Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the Filet of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yearn A|{o ? I F1FTBRN YKAK3 AGO August 13, 1920 Churles 1*011 Kl, Boston wizard of 11 nance, proves to bo oxconvict, who hud served tortus I ^Montreal and AtlUllttt. John Bradley, 70, well known citizen of Antloch section dies. Wesley IJrooks, 82 your old colored man dies at Ids homo on North Camphell street. Oliver Hull Kets a parolu from Governor Cooper. He was sent up from this county for forgery. Martha Carter, well known colored woman, dies at Iter home on Church street. County campaign opens at Hethuue, itohert Sharper stuhhed Walter Henderson In the neck at a hot supper near 1011 lot t and Hudson died front the wound. Miss la>u Young Joins u party on tour of points north. J. K. Vuughan, former citizen of Camden, now of Atlanta, hack here on u visit to relatives und friends. F. M. Woolen and John S. Lindsay I go to North Carolina and Tennessee lo purchase cattle. First hale ot Georgia cotton sold at Savannah for a record price of $1.30 a pound. Body of Ihtd McMuiius, who died III France, brought hack to Kershaw for burlul. J. H. Clyburn gives notice of special term of court for Kershaw county to run three weeks. Miss Dorcas Griffin Jllhle died in Madison county, N. at great age of 117. Miss Alberta Team ?>ti trip to points of Interest in mountains of North Carolina. Mrs. H. M. Fearce is hostess to lieul/th Home Demonstration club. Federal officers ruld and destroy largest still ever found in Fairfield county near Hlythewood. * ?. : - ? TH1KTY YKAK8 AGO ] August 18, 1905 I Ke\ W 8. Walter* conducting re- I \ival meeting ut Hickory Head < church, Weatvlllo. I C. (.'. Whituker goeu north to pur- < chant* good a for liriii of Whituker & ' Hornet. Mian Louiao Nettle*, Camden llbrur* 1 Ian, apcndlng vacation 1 it mountain* ' of North Carolina. I Mm, J. M Heath and family in 1 mountain* of North Carolina for a 1 hi ay 1 in John W. Corbett goea to St. Augustine, Flu., aa beat man in Hum < el Alexander wedding. ( MihH Joe Hamlin on u trip to mounlaiiiH ol North Carolina. Straw ridoq by moonlight being enJoyed by young people. c Mrs. c. (.'. Whituker gboa to Aahe- : \ ill*? for u atuy in the mountaina. Sitl Smjth engaged to coach Charleafon college football teuin. Mr*. W. F. Malone leuvea for u'atay at Wrlghtavillo and Carolina Heach. Chief Hen ilaib- ruturua from Glenn Spring* much improved in heulth. hr. T. M. McConnell, paator of the ITeabyterlan church returua from hia vacaiion apent ut Greenaboro. MIhh 101 lie Zeinp leuvea to leach in Greenville, S. C. /r> Jimmie McCain, colored, died at hia 1 home in Kirkwood. I'reaident Theodore Kooaevelt dell vera addreaH to 80,000 member* of tin- Catholic total ubatincnce union at Wilkeaburre, Fenn. Lightning bolt killa four girla ut ; Petersburg, Ind. Truina craah head-on at Lorain, Ohio, and twelve dead aa the reault of a truinman'a error. Total of 154 (ieatlia reported and ui:> caaea oT yellow fever reported from New Orleuna area. Three men killed by lightning at Hoone. N. C., and another had an arin broken. Claim Police Chief Was Suicide Victim Fayet teville, N. Aug. 10.?Testlmony thai J. Boss Jones, 41, chief of police here for 13 years, appeared despondent a short time before he was found fatally shot in a hotel room here last night was developed at an I inquiry today by District Solicitor Thomas A. McNeil. Worth MofTet of Sunford, an intimate friend of the late police chief, said Jones appeared to he in a despondent frame of mind and quoted him as aaying, "We had two negroes from here to go to the electric chair today, and I think I'll go with t-hem." Jones, Moffetl said, had also been working for 48 hours on the arrest of a suspect in a recent $1,600 bank robbery at Smoaks, S. C. No date lifts been set for an inquest into the death of the police chief, who died several hours after he was found. Mrs. Jones and Moffet and his wife said they found the unconscious oftieer on a bed in his room shortly before midnight when they arrived for what was to have been a late supper. A pistol Indict had pierced his temple and Indued in the mattress. A r? \ol\cr ln\ maths on tin bed. Ills wuih'i and watch were on the dresser. Tin- door to tin- loom was iinloi i?ed Mnttei said Jones had called him about |> m at Saiiloid. asking him I" rrrmr rrrrr TTr ."