Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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JU8T A ROLLING ALONG THE WAY (My A. M Grist) Now tlint there In much talk of Che coming of rural electrification all over this country of ours, ?t might be In , teresting to review Junt u little of the development of the use of electricity here und elsewhere during the hist tin yeaiK? not that I run give u full hlniory of it, but porhups can give enough to make it interesting to Home of tlie younger foIkH who take the electric light, the electric refrigerator, cooking range, curling Iron and other electrical devices that are common today as a matter of course. About the first electrical device that I ever heard of, and it was long after hearing about it before I ever saw such a contraption, watt the telephone. It was in the fall of 1876. My father and mother had returned home after attending the centennial exposition in 1'hlludclphhi and visiting New Knglan. One of the wonders my futhor told about seeing ut the exposition was Hell's telephone. It wus a crude affair, hut it was one of the most, in ' foresting things to he seen at the big show. Wires wero strung from one room In the mechanical building to another room in the same building, and visitors were allowed to marvel at the talk carried on between these two rooms only a few yards apart. As I remember It, the next big thing electrical that I heard 'em talking -about whh the electric light. This was la 1887 or 1888, 1 forgot which. An elder brother uttended the big exposition in Ijoulsville, Ky., and one of the marvels of that big show wus the lighting of the grounds by eletrie arc lights?the old carbon type. It wus not until the fall of 1891 that 1 ever saw an electric light. 1 was going to Atlanta, Gu., to visit the cotton states exposition there. I waked up on the train about [I o'clock lu the morning at Gainesville, (in., and looking out tlm .window saw an . arc light close to the railway station. It wasn't much of a light, as I remember It, because the thing was spluttering, but still it was an improvement on the street lights to be seen In the old home town, which at thai time were made with gasoline. In Atlanta 1 found some of the stores and places of business lighted with electric lights ? the old time carbon incandescent type, 16 candle power. It was considered to tie the last word in Illumination for indoors at that time; but still there were many places where they were still using the ordinary guH light?that was before the day of the Welshach Incandescent gas light mantel. There were no electric street cars in Atluntu at thai lime. Nor were there electric cars in many other cities at that date. Folks then didn't dreutn of the many uses to which electricity Is put to today. In my early duys us a printer when we had to work at night, the light we had was a kerosene lamp, set In a frame above the type cases. It wasn't much of a light. It was just better thun tallow candles, which they used In my father's day, with a candle set in a heavy candlestick Just made to tit inside of a section of the type case? one of the less frequently used letter boxes being used as a setting. Took honest-to-goodness eyes to set type by hand by a candle light and even by the oil lamp. Going buck further, 1 very well remember my father coming from Columbia in 1879, and he brought with iiini four "Iffififd v'eo sufefv" kVfYirw'-fic oil lamps." Gee, but tliey made a real light Think what a half ineh wick would make in the way of a light; but it was an improvement over some lamps. It bad safety features. Kerosene oil in those dais was almost as dangerous as gunpowder, ir the lamp for any reason became too hot the lamp would explode, and many a time 1 have seen oil lamps thrown out the windows or smothered with a blanket. The late T. M. Uohson. then a local im-ia haul, was the tirst merchant to offer for siile here an improved kero-1 sene oil . It was red in color and sold tor iii cents a gallon. It was claimed that it was non-explosive, but it would ' splode" just t he same Kuilv in ifie nineties. Major John F. Jones, now of Claremout. N. H., was living at Hhu kslnirg. The major was a farseeing voting man then. He was hoping that Itlacksburg could be made Into a Pittsburgh There w.