The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 31, 1936, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
LOOKING BACKWARD
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fifteen tears ago
February 4, 191? .
U?v Dr. Thayer, of Sumter, exchange*
pulpite for Sunday with ltev.
John A Davidaon, of Camdon.
j. L. lirauhain married to Mrs.
lluchaqi Carter at LugofT. *
John Slack well and Miss Annie
k.-hv. of Camttep, married^
Heavy rainfall cauaea Wateree riVer
to go on a rampage and traffic between
Camden and Columbia stopped
on account of water over causeway on
west approach.
Blue teain plays white team of polo,
whites winning hy a score of 4 to 3.
Whites?E. Y. ClatiHsen, A. P, Perkins,
C. P. Wiley. Slues?Hay Cassell,
Karl Shaw, Charles R. Little.
British steamer Appan captured by
(ionium raider Moewe. The vessel
was brought to Norfolk in charge of
a German crew. It had long been given
up as sunk by German submarines.
David A. Langford, brother of Miss
Mary Etta langford, teacher in Cleveland
school in. this county shot und
fatally wounded on Newberry Main
street by Ira O. Huston.
Thomas P. Sale, warden at the
North Carolina penitentiary died soon
after turning the current on two condeinned
murderers.
Itev. G. W. Moore is new pastor of
Trinity M. E. church, colored, in Camden.
The Camden Country Club gives
elaborate dance with many Columbians
and others from nearby cities
present. The Kirk wood orchestra
furnished the music.
John Colgan, reputed to be first
chewing gum manufacturer, dead at
Louisville, Ky., at age of 76.
Contractor W. G. Adams planning
erection of $5,000 residence for George
K Cook, Just west of Hobkirk fun.
It will be two stories and contain
twelve rooms.
Charlotte Observer puts on bargain
.subsc ription offers for thirty days at
rate of six dollars per year.
C. O. McCaskill, 34, of the Mt. Zion
section dies.
Jewels presented by Masonic lodge
to postmasters M. L. Smith and N. R.
(ioodale, Sr.
.Mrs. Maggie Truesdel, wife of \Y.
Hampton Truesdel, dies at her home
near Kershaw.
T. A. Cauthen sells his plantation
near Westville anil moves to Kershaw.
W. E. DeLoache, near Camden while
dove shooting kills a carrier pigeon
with band bearing* "16-16-16-16-16."
K. DeKay sells his farm near
Cassatt to McCoy and Branham and
moves to Camden to reside.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sherman move
to Valdosta, Ga.. to make their home. ,
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THIRTY YKARH AGO
February 2, 1906
Following the death of his father,
i Chalmers liortou, at Kershaw, his
i year old son dlett of pneumonia.
I llev. W. H. McMaster scheduled to
preach at Presbyterian church Sunday
morning.
W. F. Russell, Jr.. married to Mlaa
Uju L. Beckham at Kershaw.
J. K. Hill, of Alcolu, dlea and hla
body brought to Camden for burial
Johu C. P. Wllliama dlea at the
home of hla brother, H. B. Wllliama,
In Camden and burial at Bmyina
church In Weat Wateree.
L. T. Kelly, auperintendent of the
Carriaon Hermitage plantation dlea,
leaving a widow and young Hon.
Disastrous wreck occurs on Seaboard
Air Line four milea south of
Bluney due to freight und passenger
I trains colliding. Four persons were
killed und three injured. Drs. J. W.
Corbett And A. W. Burnett Mild number
of men from Camden rush to
scene of wreck to render assistance.
State treasure* Jennings reported
seriously ill in Columbia.
G. H. liaum makes business trip to
New York.
H. L. Del'ass, of Atlanta on visit
to *Camden.
Mack Hanna, Jr., and family, occupying
Sarsfleld for the winter season.
J. G. McCasklll moves into Hang
cottage near graded school.
Herbert Latta leaves Camden Water
Light & Ice Company to go to Georgetown
in same line of work.
T. Ellwood Carpenter, of Mt. Kisco,
returns to spend another season and
is stopping with Dr. and Mrs. A. A.
Moore.
Christian IX, aged king of Denmark,
dies suddenly. He was dean
of the crowned heads of Europe.
Young Lady Has Narrow Escape
While out horseback riding last Frlday
afternoon with her cousin, Miss
Ib'ha Bailey, Miss Mairgapet Floyd
had the misfortune to fall from her
horse which fell backward across her
limbs, spraining one and causing
shock and temporary unconsciousness.
The accident occurred when they were
in the street near the Baptist church.
