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r*-r- , ? .. L .. . ..I L I ?'LL . JJ U. J LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the Files of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Ago ?_ __________. 1 F1FTKKN YKAKH AGO November $, 1920 Aleolu suffers big fire loss to 1 III mouse planing mill plant estimated at $300,000. G. Morten Gludden who died in l*oo county, burled at Autioch. Beanie Will Marshall murricd to Miss Viola I lull. J. L. Team made foreman of Fed eral grand J,,r> u' Charleston .Minn Annie Mae Belk, of Camden, murrled to Herbert Williams, of Columblir. IJody of Sergeant John A. Hurdell, who died in Franco, to be brought to Columbia for buriul. Scattering ruturiiH from precincts over Kershaw county show that there were 021 Democratic votes and 42 Hepuhlicun votea cunt in presidential election. Warren II Harding and Cuivln ('oolldge. nominated for president and vice president on the itepuhlicun ticket defeating ('ox and Itoosevelr Although Kk yearn of age, William J. Young, Sr., of Weslvllle, comes to Caimlen to pay liih Luxch and triUlBnet other business. John G i 11 Ih, 75-year-old veteran, dloH at IBs home in Stockton auction, and burial In Guaker cemetery at Camden. lOngugement of A. Kennedy Blakeuey and Miss Henrietta Shannon LieLouche announced. Mm. Sura A. Bradley diea at her home In Cumdon. Mm. Mary Ancrum Shannon falls and suffers dislocated shoulder. Mr and Mrs Samuel J. Merrick, of Germantown, I'a., urrlve for winter season. Frank Courson, of Stockbridge, down lor the winter season. November meeting of John D. Konned> Chapter C. D. C. held at home of Mrs W. J. Dunn with Mrs. Kugene Brown as assistant hostess. Ladies ol Baptist church publish resolutions of regret at death of Mrs. Attn Watts. THIRTY YKAKB AGO < November 10, 1005 City council having sidewalk built on Houth hide of Haurons street from old Lett nor residence to Kpiscopal church. l-ounglng benches also being (dated in public suuuros, <'o imi'tncrshlp between J. I'. Hewitt and W T Hinitb uh Hmfth and Hewitt dittttolved Mr Hewis sells out to Mr. Smith Htmrge S. Khuinc, 70, dies ut liltt home' oil Hair Street. lie wutt born In Sumter county but bad been a rosldent of Camden for thirty five yeurtt. ..Johnny J. .Joiion with the Curnlvul showing In Camden thih week. Mr. nnd Mrs. Hen Tick nor and three young daughters arrive ill Camden to open Court Inn for tteutton. W. II. (leer, representing the Columhla State in Camtlen for the week. Mre John Whlluker, Jr., and Mr and Mrs. <?. If. Hcnofr attending (Jala Week in Charleston. Mrs. John S. Hludsay, of Cheslor. spending a lew days with her parents. Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Reynolds hostI ess to the members of the 4John D. | Kennedy Chapter U. I>. ('., with Mrs. F, Heslle Zemp presiding in the ubsoncu of Mrs. W. D. Trantham, the president. 4 Great improvement in condition of Hon. W. D. Trantham announced by physicians. Dr. K. C. Hraslngton discovers gold ore on his plantation near Kershaw. estimated that more than five thousand Jews slaughtered In Russia by Russian soldiers within twenty-four hours. Mrs. Maude Hroadwieh, an aeronaut drops from a balloon at Anderson and is killed. I The "Mltcliille C" Is a new boat plying between Georgetown and Conway on the Waccumaw river. President Theodore Roosevelt issues proclamation naming Thursday. November .'to. as Thanksgiving day. Stories Of The j Long, Long Ago I .a n< aster News. Iln- following ski ll li of tin- life i?i 'I hoinas .Llterson Maekey was given in I'.luoki \s lit in li ami Hal itl South Carolina." Judge .Mai key is rniiein he fed hy 111 a 11 > Ul till' older residents ui Lancaster. Tht* following incidents' la his career were repiiuied in an old issue id The Lancaster News: I iinmas Jclterson Maekey who was elect eil J mi >4.1 ul the sixlli circuit un January 27, 1 .s 712. was a native <>l Charleston where lie received Ins i>ri ' mary educatiun. lie served In the Mexican war and also in the ScuiiUtile war lie entered the t'unl'ed crate service as a private and in 1S ?2 had risen to the positioned captain ut engineers in the ann> ul lien. Sterling Price. In January. 