Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS Paxville, S. C., Nov. 29, 1920. Dear Santa Claus. I want you' to bring me a tool cheat an air rifle, a plenty of fire works and a lot of, fruit. Your little friend John William larvin. Paxville, S. C., Nov. 29, 1920. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy eight years old and am trying to be a very good boy and I want you to bring me a drum and a air rifle a little tool chest, fire works and a lot of fruit. Your good little boy, James Gunter Harvin. NEGRO LYNCHED Macon, Ga., Nov.,$0':.- teports from Brooks and Thomas counties, near the Florida line, late tonight indicate that a negro, who was alleged to have assaulted a young woman of a promi nent Thomas county 'family Monday afternoon, was lynched by a posse of citizens near Paveo. The negro was captured 12 miles from Paveo and taken to the home of A. the young woman. Here he was iden tified. The posse then started with the negro to the Paveo jail, but the ne gro had not reached there at mid night. The young woman had just returned from a visit to a neighbor's home and was sitting in front of a dressing table combing her hair, when the negro entered the house. He had a pistol in his hand and stated that an outcry meant death. Terrified, the girl leaped fro mther seat and ran. The negro did not shoot, as he threat ened, but gave pursuit. Just at the door leading to a porch the negro caught her by her hair and she was overpowered. The negro drew from his pocket a rope and wound it around the girl's neck. She had already fainted. This wa sabout 3 o'clock, and it was after 8 o'clock before she regained con sciousness. Her sister came home from school about 4 o'clock, discov ered the crime and gave the alarm. WIFE MURDER CHARGE Dublin, Ga., Nov. 30.-Following the death in a local hospital tonight of Mrs. Marshall Bass, wife of a 'young farmer, her husband was placed under arrest on a charge of murder. Bass is being rushed to Macon because of threats of violence here. The sheriff stated that he had evi dence that the woman had been driven from her home by her hus band. With baby in her arms she walked nearly two miles, he said, when her husband overtook her and beat her over the head with a club. The sheriff said that Bass then shot her twice as she arose. The woman still clutched the baby in her arms when she was picked up. Neighbors who followed Bass to his home found the supper hot on the stove, ready to be served, having been prepared by Mrs. Bass just before the tragedy. TROOPS ABOUT FIUME London, Nov. 30.-Fiume is sur rounded by three battalions of Car abineers, and shots have been ex changedI between regulars and Ga briele D'Annunzio's legionnaires, saysC a dispatch to the London Times from Milan. General Caviglia, command ing the gover~inent troops, says he will (10 his best to avoid unnecessary bloodshed the dlispatch adds. MURDEROUS ASSA UILT CHI ARG El) Baltimore, Nov. 29.-The arrest of a you1In' man on the charge of having assaulted his sweetheart clears up the mystery of a bloody trail and other evidence of what the police believed might have been a murder, discovered hist Saturday in East Baltimore. - Annie Ruszkawitz 19 years old, to-I day accusedl the man of murderous assault and another man is held as an MAY OCCUPY TH'IRONE c A thens. Nov. 29.-Sreious considera tion is being givenl Admiral Coun-r diouriotis, former regent of Greece, for the throne of Albania, says a reportC publishecd by the newspaper I mbros. WANTS FIVE MILLION Washington, Nov. 29.-The Carolina (linchfield and Ohio Rasilroad today asked the Interstate Commerce Corn mission permission to issue fifteen year 6 per~ cent cumulative income debentures totalling $5,000,000 to pay, short ternm notes. PRIICES RIEDUCEI) Cleveland, Nov. 29J.-The price of a twenty- four-ouince loaf of bread was redluced from fourteen to twelve cents e day by a grocery company operating a large number of stores here. The I wo-cent reduiction is nmade possi~ble by the decline in the price of flour it was announcedl. WOOD)EN BOX F"OUND Danville, Nov. 29.-A wooden box co'ntainling $300,000 in liberty bonds, wa sa~vmng stumps and life insurance policies which were stolen from the Hank of Halifax at Hlouston, Va., eight weeks ago, was found today by Guy lampkmn, a farmer, at Alidway Va., aecording- to epnorts reeved hare. p I -N ran lus lam saw Ival was was %a go cl C5 CM c y a . a a a Th M 0 0 e anning Times Job Department is unexcelled for the class of work turned out. Our list 'of satisfied customers include firms in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Kentucky. We Want to Figure With You on Your Next Job. MM I" -~ I" I" la I" p " .f.p "a f po 5"1"5"V" Iv a 144R .W 011 " B"M P ta0 w " h a I IV