When two young men who were out
riding came upon them the horse on
which Miss Floyd was riding reared
upon his hind feet, causing her to fall
off, and then fell backward across
her. Miss Floyd was taken to the
home of D. M. Gibbons nearby and a
physician summoned who administered
to her needs and was later taken
to her home, where her condition has
since very much improved.?Kershaw
Era.
Peter G. Graham, a negro, 50, born
in Charleston, S. C., has been promoted
to the captaincy of a fire engine
company in Philadelphia, after
being a member of the city fire department
18 years. He had been a
lieutenant and acting captain of the
company since 1931. The fire company
of which .Graham is now the
captain, is composed of negroes.
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Example Of Good Breeding
Columbia, Jan. 20.?An excellent
example of good breeding according to
the code of the old South is the following
story from the "Reminiscences
of Richard leathers" in the South
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Carolina collection of the University
of South Carolina library.
When Ex-President Martin Van
Duren visited his ex-secretary of war,
Joel R. Poinsett, at his rice plantation,
the Pee Dee Club entertained the
former at an elaborate banquet. In
serving the principal dish, a rare saddle
of muttton, "the colored steward,
overexcited by the momentousness of
the occasion, tipped the platter as he
reached over the shoulder of his master,
Just enough to pour nearly a pint
of rich gravy between that gentleman's
shirt, collar and his neck. This
old Chesterfield, John H. Tucker, who
was presiding, did not change the ex->
pression of his face, but continued to
chat with Mr. Van Buren as if nothing
had happened."
Mr. Van Buren afterwards said that
it was "the finest example of good
breeding he had ever witnessed."
The mayor of Agden, Utah, offers to
perform marriage ceremonies throughout
leap year free for all comers.
Says he wants to encourage homebuilding.
Special Introductory Sale
? ? JANUARY 1936 ONLY
Pyracantha Lelandie 2 to 3 feet $1.25 apiece
Pink Flowering Dogwood .... 6 to 8 feet $7.50 apiece
Long Leaf Pines 2 to 3 feet $1.50 apiece
Nandinas 2 to 3 feet $1.00 apiece
Photinia Serrulate :.. 2 to 3 feet $1.25 apiece
Juniper Pfitzeriana 15 to 18 inches 75c apiece
Ligustrum Lucidum 2 to 3 feet $1.00 apiece
Osmanthus Fortune! 2 to 3 feet $2.25 apiece
Osmanthus Aquifolia 2 to 3 feet $2.50 apiece
Any Flowering Shrubs .... 2 to 3 feet size 75c apiece
All material delivered, planted, guaranteed ?
to be., replaced with material of like size and
quality. Specimen plants at showground on
North Broad 8treet. Visitors always welcome.
Estimates end plans drawn free of charge.. Your
patronage solicited. Telephone 321.
Colonial Boxwood Company
North Broad Street " , - j ' Camden, S. C.
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News Of Interest In
And Near Bethune
Bethune, Jan. 29.?On Friday evening.
January 81. at 8 o'clock in the
high school auditorium, the Milt Tolbert
Flayers will present a comedydrama,
entitled "Oypay Sweetheart."
Special uiuulc will feature Eddie
Greede and lilu guitar. This is said
to be a clean, up-to-date allow and
the public la cordially invited to be
preaeut. Admission, adults 25 cents;
children 15 cents.
The men of the Church Club held
the January meeting Monday evening
at the King-Davis hotel. The speaker
on this occasion was Kev. Raymond
A. Thomas, of Cayce, who was
heard with pleasure and profit. A
delicious dinner was served during
the evening.
Mrs. M. C. Mason with her inraut
daughter, Catherine, has returned
from a month's stay with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Deason, in Furman.
Miss Thelma Wages surprised her
many friends here Sunday evening
January 19, when Hhe and William'
rviiig, of Mcliee, were married. The
ceremony wus performed by Judge of
Probate of Rishopvillo.
1 he bride is the second daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Wages of this
place and was popular in high school,
being a member of the Uhth grade.
Mr. King is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
George King, of McRee, where the
young couple are making their home.
Mr, and Mrs. J. C. Foster and children
spent the week end in Pauline
Willi Mrs. poster's parents.
Attending an inspirational missionary
meeting at the M. E. church in
HiBhopvllle last week were: Rev. and
Mrs, C. S. Floyd, Mrs. W. E. Davis,
Mrs. D. M. Mays, Mrs. J. M. Clyburn,
Mrs. Ix)ring Davis, Miss Mittfe Davis
and Miss Mary Arthur
Mary and Travis McCasklU have
been visiting their grandmother in
Raleigh, N. C.
Rounder Helms has been a recent
guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.
F. Helms, He is now located in Charlotte.
Miss Frances Severance, of Holly
Hill, was the guest Sunday of last
week, of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Severances.
luring Davis and G. McKinnon
attended the progress dinbfcr at Hotel
Camden last Friday evening.
