Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the Filen of The Chronicle Fifteen Mini Thirty Yearn Ako i I FIFTKKN YKAKS AGO July 2, 1920 County campaign h< hcdtiled to open m( Ih-thunc on Auguat 10, Kcv. J. H. Canton and family, of H?-thuue, on a vlalt of aovoral wuoka to ri'latIves in Mucon, (Ja, Governor Cooper appolntu M. L. Smith. Jr., a? Kumo warden for Kerahaw county. Nell Itay, aged 93, dleu at hoi^ of won lii-IAw. John IteynoldH. near Logoff He left one hundred and twenty-nine ehildren, Krand children und j great Krand children. T. II C'oker, Jr., editor of the ilartavilli MeHHt tiger, a vlaltor In The Ohronlcje office. Marriage of T. K. Trotter, of Camd< n. to Mian I'aulino Hnowden, of Charleston, announced. 15 T. Myera, of Camden, married ; to Mian ih-Haie la-u Ctllp, of Charlotte \V. M lluckahee and Mian Heanio ; Marie McCaakill, of Ih-lhuiie, niarri* d la Camden. Charles J Shannon, Jr., leaves Cam j den pOHtofliee loree to enter liUrtlllCHS I in (Jr. envllle. JiinicH CI) hum ants an appointment . to West I'oint and leaves for that j place. A hod, McKee Graham, in horn to Mr. and Mrs. Newton C. Hoyklu. Mrs. J. L. Uuy returns from a long stay In Washington, I). C., and the Guy family occupying the A. 1>. Kennedy residence for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Clarkson, Jr., announce the birth of a daughter, Anne JohiiHoii. MIhh Celeste Mumford leaves to upend the Hummer in Saluda. Miss Leila Shannon leaven for a Htay in the Berkshire IUIIk. MIhh Nancy Lindsay returns from all< 'ing houHe parties In Barnwell and Orangeburg. THIRTY YKAK8 AGO July 7," 1905 S?*< retury of State, .John Uuy, dies at IiIh summer home, Luke Sunapee, N. II. The burlul was Iii Cleveland, Ohio. Sevi.'ii negroes and one white man lynched by mob at Watklnsvllle, (ia. White man aud negroes charged uiurduring aged couple. Jane Cantey, wife of H. C. Cantey, uhoc maker and for fifteen yours a servant in the C. 11. Yates fumily dies. M. L. Smith and J. U. Hlchurdu, an representatives, call an election in magisterial district in Weal Wuberee i o i boose a successor to tl/o lute C. I*. lloWfll. .\lihH Sadie Kennedy announces the op) ning of a private school to begin in Septeinher. W. J. Rollins, of Lucknow, drops ib-ad 1 nun heart trouble while working on a ditch. Air. and Mrs. It. 11. Do Loach lose year old infant by death. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. English lose in f an t by death. Robert Johnson Singleton dies at VV'riglitHvllle Reach and buried in Singleton burial plot at Eastover. Rev, Robert A. Mlckle, native of Camden, dies at his home in Mobile, lie was born in Camden, September if, 1H31. Malsom and Allen Johnson, of Newberry, visiting their sister, Mrs. L. T. Mills. I'aul Scheiik entertains his young friends at Ills home on North liroad street at a Fourth of July party. Tom Russell gets badly burned while working as a telephone lineman in Columbia. i General News Notes' A iiiuJft- with nihil s, and acting more . like ii tiger than a plow puller, ran ' s miiock near Wood run, broke two trace! chains and Heveral ropes, chawed sev-j eral nieinhePH of the family of ith owner from a pasture, and dually made a misstep and fell as it was about to bite a young man, whoso cheek was. brushed by the mule's teeth, but the skin not broken. 'I he mule had been a family pet for years. II was dually killed. The diagnosis was made by a veterinarian. Fifteen dogs have bail rabies in that section lately, and one cow also, besides the mule. Dr. Luther M. Thomas, a prominent physician of llranchvllle, died of lieurt attack In his camp on the lCdlsto river, aged f.n years. He was born and reared in Lake City and had been practicing at Uranchvllle since 1'J14. He was mayor for the two terms and was active In civic and Baptist church affairs. Over 500 hoboes a month are riding on Southorn railroad freight trains now. going north from Florida and Ceorgia for the summer. The number is larger than usual, and twothirds of the hoboes are white men. A petition to be allowed to reorganize under a new section of the bankruptcy law has been died In the federal court at Greenville, by the j Lydia cotton mills, of Clinton, which says it tinds it can not meet its diutn-i rial ohlikUt ions. Chief of Police laivvless, of Seneca, and C. C. Jones, a Greenville policeman. are under arrest ? barge.t with getting $li>0 from the father of two boys arrested for car breaking, hv r> pro. nting that Join s could bring pressure to get the boys discharged, j i JOIK'H resigned Htld i 111 |>1 ieat I'll l/UW-j I^sh in the transaction. After the population pressure was j .relieved somewhat, for a short time, l?y t lie new law giving