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I' -Tj} -* '# ? v ? I ^ ely ' * "~ " '"*?. ^..^,T^ f * Jl!jS ^U-t- /\ 1V| I 3 qM ^ ^ ^J"?rk?y ^Ol^XXXVllI. ~ .CAMDEN, SOUTH CAKOL.N^ FRIDAY, IZ '!? n?i sssjfDAWin E* "? "Zr- 'i 1\. Cr IN A V/ 1-1 Hi fesBHww'.u."1 . . 'J!w??"e^ ... 1 - 1 > ' ? - . - i ? - - ? r " " -gpcjss tl ARCH 11, 1927. NUMBER 50. ? Kolo ANI> UOLF FA VOHITKB Arr'va'M Find Camden ut \ of the Season's Gaiety m?M o?d< n's annual horse show will b? 'x'k I u (his year on next Thursday, lJ?Sd? ,7> u,w* ^ called "St, WjT)f' Day Horse Show." AlKrT*1 llttle *) en ^'vc'n *or I'lbj'T|Vgjjty there will no doubt be many and the usual large numUfcr i^K^jttrndance. There are many hand' jBLe show horses in Camden this ilMpjson, and entries from out of town KJll add still greater interest. Harnhorses, saddle horses, polo ponies, ' hunters and jumpers will feature, i I The niost exciting polo match. of the season played Saturday afternoon on the Kirk wood field between the teams from Winston-Salem and CamIden attracted a large gallery. As the red and white coats of the rival teams flashed hack and forth in the brilliant sunshine, the enthusiasm of the grand stand reached its height, and although Camden rather inhospitably took the victory from the visitors by winning eight goals to four later on they tieated thorn to a most charmling after play in the form of a sup. per and dance in the Kirkwood Grill. Several other parties were also given Saturday evening in the Grill, among those entortaining being James Barnes of New York, John I Weeks of Englewood and Charles Little of Camden. The attractive Torii Shop has been another favorite gathering place for the winter guests during the week. I On Wednesday Mrs. Charles J. SeaI brook had at the Torii a bridge lunchMoon for (.t, on Friday Mrs". Arthur M. I Dubois and Mrs. Alfred H. Bill en tertained twenty-four for luncheon and cards-; on Monday Mrs. Orlando |n. Dana of the Court Inn gave a dinner for twelve and on Monday af tcrnoon Mrs. John Sweney was host- i Iea at a delightful tea for twenty. ! ( Wednesday another charming en-j tertainment at the Torii was a bridge j party and tea by M iss Nellie B. Day i of Boston who is passing the winter J at Hobkirk Inn. Several attractive parties have been given at the Crescent Lake Club. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll P. JJassett en tertained there with a dinner TbursI day evening for six friends and on' I Sunday evening among those at the ! I club for supper were Mrs. H. S. 1 I Grayson, Miss Grayson, Mrs. W. E. I f Clark, and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Dan' forth. i Mrs. Frank E.~ Heywsjod -who has! been for several weeks at the King! Haiglar Inn has been obliged to go 1 to the hospital in Charldtte, N. C. Arriving at the King Haiglar are 1 Mr. and Mrs. Ha*y E. Turner of Patnvia and Miss Beatrice Geogen i < f New York. Camden's winter colony is watching with interest the developments in the ! ease against ten citizens of the town | for violating the Sunday blue laws by i playing golf last Sunday, and there will doubtless be a large number of them in attendance when the case is called on Friday. It is fitting that the test was made by voters -of the state and not by tourists and this is I the opinion of aP. Camden's hotel managers In the qualifying round of the. Women's Fourth Annual Golf Tournament now in progress on the Kirkwood course Mrs. S. K. Patterson was the winner with a score of 83, and in the weekly ladies -putting match Mrs. H. A. Beam was the prize winner. Mrs. William Boyle of Cleveland is stopping on her way from her Florida home for a short visit at the King Haiglar Inn, and Mrs. C. N. Pfohl of Pittsburg, is - the guest of. Mrs. Warren Bh narris 'at her home on t rair street."^ " " hor Mrs. Harry Clawson and Miss Clawson of New York City Mrs. Bratton delxmch gave a charming tea at her home on Tuesday afternoon, other guests including Mr?. Thomas J- Kirkland, Mrs. Henry Savage, Mrs. C. H. Yates, Mrs. I. deL. Brayshaw, Mrs. Egmont von Tresckow, Mrs. N. R. Raymond, Misses Leila and ... Charlotte. 