John Edwin Williams, a student at
F ui man University hus been visiting
his parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. E Williams.
Mrs. W. R. Itozier and Miss Oneida
Outlaw spent Sunday night in Spurtanburg,
where they went to carry
Keith Gordon aud Harris Oliver back
to school after a few days vacation
spent at home. Mrs. Itozier says the
ground was covered with snow when
they left Spartanburg Monday morning
and it was plenty cold. Bethune
is not to be out done, however, when
it comes to a question of being cold.
F. M. Arthur affirms that the thermometer
at his house here in town
fell to Hix above zero during Monday
night.
Mrs. Minlile Heustiss is spending
some time with Mrs. Hattie Heustiss.
Mr. and Mrs. Mayo Davis and little
daughter of Berry, Ga., have been
visiting relatives here.
Miss Eloise Miller spent the week
end with her parents in Pauline.
Miss Emily BJackmon, of Columbia,
has recently been visiting her parents
who live in the Shamrock section.
Mrs. Bernice Hilton, of Shamrock,
who is in charge of the sewing room
here has moved Into the home with
Mrs. Bervis Copeland, that she may
be nearer her work.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McDaniel were
recent guests of the latter's parents
In Rock Hill. r?
Mrs. W. E. Davis with her children,
Gerry and Johnny, visited her mother,
Mrs. John McSween, In Darlington,
during the week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Charle's V. Rivers and
little daughter, Katherine Ward, spent
the week end here with Mtb. Rivers'
mother.
General News Notes
y Miami, Fla., police raided a number
of gambling joints in that city on last
Wednesday and interrupted the gambling
of some 2,000 persons, made 14
arrests of Alleged operators, and
seized thousands of dollars worth pf
gambling paraphernalia. Some of the
patrons attempted to escape thru windows.
The full name of the late King
George y. of England and his official
title was: His Most Excellent Majesty
George Frederich Ernest Albert, by
the Grace of God King of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
and the British Dominions beyond the
Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor
of India.
The supreme .court of the United
States ordered the repayment of $200,
000,000 of Impounded processing
taxes, under the decision invalidating
tho AAA, to the various processors
who had paid the taxes into the courts
pending a decision in the cases
brought against the collection of the
taxes.
C. L. Shuping, lawyer of Greensboro,
N. C., and Democratic national
committeeman for that state, makes
no concealement of his opposition to
the re-election of President Roosevelt,
and the question now is, what will
the state Democratic convention do
about Shuping, when it meets at Ra
leigh on March 10.
A thief stole the automobile of Mrs
A. C. Sutton at Kington, N. C., which
she had left parked on the street bul
a few minutes. The thief soon dis
covered that ho had- also stolen the
baby of Mrs. Sutton, which was in the
car, and abandoned the car and baby
St the edge of the business district.
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Woman Finds Hobby
In Raising Minks
'I lie last (hiiiK which occurred to
Gertrude Fox when, ut f?0, she decided
she needed h hobby was tli|it
she was destined to pioneer in a new
industry. A woman of magnificent
enthusiasm and energy. hIio simply (
knew thut she hadn't enough to do,
and she wet about righting the niat-j
ter without delay.
Wife of a doctor uud mother of a
growing .family, qbe h*d filled in the
few gaps in a busy life with elocution,
teaching, writing books, work- (
lug out HcenartoH, and running a stock
farm. Now, with her family grown
up and the clatter of New York City
living lulled, to the still serenity of
life in South Salem, N. Y., she was
restless.
In a gentle while house half asleep
at the end of a long driveway of maples,
with nothing in sight but the
amiable Wcatcheatur hills, she begun
turning projects over in her mind.
Long experimentation had showed her
thut what interested her most was
business, teaching and animals. She
decided on animals?and got tin* other
two thrown in for good measure. i
Having tried every eort of domestic
animal on the stock farm and wanting
a change, Mrs. Fox found the idea
of fur bearers sensible and exciting.
The obvious choice of these, however
?silver foxes?she rejected ub an unwieldly
and a noisy undertaking (the
foxes howl all night and bark all day).
Then u friend suggested mink
ranching, and that, she decided, was
the thing. So she studied minks, in
the pen and in the forest, for a year
before she did anything about it. She
found out all the Department of Agriculture
knew about raising minks.
in captivity. She traveled through
the East and Middle West and looked
over the few mink ranches there were
and learned that no two breeders
agreed and that about 85 per cent
of the ranches were stocked with
Mississippi minks, large and hardy. ,
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Finally Bhe went to Canada, where
the royalty of the species hunt muskrats
and rabbit8 through the cold
wastes. The finest minks known come
from the nortli shore of lAbrador.
