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n. 11 . hi LOOKING HACK WARD Taken From the Files of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Atfo li 1 " FI FTKEN YEARS AGO July SO, 1920 YYII1 It? Ilutlnino, escaped life-termer from Leo county, believed to have boon drowned In Watt? ret* swamp near State Farm. Mr. ami Mrs. John T. Stevens, of Kershaw, return from trip lo Hot Springs, Vu. Rev. and Mrs. K. H. Jenkins leave Kershaw to mako their home in West J'alm Heach, Flu., whore Rev, Jenkins lias a pastorate. illg wuter tank ut Kingville on Southern railway falls and delays trains to Camden and Charleston. JieHHcmor City hall team comes for three names with Hermitage hall team. Camden Ice and Cold Storage Compa/iy chartered with it. W. llerfurth, L. A. Kirkland and L. A. W'lttkowsky iiH officers. A. K. Illakeney purchases garage on Fust DeKaib street occupied hy Ford agency and will use it for Hudson and Kpsex agency. Sheriff drover C. YVelsh purchases 11. N. Jones farm lands sottth of Kershaw. Chronicle publishes pictures of Waterca Aldermen?L. 1'. Anderson, II. T. Davis, Ike dollruhl, Hen Oardner, J. J. Banders, H. F. Robinson, A. B. Llewellyn, Rev. YV. K. Furcron, YV. R. Dorlty, J. C. Shirley, Yancey Thread, H. K. Hallett, Clb de Hruhl, J. C. linker. Miss Nancy Lindsay joins a party of one hundred college girls on an educational trip to (he Pacific coast. John T. Mackey stopping wltii T. E. Krumhhol/. at "The Sagamore'' on Lake George. N. C. Arnett on visit to his old home In Virginia. Miss Hanna Green, of Newberry, visiting Mrs. L. A. McDowell. Miss Margaret Hogue, of postofflce, upending vacation In HartHville. Rev. F. H. Harding away on vacation trip. Feed 11. Williams who has been in | THIRTY YEARS AGO August 4, 1905 Yellow fever scourge breaks out in New Orleans with new cuhoh daily. Victims most))' llaliaiiH. Six are killed when bolt of lightning strikes at Coney Inland, N. y. William Howard T?ft, snrretnry Of war, and party given a hearty welcome on visit to Japan. Kite at Uelhune destroyed store of Truesdell Rrotherjr. The building wus owned by L, W. It. Hough, \jeer$jary and treusurer of the Knterprlge 'Pudding and Loan Association for annual meeting of stockholder!^.."\ Thoinus SV. Rarfield, Formerly of Camden, married to MIhh Kvelyn Itoune, of Georgetown. Tom Cuntey, negro farmer, brings in first open boll of cotton for the hchhoil. MIhh Jessie Fewell, of ilock Hill, viHiilng Mrs. John S. Lindsay. W. Ik Del'aHH makes a trip to New York. Thomas Russell ill with typhoid fever. MIhh Rebecca Nelson and her mother spending a while in AHheville. MIhh Maggie Kelt tier, of Chester, on visit to Mrs. J. I). McDowell. John K. McDowell, of Norfolk, Va., spending vacation with hiH parents here. Dr. J. W. Corbett with IiIh family at Wrlghtsville Reach, N'. C. Fleetric express running between Liverpool and Southport, Fngland, crashed into another train causing worst rail disaster in United Kingdom. Twenty-two persons killed and many hurt. Commander Peary's expedition sails from Sydney in quest of North Pole. Japanese troops invade portions of Siberia. France and Spain on board S. S. Copalgrove, on visit to his parents. Mrs. John S. Lindsay and Mrs. II." K. Hallett return from ia stay ut Peterborough, N. H. PUBLIC NUISANCES | Thin morning an oil truck driver lost his life near the I'ee Dee Uivor when the brakes failed to check his ponderous vehicle which left- the road and crashed, killing him. Last Friday another oil truck ran back wards off the road 10 miles east of Hamlet, when the engine choked and the air brakes failed to hold the truck, according to information. If it is true that these heavy trucks do not have proper brakes when the engine is not running something should be done about it. There 1h no telling when the engine will choke on the hill allowing the truck to roll backwards and damage any car in its path, probably killing the occupants. The proper authorities should investigate the brakes and make the highways safe for the public. Returning from Wilmington Inst Sunday night, we passed over a hundred gigantic oil trucks, narrowly escaping being