'Shannon, Mrs. Kershaw Shannon, Mrs. Clifton McKain, Mrs. Henry Boykin, and others, Mrs. Kershaw. deLoach, Miss Faith <$$Loach ?nd Miss Marie Shannon assisted the hostess. \ ? 3 .uAn a^racttve event of this week is the coming of the Charleston Singers on Saturday evening for the renderlnK of their justly celebrated negro spirituals. All who heard th?m iti Columbia spedk in the.highest terms this unique entertainment, and doubtless Camden will give them a warm welcome. The members of the company wf lb. motor from Charlestoh reiving in Camden Saturday after w^ere -they wiH be. entertained jy members of Grace Church Parish S 'whom the affair is Sponsored. Fill return to Charleston on , "r.,?"d Mrs. W. f. OffutCand Mr. W Mrs. J. B. Offutt of Newcastle, V*"',an(1 Mr. Harry Stewart of New rk are at Ivy Lodge, and Mrs. ,Wn an^ Mr. Herbert horenzen h?vc left for Florida. niQ??toring the interesting old Plantation manor house, Mt Pleasant, at tlUn\ctive Holly Tree or stopping whioK - *nter>e?tlngf old court 'house tea open 'or inspection and noons iJUe8ray an<* afternum a a favorite diversion by the TWU?wWthUir now hire, and fnr *** are- ?lgo polo matches, ?>? witheq^V^nS source , a never-emling i?diArrivtig at hotels are many, too * * ""lit ~ life, ^ j -iY - 'V nj^ronicle all, but to note may not be amiss, ton* Kirkwood are Mr. and Mrs. YoiBiri^ers ?f Montclair, Mr. and ShBlliam De Topley of Ottawa, MoB^- Mills of New York, Mr.' CIaB"ahain ?* Bronxvilie, Miss RicjBKnight of Brooklyn, Mr. and JohiBmon<* A? Balfe and son of cB^. Mr. S. IL Ames of BosMrs* George W. Gordon of New ? LavB* aPd Mrs. R. D. Elden of andvU8' Mr. George ,R. Beach of phiJ^'? Mr. and Mrs. S. Ward MctimS Englewood, Mr. Arthur. C. Man- of Philadelphia, and Mr. Qy'jM Enright of Jersey City. ^nn arrivals include Mr. and m(B D. Emarft Mr. William A. of Br. E. C. Poultney, and Mr. XoB- A- v- Morton of Philadelof Bs. Arthur W. Machen of BalMJ Mrf and Mrs. Walter R. at^Bf Garden City; Mr. and Mrs. Y^E. JpUien of New" York; Dr. . Harold W. How of RoserijBi., Dr. and Mrs. T. H. Ellis MjHlyn, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Peck, troB^- E. Ewing of Montreal and U^^Bport, Mr. Samuel H. Coombs ?, BMrs. Horace Green and Mr. --tw<B Howard .0, Smith of New WoMiary Margaret Sweeney ar*?lB week to join her parents, ton IMrs. John Sweeney of Dethe are among the many de.*. i^Biobkirk Inn colony, and Mrs. ok who has been there for Bhs has started for her home Bier stopping en route in '^?n, D. G. . . -%Mrs. B. B. Clay of Bos^ng the many arrivals of jfejjBHobkirk Inn. MIKDKKHD AN INFANT Horrible (Vizne (Committed Here I Death of Wee Small Child Attracted by the barking of a do a servant employed by a proininei member of the Northern colony hei oh Wednesday discovered the body < a new-born infant hidden near tl hedges on the property and notifu city and county authorities. The new-born waif was taken to tl undertaking purlors of C. .W. Evan and u local physician guve it as h opinion that it was a fully develop* boy baby, weighing around nil pounds. From the state of decomp sition that had set in it v^us thoug the child had lain in its hiding pla for at least five days or a week. There is said to be no clue as who put the child there. It w wrapped in a portion of a womat garment, and then placed in a sat commonly used by milliners for ladi hats. There was nothing to trace t identity or where the child came froi An examination of the head of t infant showed that the perpetrato of the crime had snuffed out the li of the little one by crushing its tii skull in an effort to stifle its feefc It was a most horrible crime?01 It was a most horribel crime?01 i which makes people shudder to thii that there was in this community 01 who was so brutal as to take the li of an innocent.