The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 07, 1935, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
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.
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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 ^
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"INSURANCE HEADQUARTERS" '
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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
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