one foot and lie other leg w?h seriously injured. Gcriuuuy has <>.500,000 women who arn their own living.Cornelius I'. Shea, hyider of Chicago,'a striking teauiHlerH is taken to liriHon. Miss Agnes Corbett, who haw been leaching in the graded school of Irecnwooii has returned here for the summer. W. Ancrum Jioykln and his bride, Tom Atlanta, are visiting relatives o re and at Hoykin. "The Star Hand of .Mtirey," an orgmization having for Its objective the induction of all dumb animals, makes ui appeal to farmers for kindneHH to vork animals. The John wan lot, in the lower part >f the town is to be Hold. This lot -emprises one entire square of the own, being bounded by York, Fair, <tng and Lyttleton Htreets. Many from Camden went to Colum>iu last week to see the Charleston :iase ball team play the Columbia earn. Sidney Smith, a Camden boy Is one of the celebrities of the diamond and is a member of the Charleston team, which won. ctts has been reduced to one third Its normal activity because of unstable market.' IT STILL BRINGS DEATH Again it has been thoroughly ilcm* oust r?il?-?| that gasoline,* I h steering wheel d| au automobile, and bonze will not mix and still leave a margin of sal?-t >. That tragedy on tin* side of Henry's Knob between Ib'thany and Clover Sunda> afternoon. Is directly chargeable to the effort of the futility of trying to mix gasoline, the steering wheel and booze inside the human machine. The three just cannot he successfully mixed and leave a margin of safety for either the mixers or that vast number of people who have occasion to drive over the highways and have' the right - to expect the highways to be safe for driving. The white men were driving from Bethany along the highway, down grade, evidently at high speed, on the wrong side of the road inext to the mountainside, t'urtherest away from the outer edge of the fill dropping ten feet or more) lett little room for the car oeeupied by the party of eleven negroes, going along peacefully, at moderate -speed, on their way to ? hutvh t?> escape. The negroes hadn't it possible chance to get out of the \va*-. Tiig.while inc 11 WLLit b??tjt he;>st_ ly drunk. Tlu-y hud hut it little while before visited it joint on the side of the road tip ahove Ib thany. Already drunk, bouulifullx supplied with white mule ami "bottled in bond" stuff, tie \ 1 wcff quite liberal. They wanted ev] orybody to drink with them. Finally they .started back to Clover. 'That they not as far as they did belore they met disaster, was not due to any skill of the driver. Rather, it was just good fortune luck, as some would call it. and then the grim reaper blocked the road and five lives i were snapped out. Sunday afternoon's "accident" Is liable to be enacted at just anytime from now on. Most of the restric{tions on public drinking and transportation of tboozc have been wiped out i by a vet^ . liberal liquor law passed | by our general assembly. Results are ; to be chargeable at least in part to jthe members of th<? general assembly ; responsible for that booze law. York \ county's toll the first week of the I operation of the law is five human lives, that all the laws ever passed by general assemblies cannot bring , back (trim irony is contained in a motto ! fastened to the front of the car driven by the white men that figured in Sunday's tragedy ?the motto, printed on tin, were in these words: "COMMON SKNSK NOW OR FRAYKRS LATKR." Yorkville Kmjuirer. '4- r I lie Nnrih CiU'nliim. s'ate rural elec-_ 1riticat ion committee, reporting to the governor estimates that l7.4G7.Mri 7 will be require.| to erect 4,4;U>.4N miles of power lines in 7* counties I to m r\ e IUI.S IP people. U ' . For that even, golden tan Sunburn Oil by helena rubinstein On the 11?'jiih. in tin- mountains, or tor a little sun hath on .your own rooftop Hokum Rubinstein's Sunburn Oil is i.h-nl Artivo. scientific ingredients screen out the burning, blistering infrarod sunravs It keeps away insects! 