*' There may be i way of tracing the mother of tl child?but it looks as though son one was familiar with the lay of tl land around Camden, for it was foui [ on extremely private property and it had been the work of outsiders would likely have been placed on son public roadside. The coroner \yas notified but an i %uest seemed useless and the litt bo,dy was buried t>y the eity near f Quaker cemetery op Thursday. one knows who did it and if th- *vo is never vindicated their con?7 hi will be punishment enough. . expJ Destroyed Another laafl i Sheriff J. H. McLeod, I]torces.6ie Cooley, Jailor Alex Boo^g guy,?me S. P. Watkins, accompatjff / jaw Constable J. B. Munn8yfcience Betty Neck section o^0 'y and located a coppe owiv one hundred gallon?fl?y and destroyed it. Car ready for distillap^ deputy G. stroyed. It was jF.e? Constable known as Gum <?*Qorlied by State i was found and nWf ll1*0 ? West Wateree Police^1" about *^r capacity Monday Columbia, n?uite a lot of mash negro who wwtion was also desisting arrestJrSeated in what is day E. W. p#WamP- No whiskey . , Jo arrests were made. Fairfax, waM night suffeii Chief Shot j in the righ/arch 6.?Shot by a His injurijs ia^er killed when reby *an by a sheriff's posse toiester, chief of police of j at a hospital here to! from gunshot wounds ! fory ml shoulder and upper lung. ; svy fts were described as grrfve tending physician tonight. n^?~THieir exact extent is not being killed by a sheriff's ^rawhile resisting arrest in the St01l near Fairfax, some seventy ' ^?S*uth of here, John Loadholt, I KUIWlso' shot and seriously woundT. Stone, 21, of Fairfax, a jJiember and lightly wounded l Harter, also of Fairfax. Bajlvas taken to an Orangeburg 10:1, where he is suffering from ve5rt wounds in the abdomen. C^M To Address Bible ClaSs W. Birchmore will address ju*i's Bible class at the Wateree church Sunday morning at j ^Jclock. Mr. Birchmore is a jVk-Be res ting speaker and a good in store for this live-wire 1 - I II I NK NKWS NOTES .. In Happenings of Interest ttb Told If) Our lingular Correspondent \i, Bethune, March H.?On !n.? FrMa* it ('vJ'ni'lK. ut the school auditorium, ? , ui three tt(t <0,,'t'dy entitle Jf hickle hortune," was staged by th< young lady teachers of the Bothum d school. I he characters were wel chosen and their interpretation un< le presentation of their parts was ex cellunt. The large audience show* 'j Ju appreciation with generous un< ed hearty applause. Those taking par ne m the play were: Misses Stella Be o- thune, Eddie Bradham, Kuth Watt* ht (arrie ^ arbrough, Ollie Farr, Alberti ct* I ktuckey, Helen Snelgrove. Me*1' < lausen Grier, Mildred Billings to Mae Castou, Mary Arthur, dtny h as Pennington. Misses Grier, l'V^uy. . l's Hngs and Pennington took t1 it is / k, the men in the comedy. f'(,r hilX es furnished by Miss Lizzie , ? ho music teacher, Miss K? jU J m. dell and Dr. E. Z. " of Suno^i* he high school boys g>y negat#. hlva r? choruses. Quite a?e Worl/keu?ab< fe realized which \vj_. /nrr, Biliy athletic associate ? a Kt^fie role oV Dr. Barron J. da/Musie??wa? 110 the congregr -r*R'cepim/ Mae Kiley, ,lt* church on JiK and w?uhryn Truesusuul ser than th^* rues<lell. The ]e ''Service mu(.h t.^fYe tw? pleasing *e implies f , nice amount was! 1(> accorr' ("huj/l! be used for the! le Kate Ko1' Hy "ic Though Columbia addressed; of i infinpv?n at the Presbyterian I 1{J t,,0nd h/^u"t,a.v morniifg H't the! it e' t/T i ?r' His subjeytuvas: l?1 jT 10 Pro?cnted it in'ant ael riifsive manner. Dr. Barron was t(/Jiav'ed by Mr?