Their pelts are dark as sable, with
line thick hair and light leather.
Coats made from these Labrador
minks, she knew, contain a hundred
skins and retail at from $6,000 to $12,000,
while an inferior grade brings
from $500 to as much as $800.
From a rancher in Northwestern
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Quebec, who boiiKht u few animals
alive let>?n (he <t??|?|>e*ia each your, uhu
bought her stock?11 mules and 19
females, pure ' l/abradora one iteration
removed from die wild and iia<l
the unimulH sent to her hoiue by express.
On (lie South Salem estHte
alio set up her puna, organized her
Weatoheatrr "minkery," and begun her
yeara of experience in aelectlve breeding
of the animala.
That waa in 1929. in 1930 Mra.
Oliver llarrimay, chairman of the
Woman Fxpoaitlon of Artu and induatrlea,
naked Mra. Fox to exhibit her
pete. Feeling like Tarean at a church
fair, ahe went to New York City, (retting
up her cagea between a tine
needlework booth and a table of beauty
preparationa.
After tiiat week ahe had to get a
aecretary to anawer her mail. Her
hobby hud become u bualneaa. So
many peraona have wunted to build
ranchea in their own hack yarda tiiat
Mth. Fox baa never been able to pelt
any of her animala. All of them except
the onea ahe has kept to build
her own have been Bold for breeding
stock. *
Site haa taken a personal interest
in till the "minkeriea" which have
grown out of her own and in the people
who have atarted them. She keeps
a motherly eye on each herd for a
year ufter it haa left her home pena.
She teaches amateurs to muke pens,
how to care for miukH, how to lay
out and organize a yard. Monthly ahe
sends out bulletins of trade conditions
in the fur market.
The business of ranching minks is
made up of important orderly procedures,
filled with feeding and mating
churts and scientific details rather
than picturesque ancedote. In that
basic, soundness lies its greatest satisfaction.
Sometimes a mink will get out of
his cage, but he usually hangs around
until he is discovered and put back.
If a rat approaches the pens, It takes
him about three seconds to discover
his mistake. Nobody has ever seemed
to bo attracted by the idea of stealing
minks out of their pens, Mrs.
Fox says with a smile.
i'robubly the most exciting.Incident
on Mrs. Fox's farm was the time
when a truckman delivered banana
grass full of tarantula eggs instead
of swamp hay for bedding, and one
of Mrs. Fox's students lost a mink
and almost lost her own life.
Wild minks. Mrs. Fox will tell you.
are lonely animals, shrieking their
ugly battle cries as they sneak along
the banks of frozen streams. A mil
Family Of Six Is ' ]m
Killed By Farmer
Danville, III., Jan. 23.?A farm mother
ami live children were found dead,
apparently murdered, ufter William
A. Albert*, father of the family killed
himself today at the upproach of
a party of neighbors.
AI hera bet bin furinhoutte on lire
before shooting himself.
Officials aaid MiB. Albert* and her
five children had been dead a week
or ten dayb, the father continuiuK to
live In tho hoime. Officials aald they
believed he killed the six others. ?T*
Neighbors had seen nothing of the
Albera for three weeks, and were
worried. Early today one of them
stopped at the Albert* farm about
four milet) southweat of Sldell in Edgar
county, Haw Albers and reported
to nearby families that the
farmer seemed to be "acting peculiarDetermined
to investigate the neighbors
and county authorities formed
a posse of 20 about noon, und went
through snow drifts in 20 below aero
weather loathe furm. As they nearod
the house, the |tarty saw Albers
standing outside. He run inside and * *
immediately afterward flames broke
out.
Hefore tho twenty could break In- .
to the house they heard a shot. Al- N
hers was found deud, a shotgun by
his side.
The bodies of Mrs. Albers and the
live children were found In various ,
rooms of the house, some in bed.
Offlcluls investigating the recent
passenger airplane disaster in Arkansas,
in which 17 persons lost their
IIvoh, have about feached fho conclusion
that the disaster wns caused by
soul# one of the passengers, bent on
self-destruction, slugging the pilots
and caused the tragedy. No definite
cause for the disaster has been found
by the investigators.
Charles Jean Drosser, a soldier of
fortune, after being in Jutl at Milwaukee,
Wis., for 41 months, fighting
against extradition bo Devils Island,
French penal colony, from which he .
escaped, has been released by order
of Secretary of Stuto Hull. ,
Itantly feministic species, the femalos
do not, like spiders, eut their- Inrabands
?they tnofrely murder them
whenever they can. They are excellent
mothers, however, and for all
their sharp teeth and had manners
they are a dependable lot.
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