forced into ditch on two occasions. We are informed that over three hundred of these trucks leave that city for varying destinations every night. The danger is the overrunning of our highways by these huge vans Is inestimable. Aside from presenting a potential source of accident to themselves ami other traffic because of their enormous size and the narrowness of the roads, they are equipped with airbrakes which fail to function if anything happens to tin* motor. Aside from this, their great weight ruins the roads, which we, the tax payers, pay for. The trucks, vans, and busses travel much cheaper than any other type of freight conveyance, and will continue to make use of the economy of the highways until stopped by public opinion. We have these suggestions to make. Hither, by taxation, make the license cost and interstate toll so high as to he prohibitive to this type of traffic; rule them otY the public roads once and for all. or cause them to build their own highways, paid for by the corporations. in this way our own lives could ho made safer, our nerves steadier and taxes lighter Anyone who .hay ever met a truck coming head on out of the darkness, or has tried to pass one on a narrow road, will understand our view point. The truck, friends. Is public enemy number one of the mechanical world". ?Hamlet Messehger, July 18. B. Coles Neldecker, international banker of France and member of the L.aFayette Escadrllle during the World war, has been arrested In New York at the request of the police of Paris. He is charged with grand la:>ceny in connection with the failure of his Paris bank. Catholic workers in factories of Galway, Ireland, are walking out as a protest against the employment of Protestants. ?" General News Notes Tilt* l-arabt'f Flour Mills company, of Kansas City. Mo., has boon granted an injunction to prevent the government collecting wheat processing taxes totaling $467,000 for May and June, pending a ruling by the higher courtH on the processing tax. A check up shows that there are only about 6,000 veterans of the Confederate armies now living. It is estimated that 1,000 veterans will attend the annual |reunion of Confederate veterans at Aniarillo, Texas, on September 3-6. Pickets outnumbered prospective workers six to one when the New York Shipbuilding corporation of Camden, N. J., undertook to open its plant on Tuesday after a strike oT workers lasting 11 weeks, had kept the plant closed. The patched up AAA amendment bill was passed by the senate Tuesday by a vote of 64 to 15. The hill as passed, was much cut and patched, but broadens and bolsters the administration program for Increasing farm prices Fight of tleorgia's ten representatives in congress, addressed a letter to President Roosevelt, asking that the blue prints for the Halls Ferry bridge be torn up and thus end the. dispute that has stalemated the state's road program. The work relief allotment committee has recommended that President Roosevelt approve an allotment of $100.000.0nn for relief work spending in New York City. The committee also endorsed the giving of $33,330,000 to projects in 13 states. There is still much rioting in sections of the Irish Free State. The rioting began July 12. with the celebration of Orangemen's day and has definitely developed into a religious tight with tires, window smashing, street fights and at least one strike. The agricult ural department is authority for the statement that the hog crop for this year will be the smallest in 2*> years, the estimate placing the crop at 3".402.000. and adds that next year's crop will be smaller. More than 1,400 farmers in session at Crossville. Ala . adopted a resolution advocating an amendment to the federal constitution to ratify the AAA program in the event the supreme court declares the act unconstitutional. Dr Amy N. Stannard, member of the Federal parole board since 1930. resigned her place in order that a place might be made for Judge T. Webber Wilson of Mississippi, who was shifted from a judicial post In the Virgin Islands, after a long controversy, In which some of his official actions had been crltlclied by Secretary