1X7'.. lie was sent tu l-'.dgt liehl h> liovernur t'haniherlain tu luuk into I he condiliuns there, lie made a report in which In scon d the republican ollice hnhlers, declaring I hem in lie lioth tinninpeleiil a 1*1 depraved (it the county go\eminent lie saitl. In iiiy delili. i.tli judgment lie sin h III )<|ii ll > h is t>e. n ill tilt ted lip on any portion ul the Kngli*h speak inu ra?e suite the Savon wore the iIon t oiler o! i i.e Normau The judge v. as 111 lid ol telling jokes nil I a I g e 11. I < i ( 11 > i . on hi-, way to I li a I place ii>- said I am mane I > > hold co a I t in I Mm in id ami I t \pot I n sniiiewhai e\t itm.: term as t tie iall sin o! ing i- alioiu i o . o11111teio < A n other I i no- I,. sa id I halt J list d is o \ e i e 11 thai a g. e a l i u j u s t i e o 11. i s I" i n done lit i go 111 -1 d li is thai'getl Iha! I lley kill llegliMs |>. I.tils, ol tloir political opinion Th.it is a mist.ikp Tin -\ kill t hem lor spun Luring the dark days ol ret oiistnn Hon m ihls stale A S W.tll.ue was a m ei a her ol i ougrcs Isroin Ilie sixth South Parolina district Judge Maekey was the presiding judge at the Lam aster court which was in session at the nine Congressman Wallace .lied ami upon hearing ol the death of W a I wo . . Judge Mat key made these i. in.irks i rum t In- hem h ' I he t out; ha.- just heard with inlinit sal ist.o I i.ui of ih,. death of A S. Wailat. ami tiie court now stands adjourie .t .n honor of that glorious i \ ell! I'h. t . nirt will address the 4 oust it Ueti's ,d the illustrious dead t rotll the t own house Steps at I p. 111 this afterno.-n m.t will suggest ihat hey ei et t a _i ii on nine u t I.. ;. is inepio i > and that M -.- ' o 1U w 11. g inscription lie placed ll poll it It.-neath these stones A. S. Wallace's hones In solitude are Itiiil "l is lien' In- paid Dame naiiirf's dobW? The only on.- ho ovor paid. I n honvon Wallaee lias not gone Too moan lo pay tho toll Neither has ho roiio to holl For Wallaee had no soul. I h. form in whieh Judge Mm koy passed M til.'iio- upon a man eonvh t.-.I of at son at tin- court of general sossions in Lancaster on a ehai'ge of arson .?! whioh In- was tonvieted' is n sad ooinni.-niniw on tho stale ol affairs existing at that linn- in South Carolina. This paper is on til. in tinLancaster ootirt house and it taa.ls as follows. I do h.-rel.y sentenoo Cabin Ifho K. . ..11\ i. t.-.I ot arson, to imprisonment in lit. penitent iar\ ai hard labor lor lit.- This eoiiviet was abb and earn. stly defended by Messrs Kershaw itnl Moor.-, two distinguished couii11. >r s assigned b\i the court The verdict was rendered by an impartial oirv ot singular intelligence, rotiipos d of live white and Seven colored < iti/. lis selecteii by the prisoner who had tort v . ha 1 leimes." 'III.- evidence developed the fact that a child about seven years of age was consumed in the burning dwellniv; bom.I do. therefore, in the name of the violated law. protest against executive clemency being extended in this case b> tin- thief magistrate. F .1 Moses, Jr. who has so prostituted the pardoning power as to make the administration of the criminal law a moek.-rv of justice and < onvert the proud s.-al of his state Into a symboj of approv c<l crime.' Witness my hand, at Lancaster . oiirt house. South Carolina, this lUh da> of J ul>. 1ST I." Thomas .' M at key. ('residing Judge. To Meet With Mizpah Church The Leo County Singing Cotivent f< hi will meet with Mi/pali Baptist i hiin h in its lUtith session on Sun ilay, November 1 < . at 'J.iht p. in. Tin.* olian 11 is situated iwi'lvi- miles from Camden. om ini 1 oil the Blshopvillo highway No .".I, turn lo the tight at .loy net 's stoiv. Wo oMetnl a special invitation to all silvers and a warm welcome to all I. A Moore. I'tvsident Although tailing to convict Abra ham I. Shushau. political alley of 1111e\ l.ong, on charges of income tax evasions, the government has filed liens against assets of Shushun and his wife totaling $: l,'?t?y.ll tor taxes alleged to he due, penalties and interest . I I VENETIAN BLINDS I I CAROLINA WINDOW SHADE AND AWNING CO., I H 1112 Taylor Street Columbia, S. C. Rome Frightened j I By War Stories! Homo 1m unquiet?in a terrifying * *uy The citizens of the Catholic ! apiial feel uh thouKh they were ' amped on top or Mount Vesuvius. Ah 1 he parents of Italian conscript* in ' ast Africa are fueling uneaHy be- ' ?uusu of lite absence of any estimate ' >f Italian casualties, wl|U rumors are ' Hiding eaay cireulatlorf. v , ' I wiee a day the war department Assures tiie people that only native! * evlfcm have mo far been employed in j 1 he, advance. The more the assurance | * h printed that the Italiun casualties > * tre light, the more the populace fear | i hat they are mo heavy that the facial 1 government does not dare to print the Int. J Ordinary life conditions In Home , ire gutting worse every day. A few .veokn uko a law was passed compel . ng the landlords to turn all rent d< , mjhKh they held into government < muds. In Italy, any prospective lep int Ih required by law to pay tin- . andlord a quarter's rent, which r< , naltiM in the landlord's hands until i( he termination of the lease. Through ( his measure the government wen- | ible to lay their hands on vast sums t >t ready money. Quite recently all savings bunks de ( )oslts were closed to the public, and , he holders of savings certificates , >vere told that their money was remired by the state and government . >ond vouchers were given to them. I his was a very grave measure, and j t Is very likely thut its consequences ^ will go a long way towards shaking , the national confidence. Haw materials and most building , materials have also been monopolized t bv the government. All building is | tit a standstill. The demand for metul for the needs of the army grows , from day to duy, but the supplies are j bound to come to an end sooner or , later. There is no Collossum to strip . of its bronze liars today, since that i was most elTciently done in the "l5th century. A pope once took the bronze | root oft the Pantheon to turn it into , cannon, but the resources of the past j would be difely inadequate now. The rank and file of the Italian , people are most vitally interested in | two questions only?fuel and food ! They find themselves on the thresh | ( hold <>t winter, which can he very 1 ( severe in Home, and the state inonop | oly ot coal lias led to fantastic prices. I , which verge on sheer profiteering; ' and the poor realize that their own' needs will be hardly looked alter in } the general turmoil. 1 be cost ol gasoline is so prohibitive that a great many people base bad to give up t liei r ? ca rs ; but tliis, alter all, is a minor hardship. What I" disquieting is the fact that t?.od prices are soaring from day to day. I he whole of the commerce is already badly crippled by the new exchange regulations; imported foodstuffs. some of which are immediate commodities, will soon be out of reach ot people with slender incomes; and the ordinary manin-tho-street is puzzled by the news liltering through from day to day about how one foreign firm and now another refusing to send fresh consignments to Italy?mainly owing to the shaken linancial conditions. 'bit tin Italian seldom, if ever, pauses to look for reasons. He will have to shiver and, probably, go short of the most things in the coming winter, and from the press, the demonstrations, 'he whole public tenor of lif> he will glean the unfortunate ami undoubtedly erroneous itnpressiun that the whole of t In- riviiiZ'd w?>iid is ianged against his own cotiutr* Slow|\. but persistently, \va\rs ?f unspoken .lisconteitt are spreading . v' ' Italy l lie mere idea of t lie < q Atrican trout suggests something !:..e sin er horror to the young .recru; s and < ven the gri-at war veterans < ailnot feel happy about it. A few d.ivs ago ibe whole of Italy shiv red o\ --r a gruesome tale of some 14 lta!i..n soldiers having been speared by two Abyssian warriors. Within the ie \t few days another story wormed its way among the rank and file. Th:m> Italian soldiers were reported to lia-e been caught alive, and their dying was a matter of several hours The press refuses to give an .it . h id space to such stories, but tlo-y j grow and spread all the more wid> ;y, | This is easily understood w hen . :,e remembers that a raw Italian re? rmt. torn oft from bis vineyards, his o\.