penitentiary I convicts lit) per cent off for good he-j liavlor, the South Carolina prison is' rapidly lilling up again, and is practit ally hack to its maximum figure, of 1 ,;iOtj prisoners. The couHtal counties; have tieen sending up large numbers j recently, and Charleston sent up -7 in; one hatch. Jesse L. Milliard, commander of the j Spartanburg post of the American he- j gion and a member of the Disabled' American veterans, was appointed us-I sistant state service officer of South Carolina. Milliard succeeds It. Steadman Sloan, whom Governor Olin D. Johnston appointed state service ofiicer when K. Henry Cappelmann resigned recently. Sloan named his successor Dr. Henry 1, Fulmer. of the state ! department of education, says more than half of all the white elementary pupils in South Carolina schools fall to reach the seventh grade and approximately hulf of those who enter high school do not reach the eleventh grade. Figures for the school year lPJJ-Jl, the report sets forth, showed that 4'J.l per cent of the llrst grade enrollment had advanced to the ! seventh grade, and *>0.4 per cent of the eighth grade enrollment had entered the cle\enth. The convention of South Carolina teachers of agriculture in the schools, at Columbia, a number said they would move for setting up community canneries is their vicinities, after hearing a Georgia university man tell th'.'tn how Hi, ce.openiHve canneries operate there and were originated by tii, agriculture teachers. Stolen Auto Halts Parley I of Pooches on Signboard Ncr uae. Mac. it's a ; FORD rV8, .. ^ *v 2 ' I Pensacola?The conversation between a greyhound and a Scotch terrier on a signbourd at the Frisco , crossing in West Pensacola was I Interrupted when the automobile about which they were talking suddenly tore down the signboard. The greyhound had just repeated for the 1,859,936,437th time: "Its no use. Mack, it's a Ford V-8" when the car, to which he referred at that particular time, suddenly left the highway and plunged straight at them. The particular portion of the signboard on which they rested tumbled to the ground while four negroes. who had taken the automobile without permission a few minutes before, plied out of It and ran away. The car, a 1935 model Ford V-8 sedan, de luxe, was already tho object of a hunt by officers at tho time it plunged through the signboard. While the automobile was being sought all over the city, reports were received It had Interrupted the conversation between j the greyhound and the 8eotch. terrier on the West Pcnsacola I signboard. , t . -- - -r rnmammw v Otxt* Onlti Sultan of Sulu Is a Modern Ruler. Prepared by National (!, otrrachlo Social >, Wanhlngiitii, D i\ ? WNU Matvleu. Till-! sultan of Silt ii, the only oriental potentate ruling under the protection of the United States, ha.s recently heen bereft yf all politlcui power, although In* still exercises religions authority owr hU Moro subjects in a little group of Islands which are part of the i'hillp I>lne8. The new governor of the I'hillp pines, Frank Murphy, decided not to appoint the sultan to the Philippine senate. Although the saltan seldom took Ids seat, the honor had heen accorded him since the time of Gov. Gen. Dwight F. Davis. "In real life the sultan of Sulu is not the amusing semi-savage that George Ade put into comic opera three decades ugo, hut u decidedly modern ruler of the Solo archipelago, which forms a series of oceanic stepping stones from the Philippine group to British North Borneo," writes George M. Hanson, former United States consul at Sandakan, British North Borneo. "Although he partly acknowledged the temporal sovereignty of the United Slates in is;iti. and completely in r.i1">, lie retains some of the glarn or ascrilicd to hint l?y the dramatist and remains locally a potentate to the native Stilus, or Mtiros, lie formerly maintained at Mainlining, on the southern I'met of the Bland of Joi->. it two story frame palace' for himse'.'' iiml si\ smaller dwellings for his wivenml retinue. In IPitg a storm wrecked most of the buildings. "Purely religious, his title connotes nothing more than leadership of tie Mohammedan church within the limits of his sultanate. The sultan of Brunei, British Borneo, the recognized 'royal highness' in the greater part of the territory. Is Inclined to regard him as a poor relation who pays tribute to Brunei; but nevertheless he is a full-fledged sultan and has authority of a sort over perhaps ,100 small Islands and that part of British North Borneo with administrative headquarters at Sandakan. "In Borneo, as elsewhere, the British are good colonizers. They believe It is wiser to placate the Sulus on the Borneo side of the