Ickea. The resignation of Dr. Stannard was at the request of Attorney General Cummlngs, It Is alleged. Colorado^ Slory - "WyiM-w* - Jlili '* W' 'MWW *?" ^ Part of Colorado's $24,000,000 Sugar- Beet Crop. Prepared by National Geographic 'Society, Washington, f>. C.?WNU Hcrvlce THREE additional "p r 1 yi 1 t 1 v e ureas" have Just been bet abide by the federal government in the mountuliib of Colorado to serve hh vacation regions for those who wish to enjoy outings In the real wilderness. The designation has been made so that there will remain, even after further development of highways and railways, parts of the rugged mountains untouched by the hand of man. a region free from concrete, steel, and even the wires of power lines and telephones. Each of the districts will In addition, be a natural preserve for wild animal life. Seventy-five years ago all of Colorado was a wilderness through which only a handful of trappers had wandered. The region which is now the state constituted a real barrier. Its vast eastern plains formed a typical part of the Great American desert, that geographic libel thrust onto American maps by forest-minded plo neers, there to stay for two generations. And beyond the "desert" rose an Immense rampart of "Impenetrable" peaks with barren, rocky crowns. Appalling sights they were to men who had grown up among the friendly, rounded, verdure-blanketed mountains of the East. So It came about that the early I rush of trade and emigration that beat j out paths to the West passed Colora- I do by. Its mountain harrier split this ; westward-faring tide of humanity as a huge bowlder in midstream cleaves the waters of a river. The Santa Ke trull turned to the south, traversing only the southeast corner of the area that was to become Colorado. The covered wagons of emigrants Oregonbound In the early forties, the great heglrn of thousands of Mormons in '47 and '48, and the rush of the California forty-niners passed chiefly to the north. Save for a handful of white trappers, Colorado was left to its few bands of wandering savages. But not for long. Gold, always a magnet for men, dragged a horde of fortune seekers to the edge of the mountains almost over night in 'fl8 and 'f>9, and soon sent restless prospectors with picks and pans scurrying like ants over the whole mountain , area. They found the mountain region was not a land of arctic wastes and Icy solitudes. On the slopes of bare-topped peaks were noble forests; between were smiling valleys with grassy meadows. "Desert" Now a Rich Region. Here and there the valleys widened I Into spacious parkH. Streams gurgled 1 on every side, alive with fish. The forests teemed with game. Into this land of unexpected beauty trickled the van of the emigrants, some to And other goods than gold. The barrier had had Its first real breach. The ' 'desert" now is u land of growing crops and fat cattle, criss-crossed by highways and railroads. Farther west the vigorous pioneers and their brothers In spirit who have followed ufter have thrust railways through gorges, even hanging them on artificial shelves from sheer precipices. They have gouged their way through the Continental divide and lesser ranges to construct long tunnels; and over the great sen of mountains, along the routes of Indian trails and the crude early roads of the miners, that clung precariously to steep slopes, they have flung an amazing network of modern highways. Now, on any summer's day. on the heights which early pessimists called cheerless polar solitudes, one may see the gayly colored frocks of women and children fluttering from scurrying automobiles. They belong to visiting family parties, on picnicking bent, who are whisked over the mountain roads In a continuous stream. The once impassable mountains are a fair mark now for the wheezlest flivver. The story of CoTdrndo*ft swift development In the short space of one lifetime Is crammed with romance, tragedy, and high adventure, with tftrokos of good fortune and ill, as nro few chapters In the national chronicle. One day the region was raw, virtually untouched by civilization. The next, almost, men were starting