-re iron ore deposits and gold ore deposits all around in those hills, and there were other minerals as well. The major was more enthusiastic than wise, but he believed things could be brought to pass. Among other things he fathered an electrlclightlng plant for the embryo Pittsburgh. It was the first town in upper South Carolina of anywhere near its size to have electric lights. The major Installed a signal light an the top of Whittaker mountain, and people for miles and miles around in the sticks would locate that light and point it out to all who hadn't seen it. Now, wasn't that sumpin'? Everything considered, it really was. The late John J. Hemphill, congressman from this district, made a political speech In Blacksburg soon after the electric lights were Installed, and one of ilnt funny crucks tie made was, "This Im the first place 1 ever saw where one could hum 'possums by electrh IIhIiih" And thut w*u) literally true. ? it wan in lhl>7, I believe, before Yorkvllle had electric lights, and then it was because of the enterprise of Juki one man, the late T. liaxter Ale('lain, who incidentally was one of the 11 vest wires who ever lived in this section. Mr. McCiain first became the controlling spirit of the then defunct or rather busted Carolina iiuggy company. lie tried making buggies for a time, but soon found that he couldn't build a buggy here to compete in quality and price with the buggies built In Ohio und elsewhere. [ Then he decide? *o turn the did buggy factory into u cotton mill and he did that, lie started in a smulH way and built up und made some/ money. Then he stretched out anil Installed an electric dynamo and had a machine that would produce more light than he needed, und offered to sell the town current for street lighting and Individuals current for store and home lighting. The town, I believe, installed "about 20 of the arctype of lights, these superseding the old gasoline lumps. Yorkvllle was becoming really cosmopolitan. Yes, si roe. Hut at tliul It was a vast improvement over what we had before. The electric service then was only given until midnight. After that hour no more juice. A" short time and Mr. Module's mills failed, und then the town of Yorkvllle took over the electric plant and operated it until April, when the Southern Public I'tilltloH company became the owner of the lighting system. Previous to that there was no effort to extend the use of tin* electric current In Yorkvllle. The use of motors was discouraged. Electric cooking stoves were tabood, and so was practically every other electrical device: Hut when the SPI* had finally completed the rebuilding or the local system and it had to be rebuilt out and out?it began at once to encourage people to use more electric lights, to install motors, refrigerators, ranges, and every sort of electrical device that would be of use in homes, stores and elsewhere. There, are perhaps three times or more users of electric current in this town noSv than were ten years ago and the end Is! not yet. A few years ago Sharon wanted electric lights and to get the service went into a small bond issue to build the line; then it was carried on to Hickory Grove and Smyrna, and out that way there are many users of electric current and none of them would be willing to do without and couldn't if they would?once a luxury, now it Is a necessity. Hut about this rural electrification proposition. It is coming, and the time is coming?it is just around the corner?when almost every rural home even the homes of tenant farmers, white and colored, rural churches and school buildings, are going to he lighted with electricity. May be hard to believe, hut believe it or not, it is coming. The sum of $100,000,000 has been allocated for rural electrification. I hat nu-ans that ways and means will he found for practically every rural coimnuniiv to have the service. No. the government is not going to build tin- line ami wfro the homes, barns, hog pens, school houses and churches, uml say. "Here it is." Oh. no. nothing like that. Hut it is going to make it possible for any community cooperating, to get the money to build the lines to a given community. The lines will be built and then the individual farm owners, the schools and the churches will individually wire their premises and buy the electric devices?th?- refrigerators. ranges, churns, washing machines, curling irons, water heaters, electric pumps for drawing the water that the wife is mostly drawing now and so forth. The coining of electricity to the country home will mean a new day for Madam Partner. It will especially lighten her load of work. It will, at an expense of a reasonable sum. give her running water in the home; bath rooms will be installed, the washing and ironing will be done by electric current and scores of other uses will be found for the current. Cost? Sure It will cost; but who has more right to have money spent to lighten her load, than has the housewife? Darn it. don't you know that but for the presence of Madam Farmer you would ho living about like a pig? If you don t think it is time to be spending some money to give her an easier load, why then you have another guess coming and you had better start guessing now. No. 1 can't tell you Just how to go about getting an electric line into your