- Barron, " Mrs.! n/i- ^McNaul and Miss Rena McNaul. I ifal Ae Bethune chapter of the Order ex-/ ,.e. ?astern Star held its regular! rkg y n2?,etln^ on" last Wednesday /e,l'n? Tht' offices of this chapter < Por 1J27 wer? installed at the Febru-! ary meeting and are as followsWorthy matron, Mrs. A. K. McLaur-i In; worthy patron, G. E. Parrott: associate matron, Mrs. J. M. Clybavn'1 secretary, Mrs. E. Z. Truesdell; treaUl urer J. A. McCaskill; conductress,! Mrs. Hugh Oliver; associate conduct-1 ress, Mrs Clarence ^ate; chaplain,! Miss Stella Bethune; marshal, Mrs.' L. D. Robertson; organist, Mrs. C. L. j nVL*' ?; Dou&las Mays;! i i1' JJr^' ^'-11 KinSi Esther, Mrs.; ; A. McCaskill; Martha, Mrs. 1). L. > McLeod; Electa, Mrs. L. W. Wad-' ford; warden, Mrs. S. B. Padgett;! sentinel, L. D. Robertson. Miss Beulah Pennington had as her guests for the week-end her little sister, Frances, and Miss Stack of Hartsville. Mayo Davis is spending a few days! in Dothan, Ala. Misses Mary Louise McLaurin an/L Malloy Hearon of Chieora college were at home for the week-end. I Norwood Thomas, a student at Bowen.Connatser college in Columbia ' has been visiting his mother, Mrs.' L. D. Robertson. D. J. Clyburn, Jr., and June Trues- j' dell spent the week-end at their homes. They were accompanied by Messrs. Hines and Perry who are a'so '1 attending the Presbyterian college Baylus Smith of Cayce visited his father last week-end. The honor roll for the fourth six-i weeks periqrf- of the Bethune school ' is as follows: i -irGiriadeT M?Eee Morgan, Gordon , Watts, Lavtn Severance, Alvin Clv-H burn, Neil Truesdell, Thomas Smith,!, oarah Lee Heustiss, Blanche Gardner^! Claudine Gardner, TKelma Cassady.H Ernest McLaughlin, Clyde Horton, I Lucile Hilton, Glayds Baker.' v ; Grade 10?Louise Gardner, Kath-j, ryn Truesdell, Willine Estridge, Olga Branhon, Sara Hammond, Margie Josey, John Neil McLaurin, Boyd Copeland, Jake Catoe, Clara Hough, < Birdie Belle Smith, Rosa Lee Fields, i j Charley McCaskill, John Edwin King 11 Kitty Best, Dorothy Parrott, John Baker. ] 1 Grade 9?Max Stogner, Emily |l Blacknion, Iva Mae Brannon, Allene i' King, Eva Baker, - Rebecca Elliott,! Ross Williams, J. B. Ellis. ; j Grade 8?Burrell-Best, B. F. Est-! ridge, Frank Hammond, Margaret!1 Hearon, Leon Jones, James King,!' Margie Parrott, Clifton Severance, fl Edna Stokes, Lola Grace Catoe, Ora-delle Holland, Mary King, Leona Smith, Lawson Horton. Grade 7?Lewis Blackmon, Elizabeth Baker, Mary Brannon, Phillip ] Brannon, Mittie Davis, Minnie Ed- 1 dins McKinnon, Eddie Noland, Pas- i chal McLaurin, Margaret Truesdell, , | Elizabeth Raley, Elizabeth Stogner, Eldon Smith, J. M. Clyburn, Eva Mae Hunter, Cary Gardner, Mildred Hin-T son, Eliza Alice Sowell, Edith Tol- * bert, Doby Young, Mildred Ellis. Grade 6?Ruth Jones, Mary B. Radcliffe, Eloise Estridge, Lena Elliott, Ola Gardner, Ruby Lee Horton, ! Forbis Morgan. Louise Parker, Effie 1 Mae Parrott, Josephine Smith. C. O. ;< Stogner, Jr., Annie Tolbert, Mildred i Watkins. j Grade 5?Lottie Outlaw, L. W. i Wagers, Ida Outlaw, Elsie Mae Ham i mond, Thelma Davis, Alma Newman, i Lawrence McLaurin, Tressa Mae < Hyatt, Ruth Tolbert, Junior Davis, . Mary Baker, Earline Munn, Juanita 1 Watkins. ( Grade' 4?Frances Gardner, Keith 1 Gordon, Sara Ruth McKinnon, Mary 1 Ellen McLaurin, Doris Shaw, Lawson j Brannon, Lawson Gardner, Dalton J McLeod, Myrtle King, Preston"Jer^- 1 man, Ira Blackmon, Ruth Raley, Ben* * nie Will Watkins, Myrtle Horton, 1 Mattie Mae Mangum.?- i .. Grade 3?Ruby Davis, Price Bafrer, < Nannie Ruth Hilton; Dorothy Elliott. Evelyn Elliott, Dan Mangum, Herbert j Mangum, Inez Mangum, Lula Mae 1 Mangum, Arlene Wagers, Oneida 1 Outlaw, Johnnie Brown, Wilson Out- 1 law, Clarence Heustisa, Nancy Tomp- j kins. - i Grade 2?Sarah Parrott, Ella Tay- 1 of, Eva Hasty, Leonard Hasty, ?rn?st Mosley, Rosalie Hinson, Otis Eliott, Wilburn Braughton, Helen Broom, Pete Mangum, Grace Horton, Elizabeth Brannon, Ruth Horton, Marguerite Jones, Marguerite Lyles, r. R. Oopcland, Ray Gardner, Earle rerman, Billy Boy King, Carroll King, Bethune McLaurin, Richard McLaurn, Barr Gardner, James Bolton, Iracie Therrell. Grade 1?Robbie Newton Marion, tva Shaw, Juanita Pate, Aileen Hilon, Margaret Hasty, Eva Horton, 11a i Mangum, James Braughtoa, Cleo Elliott, Lewis Lee Neal, Kathryn Davis, James Helms, Edmon Brown, 3arah Thompson, Lavern Jones, John Edward Blackwelt, ^ack Gardner. rCHItD BUR? HOT HQ . in DiW 