1 utn> your skin a lovely, smooth, l ioti/euohl .tin. Special Strength. $2.o0 SUNPROOF CREAM?will korp >our skin 1 i 1 \ fair. Beautifies instantlx! Turns asid? pan-Inns;, aclinic sun rays. Prevents sunBurn and dr>nos>. Also a pciTot t summer foundation ? It lasts all day Ions; $l.o0 Special Strmmh, $2.00. DeKalb Pharmacy The Rexall Store Phone 95 We Deliver Relics Of Old West Fast Disappearing The last decade haw seen the near extinction of one of ttie most persistent relics of the Frontier Went. J Until 1 ?24 numerous bands of wild horses roamed over the plains and plateaus of the thinly settled sections from Montana to the Pacific und south to Nevada, and were a source of do* J light to tourists who desired some- y i thing more real than dude ranches and something more satisfying than real-life professional cowboys, A conservative government estimate of these unrestricted equities 10 years ago placed their number at a million and according to the ranchers whose grass they ate the domesticated horses they coaxed uway would probably have made the figure much higher. Things are different now, however. Oruzlng ranges are left ulmost entirely to ranch cattle, and ravines which once echoed the thunder of hundreds of drumming mustang hoofs are silent. The few handfuis of wild horses left from yesterday's million are fer- ' tlve und alert and seldom allow tin* untrained "tenderfoot" tourtst to get within sight of them. High prices of beef following the post-war depression sounded the death knell for wild horses. Packing houses sprang up here and there through the Western states and during the following 10 years hundreds of thousands of mustangs were converted into canned and dried horse meat and shipped to loreign markets. One plant alone slaughtered 300,000 of the anlmals. Since the West was settled wild horses have ulwuyB been subject to raids. Ranchers would storm them at intervals either for the purpose of capturing some of them for domestic use or to thin out the bands and drive them off when they became too numerous. None of these raids, however, could compare to those of the industrial packers. Groups of wellmounted cowboys would swoop down on the wondering bands and herd them into concealed enclosures built for the purpose. In this manner, in the days of plenty, a crew of good punchers could corral 500 head of the "fuz/.talls" In one day. Continuing day after day for years this practice rapidly decreased the numbers of tlx* renegade steeds. Finally they ^>egun to got so scarce that the cost of rounding them up in some sections > began to exceed their value, and now Industrial canning of horse meat is carried on on an ever lessening small scale. For some of the horses captured and slaughtered the caldrons of tlxpacking plants spelled an end hardly befitting thyir royal lineage. If their! ancestry could have been traced bn< k it might have revealed that some ot the animals had forbears which carried Spanish eonquistadores on their triumphant and bloody mar< Ix s through the Indian civilizations of Mexico. Others might have traced their origin back to the mounts of tlie early Pony Fx press riders, bluecoated cavalry officers, or buckskinclad Indian fighters, left rlderl ess by the arrows of desperately lighting savages. Still others were of ignoable birth with no illustrious ancestors. They were descended from plow-pulling horses turned loose to join the renegade bands upon the advent of the tractor. Such statements of birth are hardly in keeping with the term, "wild." tmed lo describe these horses. As a matter of tact they are not wild if we consider their origin, for they come trom slock domesticated for several thousand years and have..only again become wild on tinding themselves tree and loose in the wilderness regions of our country. The only truly wild horses are "in Mongolia, and neither those ungainly, shaggy, bigheaded little creatures nor their ancestors have ever known the pull of a rein or the stabb of a spur. And tills in spite of the fact that it was not tar a way that horses were first domed ieated way hack in fix- bronze age. When Columbus landed on our shores tlx- Americas were horseless continents. Nevertheless, when tinall> the wild bands did assemble and shake off the centuries of domes! ication they adopted a section of our country for their new home which was already familiar with the sound of clattering hoofs and the sight of lining manes. Millions of years ago before the great Pleistocene glaciers swept down over North America covering grazing lands with massive sheets of ice. great hordes of horses roamed ' over what Is now our Far \\ estern states. 