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Kills Wife and Self Hampton, May 3.?Hugh shot and instantly killed him wife and then himself at their home three miles west of Hampton at 10 o'clock this morning:. It is reported that domestic troubles had existed between the two for some time because of another man's alleged attentions to the wife. This morning Belger went fiahing hut returned to his home shortly after leaving to find the other man there or just going away, it is reported. Belger accosted his wife and she threatened to pack her suit case and quit home, whereupon Belger fired six bullets very rapidly into his wife's dhest with a pistol, then reloaded and placed the muzzle in his own mouth and sent a large caliber bullet through his own brain. | Florence Stokes, 21, has been seni fenced to life imprisonment in .Joliet prison by a Chicago judge for the 1 murder of her sweetheart. i ' -r f?. i.Tr-pnTii<r#r-mB^r-ii#.-l?-nirriW| w 1 1 LONG FIGHT WITH tUVER First f/nm Built on Mississippi More Than 200 Years Ak<? New Orleans, La., May !. ?Fof more than 200 year* man ha* been struggling to keep, the Mississippi within Its banks, or the natural levees which it ha* made for itself by depositing ?ilt along its 'course .in flood time. The first levee was built in 1717 to protect New Orleans. Gradually they were extended until today there are hundreds of miles of levee protecting more than 30,000 square miles of land which the river would flood even in normal years. The scheme for -the first embankment has not been materially departed from, although the levees have, of course, grown hugely. The earth wall, seven to ten times as broad at the base as it is high, remains the accepted form. At New Orleans, however, where the levees are also u^ed for docks, the embankments are composed of piling, willow ^nattresses and concrete blocks. All along the river the levees, broken only to admit the waters of tributary streams, rise steeply on the river side and slope gently back toward the land. Many of them have wide roads running along the top. Their distance from the Mississippi depends upon the rate of erosion and the value of the lands to be protected. On the curves the river eats away the bank at a considerable rate, and if the levees were placed too close to the water they would collapse and fall into Jlhe stream within a year or two. Consequently they are at such points some distance, even miles, from the normal river channel. However, where this is impracticable, as at New Orleans and other cities, the levees crowd the river closely. The first levees were built solely by the owners of property fronting on the river. Then community lent some assistance and when the work became too great for them the states maintained the levees. Finally the federal government took over direction of the levee system, although the states affected still bear most of the cost. When the famous clock in St. : Paul's Cathedral, lx>ndon, broke down recently, a workman, watch in hand, was stationed in the tower to move the hands of the timepiece forward 1 'second by second. . HONOR NOLL FOR APRIL (Continued from Fix&t Page) Durfee, Leonard (ioff, James Graham, J. E. Horton, Fred Hugging, Robertson Jennings, Randolph Kirkland, Alva Lee, John Melton, Velmer Morris, Carolyn Nicholson, Herbert Kir hey, Albert us Hush, James* Williams, Myrtle Williams, Douglas Wooten, Joseph Brown, Malcolm Christmas, William Christmas, Harry Corbett, Mark Shay lor, William Waters, Kulah Evans, Mary Jackson, Ruby Jackson, Jessie Sharp, Margaret West. Grade 2?Woodrow Benson, Willie Cameron, Francis Chapman, Bobby Marye, Woodrow Sanders, Lillian Davis, Virginia Davip, Catherine Dempster, Charla Dunn, Beulah Graham, Rebecca Rush, Hazel Shirley, Nancy Watts, Jean Wilson, Joylynn Hall, Edwin Miller, Lionel Mimms, Margaret Mayor, James McKenzie, Harold Smith, Ralph Shirley. Grade 2?Sarah Bissell, i^ila Christmas, Sadie Freitag, Elizabeth Goodale, Ruby Melton, Mary Ellen McDowell, Mary Parser, Lucilc Robinson, Emily Shannon, Emily Sheorn, Lillie Mae Smith, Willie Mae Smitji, Lena Stevenson, Helen Tindal, Fannie Mickle, Pearl Godwin, Ned Beard, Jack Brown, Everette Goodale, Jack Halsall, Raymond Moore, McKain Richards, Carle Scarborough, Robert Shaw, William West, Billy Shannon, Henry Shannon, Fledabel