1 ! ratiiiii fl~ \ JlED TO DEATH; 1 old h-t0(| a, 1 v.ui v, A FATALLY HURT ^ he,u[p J " stJ Mum it* Cameron Copclarul is rk A1 * Jy, bu rntfd and her four-mouthing 'rt dead us the result of a k- i#ar accident which happened iu \ytf home at thy AVuteree Mill village ^Thursday afternoon ubout 2 o'clock. A man passing the housq noticed smoke issuing from the room and turned in a fire ulurm and when mill employees reached the house found Mrs. Copeland sitting on the floor in front of the fire-place with her clothing burned off and her body badly burned. A search of the bed revealed the infant also burned. It was either dead when found or died enroute to the hospital. No one witnessed the accident and the supposition is that Mrs. Copeland, \Vh<> wus subject to epileptic spells, caught fire in front of the fire-place and then either fell or jumped into the bed, setting fire to the bedding and the baby. The woman is so badly burned that her death is only a question of a few hours. She had inhaltd the flames and even her tongue appears parched. Mrs. Copeland is survived by her husband, Mr. Arthur Copeland, and a son about four years of uge. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Cameron of the mill village aiui also leaves several sisters and brothers. They arc all highly respected and valued employeA of the Kendall Mills and the sad affair is deeply regretted by every one. TAX COMMISSION HOLDS ON Clincher Put On For Thin Term of General Assembly Columbia, March 2.?Governor Richards' program of abolishing the Stat* Tax Commission crashed upon the rocks tonight. Reversing its attitude of last week, the house gave the death blow, for this session, to the twin administration measures proposing to transfer the functions of the commission to the state treasurer and the comptroller general. The vote on the first of the companion measures was 55 to 52, while on the second, it was 58 to 51. Opponents of the bills promptly applied the parliamentary clincher, which prevents reconsideration except by unanimous consent. Governor Richards, who had been in constant attendance during the debate last week when the twin bills ivon on second reading by the margin of half a dozen votes and again this morning, was not present tonight when the keystone of his program of abolitions and consolidations was demolished. -: _ Once the bills were reached on the calendar, the house moved with celerity to the vote. Representative McLaurin, of Marlboro, made a motion Lo "continue the bill," the first of the pair. His motion was not debatable. The ayes and noes were demanded by Representative _Powell,-of Williamsburg. Adoption of this motion, by rules of the house, carries the measures over until the H)28 session of the legislature. Broker Electrocuted Tupelo, Miss., March 6.?Dalton Allen, -22, produce broker -of Tupefo, was electrocuted here late today when % wire chicken coop, which* he was moving, came into contact with a live wire from lighting fixtures. Alloa was thrown about ten feet by the shock and was dead when picked up. Rising Star Chapter To Meet A stated convocation of Rising Star Chapter No. 4, R. A. "M., will be field Tuesday evening, March 15, at sight o'clock for the purpose of conferring the Mark and Past Master degrees. All Royal Arch Masons '-are invited to attend, according to an announcement issued by John R. GoodUe, high priest, and J. E. Ross, recorder. W<>l I.I) KRBE TOM. BRIDGE Uiihlnml Represent utk < ? Want Sale lo Highway Departnieiit (I rum Saturday's State*) Purchase and fiveir^f 0f Water *e river toll bridge* on t lu* < k.lumbiaCamden highway by the* state high way department j* provided in a joint tesoiution introduced yesterday m the' house of representatives by Harry M Lightsey Of Richland', delegation. ' The bill, read for the first time,' was ordered referred to the house | ways and means committee before VNhuh is now pending a Kershaw county measure designed to repeal the i act of 10^6 whic h