The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 02, 1935, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
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LOOKING HACK WARD
Taken From the Files of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Atfo
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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
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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.
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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.
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