?rrt?"?'-??. tie sain, about an hour later At 1 1 ; 30, lie said. Joins tailed his wife, asking In r to join them for a late, meat I lie Moffet Is drove to tinJones' home, got Mrs. Jones and arrived hack at the hotel at 11:60, they said Bullets Hit Blimp Dakehurst, N. J.?For the third time since it was built in 1928. the Navy Blimp 7.MC-2 has been hit by rifle tire while on a cruise. Officers find it impossible to determine tho origin of the mysterious attempt's to destroy the ship. ^ -1. - L. L 1J . J ill!! L J 1 Bad Boy of Ruby Jailed Lloyd Gibson, of near Kuby, was placed under arrest yesterday about noon near (ho Ruby Cunning Factory, by Sheriff Douglas, assisted by Deputy King and Officer Floyd Davis of Chesterfield. Officers w?-nt to Ruby in answer to a summons stating that Gibson was practically wild and shooting up the town. They found him in a two-horse wagon armed with a .22 Smith & Weason revolver. /\lso on his person were a long bladed knife and f>3 long cartridges besides three in the gun. lie had tired about six shots. lie was subdued and hand-cuffed with great difficulty, the sheriff's shirt being torn from his body. Gibson is said to weigh over 200 pounds, and to possess strength in proportion to his weight. He has been in trouble before for threatening the community with loaded firearms.?Chesterfield Advertlsor. Wreck Kills One, Maims One Mr. Thomas R. Rivers was fatally injured and his companion. Vesterj .Ionian, suffered a dislocated hip in a smashup July 17th at Lee's Cross-1 iug mar Rub> when the ear in which' they were riding collided with a trie k Mr Rivers wa-s removed to a bos. pilal at Wadi shore, where he died a few hours biter. Mr Jordan's coiuRt let' is said to Ii in pfo\ i ng. The burial of Mr :liver> was at > Lll/nhelk I ellleh f\ . I Illy lMll. services. I being eelld m I ei| b> t ll< Re\ I ? A | I '.row n j Mr R i \ ers was ;'.i? years of age. the. .son of Mr. and Mrs. I. (! Rivers and I hail a large circle of friends through-' out the counts, hy whom he will be ; gre.it!> missed lie is survived by I his widow and one child; his mother,! three brothers and three sisters.? ; Chesterfield Advertiser. Pennsylvania health authorities have decreed that 3,0'Mi* national guardsmen of Vtrginin, expecting to visit Pennsylvania, this month, will not he allowed to make the visit on account of the polio epidemic in Virginia. ______ ????? , i I MONEY TO LOAN I I ON IMPROVED I I CITY REAL ESTATE I I WATEREE BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION I H I I ^ j First National Bank Building Telephone 62 j j Camden, S. C. ! ?i ' ' Breaks Silence ^ Of Many Months Washington, Auk. 12.? Herbert Hoover's challenge to President Roosevelt to Inform the people "oupn Iy" and "precisely" Just lp>w he wants the constitution changed was regardMi today as a major atop In a Republican drive for a knockdown and ilran-out IlKht on constitutional issues in i 936. Mopping In Chicago on a trip east, the former president hit ut tlie new ileal last night in a statement accusing the administration of "dictatorial ' demands, of trampling on "primary liberties of the people" and of Invad Ing state's rights. /Directly or indirectly, he said, tinadministration seeks to revise the constitution to concentrate powers in Washington. Calling on the admin j Istratlon to declare his intentions be 1 fore congress adjourns and to make it I an open light on a specifically worded amendment, he said: "No matter iiow destructive an amendment might be and even though the people were persuaded to Iliadvised, action upon it. yet it would be better for liberty to commit suicide in the open rather than to be poisoned by indirection in the capital of the nation. ?"No more momentous decision has been raised since the civil wur. Common frankness requires that the ad ministration come forward to the people and declare precisely wherein, un iler our constitution, we can .not correct evils and cun not prevent social maladjustments." While some Republicans and Democrats Interpreted the statement as a bid by Mr. Hoover