would require Ker?; aw county to devote the tolls re-' ceived from the bridge to the paving! of the Columbia-Cumden highway tnr\ Richland lint) to the bridge. The bridge was constructed in 1917 jJ at a cost of approximately $100,00(1,! the resolution sets out, and has been!' operated since that time as a toll ? bridge "with the result that more!'' than sufficient revenue has been received by Kershaw county for the re ! ti re me n t of the bonds issued for said; bridge." Of the tolls collected, it is ! also set out, "it is estimated that over'1 three-fourths ... arc paid by the fcenornl traveling public, excluding '1 the citizens of Kershaw county." ! The purchase price fixed in the bill ' is $100,000 to be paid by the highway j , department to Kershaw county "in' i five equal annual installments out of ( the state highway construction fundi ' * for Kershaw county." 1 Mr. Lightsey almost at the very be-i! ginning of the session had objected', to the Kershaw delegation's bill, do-! signed to authorize the retention of ' the toll system indefinitely, the fees!, collected to go into 'the Kershaw' treasury. This mensure, takpn up ! Thursday after Governor John- G. i Richards had vetoed as identical ex-P cept for a typographical error, which 11 brought the veto-bill, was rejected j! by the house ?nd then as a yourtesv * to the Kershaw delegation .revived and 1 referred to the ways and means com- 1 mittee. The contest against the meas- 1 ure was led by L. E. Droher of Lex-- 1 ington, who denounced the collection ' of tolls at the bridge as Kershaw's ' steal" from the motorists of the'f state and nation. Kenneth R. Kreps i! Jr n- ?antcy' Jr" and A* K. Sanders! o Richland urged the measure's pass-1 age. ' 4e Opposed to the toll bridge idea and !< all the more so in the instance of the f Wateree bridge where Kershaw coun- , ty has already, according to statements made upon the floor 'of the house, been twice reimbursed for theL construction of the bridge/Mr. LigHtp sey decided, ifpon the show of atti-!; tude of the house, to introduce thei. emancipation bill'. '! The measure provides: Whereas, in 1917 the county board |! of commissioners of Kershaw county' did construct a bridge across Wateree t river near Camden at an aggregate * cost of $100,000; and L "Whereas, the said board of com- : missioners issued bonds in the sufn v of $100,000 to finance the cost oil said bridge; and "Whereas, said bridge has been 1 operated on a toll basis for a period t of about ten years with the result that more than sufficient revenue has been received by Kershaw county for I the retirement of the bonds issued for said bridge; and "Whereas, this bridge is located on ! one of the main highways of the state; and '* 8 "Whereas, it is estimated that oVer 1 three-fourths of the. tolls collected ( from this are .paid by the general i traveling public, excluding the citi-!'r? zens of Kershaw county, now*., there-, , fore "J *Be it resolved by the general assembly of the state of South Carolina: "Section 1. The board of county i commissioners of Kershaw county is < hereby authorized and directed to sell ' the toll bridge across Wateree river ! near Camden, to the South Carolina 1 state highway department for the sum of $100,000, the same to be paid by 1 the state highway department in five q equal, annual installments out of th$ j state highway constructioji_?unds fdr , Kershaw county. The state highway J department is heroby authorized and I directed, upon purchase ofjiaid bridge { aTherein authorised and directed, to immediately discontinue the charging of tolls and to maintain said bridge free for the benefit of the public. i Section 2. All acts or parts of j act* inconsistent with the provisions ! of this act be and the*ame are hereby root immediately upon Ita tm by the governor. KOI U NKGKOKM KENT EN CRD ? Get I rum Five To Ten Years on Kuch 4 I on ill ! or AI lark on Mayor I no case Of the four ueg/oes, Loi?