Sulu sultanate than to run risk of trouble; consequently they still pay tribute to the sultan and accord him military honors on his visits to Sandakan. He is given a salute of guns when he comes to collect his annual tribute, and is entertained for two weeks or more by British officials at Government house. Here he receives local native chiefs and other notables. Many Wives but No Children. "The sultan prides himself on being an American, though his domestic arrangements have hardly heen of a kind sanctioned in the United States. Under the Koran tie may have four wi\es at one time; and, since tie has power to dismiss n wife or divorce her by waving his royal hand, the limitation of number has not been trgpo o I* to acvl.t 0,a( t,? in ...... Hi.} he espoused many wives. He has no children, however, and the Uajamuda, <>r heir apparent Omnia is a Malay word meaning 'unripe'), is ids younger brother. Although the 1P15 'treaty recognized him as the spiritual head of the Sulu Mohammedans, its terms were such as will eventually cause polygamy to he abandoned. Matrimony is somewhat casual among the Sulns. ami it is not unusual for girls of thirteen, twelve, or even eleven to he claimed ns brides. M hen I_ was I nitcd States consul at Sandnkan. I had an amusing experience which impressed upon uie the peculiarity of native marriage customs. "Shortly before the sultan's \isit to Borneo that year, a German landholder whom the British had ordered out of the Country for tDo duration of the \\ oral w.ir ro<pie<ted toe |o t ;he charge of hi- rubber plantation near Sandakan. T agreed, since it wa- then my duty to take over repre-enta? ->n of German inteie-t-, to _g,? there on each pay day and check the ao.-o:;t.:s, but 1 declined to assume oltieial eontrol of the plantation. Thus l !- . .mie for a short time haa-ter' of the M.Pav laborers, pending appointment of n permanent superintendent. "Upon my arrival ,m the first pay day. the armnntanr. n Singhalese fr-.m Ceylon, brought to m\ attention a plea from A Ills, the house boy, who needed an advance of $10. Singapore currency, for wedding, expenses. A his* prospective bride, the intermediary explained, was Cannpa, daughter of Satnat, the chief tapper. Canapa Was Too Younj. "Cannpa was rather a little girl, and, ft seemed to me when her moth or presented her for Inspection, much loo young to he thinking of matrimony. J decided a little delay would do no harm. Although the mother, herself only twenty-four, argued that Canapa was 'long past eleven and ready to marry', I announced kindly hut firmly that no girl under twelve could he married without my special consent. "The mother asked if the wedding could take place when the girl was twelve. Not wishing to seem overharsh, I assented. I even offered to take a photograph of the supplicants and to give them a print as halm for their disappointment. They eagerly posed for the picture and went away siMMningly well pleased. "On my next visit to the plantation, I sent for Canapu and her mother and gave them a print of the pho-_ togrnph I had taken of them two weeks earlier. They seemed very happy. and the mother asked again if Canapa could be married when she was twelve. Again I said yes, and told her to go ahead and prepare for the wedding. Alus also asked the same question, and 1 repeated my assurance to him. Canapa would be twelve at (he full moon, which would occur, so he had learned from the accountant, on Sunday of the next week. Entertaining the Sultan. "A week after this episode the sultan arrived and received official entertainment at government house. I could not let the ltritish outdo me In showing him the courtesy due his position and Influence, and accordingly I invited him and his party to the consulate to tea. The guests included the sultana, the rajumuda, the sultan's minister, and several dalus, or chiefs. "I offered them cigarettes and handed the sultan n package labeled 'Egyptian Cigarettes, Turkish Tobacco.' He examined the package critically, and when lie saw the hieroglyphics he was delighted. Egyptian cigarettes, he said, were made by tlie 'followers of the Faithful and not by Christian Infidels.' I did not disturb his sublime faith, though I could have told hitn that those cigarettes were machine made in North Carolina from tobacco grown In Asia Minor. And So They Were Married. "While I was entertaining the sultan at the consulate. It occurred to me that It would be a fine thing to have him perform the wedding ceremony. This would he an unexpected honor to Alus and Canapa and no doubt would prove highly gratifying to all concerned. The more I thought of tlie idea the better I liked It. I would have the young couple