for the presidential nomination next year, others denied this was necessarily the correct way to construe it. Meantime, there was no indication I hat President Roosevelt, who returned lust night from u fishing trip on the yacht Sequoiu, would make any statement. From Representative Vinson tl>., Ky.) came the commont: "No constitutional amendment has been submitted and nobody lias said that one will be made." Declaring he had no doubt tlint Mr Hoover would run in 1936, Gibson (It . Vt.) called the statement a "prelinii nary outline of his platform." To Representative Dies (D., Texus) it was tiie former president's "openina bid," while Senator Nye (K., ft. D.) thought it signified a "desire to be t he candidate." Some Bright Spots In The Farm News Camden, Aug. 12.?Kershaw county farmers are realizing uh never before the true value of the AAA program, says Henry D. Green, county farm agent. You can hear farmers say in any section of the county now that our people are beginning to live at home more and more; that there is more food and grain being produced than previously; that although the cotton crop has been limited it has been fertilized and worked better and comes nearer being a clear money crop than before. Saluda, Aug. 12.?Saluda county is growing its largest acreage of lespede/a. and after the recent rains many tanners report the best growth thoy have ever had ai this date, according to Count y Agent Claude Rothell. Plans hiv I?? ing made to build additional 1 seed pans in the farm shops so that] it will not be necessary to buy t he se? i! tor ni*\i spring's proposed a- re- { age expansion. I or. Aug 12 in three instate --s j tie- I H boys' latin rs ha\e told | I). Howou. assistant county agent, that! tin- thick corn which their sons plant-; 1 | ed stood the dry weather considerably < better than thinner corn. Two fanners ha\e planted a large portion of! their corn crops in four-foot rows and eight inches in the drill because their sons who are 4 H club members made good yields with this spacing last year. Kingstree. Aug. 2.?A total of 1,045 hogs weighing 179.114 pounds with an average weight of 171 pounds were sold from this county from December 1, 1934, to July 27, 1935, bringing an average price of S.16 cents per pound. These sales netted 105 growers $14,615.36, according to figures from the office of R. A. Jackson, county agent. Boy Bums Dinner At White House Washington. Aug. 4?A nine-year old boy from Charlotte who was hungry and tired, was discovered to have eaten a part of President Roosevelt's dinner on Thursday night The tow-hehded boy, Johnny Crawford. barefooted and in overalls, walked up to the ontrance to the White House and said to a member of the see ret service: Mister, tell the president I want 1 to see him about getting home." l'lie guard learned that Johnny had ridden to Washington on a freight tralu and that he was hungry. So he took the boy to the kitchen and fed him aud then got in touch with the transient bureau. Police have arranged to send him home. Nobody's Business Written for 'Hie Chronicle by lie? Mcdee, Copyright, 1928, hoii. hooey long, u. m. sennutor, button rogue, l)t. deer Mir : ?1 and holsum tnoore huve been trying too tuke over tlut rock like you done new Orleans, but we have not benn able to get the preasent umyer and the town counsel! encumbcrants out of orriH, ho we ure riting you to ask you how thin can be accomplished without bloodshed, buHted heads, broken bones unsoforth. If you will kindly rite or foam us how to proceed to get holt to ever* thing, Including the treasure, the saniterry department and the poleestnun's badge, we will uppreciute same and promise to vote tor you In 193t> for whatever you niought wee lit to run for from u dlck-tator on down to the pressident. I and holsum inoore have alreddy 0 started to abuse the pressident, uir. roseyv?