1 hey were so similar to our present-day horse that only an expert can tell the difference in the skeletons. Those roaming the American plateaus and plains died out, but our horses of today arc directly descended trom the same face living In Kurope and Asia. The wild horse was common in Kurope hack in the Old Stone Age, and lossil remains indicate that man of that day made good use of the animal. Great heaps of bones outside Stone Age caves bespeak the t.o t that the horse, and particularly the ? olt, Played sn important part 'in making up the caveman's im nu. Ages later the old. slow-thinking human discovered the horse could he tamed and ridden with great advantage especially in war. Arising in Asia, as has been said before, this practice gradually spread over the Old World. The domesticated horse arrived in Baby1 aia about 2000 B. C. and in Kgypt during the 17th century H c. l ater it ??, learned that the animal could he vised to draw chariots, etc.. but-it was not until recent years that it was used to pull plows and do other heavy work. The tirst domesticated beasts of harden were the ox and the ass. The greatly thinned bands of wild horses which are now struggling for existence in half a dozen of our Western states, however, are most interesting to Americans. They are something left over from one of the most romantic stages of our national history and are a small reminder of some of the bitter days when our nation was being tamed for us. It is possible that they will die put completely and take a place on that hvng list of things that exist only in memory, but the probability is that they will continue to exist. The few straggling bands no longer spell easy moneyCTor the packers and so have ceased to attract them, and the ranchers are hardly npt to bring about their end. So there is still the hope that fn the unpeopled sections of the W**t the remnants of the once mighty horde may hide away and survive so that we can still say there are wild horses in the land.?The Pathfinder. LIQUOR ACT CONDEN8ED j Any citizen ot the United 8tatu? above 21, of "good repute," who can poal a 12,000 bond and haH $2F>0 In caah (or u license may operate a liquor store anywhere In South Carolina. He may continue in the liquor trade ut lea at until 1026, unless the governor proclaims It necessary to shut his place In the Interest of "law and order of public morals and decorum"; if he: (1) Avoids selling to minors. (2) Makes no sales between sunset and sunrise. (3) Sells only in quantities of one half-pint or mpre. (4) Affixes proper tax stamps to the bottles. (5) Selects a store without a back door and employes only persons over 21 years old. The measure gives the governor specific authority "to prevent the sale of alcoholic liquors on legal holidays or during periods of local or state emergency as he may order by proclamation in the Interest of law und order or public morals and decorum" and would also penalize buyers of illicit liquor. A $110,000 appropriation, approximately enough for a dozen or 2<> constables. would be provided under the measure for the governor to use in enforcement work. The act was construed to leave individual voters only an Indirect voice in any future change in liquor regujut ton. It arranges for a Democratic primary referendum in 1930 if 15 per cent of the voters of 35 counties petition the state executive for one. The referendum would permit voters to "express their opinion" but like the 1934 referendum which the legislature chose to accept, it apparently would be non-mandatory. A "straight" license, law the proposed statute would deprive licensed dealers who violate Its sale, delivery or tax regulations of their licenses for five years. They would also be subject to forfeiture of bond, lines from $100 to $5,000 or prison sentences of three months to two years. Annual license fees of $250 for retailers and $2,000 for wholesalers and manufacturers are provided. Tax stamps at the rate of 80 cents a gallon must be affixed to all liquor bottles. Revenue- would be divided 60-25-15 per cent between the state,, counties and municipalities