Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I LET US GIN FOR YOU I ' H ; The farmer expects a fine turnout and sample i I when he gins his cotton. It takes a modern and upto-date ginnery to do high grade ginning. To meet j H this situation we have installed the moat modern gin- H ! nery to be found in. this section of South Carolina. i ' Your business will be appreciated. j 1 We will always pay the top price for cottonseed, j j I The Southern Cotton Oil Co. I Camden, S. C. Phone 54. i Kill# Innocent Man Kansas City.? It. T. Rootle, 29, married and the father of a small hoii, wuh shot and killed hy a Jealoua hits band, but before dying defied that he had ever met the man or his wife, Mra. J. (.'. Coghlll, wife of the Hlayer. ulso denied knowing the man. who wiih a milkman, and said that he did not even deliver milk to them. Lucky, But Stay# On Relief Chicago, Aug. y.?Somewhere in thy Chicago dlHtrict today a rugged little man, who looked uh though he didn't have a nickel In his pocket, was counting $1,997.60. He wan one of four persons who held dally double tickets at the Lincoln Fields race track yeaterday pairing Fligh of Gold, a 6 to I nhot, and Prom Girl. 40 to 1, horses which won in the Hocond and third races. The ragged little man refuaed to tell iila name because, he aald, he wua on relief and didn't want to be dropped. Joe Allen, Cincinnati plunger, wua reported to have been another winner. WORLD MOURNS AMERICAN HUMORIST (Continued From Page One) either of Oklahoma or California, ho again aald "shurkw,-"-adding: "Listen, when a comedian Ik taken 'serious,' he'n through. Forget it." Peggy Wood, the actress, recalled today that Rogers had long nursed hii ambition to fly from London to Capetown, back-tracking the trip Inlaid made by boat as a youth when he Mrst bad won IiIh spurs an an entertainer. He had "punched cattle" for a while in Argentina and then joined a Wild West show, appearing 1n South Africa. After that experience he went to I>ondon and deep in his heart he had an abiding wlBh to make the return trip by air. Rogers was often called a genius by his admirers. His answer to that was the expression he frequently used when embarrassed: "Shucks." m Greenville Boy Is Accidentally Shot l'< dzer, Aug. 17.-*-A four-year-old boy of IN l/.er today accidentally shot and killed 111 h four-year old first cousin vlHltor from Clreenvllle county. The hIiooiIiik occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Taylor here. Johnnie, their Hon, wan playing in a room with Jimmie Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. C, II. Taylor of Greenville county. They were alone, and when Johnnie took a loaded pistol off the mantle and played with it, it discharged. killing Jimtnie. Coronj-r J. Hoy McCoy investigated and after talking with the parents of the children decided that an Inquest was not necessary. The boy admitted he was playing with the gun, the coroner said, but he did .not understand what he had done. Card Of Thanks We wish to express our appreciation for the many kindnesses shown us by friends during the recent illness and,-4cuLh of our mother, also for the beautiful floral tribute. Mrs Paul Lewis, Inez and Klizabeth Gardner. Card Of Thanks We desire to thank each and every one who so kindly contributed, also with material and work for -the repair of our house that was wrecked by the cyclone of April 29. Very respectfully, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Vaughan. Several thousand residents of the valley below the Ovada dam. near Turin, Italy, fled to the mountains when a rumor spread that another dam above Ovada was in danger 6f breaking. The Ovada dam bursting cost 250 or more lives. In an international contest in which 17 Canadian and American girls contested for the place of "Miss North America," the honors were awarded to Miss Geraldine Starr, 21, of Montreal, Canada, the contest being staged at Old Orchard, Me. General News Notes Sheep killing dogs raided the farm of J. A. JUedrlck at South mount/. N. C\ and killed $3 sheep. A now gold field, "equal .to ?he Klondike," Is claimed to huve b< mi discovered in four fumiH in Arkansas Two children, 8 and 11, were killed on the streets of Concord, N. C., when the hinall wagon they were riding raced right in front of an automobile. Mrs. T. H. Hay, of Wilmington, Del. In her will leaves $15,000 to advance the cause of Chrlstluulty and promote total abstinence and legal prohibition. Mrs. Margaret F. Dolbrow aud Norman Drlscoll, her girlhood sweetheart, have been Indicted at Salem, N. J , for the murder of her husband, Harry Dolbrow, on August 3. An electric transformer burstcd in the building of the Washington Post, Injuring a woman pausing in the street. The report of the explosion was heard several blocks away. The Louisiana State University bus purchased 064 acres of laud adjoining its property to be used as a "student