*lt, and cuss out seeker-terry Wallace, oppose the a. h..u. and a. 11 the rest of the alfabet, and threaten to sue postmaster genne^al farley, but noboddy don't pay much attention to us, and are still standing by tlie gov verment. it we could oust the mayor and poleesmun here, we believe w? would soon get a pot holt in slate pollltlcks and if we do, we could swing evertbing to you and govvornor tallmadge, who Is allso trailing in yore dust to fame and fortune, but ho has not yet took over atlunta. it would be easy for you all to controll the sollld south with south Carolina lined up with you and georgy. we have no thonney to start with, won't you kindly let me know by return male how to contact the republican party so's a slush fund against the dimmercrats can be started? how much do they advance a feller who is willing to bust up the pressont form of diiuinercrat-cy? we niought take on yore flat form of "sheer the wealth" if you think 1 and holsum could get 6u per cent of same and the rest of the people the ballance. v>\ think that Is a good plank to create noise with, and we will need plenty of noise, you will be terribly benny-fltted by advising and pulling with flat rock ansoforth. yore true friend, mike Clark, rfd, chairman. VACATIONING IN CONFERENCE . . 1 spent last week ... on vacation ... at a mountain summer resort . . . where a large religious conference was In operation . . . and I learned that such conferences have very full and extended programs . . . and the funny thing about it was . . . everybody < including poor me, on vacation) enjoyed every minute of this^ most remarkable assembly. They were in action about 23 hours per day and night. . . Whenever a program or meeting or caucus or a gathering was scheduled .. . a bell would ring 5 minutes beforehand . . . and that bell rang nearly all of the time . . . but it was especially good at ringing too early [ every morning . . . but the "before [dawn" prayer meeting rarely ever started before dawn . . . and it alwa>> broke up in time for the "sunri>e |,i a> or meeting." . .Then the boil rang for breakfast . . ami after singing and asking the M> ssiim t?>r 16 or _' > minutes . . . we ;sat down to cold food and luke-warm coffee . . . but It was all steaming hot when the bell rang . . . and nothing was done between breakfast at 8 and the tirst service in the main hall af s und the rest period of 30 minutes gave most of us (men) time to shave . . . and the women time to paint and powder up. . .The other meetings and conferences and t a muses took place . . when the bell rang ... at ^ and 0:30 and 10 and 10:30 . . . and when the bell rang at 10:36, that meant the regular conference and preaching and talks and church histories began . . . and when the bell rang at 1:16 p. m., everbody hurried to luncheon . . . and after the usual long songs and semilong returning thanks ... we ate hut riedly so s we would be ready lor the 1:46 gathering in the main hall to discuss . . . Are we going backward or forwards?" ..Nearly everybody was present at the 2: 16 to 2:46 round table on foreign missions . . . but the hell rang at 2:6n calling the home-missions class! to the study hall . . . but that only I last< d l hour and while we were chat-! ting on the way out . . . the bell rang J . and we hurried to the large auditorium to hear a tine lecture on1 "Whither are we drifting" . . . but we bad a rest period of 6 minutes after that and we all got a drink of w ater. ..Everything remained very quiet for nearly 10 minutes . . . then the bell rani; for a oil-minute discourse in the central hall . . . and after it adjourned . . . the next meeting started in the lower auditorium . . . where the business affairs of the church an^d sunday school were discussed at length . . . suddenly the dinner (supper) bell rang . . . we ate after the songs and so forth . . . and hurried to preaching at 7:30, thence to the laymen's program at 9, and the midnight services at nearly 12, after which we went to bed and slept till "before dawn's bell rang. Regrets Passing Of Horse-Drawn Carts (Cur* LtzUeth Joy in Our Dumb Animals) Too little is huId and w'rtU?