Horton, Martha Moseley, Louise Reed, Theo Smith, Louine Tolbert, Ruth Waters, Dorothy Watts, Frances Clucas, Amerson Branham, Lucy Brayshaw, Arthur Christmas, Willis DeBruhl, W. L. Jackson, Edward Jennings, Clarence Sharp. Grade 4?J a me vjk "hapinan, Joseph (iaskins, Jerome Hoffer, Doris Houser Eugene Howard, Roland Moore, Billy Moseley, J. A. Rust, Steven Team, Katherine Brgyshaw, Caroline Britton, Mary Burnet, Ruth DeLoache, Charlotte DuBose, Ruby Elliott, Ruth Moseley, Estelle Myers, Dorothy Van Landingham, Mary Waters, Eleanor Watts, Ina DeLoache, Willie Mae Dodger, Mary Lee Hilton, Marie Trapp, May Nell Trapp, Nancy Watts, Ralph Goodale, Ernest Graham, Frank Hinson, Roscoe Johnson, Robert Rhame, Francis Sheheen, Boyd Trapp, Lcroy Love, Luceal Presley, Elizabeth Reed, Edna Scarborough, Alma Smyrl, Rufus Corbitt, Woodrow Haynes, Luther Lowery, C. \\. Rhode u, Lloyd Rush. Albertus Truosdalc. i Grade ">?Junus Clyburn, Harvey' Davis, f olie Gardner, Douglas Kennedy, Lawrence Kirkland, Cecil Mc( askill, Fletcher Moore, Joe Phillips, Albert Reed, Alvin Sanders, Luther Shaw., William Thompson. Troy Godwin, Margaret Baldwin, Mary 'Lee Blake.'.ey, Elizabeth llaynesworth, Mary Ellen Kirkland, Zaida Lang. Elizabeth Moore, Grace Moseley, , Kate Shannon, Golda Shirley, Lorine Strak, Antoinette Williams, Mae Smith, Edephel Dial, Catherine Hall, Rosalie Moore, Henrietta Myers, Carrie McLeod, Lorine Smith, Jennie Tolbert, Nataline Zeigler, Harry Brown, Alvin Christmas, James'Calder, Frank Campbell, Henry DeBruhl. Virgil Gardner, William Johnson, Edwin Johnson, Cleo Johnson, Richard Jenkins* Roche! I.owry, William Moseley, Johnnie Pettigrew, Herman Jackson. Edmund Langlcy, William McLeod, Edward Sheheen, Ansel Shirley, Harold Shirley, Charles Dymock, Ruby Cameron, Lillian McCaskill, Purvis Shirley, Mayola Sharp, Oradtll Stevenson, Mclvena Twitty, Alberta Watts. Grade ft?Harriet Beard, Na^ncy Brown, Virginia Drawdy, Elizabeth Gardner, Jean Harris, Katherine Kennedy, Sarah Kirkland, Mary Jane Mac-key, Meta Mogulescu, Emily Zetnp, Homer Baldwin, Jack Boyd, Thomas Bruce, Austin Jones, Joseph Lang, Samuel -< McCaskill, Reuben. Pitts, Charlie Sheffield, Eleanor Brown, Wilma Currie, Florence I/CMayv Sara Moseley, Lila Ross, L. 0. Funricrburk, W. J. Haynes, Dan Lang, George Sheheen, Leslie Smith, Elizabeth Gaskins, Eva Mae Twitty, ( larence Christmas, Clcmmie Dabney, L. T. Holland, Lenoir Myers, Willie Shirley. Grade i?Joe Jenkins, Solomon Mims, Lawrence Munn, Grayson Shaw, George Rhame, Phyllis Carjr-.son, Alice DePass, Margaret Good! ale, Harriet Lorick, Margaret McCoy, j Eloise Rhoden, Sara Lynn Richey, Edith Webster, Eileen Graham, Jack Dunn, Harry Lee Gregory, DapMackey, J. Hi McLeod, Alvin Riley, Deverell Sanders, Alvah Watts, Ruby Burns. Willene Hall, Lillian Hasty, Clara Holland, Lena Jennings, Marguerite McCaskill, Genevieve Moseley, Mary Peebles, Julian Burns, Wil! burn Denton, Claude Jackson, Ernest Shaw, Woodrow Trapp, Mary Louise | Britton, Mazie Cameron, Minnie De, Bruhl, Dorothy Graham, Zula Mae i Hilton. Jessie Horton, Blanche Mc1 Caskill, Estelle Sheheen, Blanche Smith, Gladys Tolbert. ? The British national antheni has boon in use for nearly two centuries. Uf"1 ! ULUJUi-.J J1 BETHUNE NKW8 NOTES Happening* of Inter**! oh Told By Our Regular Correspondent /? Bethune,"May 3.?'The revival meeting at the Methodist church which had been in progress for two week a came to a doge on last Sunday evening. The Kev. N. M. Lovein of Macon, Ga., conducted/ the meeting. Mr. Lovein is an evangelist of con?aiderablo magnetism and held the attention of unusually* large audiences. The song services with a junior ami senior choir; Miss Lizzie Mae Riley, pianist, and Dr. E. Z. Truesdell, cornetiht, added much to the interest of the services. As a result of the meeting several score children and about half a dozen adults were added to the membership of the churches. Mr. Lovein "^as presented with a handsome purse which expressed to some extent the appreciation of the people for his earnestN efforts in preaching the gospel and the solos which he sang so beautifully at many of the services. On last Saturday evening Miss Dorothy Parrott delightfully entertained a number of the high school girls and boys. There was progressive conversation and several contests were enjoyed. Later