-n ami his olive trees, knows nothing about the methods of African wart, re and imagines a lot. Horrors find g, .<1 rooting soil in the \i\id Italian m.-j. | nation \or are tle-y altog.tlnr i;.i- i | aginary cither. A six W I' k > * ! I K , o; I , miners ot ea. t t . sout Ip ,i-t< i ll K. i , , . j. e.l by si;;n:;_ , : u.?g-' s H agieeinent lietwi i ? -h, mint op, r.it'M s .11?,: reprr*. " : \ e?. , > d M uie Work- r- t i \ no ro a James J. Walker, former New York I mayor, and his wit,, t),,. former Hetty lonipton, screen actress, returned to I New York on Friday aft, r a threeyear exile WaTker was given a tumultuous welcome. Potato Trouble Still Brews In S. Carolina Special lo th<' Yorkvilie Knqulrer. Columbiu, Nov B."?NVIille It will not leconie an sensational as the martial aw over the Hi at?? lliKhway Departiient, for about unother rnontli, the dggewf thing Impending over everybody In South Carolina today la the legliiiilng of enforcement of the poato act of congress, December 1 Ih the deadline date uf* er which anybody who buys h pock of * lotatoos/ unless the spuds are In a " lealed, Hpeclul container bearing a jovei iiipent label, will be subject to i line of $l,OtiO or a term ul Atlanta lenitenttary. Meanwhile, liicle Sum's husky * idopted son, the AAA, will tell every ( aimer and gurdcner in this state who 1 nines as much as live bushelH of po- u aloes a year, exactly how many S jounds of potatoes he may sell this H iext year, without puylng a Lax of 4f> h ents a bushel on them. b The AAA at Washington now hus v lotatoes in exactly the same stutus as I otton hus been. Kacli grower gets an 11 iHotnieiit, and tax tree certllicates for f bat many pounds of potatoes When ' le sells any potatoes, he pastes on lie container a proportionate purl of I' ils tax free certificate. When his cor- r ideates and allotment run out, he '1 nust pay 45 cents a bushel on the po- v aloes he sells after that ? which of tl ourse, Is prohibitive, us regards any 11 iroflt, or meeting cost of production. The allotment for this whole state a s 1,1)911,000 bushels of potutoes. That ? vill be broken down into allotments c 0 counties during this month. Then h oines the allottmyit to individual po- o uto growers, fanners, truckmen, and ? own gardeners who have a crop as ii urge as dve huHhols. P Potatoes will be handled by the gov- b -riinient agencies exactly as cotton ias been. Cotton, tobacco and pea- B mts have been restricted that way, c Hid now potatoes are added to the < 1st of crops affected. x There may be considerable delay in 2 making the allotments of potatoes to c individual growers, for individual al- t Icitnietits cannot be made, said J. LI. I llutson, director of tin- AAA division a if potatoes, until funds are provided I for administrative expenses. \ "We have asked the proper authorises whether we can use funds from rtaiti sources."' llutson said. "We ^ Impe to have a iiiling before the lack | ?! muds seriously interferes with the j work of making grower allottnetits." j I his potato production edict brings t lo tin- whole populace, in their homes, t tin- identical principles and oversight i w Iiii 11 has been felt by cotton buyers j i"r several years. Nobody took much * notice of tlie plaints of the textile 111 i 11 but tin* housewife buying po- t tutors is much more worthy of atteti- t 1 ion. it seems. - , Where the wide-awake housekcep- i ers, accustomed to buying a peck or j a bushel of potatoes from a huckster. 1 or a farmer hauling them to town to , sell, realized that they had to be sure j that the potatoes they bought were 1 packed correctly and labelled legally > ?under a penalty of a $1,000 tine to 1 the purchaser ? they made a vocal i road in some places. laind protests already have resounded against the law. Open predictions ; of detiauce and potato bootlegging have been made. At one time, Secretary Wallace said lie would do everything possible to keep from enforcing the law. but at a potato growers'hearing the very next day the protests against this stand were so vociferous that he retracted. I he advocates of the new potato 'diit ar. tip- commercial growers, chiefly in Maine ami Ohio, who grow the larger part, of tin.