section, but I do know that you are going to need it and that you will certainly want It. Especially will you want electric light for" your children to study by. They need better light for their school work, and too, big boy, you need a better light at night so you ran read The Yorkville Enquirer more ami keep up with what is going on all over York county, the state of South Carolina, the nation and the world. Really intelligent folks want to keep up with what is going on all over the world, and there's no belter way than by reading. You can't stand by the telephone and get all the news from your neighbors. They haven't the time to stand there gossiping about the news with you. Take the papers and read 'em and keep up. Rural electrification will help you if you'll do your part. The fatherly Federal government with its millions is going to make it possible for you to have electric current in your home, no matter how humble or how rich, but then you'll have to at least reach out and do your pan to get it and 1 expect within the next few years to see electrically lighted and serviced homes all over this country, and I hope that Just that happens. But now, that electric lights are coming, let me give you this tip. Don't try to blow out an electric light when you are ready to crawl Into your hay. The light turns off with * twitch. HELPFUL HINTS During the Hummer mom he when It Ih extremely warm It Ih better to apply face powder far more lightly than It Ih the Imlividual'h regular custorn. Don't throw away meat Hcrupa, gravy, etc. Have In covered glass Jht and UHe ^or soup, croquet tea or hunh. If your HtampH gut stuck together place a piece of slightly damp paper over them uud rub over Uw paper with u hot Iron. This should loosen them without spoiling the stickum. . A teuspoonful of ammonia added to a quart of watep will remove all grease and dirt from combs and brushes. Cooking vegetables in their skins saves their flavor and food value. A little talcum powder rubbed on each playing card will make them slide easier, especially when ttie deck begins to get old. FVosh fruit Juice, coffee or tea stains can he removed by placing the stained portion of the material over a receptacle and pouting boiling water through it from a height. Then wash |n warm suds, rinse and dry In sun. A felt hat can sometimes be cleaned by rubbing with fine sandpaper. Burners on gas ranges should be washed at least once a month with boiling water and soda.?Pathfinder. Operation Of Old-Age Pension Law How will the old-age pension law be worked out? Here's the answer, according to the Greenville Piedmont: Suppose young John Doe is 20 when the bill goes into effect and makes an average monthly salary of $10o until he Ik 65. He will get a monthly pension, until his death, of $53.75. In detail, here is what will happen to him: In the calendar years 1937, 1938 and 1939, he will pay salary tax of J per cent, or a total of $30 for the three years. Ill 1*940, 1941 and 1942, he will pay 1 1-2 per cent, or $54. In 1943, 1944 and 1945 the tax will b** 2 per cent, or $72. In 1940, 1947 and 1948 the tax will he 2 1-2 per cent, or $90. From 1949 to 1981, inclusive, the j tax would be 3 per cent, or a total of $1,188 for those 33 years. Thus in 45 years, John Doe will have paid in $1,440. All the time, his employer will have been matching his tux payments, so the tstal paid to the federal treasury will be $2,880. At 65, John Doe can expect to live perhaps 10 years more. If lie does he will get back $0,450. When John Doe dies, this is what will happen: His average annual salary will be multiplied by the number of years he paid taxes. In other words, if he dies after he has paid taxes for 45 years. $1,200 will be multiplied by 45. Arbitrarily, the bill stipulates that John's estate shall be entitled to 3,1-2 per cent of that, or $1,890?less any amount he received in pensions before he died. If John dies before he gets back $1,890 in pensions, what he actually received is deducted from $1,890 and the balance paid to his heirs. If he lives until he gets back all of the $1,890 and more, his heirs get nothing. Duster Hooks, 22 years old. used a pocket knife to slash his wife, two years younger, about the body so much that surgeons said at once that she could not live. He was jailed in Darlington county, where the cutting occurred, and deputy sheriffs said he had made a record for cutting another person. Some of the ninny slashes .were over a foot long. He chased the woman across a field from a tobacco barn where a quarrel began, to cut her. and some cotton stalks were cut by the same sweeps of the knife that wounded the woman. ODD ACCIDENTS A new gingham dress of ohl-tlmey proportions saved (tie life of tittle (Conceptlone Bejaruno who fell off u bridge Into I lie