*J* ?bout the poor horse now; we sometimes reel that he i? 1" reality u thing of the past. Is It because the automobile and bus have driven him from the earth; Is It because machinery has displaced our faithful friend, our friends that we could tulk to, and feel thut more than often, we were not only understood, but thanked? Differing, yes, but in many ways Just as faithful as the home-bred and houseful dog, and in so many many ways of more real help to mankind. I offer nearly every morning a b1* lent prayer of thanks that milk for the present at least?Is left at tndl* vidual doorsteps. Hearing the plump, plump, plump, the slow rhythmical plod of the patient and kindly hoofs, ever* ready to go und ever ready to stop, Is still music to my perhaps oldfashioned ear. .1 dread the time that probably soon will come when milk and cream will he welcomed through a frigid air tubeattachment of some kind, connected, no doubt, with tile cows in the pasture or the farmyard. Yes, the horse is nearly a thing of the past, tills fast world is too much for him; even the fastest racers cannot compete with the whir of the rubber tire, or the will/, of the airplane. But for the present, at least, we have a few old milk-routes whore the real horse Is still on duty, ready to go slow, and ready to stop orten; so we can yet hear the plump, plump, plump, the rhythm, poem, dream of the old days, coming through the early morning air. I)?n't turn oil the radio, just open the window, you will hear it, the only thing today of the old time sounds; the iron shod hoof of the faithful horse, beating his slow and steady march over the pavement. We have often heard the expression, "horse-sense." We know the horse Is a very intelligent animal; we know he has been taught to do many tine tricks, and that lie has done them well; we also know that, as a rule, the every day traveling or working horse is to be depended upon and trusted. Have you ever as a child ridden home from a day's visit in the country, miles away, and when it got to be late in the evening and the darkness of the country road almost frightened you, have you ever seen | Grandpa sit back comfortably in the seat of, the old buggy or old chaise and apparently sleep soundly for the rest of the journey, and have you ever wondered how he dared to do it? Have you marveled as well, how he dared j to leave the reins dangling loosely over the dash-board, while sleeping; have you ever sat trembling between desire to wake him and fear of doing so; and then at the end of your journey, have you ever been tilled with a wonder still greater, that old "Hess" would turn wisely into the door-yard of his truly home, and stop, as if to say. "There, that is taken care of all right"? And then find Grandpa waking suddenly and crawling out of the carriage, ready to unharness and put up Bess, as If it was nothing at all that the "horse-sense" of old Bess had landed you and him in good time and safely. If you have not. you have missed something of the real eye-witnessing of horse-sense. Where are now piles and piles of old rubber tires, were once piles and piles of discarded horse-shoes, usually deposited near some busy blacksmith shop, or perhaps ship-yard, for future use. 1 For the old worn out horse-shoe played an important part in the building of ships. After it had sung its song over hard city pavements, and rocky country roads, after it had been battered and welded, hardened and strengthened by much service?no longer of use as the protector of the hoof?it was then given over to the I blacksmith, to be wrought into anehors for ships. Convicted on a charge of criminally assaulting an elderly white woman, George France. 35, negro, has been sentenced to die in the lethal gas chamber at ltaleigh, N. C., on September 27. Thirty-two commissioned officers of the 139th field artillery were In the post hospital at Fort Knox, Ky., at one time, suffering from food poisoning caused by eating cream pie left over from the day before. All will recover. General News Notes I J. P, Grumbling, jailed for patJon in Ihu bandit bank robbery Vi I Bmtmke, i* the editor or the Orana burg Ob?.r??r. The I KuighU ?ay ho brought two other bandlta to Bmoaks. for tke jot, aiwt I $14u found in the shoe of oim of ik I Knight* wa? the ahare of GrambUn! I in the loot. GramblluK says he only I lent bin car to one of the robbers as I a friendly act. He wa? released' on $1,000 bond. I Four iierBoiiH, a huaband, wlf,. and I two dauKhtera, were burned to death in the wreck of their automobile ?,.u, I Smith Grove, Ky, Polio or infantile paralyse j.ub now I become more or iohh epidemic i? K ? i Hiver, Ma?H., the