come back with me to Sandnkan on Saturday, and invite the sultan to another tea. where ho could smoke his fill of Turkish, cigarettes made by the 'Faithful' in North Carolina. The wedding of Alus the ltajao and the twelveyear old Malay he.nutv, Canapa, would follow. The incident was all but closed. "WHpii I Wont to tho nlantntinn tho following Saturday, t.ho full moon that regulated Malay birthdays for the month had waned perceptibly. The accountant met me as usual, but no j smiling Alus stood in the doorway to greet me. "'Where is Alus?' 1 asked. "'lie is here no more, lie and Canapa live in the little house behind the rubber factory with Surinim. the kaboon (gardener), and they went to Sandnkan today In the hope of getting to see the sultan.' "'Living with Canapa?' 1 muttered. 'What do you mean?" " 'They were married at the full moon, a week ago. as the tuan had said, and he Is at this house no more." Married n week ago? Who married t hem ?' '"Why you. Tuan; you married t hem.' I married thorn . \\ hat are you driving at?' " It was the full moon. Tuan. and Canapa was twelve. And they were : married, as the tuan had said. The\ sleep in the huii?e of llie kaliooii, who is Canapa's uncle. is not the tuan ' pi.VlNe.lV "'! 'ion tho whole tliu.g suddenly dawned. The ace..unlaid was right, and ail my paternalistic plans for giving tlie house l.oy and his childish fiancee a wedding of regal pomp and . ir. umstanee had come to naught. "! had married them, however, uninteutloiial!y, but tiofio-t he-less certainly. Ihvause or my inexperience with native customs In affairs of the heart. 1 had spoken fateful words too casu ally. The tuan had signified his consent and had fixed the tluie. That was enough." Windsor Chair Is Rich in History and Romance Willi Philadelphia as the first homo of an Imported Windsor chair, tho vogue soon gathered momentum, traveling northward tlirougli the New lingland states, each state having its own cabinet-makers who figured out different detuils wjilch gave its chairs definite earmarks of Identification. And It is said that when an unusually fine Windsor chair was discovered in the South that it was found to have been made either in the North and sent there or that there was a Northern cabinet-maker who had designed and built it in the South. George III (17G0-182U) was said to have been uttructed to tho Windsor chair one afternoon when he dropped into an English cottage, and thereafter made It a popular piece; but so closely is it connected with important men in United States history that it really means a great deal to us. For Instance, tho first drnft of tho Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson while sitting in a Windsor writing chair (suld to be great, greatgrandfather to our one[ armed lunch chairs) ; and from Windsor chairs every signer of tliat Decla1 ration rose to perform his duty. Several kinds of wood were put in one chair, and this made no difference because originally these were painted. For tho seat pine or whitewood was used and birch, hickory, chestnut, maple and ash were used for the stretchers and spindles, these being put in position when they were green, thus allowing them to season In place, which was said to make the Joluts firmer.?Detroit News. Collie Is Oldest Breed Known to Kennel Experts To what particular breed the Adam and Eve of Dogdora belong has always been a matter of dispute. Scientists do not agree, but there is u majority vote for the collie. It is the oldest breed known to kennel historians, and there is no question hut that many of the later breeds have collie blood. However, asserts a writer in the New York Ilerald Tribune, tho pure strain has stood the test of popularity, and at present there are as many collie fanciers in this country as a lover of the breed | can ask for, and the collie is still as popular as ever with a lot of dog owners. In the crowded cities the breed Is at a disadvantage and one sees comparatively few collies, but go into the country and 'one finds lots of nice specimens of the breed. The chief service of the collie to mankind is well known. He has no equal as a herder of sheep. It Is true that the bulk of the collies used as herders in this country, particularly on the big ranches in the West, are smaller, leaner nnd shorter of hair than the show collie. This is merely i because show specimens bring prices that majte them economically impossible for ordinary herding. It Is not, as some suppose, because the show collie has not the strength and ability to go out nnd go to work. Cultivation of Wheat The original home of wheat is unknown. but evidence seems to indicate that It is probably a native of western Asia. The