to make a state out of thin mountain air and dusty sagebrush flats; were selling town lots at auction; Issuing newspapers; building homes, churches, saloons, and theaters ; organizing stngeeoach companies; talking politics! Good Motor Roads. As you explore Colorado's m??ntaln raglon, rich alike in gold and superb scenery, you find excellent motor roads penetrating the roughest terrain. The state's mountain highway system has opened up tills region of tumbled peaks only in recent yours. Twenty years ago the state's "summer land" consisted almost exclusively of the foothill country and the eastern slopes of the front range. Now, with four excellent main highways crossing the Continental divide and with a network of minor roads and trails available, Increasing numbers of the holiday crowds ure pushing into the hack country, where the scenic beauties are more marked, where the fishing is better, where the highways are less crowded, and where, If one wishes to penetrate still farther, lie can leave civilization Itself behind and live for a time In an unspoiled wilderness. Gold was only the curtain-raiser for the amazing drama of minerals that has unfolded In Colorado. Silver was discovered In paying quantities six years after the gold rush. Four years Inter, In 1808, more ounces of silver were produced than gold, and this has been the case In every year since. When Leadville's bonanza silver mines cntne into heavy production, in 1870, the dollar value of the silver mined each year actually pnssed that of gold. Colorado had become primarily a silver state. One reason for the tremendous production of silver in Colorado?an average of more than 300 tons of It a year?Is the complex nature of the state's ores. Many contain mixtures of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc. '17ius silver has been a by-product In numerous properties and has often paid the freight for gold. Tin and titanium, cadmium and cobalt, manganese, mercury, and molybdenum, antimony and arsenic, zinc and zircon?dip almost where you will into the alphabet of minerals and you will find substances mined or minable Colorado. Some deposits are awaiting a turn in economic conditions before they can be touched. Others have had their day. Just now Colorado is sitting on top of the molybdenum world. A mine at Climax, near Leadville, is turning out ore thnt produces each year several million pounds of this rare metal that makes the steel of our steel age tougher, stronger and harder. From this one mine comes more than four-fifths of the entire world output of molybdenum. Vanadium, another rare and valuable metal used in steel manufacture, is flowing from a mine at Itifle, In western Colorado. This is one of the largest vanadium mines In existence and yields one-fifth of the world supply. " r Reside precious and rare metals, coal may seem a grimy Interloper, but It is mineral king of Colorado. It passed gold a few years ago. Close to three quarters of a billion dollars' worth has been dug during the state's Saved by Irrigation. Irrigation was-the savior of Colo rado. Most of the treasure seekers who went out in Till and 'OO had only the desire to collect gold quickly anil return to the Fast. It was believed that the country could not support a permanent population. Hut a few men planted gardens In the river bottoms, led water to them In crude ditches, and obtained astonishing yields. Co-operative groups built larger ditches at higher levels and threw up diversion dams. Development has gone on until now every one of the many streams that flow from the mountains is taken bodily over by Irrigators as soon as It reaches the foothills. As one drives through the highly developed irrigated region north and west of Denver, one comes every few miles, to great factories of steel and glass, each dominated by a tall smokestack. These, one learns, are one of the fruits of Irrigation. In them millions of tons of beets that grow In the surrounding flchia are turned each year into hundreds of millions of pounds of sugar. In 1930 Colorado factories produced nearly n third of all the sugar produced In the United States. This