- potatoes going to Hi'' metropolitan markets. Against it are the small town housewives? or they will be before it has been operated a week. 1 In- objective of the whole thing is frankly to elevate the price of potatoes. so the grower tan get more money for his crop -to bring his price back to thai before 1 a2b. But in addition' to that natural, and planned, rise in prices of potatoes in tlie hands of tlie growers, there will be other things to pay for, it is pointed out by some thrifty and economical housewives. Tliere are those standard containers Tor every half peck, or half bushel of potatoes sold in one transaction, which containers must be government specifications, a fid will cost the seller some money?not much for one, but considerable in the aggregate. Then there is the extra labor entailed, and to be paid for. in properly and legally sealing and stamping tinpotato paekages. And a number of other tilings becoming new factors in the cost of the spuds hereafter. After 15 years of mail carrying. 5Syear old .leptlia l> Turner was arrest <1 by I'uited States deputy marshals for removing $2.5<> from a letter planted in ills pouch. He was held to foil oral court under $l.t?00 bond He confessed. after his arrest, and said he spent 50 cents for whisky, changed a dollar bill to buy a glass .of beer and another half dollar for ctmr ettes. " 1 1 " 1 11 1 1 J. c. COX Sanitary Plumbing and Heating TELEPHONE 433-J Estimates Furnished on Short Notice ELECTROL OIL BURNERS i ii 4 111 1 r 1 1 A GLOOMY PICTURE A committor of threo, hailing from he University of North Carolina and 'ink Unlvoruity at Nashville, lias reontly made, what they claim, an ex-, enalve research Into the cotton sitation and farm temuncy in the "Old ioutli." Flsk University is a negro (I tool, Their preliminary findings" avc been published in a small clolhound hook of about 7i> pages. A copy fus sent to fhis office by somebody, f this committee has properly diagowed the case most of us would beter pack rags and prepare to move, 'hey paint a gloomy future. That olored member of the committee eslecially, nfuy do well to hasten arangemcnts for his race to escape the 00111 that Is to come. The calamity r'lll hit his crowd the hardest, as lie negro and cotton on the farms are lseparable. The cotton farmers, we are told, re "the most backward and lmpovrisked producers in America." Inrcased cotton acreage In Texas, Okihoma, and a few of less degree, is ne of the evil signs. Negroes, it ays, are being supplanted by whites 11 the cotton fields. Of tenants, the iroportion is already 5 whites to 3 dacks. And tenancy Is increasing. Out of every 100 cotton farms over 0 are tenants. White tenants in the otton states in 10 years have inreused by 200 thousand families, vhllo colored tenants decreased by 1,000 families. There is much crlll:isni of landlords with reference to heir comissaries, bookkeeping, and uterest charges. Most of these teumis, according to their figures, barey subsist, and a large percentage alvuys in debt. The cotton pelt is described as a panorama of nnpainted shacks, rainlullied fields, rattletrap Fords, dirt, loverly, disease and drudgery." "40 ?er cent of tenant flood is fat salt ?ork. Finally the tenant receives this hrust. That he is disposed to rob he soil, burn for firewood rails from my nearby fence, planks from the lurch floor, or other available mov1 bies. Some say tenants are poor because hey are lazy, while others contend hat their laziness is due to their poverty. "Thirty per cent of the cotton auds of various states are owned by insurance companies and -banks." What adds to the gloom is the "loss if world markets." Now fifty cotton trowing countries in the world. 