> dill, Hubert Ingmm, .Lloyd and Howard Thompson, charged j[with the assault an.I robbery of Major E, B. Hoddey on the night of Taturduy, February 111, was talitn Op on Wednesday1 morning. The four prisoners were arraigned Monday, Gill and Ingram entering u plea of guilty and the I liompson negroes, brothers, pleaded not guilty, and the < as? had /J been tentatively set for Thursday, -Iff according to the condition of Mr. || Hoddey, who was expected to testify. iff Mr. Roddey- arrived in the court room vy about 11:30, accompanied by Dr. ~J| Brown and the nurse jn charge, Misa M Graham. He was put on the stand and told briefly of the circumstances leading up to the attack. He said f that Gill ordered a bushel of shelled^J ,s torn, which he meusured out andyl! placed In a nark. Gill then wc#fc th? front of the store, talked wit&S the others and after making aqjnk > ? other small purchaser said that iMrBR. ' thought be would m e<l anothc half bushel, which Mr. Roddey procetjgfSaj to put into the sack, while the loitered nround the front of" the "fl store. Gill then came back and or- 1 iored another half bushel and it was vhile he was leaning over the corn fcin in the act of measuring out the 'j :?rn that. Gill struck him over the lead with.the heavy iron poker. This f" a'uh all that Mr. Hoddey knew until ie regained consciousness and real- ^ zing that he was hurt, made his way :o the front of the store, locked. The ^ ioor and went home. A jury had already been empaneled o try the Thompsons. They were fiven an' opportunity by the judge o testify in their own behalf and daimed they knew nothing of the dot, but the testimony of Gill, who mid they all had it arranged and the Thompsons were, assisting in carryng out the plan und Mr. Roddey's J itatement of how the four acted, con- F /incod the jury that they wore equally f( fuilty and a verdict pf guilty *? to ?JJ j 1 vas brought in wlthiri ten minutes. ; \fter asking each of the defendants 1 iome personul questions the judge mid ho would reserve sentence on ' Toward Thompson, who appeared :<r | >e not more than sixteen. He . ,'p icntenced the other three to a te Vi >f from five to ten years on the Li mster county roads on tho first coi >f robbery and from five to ten ye , n the penitentiary on the sec< :ount of assault and from tan wenty years on the third count issault with intent to rob. The judge told the prisoners tl t was the most brutal and heart issault that had ever come to his cntion since he has been on the bt md took occasion to compliment \ \ )eople of Lancaster for their fi pirit of tolerance and self-control ho face of such a brutal affair afr n old them that it is just such as th^ hat causes people to take the la ' nto their own hands and visit tT guilty parties with sure punishmen^irj ; ^Hpon convening court Thursdt noiWg, the ju.dge sentenced Howa Thornjfcion to a terra of from five en years on the Lancaster coun ' . \ haingang. Sentence of . thef Otb hree on . the third count was s4?pei.__ . id. The case'of Dutch Snipes,-wh barged with the larceny of * he person of H. N. fase occupied mostr< tension and a verd ,? vas rendered within The case of Jaract ihaw, charged wit^r (Villlo Shaw, whichr reeulte rial at. the fall terra'of * postponed until / the next . 'ourt.?Friday's' Lancaster Nt ' \ . . In Jail For Forgery * Robert L. Campbell. yo* nan, giving his occupation, ?r, is in the county jail~w^az \ charge of forgery. H? was arre at Goldvillc, S. C., in Laurens co*. md brought back heriy^y Shferiff v Leod. Campbell was employed by Kirkweod Hotel in thte city and alleged forgory war' 'committed October. He is also-' said to IriVen au automobile away with that belonged to the Redfearn F company and sold or deserted ' * North Carolina. He is~ also sa haw skipped a board bill due I' Mrs. Bradley at of the m lages. CampbelY is a marric< Ml. Cteorgp Cohimbos Stc I Kershaw and Miss Ruth Miles*'" 1 ' goff were married at the }> Probate Judge W. L. MeDo Thursday night, March 3. ^