farm," to help poor students work their way through collesn. Governor Park, of Missouri, issued reprieves on Tuesday, the 13th, to two white men sentenced to die on the scafford today. They have an extension of two weeks of life. In a ruling in his court at Haitimore, Md., Federal Judge Chestnut says that the AAA hog processing (axes are illegal, and the government Is restrained from collecting the taxes. Charlotte's ejty council Is having an Investigation made of promiscuous charges of alleged brutal and uncalled for uttacks on negroes In that cit> by members of the police force. The former crown prince of Spain and his wife, and Countess of Cotmd* ongu, after visiting her home ln^uha, are now spending a few weeks in the United States. Lieutenant-General Tetsuzan Nagata of the Japanese army, was slain by a subordinate officer In tlie general's office at Toyko on Monday. The slaying was done with a sword. An 800-pound sea turtle was landed at Huston by fishermen from the Gloucester seiner Santa Maria. 'The fishermen claim the turtle dragged their boat 100 feet. The turtle Is 8 from head to tail. The Seaboard Air Line railroad! company has placed an order for ?l.oOoj tons of new steel rails to be used be-i tween Birmingham, Ala., and Monroe. N. C. The cost is approximately $218,000. Mrs. Ruth Aderholt, of Charlotte. N. C., and an unidentified woman were killed in an automobile collision, and Mrs. Aderholt's husband and two other women seriously Injured near Harlem, Ga., Wednesday. Oliver Deiter, 71, and his mother. 100, are held for a police court hearing at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on charges of beating two young men after the two had engaged in a quarrel with Oliver. j Bruno's Prison Mate Is "Dead" The hi tit <* prison at ?ji4on, N. J., where Hruno Richard Huuptman continues to hope desperately to heat the death sentence for the murder or Charles Lindbergh, Jr., houses a man who has been "legally dead" for ton years. He is Archibald Herron, 75 years old. Hauptinan doesn't kn6w about him, though he exercises every day the weather permits in a gravel path less than a stone's throw from the death house. Herron doesn't know nbout Hauptinan either or about much of anything else that has happened in the last 25 years. Rleary of eye, deserted by relatives and friends, hopeless, Herron is one of the few prisoners ever sentenced to die in tile state's prison to live to cheat the electric chair. His case Is unusual. He was sentenced to die in 1908 for the murder of u justice of the pcac>\ it wus a crude killing. Twice stays of sentence were granted. Then, in March, 1909, the late Governor Franklin Fort refused to continue tiie stay. Rut later the same day Justice Bergen issued apother stay pending an inquiry into Herron's sanity. Two months iuter the justice issued another order staying all proceedings until further orders of the court. He never signed the final order resentencing thq prisoner to the chair. About ten years ago Justice Bergen died. Other members of the supreme court declined to take up the case, and Herron, under a clause of the New Jersey law,'was proclaimed legally dead. Herron was a blacksmith before bis crime. A great, powerful figure when he entered the prison, he lias become a hulk, lie has hud but one visitor in 27 years. The visitor was his son. who never returned. Snake Slips Up in Choosing Egg Barnwell, Aug. 15.?Yesterday afternoon while standing on the street talking to a couple of friends, Dr. L. T. Claytor, local physician, saw a larg?- chicken snake fall from a passing larni wagon. Noticing a proturba'nee about the middle of the reptile's body. Doctor Claytor concluded that the snake had just raided a hen's nest. After killing the snake Doctor' Claytor took his pocket knife, and slit open the body. There was an egg in the reptile's stomach, but it was a china nest egg instead of the regulation "hen fruit." First Bale Ginned 1 he first bale of 1935 cotton was ginned at Heath Springs Friday. This cotton was raised by a farmer of the Liberty Hill section of Kershaw county where the first cotton In this vicinity is generally grown. It Is probably that other cotton will be coming to the gins of the county soon. ? l^ancaster News. Make the Big Profit Months BIGGER! WITH Spartan Iodized Laying Mash Never before have fall and winter eggs been so e?