Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Jm WcSIHSH: - ? - ! n , T , Thereto Promoting Difcsttoa Cheerful H'SSWdBnLG ooUtel neither )plam, Morphine nor] Miitv. j Not Narcotic] ?' ' I vd&sAMwmsm *&* M 1 &*>? ? yW Ymtai &W** fhAAtfS*gr ' /it- "'- "/>?"> tl* \or A helpful Remedy for Constipation and Diarrhoeas And Fevcrishness nod J Loss ok Sleep f tvsuiU n g thefefrort -fa hithacy. j Facsimile Si^natmtpt "SSoaMi In Use r Over Thirty Years CASTOBIA TH* CCNTAUR COMPANY. YORK CITY. Exact Copy of Wrapper. IIERE AND THERE Short News Stories Gathered From All Soyrccs. James Hankinson, a prtfsperofis ncr gro farmer of Aiken county, shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide at his home Thursday. He had recently been released from the state hospital for the insane. ('. E. Johnson, former bookkeeper lor the statu warehouse commission er, was indicted on six counts, of breach of trust by the grand jury of Ri. hland county Thursday. The charge involves the embezzlement of abo.it six hundred dollars, A sweet potato house at Clinton ha.< four thousand bushels of Laurens county potatoes stored in it. The capacity of the plant is 8,000 bush els. . ' . ^ ' Albert Walton, aged 0 years, was burned to death near Spencer, N.C., on Tuesday, his clothing catching from a fire at which lie was warming in a fici>l where an older brother was plowing. Joseph Sharolecs, f>0 year old Sy riAn storekeeper of Greenville, is in the hospital suffering from a bullet wound in the cheek, and police are semiring the city for a negro who hid ;n the Sharoless apartment, alcove th< store, attempted to 10b the man, th< n shot him and fled in the dark Thos. W. Miller, United States cus todian of alien property, had a total of $318,000,000 of such property in charge on November 30. 1922. Chas. E. Hicks, said to be a mem ber of the Tolbert Republican faction, was indicted by the. grand jury of Greenville circuit Thursday on the charge of forging registration certi ficates for negroes to vote, on in the recent election. Marion A. Hagood of Blythewood, Richland county, was arrested last week on the charge of obtaining: money by breach of trust, having borrowed $3,750 from a Columbia bank on 50 bales of cotton, which he alleged he had. in a warehouse, when ho did not have it. The preliminary hearing will be completed today. : Two white and four blacks were killed during a battle between the races at Rosewood, Fla., on Thursday night of la/?t week, and another black was killed on Saturday morn ing. The town and country around had been stirred up for several days because, of the alleged assault on a white giil by Jesse Hunter, an es caped convict. Some twenty-five negroes were gathered in the house of Sylvester Carrier, and it was report ed that Hunter was also there. It was also said that Hunter's act was an example of what the negroes could do without intereference. As the to whites approached the house they were fired ui>on and rf-hot battle develop^ A Grand Champion Cow from Kentucky ^SSSSSSSSSSSS^SSSSSSSSCSSSSSmSmSA "Lady Woodford" won her honors at the American Royal Livestock Show iii Kansas City recently. Breadth, front, thick and even flesh marked her for distinction as the Ideal type for beef cattle She la owned by Hen. J. N. Camden. of Versailles. Kv. Rr L. Moseley Brokerage Agency Represents the Southern States Phosphate and Fertilizer Company, of Augusta and Savannah, Ga. We handle everything in the Fertilizer line. Our prices arc as low as the lowest. Should you want to mix your own Fertilizer our goods will do it cheaper. See us before you buy. R. L. MOSELEY , Proprietor <7 - ?'