respectively. Wholesalers must maintain separate warehouses for liquor. Retailers must conduct no other business in a store where liquor is sold. No manufacturer may operate more than one distillery in any county nor ran he sell--directly to a retailer. Kmployment of minors in any branch of the liquor business is expressly forbidden. Sale on Sundays and election days is outlawed. Municipalities may, by ordinance, forbid sale from 3 p. m. on Saturdays to sunrise on Mondays. Buyers of illicit liquor may be fined from $5u to $2iH> or imprisoned up to 30 days. Liquor, without the proper stamps, in the possession of anyone may be seized by the tax commission as contraband. Fines would be divided between counties and municipalities where municipal officers make arrests. Liquor advertising is legalized except on billboards on public ways. Unlawful handling of liquor by a person carrying firearms may he punish, -d by prison sentences ranging from oiijg to three years. oft ie*?t'-+r Hp?Mt til? oiteCHon of the governor, may take samples of liquor offered for sale, to he analyzed by the state chemist. Beer, containing not more than 5 per cent alcohol by weight and wine containing not more than 14 per cent are declared no-alcoholic and taxes are provided at the rate of 15 cents a gallon. Denatured alcohol, medical and pharmaceutical preparation, flavoring extracts, scientific ami industrial products are expressly excluded from the measures. Authority to enforce the tax and license provisions is vested in the tax commission. General enforcement is placed under tin- Governor. The cost of the administration of the act must be paid by the tux commission out of the proceeds front 11- I censes and stamps. Couldn't Beat Law; Took His Own Life Florence, May 31.?Nick Saleeby, who hud long figured In city, Htate and federal courts of Florence for his bootlegging activities, and was under indictment for dealing in narcotics, apparently decided that the law was stronger than he had guessed it, and this morning took his own life by shooting himself in the breast with a pistol. Officers said the case was clearly one of suicide. ? It is commonly reported that Saleeby, an Assyrian of gigantic statue and > a former heavy welglft , wrestler, told ( a friend yesterday that he was tired of it all, that his wife was dead, his j money gone, and his troubles piling j high over Ills head. SaJeeby had several cases pending, in the United States court hero and ' one in Washington. These included : liquor and narcotic charges. He was i at liberty 011 bonds aggregating $22,000. Saleeby was 46 years old. Humors had it first that Saleeby . had been shot to death. Police officers and Coroner Wallace decided after a searching investigation that he committed suicide. He was in the back yard of his home on Gailliard street here when lie pressed the trigger. The pistol was found by his side. Saleeby was regarded as a notorious character because of his defiance of the law. He was not known, how-j ever, as a gangster and officers had j never found him armed. Officers were free yesterday to ad-1 111 it that Saleeby always appeared be-i fore them at appointed time, holding ; his word as good as his bond. | Saleeby is survived by two sons, j Mitchell. IS, now serving a sentence! in the Sumter county jail for revenue law violation; .Joe Saleeby and a daughter. Mrs. Ernest Headon. Five Are Killed In Auto Crash At Clover i Clover, June 3.?A coroner's jury' j sought today to fix responsibility in | a head-on automobile collision near | here yesterday which took the lives, of five persons, a white man and four I negroes, and injured eight others. | The white man killed was John ! Pendleton, 45, Clover barber, who was ] riding in a car driven by James j Moore, 19, of Clover. Moore suffered a broken arm and other minor injuries. Eleven negroes, including j several small children, were in the other car. Pendleton lived only a few minutes after the crash. The two negro boys and girl were killed instantly. The other negro girl died after being brought to Clover. Lee Smiths' in Collision Greenville. June l.