#y to get. Spartan Iodized Laying Mash gives greater egg production during the BIG PROFIT MONTHS ? October, November, December and January. The scientific balance of proteins, carbohydrates minerals and vitamins regulates production so that eggs are obtained when prices are highest. Bring the pullets into lay; get bigger eggs; and better health with Spartan. Shorten the molt and get the hens into earlier production. WHITAKER 8c CO. Telephone No. 4 Rails Get Big Sum For Hauling Melons Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 17.?W. L. Stone, director of the state bureau of markits today reported Georgia watermelon growers received Iobb than $019,372 for their 1935 crop while railroads got $2,084,425 in freight for hauling the melons. The announcement brought a criticism of the railroads from Jud P. Wilholt, chairman of the Georgia public service commission, who recently took the lead in a fight to reduce freight tariff in the south. "This is one proof that railroad rates should be cut in half," Wilholt | said. Stone said 11,911 cars of melons were shipped out of Georgia this season compared to approximately [ 9,Out) cars last year. 'Apparently the interstate commerce commission has no interest in protecting southerners from exhorbitant freight rates," Stone said. "Something has got to be done, else Georgia farmers will have to stop producing for the markets altogether." Rattler On Main Street Lamar, Aug. 17.?Quite a bit of excitment was created on Main street about 9:30 last night. Policeman Wayne King heard a peculiar rattle across the street as he walked out of Turner's pharmacy. Upon investigation he discovered a rattlesnake which he killed with his pistol in front of the Pee Dee Package shop. It measI ured four and one-half feet and had | nine rattles. Fall Trial Camp 1 For Baseball Boyfl Spartanburg, S. C., Auk. 19.?tB site of the Fall trial camp oper&t^l In the Piedmont region by one of t^| clubs in the World Champion St. i.miH Cardinal organization has been ed this year from Greensboro, N'orfl Carolina, to Spartanburg, South Catfl Una, and the operating club will fl the Rochester club of the Intenfl tional league. The trials will be conducted fl Duncan Park in Spartanburg beffl ning at 9 a. m; Monday, Septerabfl 9, and continuing through the weefl The camp will be open to any pl&\fl| between the ages of seventeei) ai^| twenty-three, who believes he has ability to play basebal in orgapiz^H | professional leagues. Those play el who in the opinion of a group scouts have ability to advance in tfl ranks of professional ball will be oH fered contracts for the 1936 season.? Already this season such can:|B have been conducted in Willimantifl Connecticut; Rochester, New Ycrkfl Columbus, Ohio; and I^oomingioiH Illinois, by the various clubs in tbfl St. Douis Cardinal organlzatioa 9^^ fore the season is over the Caftu^B officials expect that close to boys will be given an opportunity^? display their abilities before prot^fl sional scouts and that from this grafl J will come a large portion of the plfl { era who will make up the clubs I j lower classification of the Cardial owned clubs next season, t The trial camp is a development? . Branch Rickey, vice president of ^B j St. Louis Cardinals and all affllla^fl ' clubs. It is Richey's belief tbatfl | large portion of the players who h^B ability to go high in baseball ^B never seen by scouts from professiB al baseball. He has developed fl trial camp so that each player I porting will not only be seen by nfl experienced in scouting but will h^K a better chance of showing hit a^B ity than if he had played a full gi^H of ball before a scout. The Canh^B official stated that two of the I quisites of a good player, a str^H arm and speed, can best be ascert^B ed in these camps. ^fl| Players attending this free uj|?, Calup uiiuulu report at DuucaiT j in Spartanburg promptly at 9 a, } Monday, September 9, in uniform. ^Bj players reporting will do so at own expense. However, tranapofl tion to the camp and expenses wt^B j( there will be refunded to all play^B,t who sign contracts for the 1936 tf^B s on. Any player wishing further^? 0 formation may address Oliver Frei? president of the Asheville Baad^? ^ Club, Asheville, N. C. Be Whitewash Government Formula?Slake o half bushel of quicklime or lump " with boiling water, keeping it cote during the process; strain, and * .1 peck of salt dissolved in wa water. Boil three pounds of 8??' rice in water to a thin paste; diwo in warm water one-half pound Spanish whiting and 1 pound of d glue; mix these well together and the mixture stand for several d? Keep the wash thus prepared i? kettle or portable furnace and *1 used put it on as hot as possible * a brush. ? 11 t * > ~ Governor Talmadge, of George, requested President Roosevelt to P icly admit that he was in "erI when he charged that Georgia verted public schobl funds to I state debts. The president is silent on the request Harry BchtmantH, an if*-? house superintendent to W* York police, charged with try* *tort $10,00# to trom JW Todd, motion picture Mtma ?s l a*td i? S&*f? SAT-IS-FY. Something that pleases, gives satisfaction; something that just suits. For example, you are pleased with a dress. As applied to cigarettes, it means one that is MILD?that is not harsh or bitter; one that TASTES just right. Chesterfield ... the cigarette that's Chesterfield... the cigarette that TASTES BETTER O it)). Lmgbtt it Htm Tmceo Co.