'Lgypt is producing the best cotton trown." Brazil is coming to the front Mid has a "larger available acreage than the United Sta4.es." Russia no longer a buyer of export cotton. "In 1921, Russia made forty-three thousand bales. In 1933 it had jumped to I.mhj.uuO. Texas and Oklahoma now produce nearly one half of our cotton, and it will not be long, under the present trend, before the states west ui the Mississippi river can supply the world consumption of American cotton. Improved machinery, especially in the South West, is putting thousands out of employment. Yet there are still many Andy Gumps who pre tend to think that there should be nc birth control among the poor in this country. These white-collar diagnos ticians think that the Bankkead law is a great blessing to the laudownei but hard on the tenant. It is further claimed that in Xortl: C arolina in 1934 between eight nnd twelve thousand tenant farmers wert displaced, and had no crops. Little hope is held out. These suggestion* as to the outcome are given: 1. Star ration. 2. Permanent support on thf relief rolls. 3. Work in the cities 4 A change in the farming system Soils must be improved. Tenant* must be converted into owners. I)en mark, we are informed, practicallj abolished tenancy, and groat improve ments in Germany. Ireland, and Mexi CO. Cotton must and will be dothron ed as sole King, and it is well to be gin tht- undermining at once. I hese are the high spots of this pessimistic and discouraging surve] . oy the college committee. i noun? dark and dismal, we fear there Is I * more than a grain of truth in their H f findings.?Calhoun Times. N Colonial Boxwood H Company BIG TREE MOVERS 0!AividoHp S* C? 1 SPECIALTIES . . . English Boxwood Tree Box Flowering Trees Flowering Shrubs Rare Evergreens i j No place is too large or too small to be landscaped by us. General News Notes D. Heiss Kiett, of Arangeburg, was fatally shot with buckshot 011 the highway at Jedburg, in the middle of the night, and died in the Summerville hospital. Hayden Hodge, a filling station operator at Jedberg, was jailed by the sheriff and denied he had shot Kiett. Three men who had been quarreling with Kiett in an automobile said Hodge called from his home to stop the noise, or he would shoot them. Stray shot hit the other three men. A school teacher and a housewife who saved Dr. Thomas S. Buie, of Spartanburg, from drowning August 11.1934, in the Atlantic ocean near Kockville. received Carnegie hero medals by an award made at IMtts- I burgh. Dr. Buie, regional director of I the soil erosion service, was swept out into deep water while wading, and the M two women brought him to shore w\\h I the greatest difficulty and heroism I They are Miss Wilma It. Hart and I Mrs. Allic Mae Hart Murray, who live I at the same address in Charleston. Anderson county, in the last fiscal I year, had many more criminal cases, I than any other county in this state. I and had twice as many murder cases 1 as any other county. Greenville coun- I ty was second in number of murder I cases. In Anderson county 92 persons I were charged with murder, compared I with 48 in Greenville county, but most of those in Anderson county got no I farther than the grand Jury'. or were fl acquitted, with only three convictions. A bill of $083.03 was presented to the state by the Pelzer Manufacturing Company, because Governor Johnston I withdrew national guard troops after I they had guarded mill property for I I several weeks. One item Is $129 for I | repair of a gymnasium floor, after its I j use by the soldiers, another is a dollar I . j and a half for a broken chair, and one I ,' is $3f> for installing water pipe lines . while the troops were protecting the I , I mill. Some items in the bill were I ( ; lor five cents each. I .1 Sheriff 1'. Fulton Dukes, sheriff of I . Orangeburg county, died at his hoine I t there, after an illness of several ? j weeks and failing health since the j tirst of this year. The funeral on Sun ; day afternoon was a large one at St. I ^ i Paul's Methodist church. In addition ' ' to large farming Interests, he he'd I ', several offices, and had been sheriff H 1; for the last 20 years. He was born in H *! Branohvllle 03 years ago, and was ' graduated from Th.e Citadel In 1891 I "; He was a lieutenant in the Spanish- 1 1 American war, and later was a mem ' her of the legislature for two terms, I after being mayor of Branchville. He I is survived by his widow, formerly I , Miss Edna McKeown, a son and four daughters. I I BROAD STREET LUNCH II ON TOP OF THE HILL 11 a/inn Nickel Hamburger Anywhere. 11 I I,k B?ttled Drinks?Beer?Ice Cream COURTEOUS | I CURB SERVICE OPEN U"T'L II * - *? ? i. 8 Ai-fi* ,