* v . . Knediately and lasted till dawn, QBfyri the whites having run out of ammunition the negroes escaped, ^investigation showed that Sylvester Carrier and his mother; Sarah Car rier, hud been killed, I/c?ty Gordon, a negro woman, was killed while try ing to escape from the house. C. P. Wilkerson and Henr? Andrews, two whites, were killed* during the attack on the house, and Mingo Williams, colored, was found dead in the road. After the attack on the Carrier house, that house along with five others and , a negro church were J burned. During Friday hundreds of armed white nun were scourin.tr the country for fugitive negroes. In ad dition to tin killed* quite a number of both whites and blacks were wounded. Rut the crowning act of frenzy Saturday morning, lames ('airier wfta captured by a vrowd ?of ' men, who accused him of being in the house of Sylvester Car rier at the time of the fight, and who tried to make him give the names' of the other negroes who were there. They took him to the grave in which his mother was buried and riddled his body with bullets. Then they buried him in the same grave. On Sunday twelve more houses, all that remained of the negro section of Rosewood, were burned. A block of buildings was destroyed by fire in Statesville, N. C., Wednes day. For a time it looked as if tho whole city was seriously threatened. President Harding is said to be suffering from an attack of grip. The Federal prohibition authori ties have decided upon drastic cur tailment of dealings ^n industrial al cohol as a means of further combat ting the liquor traffic. They find that immense quantities of supposed denatured alcohol are being rectified and -sold by bootleggers. A mild epidemic of influenza has broken out among the American troops in the Coblenz district of Ger many. Federal prohibition officers a few days ago captured a complete radio broadcasting outfit along with an il licit still near Newport News, Va. It is assumed the moonshiners were using the radio outfit for broadcast ing' prices of their ware. Mrs. David .Jayne Hill, wife of the former United States ambassador to Germany, died Tuesday in Washing ton, the result of an automobile acci dent on Monday afternoon. Mary Collins, 15, in jail at Mor ganton, N. C., has confessed the kill ing of her cousin, Uray Smith, last September. The girl claims self-de fense and defense of her honor. Dr. .J. W. Peacock, who escaped from the criminally insane depart ment of the North Carolina peniten tiary in 1921, is in St. Petersburg. Fla. North Carolina authorities will ask for his return to that stale. Henry Merchison is on trial at Fay ettevillo, N. C., charged witii second degree murder, he having killed his son last October. The killing was the result of a drunken row. It. Broke His ( Fall. Mose Lightfoot;, one of the best hod-carriers on the job, lost his foot ing and fell to the street, four sto ries below. Mope lit TJTl'hlS head, struck the ce ment pavement, and went through to the basement. When the foreman went to the basement, expecting to find Mose cold and stiff, he met Mose coming up the steps. "Great Scott, man, aren't you kill ed?" he cried. ? "No," Mose replied> dusting off his clotHes. "I guess dat concrete pave ment musta broke mah fall." A Good Reason for His Name. The new "pahsun" had arrived but a few days ago, and was making his pastoral rounds in order tp get acquainted as soon as possible with all the members of his flock. He found the family of Brudder Ebene zer St. John Caesar Pompey Napo leon Bonaparte John Wesley Jones a rather large one. In fact there were, 17 of them, and the "pahsun" almost despaired of ever being able to call them all by name. But he determined to try and .so began to learn their names from their mother. When she came to the youngest of the 17 she called him Judas Iscariot. "Judas 'Scariot, sistah!" exclaimed the new preacher. "Why, sistah, how come yur gib yo' chile any sich name as dat? Does yuh know who dat Judas 'Scariot was?" "Why, cos 'I docs," replied the old j mammy. "En doan I know what dc ) Good Book done say 'bout dat man? j Hit say hit war bettah fo' him ef he hadn't never been borned, en dat'? why we done named dis niggah Judas 'Scariot." RBTHUNB NKW8 MOTB8. fl?fp?iiii|i mf Interest A? ToM By Our Cor respondent . Bethune, S. C., Jan. 24. ? Mra. J. A. WtcCaskill in spending several day? with her sister, Mrs. Maggie Lee, at Monroe, N. C. Mrs. B. B. Blrtkeley, of Laurens, has returned home after u two weeks stay with her daughter, Mrs. O. K. Bell. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. King, of Ilarts villo, were week-end visitors here. Mrs. B. 1.1. Norwood and children, of McB(h, were the guests of Mr. N. A. Bethune Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Yurborough, of Sumter, spent the -week-end with relat ives here. Miss Cora l.ee and brother, Baron, of Monroe, N. C,, were the week-end quests of Mrs. lOva Morgan. Miss Helen Pope Ward, who is a Student at Coker College, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Ward. Miss Marguerite Davis was the guest of Miss Fanny McSween at Luc know last Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Frank Beard, and children, of Chester, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C, l? Mays, this week. Mrs. Anna Stevens left last.. week to spend several months with _ her daughter, Mrs. Lelloy Davidson of Camden. <v Mr. I). T. Yarborough left Monday morning for Madison, Fla., where he has gone on business. Mr. Haskell Tiller will leave this week for' Clemson College where he will resume his studies. Celebrate Golden Wedding. On Sunday, January 7th, Mr. and M*s. J. A. Shaw celebrated the fif tieth anniversary of their* marriage. A most delightful dfnner was given them at' the home of their son, W. A. Shaw. It was enjoyed by all who attended, though it was regretted very much that their son, L. C. Shaw, of Camden, and their daughter, Mrs. B. S. Catoe, and family could not be there on account of illness. The out-of-town gUests were: Mrs. A. L. Crowley, sister of Mrs. ,h A. Shaw; Mr. and Mrs. Foster Hall, all of Hartsville; Mr. and Mrs. F. I). Campbell and family, Mr. and Mrs. George Creed and family, Misses May Margaret and Mattie Shaw, of Cam den; and Mr. Smyrl and daughter, Miss Mamie Smyrl of Cantey Hill. ? Kershaw Era. ?>- , GENERAL NEWS NOTES. ? Items of Interest Gathered Front Many Sources. % Tyvo negroes, one 120, the other 16, had a fight with a knife and jazor en a vacant lot in Greenville Monday night. The ? 20-year-old negro was found next morning with the knife still sticking in his heart. Congressman MeSwain has asked congress for a new postoffice for Spartanburg to cost $75,000, and ex pects to get it. Bud Elrod, a farmer near Pelzer, was found dead with his throat cut near his home Thursday and a razor lying by his side. The coroner's jury found it a case of suicide. The act is uLtributcd to bad health. The town of Westminster is plan ning for a bond issue of $1200,000 for water works. Representative Mabry of Spartan burg county has a bill before the legislature requiring that a man ap plying for marriage license must pro duce a certificate from a physician that he is fit to marry. > Constables raided a house hear "Wood's fieh pond," in Greenville, Friday night and arrested six white women who were carrying on a dance and selling whiskey, with the aid of a negro man and woman ? who were also arrested. Representative Yloyd B. Harrison of Greenwood county has introduced a bill requiring women between the ages of 21 and GO to pay poll tax. The Carolina Remedies company, with a million dollar capital, has de cided to move its plant and place of business from Union to Greenville. The N>tton warehouse of W. S. Gladden at Richbourg, Chester coun ty, was burned Sunday afternoon with $20,000 worth of cotton in it. I The loss ia only partially covered by | insurance. The origin of the fire is ? not known. George Williams, colored, was shot and badly wounded Tuesday morning i at half past two in the store of J. i -D. Padgett, of Greenville, while try- ? ing to break open the cash register, ' Mr. Padgett having been attracted ! by the noise Willie Jackson and Walter Moore, two young men, wero arrested in Sumter on Sunday on the charge of stealing an automobile from Tracy Evans, and were committed to jail to await the action of the grand ju- . ry. The Basiness League of Laurens is , handling calcium arsenate for Lan- ! rens county farmers, and has ordered . five carloads ? twice the quantity l u*ed in that