cultivation of wheat antedates history, as the most ancient monuments show that nt their erection It had been domesticated. The ancient Egyptians and Greeks attributed Its origin to some of their deities. It was cultivated as early as the Stone age by the lake dwellers of Switzerland, and in China, where It was considered a direct gift of Heaven, it was grown 2,700 years before the [ Christian era. It Is one of the five species annually sown by the Chinese in a public ceremony. Wheat was not grown In America prior to Columbus' discovery. Mrs. John E. Rarber, 45, registering as Mrs. James Ray, Atlanta, Ga., went lo a Rirmingham, Ala., hotel and asked for a high room?10th or 11th floor. She got it and then Jumped out of a window. She's dead. I We buy and sell used cars. Cash ! tor your car in ten minutes.-Rodfearn .Motor Company, Camden, S C ? Adv. .r . ' lo sb. ! A cotton mill employing 200 workI ers at St. Paul, N. C., closed last Wednesdav, when the management announced a reduction of wages from I 30 to 15 cents per hour. ft malaria UUO Liquid - Tablets tonic Salve and Nose Drops laxative i Fishermen Lose Their WayOn Lake Saluda, June 30. Lout, . stolon -one perfectly good co ?f agoul nud one rural letter carrier i, happened this way. Claude HotJ, Saluda county's popular uaent J, Bum Tennant. It. F. I), carrier ?, fishing Tuesday afternoon. {>n' Murray. They took along the forme,! outboard motor and proceeded t0 n? I far reaches of the lake wlier? tJ I thought mankind had never P|MteJ I a bait and Where the big ones Inhabit 1 Making no particular note of the| I course and movements, night came I on. Still unconcerned of their where I abouts and still endeavoring t0 I persuade the big ones to come in I of the wet, real darkness hovered tie I premises. They decided to call it * I day and "check out." And here'* I where and when anxiety 8et in I T h e y lost their bearings and I begun to motor here and yon. At I an early hour Wednesday these fe|. I I lows "landed" with the determination I to sponsor a new project for the goy- I eminent;.' that is to install beacon I lights of varied colors around Lake I Murray so a fisherman will know the! way home when he becomes loaf, ODD ACCIDENTS j It may have been the good Georgia I roads or the good driving but anyway I O. L. Culpepper found a roll of blllt! containing $115 on the running board I of ids car which a neighbor had prev-1 iously lost. It had stayed there I tiirough a rainstorm and four days of I driving. ! It's tough enough to have your fa-1 ther make you mow the lawn without I having the lawmower shoot at you. I That's what happened to Jerry Slidell I while mowing the lawn about hitfNei I York home. A .22 caliber cartridge I was set off when it was picked up by H i the mower blades. * Otho Tennant chanced to be -leu-! ing against a highway protection* ble in Pennsylvania watching tk! hordes go by when a car crashed into! the wire some distance away. Thtl vibration threw him to the concrete? highway and fractured his ribs, one? of which pierced his lung and causedl his death. An employee of a Wyoming arit l t tion field, Reed Hollister, cam*? I through two plane crashes, two train I wrecks and numerous motor accidents! without a serious Injury. Then he! fell from a stepladder while repairing!] a plane and broke an arm. j J Forrest Williams was seriously la-1 jured when a cleaning hose lassoed? and drew him into a warp machine^H in a South Carolina textile factory. It! coiled about the man's legs while it? was being drawn across the floor af-l ter it had caught in the rollers of the? | machine. j While hunting in the woods of Ctk^H ifornia R. A. Thompson stopped to!] watch some men sawing wood. Ht? dropped his gun which went off and? shot him in the left foot. Startled, bo^B l leaped against the revolving u*^? j which cut off his left baud.?'Tib? ] j Pathfinder. j j A COMPLETE WAVE I FOR 1 CENT | Now you can quickly and easily W** I j your hair at once for one cent or less' I New improved Wildroot Wave Powder makes a full pint of professional wave set for 10c?three pints for 25c. Y? ! make your own wave set by nd l powder with water. Dries qtnw?? , Leaves no white flakes. Keeps j l initely. Simple directions in every pa* I age for finger waving or resetting permanent. Get a package today atif drug store or toilet _ 1 goods counter. I I 25c size MAKES 3 PINTS ^? 10c SIZE, 1 PINT 1 DRAYAGEI AND storage! F. R. CURETONl Phone lo ] FIRE?AUTOMOBILE?BURGLARY?BONDS g | DeKALB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO ? 5 "insurance headquartersjjJ CROCKER BUILDING?TELEPHONE 7 & 3 M. G. MULLEB ELIZABETH CLAEKB. 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