Dea Moines river, iier dress billowed like a parachute and when ahe struck the water the ulr remaining beneath her dress kept her afloat until rescued by a near-by laborer. An 85 year-old llay Stute uian, Itoy W. Pike, is dead because of bis habit of sleeping with a toothpick In hlB mouth. Peritonitis set in after he hud Hwallowed one. Nathan llrown, Georgia fanner, 1b firmly convinced all accidents occur in cycles of three. Ho was severely stung by a bee while working in a field and on his wuy to the house for first aid ho stopped on a snake which bit him. He then decided to continue on to the near-by villarge for medical treatment and on the way was attacked and bitten by a bulldog. llecause he was too tender-hearted to knowingly kill an animal a New Jersey truckman, Aloysius Ititchlo, lost his own life. When a little puppy darted in front of his truck Ritchie jatfuzied on his brakes and his loud of lumber shifted forward, crushing the cab and severely injuring him. Immediately after a loud peal of thunder a Nebraska woman, Mrs. Henry Fuehrer, heard thumping sounds in the basement. Upon investigation she found the thunder vibrations had evidently jarred the power on for her washing machine was in operation. Grady Hulsey, a Georgiu resident, emulated the good Samaritan by taking an injured fireman to the hospital after a locomotive boiler had exploded. On Jjia way home his car was struck by a trainband he received injuries from which lie died.?Pathfinder. 4 AMERICANA . Transients being maintained on taxpayers" money in transient camps saying they hold no grudge against the fanner in general although they claim that tin- farmer has been selfish and greedy in past years. Wvies of two members of the faculty of a well-known college getting secret divorces so they can marry each other's husband. Two girls getting married in a Middle Western state lone posing in linen's clothing) only to have their "marriage" annulled. Chinese bubbling over the "grapevine telegraph" to summon police in New York City instead of using the telephone. A Wisconsin lad quarantined with the smallpox stealing away to go to the beach and swim among thousands of unsuspecting bathers, "because it was too hot to stay indoors." Post Office Department officials kicking because proud parents of newborn babies usually paste one-cent instead of the reqqired three-cent stamps on birth announcement cards. The Navy being offered bids of $1 to $150 for the wreckage of its once great $2,500,000 dirigible Macon. An emergency relief administrator attempting to dictate feminine attire among K. R. A. workers. (He ordered (lie women to wear corsets and stockings but they rebelled.)?Pathfinder. ARE YOU THIS OLD? It you can remember?. When you washed your feet every night with lye soap; When women carried turkey fans to church; W hen you "blacked" your own shoes on Sunday morning with "Mason's Shoe Blacking;" When people "sat up" at night Knit tine sox and making shoopegs out ot maple that splits easily; When Hoyt s German Cologne" I was the best deodorant known; When castor oil, turpentine and blue-mass were the only medicines that anybody know anything about; When every girl knew how to "keep house" by the time she was fifteen years of age; and every old man carried a goose-quill tooth pick in his pocket; 1 hen you are so doggoned old that flappers not only smile at you but occasionally laught out-right, and your wife Is wasting her valuable time if she worries about you when you are away from home.?DeFuniak Herald DO YOU KNOW THAT According to League of Nations' fig ures the nations of the world spent over $4,900,000,000 in gold for armaments last year. Cairo, Egypt, is generally regarded as the world's leading city?in wickedness and vice. The printed English Bible will be 400 years old on October 4. Only three diseases cause more deaths than do accidents of all kinds. Negroes of the South consider alligator tall one of the best foods. The North Star is brighter than the sun. Asia is the largest continent. Reno, Nevada, had a list of well over a thousand divorces for the first half of 1985, but only 80 of the couples Involved were married In that state.?Pathfinder. I Liaton Dloodsworth, a sailor, was swept overboard from the deck of a freighter off the coast of Delaware, and swam eight miles to shore. CITATION The Slate of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. By N. C. Arnett, Probate Judge: Whereas, Aaron Boone made suit to me to grant William Stokes Letters of Administration of the Estate and effeets of Steve Baker. These are, therefore to cite and admonish all and sigular the Kindred and Creditors of the said Steve Baker deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Camden, S. C,, on Tuesday, September 3rd next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 19th day of August Anno J)ominl 1935, N. C. ARNETT. Judge of Probate for Kershaw County. CITATION The State of South Carolina, County of Kershuw. By N. C. Arnett, Probate Judge: Whereas, Aaron Boone made suit to me to grant William Stokes Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of Annie Baker. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said Annie Baker deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Camden, S. G\, on Tuesday, September 3rd next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 19th day of August Anno Domini 1935. N. C. ARNETT, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County. CITATION The State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. By N. C. Arnett, Probate Judge: Whereas. Alex Baker made suit to me to grant William Stokes letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of Susan Baker. These are, therefore, .to cite and ad monish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said Susan Baker deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Camden, S. C., on Tuesday, September 3rd next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 19th day of August Anno Domini 1935. N. C. ARNETT, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County. CITATION " The State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. By N. C. Arnett, Probate Judge: Whereas, Alex Baker made suit to me to grant William Stokes Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of J. Van Baker, Jr. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said J. Van Baker, Jr.. deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Camden, S. C,. on Tuesday, September 3rd next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any XI M..1X JL X L 1 , ^ "UM "'V ?<11U HI HUB l I if tion should not be granted. Given under my hand this 19th day of August Anno Domini 1935. N. C. ARNETT, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County. CITATION The State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw By N. C. Arnett. Probate Judge: Whereas, Alex Baker made suit to me to grant William Stokes Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of Murdoch Baker. These are. therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said Murdoch Baker deceased, that they be and appear before me. in the Court of Probate. to be held at Camden. S. C on Tuesday. September 3rd next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 19th dav of August Anno Domini 1935. T , N. C. ARNETT, udge of Probate for Kershaw County, i ! CITATION The State of South Carolina, j County of Kershaw. By N. C. Arnett,. Probate Jujge Whereas, L. J. Jordan made null t me to grant Arthur S. Jordan Utw, of Administration of the Estate an effects of Herbert Jordan. These are, therefore, to cite and &i monish all aud singular the Kindre and Creditors of the said Herbe Jordan deceased, that they be and a pear before me,'in the Court of Pr bate, to be held at Camden, 8. ? D Tuesday, September 3rd next, afti publication hereof, at 11 o'clock'in tt forenoon, to show cause, if any the have, why the said AdminUtratlc should not be granted. Given under my hand this 19th da ! of August Anno Domini 1935. N. C. ARNETT, Judge of Probate for Kershaw Count I CITATION The State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. I By N. C. Arnett, Probate Judgt ' Whereas, Alex Baker made suit I me to grant William Stokes Lette: of Administration of the Estate at effects of Samuel Baker. These are, therefore, to cite and a monish all and singular the Kindre and Creditors of the said Samu Baker deceased, Giat they be and a pear before me, in the Court of Pi bate, to be held at Camden, S. ( on Tuesday, September 3rd next, aft publication hereof, at 11 o'clock the forenoon, to show cause, if ai they have, why the said Adininistr tion should not be granted. Given under my hand this 19th dt of August Anno Domini 1935. N. C. ARNETT, Judge of Probate for Kershaw Count CITATION The State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. By N. C. Arnett, Probate Judge! Whereas, L. J. Jordan made euittfl me to grant Arthur S. Jordan Letter! of Administration of the Estate u! effects of Gaylord Jordan. M These are, therefore, to cite udtfl monish all and singular the KWaB and Creditors of the said Gaylord dan deceased, that they be and appB before me, in the Court of Probate,* be held at Camden, S. C., on TuesdB September 3rd next, after publicatB hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoB to show cause, if any they have, B the said Administration should fl be granted. j Given under my hand this 19th B of August Anno Domini 1936. fl N. C. ARNETT. J Judge of Probate for Kershaw Counfl DRAYAGE ! 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