white, crystalline gold from Colorado's plains has been worth In excess of $r>0,000.000 in a single year, more than ten times the value of the yellow gold that was dug in 1931 from the mountains. All through this irrigated country of northern Colorado one cornea upon thriving towns?Sterling, Fort Morgan, Greeley, Fort Collins, Longmoife, Ix>ve-' land, and dozens of smaller oneseach surrounded hv fields of verdant green. FIRE?AUTOMOBILE?BURGLARY?BONDS ? |l 9 "DeKAlB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE C? ?fl 3 -INSURANCE HEADQUARTERS" ' I H CROCKER BUILDING?TELEPHONE 7 > I 2 D I J jyj (; MULLEK ELIZABETH CLARKE, Myr. J I fL ' ______ S I ALL?FORMS?OF?INSURANCE 5 | Axe-Slayer Lynched By North State Mob Louisburg, N. C., July 30.?-Govan (Sweat) Ward, 25-year-old negro uxeBlayer of C. G. Stokes, Franklin county farmer, was lynched today by a mob which took him from officers and hanged him to an oak half a mile from the scene of the killing. While state highway patrolmen, a national guard company and county officers sought the mob in an effort to prevent the lynching, its members hanged the negro, described by Sheriff J. T. Moore as crazy, to a huge oak half a mile down the rpad from where he chopped off Stokes' head with an axe this morning. His body was filled with pistol and shotgun wounds, but whether he was shot and then hanged or the slugs fired into his body after it was hoisted by the rope could not be determined. Ward, a medium-sized ginger-cake negro, was taken from the sheriff and Deputy T\ I*. Bean ten miles from here shortly before noon as they were hurrying from the county with him as a precaution against violence. The sheriff said there were about 25 men, some negroes arid some white, In the group which stopped hiB car and took Ward. # Immediately after the mob went off with the negro, the sheriff advised his office. When word of it reached Governor J. C. B. Khringhaus he ordered all available members of the state highway patrol here and also had Company C, 12U infantry, North Carolina National Guard (Henderson) called out. The negro was hanged, however, before the patrolmen or the guardsmen could reach the scene. Ward killed Stokes and decapitated him with an axe this morning when the farmer sought to calm the negro who had attacked a negro woman and another farmer, Sturgeon Ayscue, in what apparently was a mad frenzy. Officers who brought the negro to Louisburg after the killing said witnesses told them Ward suddenly went amuck about 9 a. m. at the home of his sister and struck her down with a rock. Ayscue, who was passing by, intervened and was knocked down with a bottle. Stokes was working in a field across the road from the woman's home and started to the assistance of Ayscue. As he tried to reason with the crazed negro, he was knocked unconscious with a rock. Ward then seized an axe and severed the farmer's head. Other negroes working nearby overpowered Ward and held him until officers arrived at the scene. After being brought here, Ward was taken to the office of Dr. H. G. Perry for an examination, but tried to escape and was overpowered only after he had broken up furniture in the physician's office. He 4 was then taken to the jail and it was shortly afterwards Sheriff Moore decided" to take him to Rocky Mount, fearing a mob attack on the jail here. Several hours after the lynching, the body was still hanging from the tree while Coroner R. A. Bobbitt was summoning a jury. Scores of the curious streamed to the section and in mid-afternoon between three and four hundred people thronged the grove where the negro was hanged. Solicitor William Y. Bickett, of Raleigh, district prosecuting officer,, and County Attorney Charles Green arrived before the body was taken down and conferred with the coroner and officers. The handcuffs put on Ward by Sheriff Moore when the officer left Louisburg with him were still on the body. Forty automobiles of state highway patrolmen arrived after the lynching and the officers found occupation in directing the traffic as cars filled the roads leading to the grove. Georgia Girl Drowns Langhorne, Pa., July 28.?Fourteenyear-old