moat aerioua out I break in yearn. A report from Addis Ababa hhvk I that Emperor Selassie expects to havo I an army of 000,000 men if and wh ? war with Italy cornea. Outbreaks of Jiog cholera in Illinois I and Iowa caused a break of two cents I a bushel in gruin prices on the Chle&. I go market. H Schools in Virginia may be delayed I In opening the full sessions due to I prevalence or infantile paralysis in I that state. Charles V. Truax, Democrat, con- I "gYeHsman-ut-lurge from Ohio, died In I Washington from a heart attack on I Friday, uged 49 years. "Uncle John" J. Allen, Rokchiio I Okla., celebrated his 11 lth birthday I anniversary as the Mfe of a party of I 250 on Friday. f. summons for relief-" i State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. In the Court of Common Pleas. M, J. Porter, Administrator cum testamento annexo of the estate of March Adams, deceased, Plaintiff. ? against Hattie Thompson, Kate Adams Jerido 1 (Jericho), Rachael Adams Williams B Carrie Davis, Willie Thompson] I George Thompson, Fred Thompson] I I James Thompson, Mamie Thomp- I I hompson and Mannie Thompson, I minor, Angellne Thompson, minor, I and Charlotte Thompson, minor, or I if said defendants or either or any I of them be dead, then John Doe, I denoting all heirs at law, adults and H or minors, devisees of March I Adams, deceased, Defendants. To the defendants above named: ! You are hereby summoned and re- 11 quired to answer the complaint in 11 this action of which a copy is here- ? with served upon you, and to serve I I a copy of the answer to the said com I j plaint on the subscribers at their ol- B fice in the City of Camden, S. C, within twenty (20) days after serV**^? thereof exclusive of the day t>f sud? service, and if you fail to answer tbe^^H complaint within the time aforesaid,I the plaintiff in this action will apply? j to the Court for the relief demanded? in the complaint. KIRKDAND & deLOACH? ! T. K. TROTTER j Attorneys for Plaintiff. To the defendants, Kate Adams? i Jerido (Jericho), Rachael Adams Wil? j liams, James Thompson, George? i Thompson and John Doe, denoting all? unknown heirs at law, adults and or? minors, devisees of March Adams, ceased: fl Notice is hereby given that the com-B j plaint and summons, of which the? j foregoing is a copy, was filed in the^? office of the Clerk of Court for Ker-? shaw county on the loth day of July? KIRKDAND & deLOACH^? T. K. TROTTER Attorneys for Plaintiff. To the non resident defendants col? j let-lively denoted herein as John Do?? ; and to the i>ersona with whom the)? I reside, the following is a copy of an? < order of the Clerk of Court for Ker? shaw county: ft fs ordered tVat T. C. Hough. j quire, be and is hereby appointed? guardian ad litem of the infant de-^H fondants herein collectively designat? j cd as John Doe, unless the infant de-H fendant or either or any of them, or? someone in his, her or their behalf.? shall,'within twenty (20) days aftei? the service of this Order upon them? procure the appointment of a guard? | lan ad litem for the said defendants? j that the said I. C. Hough, Esquire. I? j authorized and empowered to defend? the said action in the name and In? behalf of the said Infant defendants^! and to do such other things necessary? thereto; that service of this notico^B upon the said infant defendants, John^H Doe, shall be published conlncident? with the summons also ordered to be? served by publication. B 1 , H. CLYBURN. I Clerk of Cot\rt For Kershaw County?) v 1 CITATION j . H ( The State of South Carolina, I County of Kershaw. Ry N. C. Arnett, Probate Judge: j Whereas, Alex Raker made suit to? me to grant William Stokes Letters* of Administration of the Estate an efTects of J. V. Baker. .?j These are, therefore, to cite a? | admonish all and singular the Kind "? and Creditors of the said J. V. deceased, that they be and aPP*~?j before me, in the Court of Pr0&a ?! to be held at Camden, S. C., on * ! day, August 19th next, after put)' ?! tion hereof, at 11 tf/clock In the 1 noon, to show cause, If any they n? why the said Administration ano not be granted. , ... H&r? i Given under my hand this 8tn ? of August Anno Domini 1935. N. C. ARNETT, Judge of Probate for Kershaw co