-r-Deputy Sheriff Charlie Baison' thought somebody was trying to give him .the real run around when ho happened upon the collision of two autothobiles. The negro driver gave his name j as Lee Smith. The occupant of the other ear echoed "Lee Smith." The officer was puzzled but there was no monkey business about it. H. Leo Smith, prominent Spartanburg j business man. The negro was W. Lee Smith, of Greenville. No one was seriously hurt. 1 Cotton mill operators of Gastonia, N. ('.. have announced that they will I continue to operate under the code governoring hours and wages. Tampa. Fla.. cigar makers, producing 400.000,000 cigars annually, declare they will continue to observe 1 NBA wages and hour provisions in their factories. Convict In Texas Kills For 4th Time Angleton. Tex., May 30.?Clyfo j Thompson, who at 17 said he killed two youths "Just to see them kick" alow his fourth victim last night. He stabbed Everett Melvin, p0t^r county robber, to death in a brawl at the Retrieve prison farm her* Then he remarked to Capt. Ike Ket ley, farm manager: j "Well, Cap, it looks like I'm |, trouble again." | Melvin was slashed to death as ^ and other convicts formed in line for* the lock-step march to their event^M He was dead when u phyglekj reached the soene. Captain Relkffl said he found the dirk with whicfcfl Melvin wus slain?a crude knife made I from a file. ? Thompson was first convicted for I slaying Lucian and Leon Shook it I 1928. At his trial he said he killed 9 them "Just .to. see them kick." He I was sentenced to death but the I sentence was commuted to llty. I Three years ago he stabbed to death I Tommy (the squaler) Reis, Galveetoa I robber. He was then given another I life sentence. S SUMMONS 1 State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, in the Court of Common Pleai. -tM John S. Lindsay, Conservator of The Camden Building & Loan Assock I atlon, a corporation in process of fl liquidation, Plaintiff. j Sylvester Brooks, Mary Jones and fl H. L. Schlosburg, Defendants. To the Defendants above named: fl You are hereby summoned and re* fl quired to answer the complaint ia I this action, of which a copy is here-H with served.^ upon you, and to Bern** copy of the answer to the said com-B plaint on the subscribers at their oL^B fice in the City of Camden, S. C/.M within twenty (20) days after servlc** thereof, exclusive of the day of suckH service, and if you fall to answer ttafl complaint within the time aforesaii^B the plaintiff in this action will applj* to the Court for the relief demantld^B in the complaint. KIRKLAND & de LOACH, * Attorneys for Plaintiff. Camden, S. C., May 21, 1935. M To the Defendant, Sylvester* Brooks: /-^B Notice is hereby given that tbiH complaint and summons, of which the* foregoing is a copy was on the 21?M day of May, 1935, filed in the office* of the Clerk of Court for Kershav* County. kirkland & de ldACH, * Attorneys for Plaintiff. _ Camden, S. C., May 21, 1935. . NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND? CREDITORS Estate of Qustav Hirsch, deceased-* All persons having claims or niands against said Estate will , sent them, duly attested, and all ons indebted to snid Estate will payment to the undersigned. DIN A K. HIRSCH -MARTIN K. ROSEFIELM ; Camden, S. C? May 24, 1935^^^B HELP KIDNIY8? STOP GETTING UP NIGHTS^* How can you feel bright morning when four ^S' you have to get UP t^r** , warni'l^^H1 in* the night. Thta noorly functioning kidneys?"ww cleaning your blood of the p?l*?DlfIy gy?"^Hc Getting Up Nights. Backache, DIW Painful. Scanty Urination. Your liver and kidneys need a PJ.*p stimulant?Warner's Comi?u " Warner's Safe Kidney & Liver inally a physician* pr-criptionJ? a doctor's affidavit on top ? , ((glsjl guarantees it. Warner'* ft WARNER'S SAFE KipNLY REMEDY) coet# but little at gist and the first bottle must n?P r-:^*. you get your money bac*. t FIRE?AUTOMOBILE?BURGLARY?BONDS ^ ? DeKALB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATEuT ? j "INSURANCE HEADQUARTERS" ' |i CROCKKK BUILDING?TELEPHONE 7 < ' g 1 J M. G. MULLER ELIZABETH CLARKE Mtr 4 : I J ALL?FORMS ?OF?INSURANCE ? * j l - -^K _ I City Business Licenses I Due -J I All 1935 City Licenses on Busi*H? I | nesses not paid by June 15, 19^B I will be subject to a penalty ;#? *; I fifteen (15) per cent. I J. C. BOYKIN, .J, ! City Clerk-Treasurer of Canden S. Cfli i . , c; V.. jjjM :l'