Martha Randolph Stevens, of Savannah, Ga., drowned in Neshaminy creek today, at the exclusive Woods School summer camp. School authorities withheld details of the case, but revealed that her body was recovered. The Federal court at Greensboro, N. C., granted the Cannon Mills - an injunction against the collection of processing taxes from its several mills. The mills were ordered to put up a heavy bond to assure tax paymenu in the event the higher court finally opines that the process tag tax is constitutional. News of Interestlnl And Near Bethunej Hlrd was h osteite Imr%ridaJberin last Thursday evening Th Hub? were arranged for OArf. tab,*| conclusion of the games 2 al thel course was served. Thria* '*^1 were: Mr. and Mrs. L w ,t Wtay,,'Kl and Mrs. I^orlng Davis in Mr.I Mary .afulae"S'rU S Yarbrough, Katherlne Bird a mi nrrlel Kate Davis. Also J. m ck U2z'e? Gary Parker and John Nell i?' Jl I Mrs. W. R. Rozier oVU! . . ^urjn.H Wednesday afternoon brld^S ,thc'| week. After cards were labi a.V*81? frozen chicken salad course tit , 1' "I tea was served. b iced? Members of this club are- v. I E. Braswell, Mrs. R. e. Mfo i Cl Mrs. B. E. Kelsler, Miss Carwa ''I b rough, Mrs. J. H. McDanS* . ar"l Nell Truesdell, Mrs J I ' i- Mrs | Mrs. W. R. Rozier Mb tT Jr? KaJrynM,r?;-MUXa^r!nrad>| Misses Edith Clyburn and vAn I Haley,,pupil nurses at Franklin <? 'dua| hospital, are apvndln,,7he"r at their respective homes here t?,B accompanied Dr. Eldrldg e' > Sunday0'0"" "?W" fr?'" Mrs. L. W, Cooper with h*r />?,? I dren and hV sister, Miss LureeKinJ'l of Durham, N. C. arp , ^?'l parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry King6 I Joe Bird and Jack Nowlin 0f? Greensboro, N. C., have been d,!'? J L BlJdrmerS Parent8' Mr- Mrs. I M^fn E' Z Tri,esdell and Mrs. G B I tre^t! N?nc.SPent lH8t We<?k at Mon B Born to Mr. and Mrs. George Serf I iz ?onLrday'juiy w?h- ?*?| Mr. and Mrs. Basil Lee Parker an-1 July"27. thG blrth ?f a 8?n SatEd"! James Copeland and Forbis Mor-I gan are spending the week in thel mountains of North Carolina. I tnrn8a ^nn'e Vau?hn Mungo hai n-M Rock Hin?'n a Vt8lt t0 re,at,ve**B Misses Josephine Smith and Lillie? Mae McQuage have been recent villi tors to Flprence. Cy Mitchell, of Greenville, has been? spending several days with the A K.| McLaurln family. Week end guests of Mr. and Mrs| D. D. Clyburn were Mrs. Clyburn | sister and brother, Miss Elsie Coker| of Greenville, and J. Roy Coker, Laur-| ens^ They were accompanied by t| r. s. Moore, of Laurens. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Brant and littlal son George, of Holly Hill, are gueit? or Mrs. Brant's mother, Mrs.- M. 0.| Ward. - Miss Elizabeth Womack, of Cherawl has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. C. e| Braswell. ? Friends of Mrs. R. E. Parker will pe sorry to learn that she was carried? to McLeod's hospital Saturday where? ner condition Is reported practically? unchanged. Mrs. E. B. King, Miss Mary Kio<| fnc* Robert Kln& are visiting friend*? In Olivia, N. C. ^? Gardner Yopp, of Savannah, i| making an extended visit to Dr. and? Mrs. Willie Gardner. MrsL D. D. Clyburn, with her little? son, Dargan, Jr.. have gone to Easlej? to visit her parents. ?| Mrs. W. R. Rozier attended the fun? oral of her uncle, R. F. Secrest, at? Monroe, last Friday. ? Misses Sarah Hammond, Mary B.| Hatcliff and Elsie MaerHammond have? returned from summer school at WIn-H In the Federal court at Boston, fiT0l men were sentenced to 25 years each^H following conviction of robbing a m*1? truck at Fall River of $129,000 lai? January. A sixth man, graduate o? Brown university, turned state's eri? denc-e after pleading guilty. He hi^| not yet been sentenced. 1 C NOTICE TO DEBTORS ^vS? CREDITORS I All parties indebted to the estat^l ?f S. A. West, deceased, are berel>7?| notified to make payment to the n0"? designed, and all parties, if any, h*J? >ng claims against ' the estate l present theme likewise, duly attested? Present them likewise, duly attested* D. A. WE8T | J. M. WEST Administrators. Gamden, S. C., July 20th, 1935. | drayage i AND I storage! -Y . >'<><<? : F. R. CURETONH Phone io i I