county last year ? and j have ordered two carloads of cotton j seed for planting. pMth of Her. W. M. UngUy, 2* The Malvern Hill, community wan saddened last Wednesday when it was learned that Kev. W. M. l<angU-y bad passed away. Mr. 1 .angle y was eigh ty-two years of age, and had been in failing health for the past three years. While the end wan not unex pected' it was a distinct loss to his family of sorrowing relatives. He has made his home with his son, Mr, \V. J. Langley siivoe the death of his wife three years ago. Mr. l.angley was a Kaptist minister and had preached until he became too feeble. n** served in t^f War ltitwtrn the States and was twice 'wounded, His remains were laid to rest in , Wayside cemetery beside his wife last Dburs day, January INih. M r, l.angley ? is survived by two sons, Mr. W. J. I angley, ot' Malvern 1 1 ill and T. A. l.nngjey, of l>arliiigton. ( Have It cached Oca la. Florida. we- ftDtife t' . in |hd OcatHi (Fla.) Star \yheio the Misses Winifred and Kaihi'iine n'Malloyj who earik< |) rough Camden o'ti a hike from At lantic 'City to Miami have reached OCf?la, Fin., and will leave from Mi-, "imi and .wistward afoot to New Ovioans. From New Orleans . ( their ?onto has not been mapped out. They left Atlantic City on the first of last The Story of Our States " jTy JONATHAN BRACE XL.? MONTANA Til men tion of Montana his. I tory lranietll ' ately brings to wind the Custer Mas sacre as one of the most dramatic incidents in Indian warfare. It occurred ~ in 1870, the Centennial year, when special emphasis was be ing laid on the cause of peace throughout the" world. The Sioux Indians had been driven into Montana by the gold miners, and the United States govern ment took steps to force them back Into their reservations. Gen eral Custer, with less thun J 100 men, set out to round up the tribes which were on the war path, and at the Little Bighorn river, was ambushed by Sitting Bull and 3,000 warriors. Custer and all his troopers were killed. Soon after this massacre the In dians were defeated and many of them fled to Canadu. Gold was discovered in Mon tana as early as 18r>U by the half breed Francois Flnlay near Iiell Gate river. This, however, cre ated little stir and it wasn't un til flvV years later when John Sllverthorn discovered gold In quantities, that mining, settle ments sprang up in tlfe moun tains. This region had been pari of Nebraska territory, which in 1SG.'J was subdivided and became a'portion 9f Idaho territory. The next year it was organized as the separate Territory of Mon tana. Virginia City was the capital and here in 1805 was issued the. Montana Post, 'the first newspa per of the state. In 1874 the capital was changed to Helena and ten years later a state con stitution was adopted. The state was not takeu into the Union, however, until 1880. Montana comes from the Span ish adjective meaning "moun tainous." Its area Is 140.006 square miles, making It the tiiird largest siato of the Union. (? by V.cClure Nawapaper Syndicate.) tFwbruary. They Grow 'em Big In North Dakota John Ah. son, ^4 years old,, of Mlnot, \ O., didn't know what to do with Ills s foot 0 Inchon and 4.V) iHuiuda mil 1 1 the screen star, Harold Lloyd, sont out a distress call for a giant to turi|> him on an unfinished tilm. Now ho is in the movies? -and ho has made s'c-.xl. * .... ? ? G. A. CREED 1 General Contractor Estimates Furnished SIX DeKalb St Phone 192J CAMDEN, S. C. F O R R fi N r Six room bungalow, furnished, with, ga rage. Camden Loan & Realty Company First National Bank Building Phone 62 DR.C.C. BREVARD Colored Dentist 922 Main Street OFFICE HOURS: 8:30 A. M. to 6 P. M. Sundays by Appointments Phone 124 WANTED Pine logs and green pine boards in large or small quantities. We offer the top of the Market at all times. Sumter Planing Mills & Lumber Company Sumter - - - - - South Carolina SAVE 10 PER CENT. Any size Cypress Tank bought before January 28th there will be a saving of over ten per cent. Send * in your order now. 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