in the evening ice cream and cake were served. This community was visited by a much heeded rain last Saturday afternoon and night. The rain, however, was preceded by a terrible dust 8tor;n which for a short while almost gavh the appearance of twilight, but with no serious results. Mrs. Minor Baker is in the Columbia hospital where she underwent a very successful operation last Saturday. Mrs. E. B. King who was operated on at the Columbia hospital last week is reported to be convalescing rapidly. Mrs. J. A. Graham of McBee is spending some time with her mother, Mrs. John McDonald, who has been quite sick for more than a week. Mr- and Mrs. M. G. King and Miss Mary McKinnon viuitvtl Columbia hospital Monday. Messrs. Alvin Clyburn and W. M. Best attended the junior-senior reception at Bishopville last Friday evening. Mr. S. D. Lever, Jr., of Columbia, spent the week-end with Norwood Thomas. Mrs. S. B. Padgett and children have been visiting friends in North Carolina. Mrs. Leonard Yarbrough and little daughter of Hartsville spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. John McDonald. The Rev. and Mrs. A. M. Gardner and little daughter of Turbeville wor-j shipped with the Methodist congregation Sunday evening. Mr. Gardner was pastor of this church for a num-1 ber of yeark and has many warm' friends here. Mrs. B. F. Bolton, Mrs. A. B. Mc-1 Laurin, Mrs. D. M. Mays and Mrs. i Leslie Best attended a missionary, conference at Lynchburg one day last week. Miss Eliza King who is in training j at the Columbia hospital was called i home last week on account of the ill- i ness of her sister, Miss Alleen. Missj King returned to the hospital Mon- ] day taking her sister with her. Dr. J. M. Durham of Columbia is . spending a few days in town. The Bethune high school baseball; team played the Camden high school! at Camden one afternoon last week, j The score was twenty-three to three! in favor of Bethune. On Tuesday afternoon the high school boys played the town young men and were victorious with a score of twelve to six. Mrs. Charley McKinnon and Misses Mary McKinnon and Lois King have heen guests one day this week of Mrs. G. B. McKinnonJn Lancaster. Grace Appointed Road Official Columbia, May 3.??Governor Richards today appointed four new members of the state highway commission to succeed four whose terms expired last month. ? John P. Grace, former mayor of Charleston, was named to represent the, ninth circuit in the place of T. Wilbur Thornhill, also of Charleston. Ir. the fourteenth circuit," W. Fred Lightsey, a former state senator from Hampton county, was appointed in place of W. S. Rentz of Varnville. D. W. Gaston, Sr., of Aiken, was given the place formerly held by G. W. Croft, also of Aiken, who has been chairman of the commission for several months. 1' ^ In the tent^i circuit, H, Clint Summers. of Pendleton, a brother-in-law of United States -Senator Cole L. Blease, was designated in pladb of R. E?~Ltgon, ? ! NBCRo of Kou?<| Iw, Belfry of 0huf H I At tie Hock, Ark m fusion that he ?tlUrd,rIiH U Kloellu McDonald 2 * in the belfry uf ./0nc* byteriun church, wher ^ *te yesterday, wa? 1" * m?m Unnle l>iXOi? son of Hied 1)1x0,,/?'^ the ehur,?, ??lk, I he young- negro c* father, had been held ^ covery of the decom^ police to a ^ k hook which the girl L' home from the city Ifo* : disappeared April 2 ^1 her clothing waa fOUud. ' The confession did to the negro's father, whj ^ information which lediJ^jB wy <?f the body whlkJ^B choir was rehearsing below, The elder 1)iy^fytttlilj in the church ^e.sU^day J irtg the 50-foc< ladfer to JI fe,t tt 8hQe' Without M further he reported it tojJ the choir rehearsing in t^B and police were called, '-ifl Dixon in his confession J the girl go into the churci^fl sudden rain and followed* the building where he pcq9 to accompany him up thil 1 he belfr y for a view of tbl followed her up the laddJ fession said, and then asql She screamed for held tfl ened to tell her father, ?1 was then, he said, that hi brick and beat her over thl til she was dead. I The bloodstained brick I the body when it was ftgfl Because of the intennfl aroused by the crime, the ofl spirited out of the city to il announced destination tonigbS On Easter Sunday mornufl the girl's body lay in thtl special prayers had been tfll the church below for her aj to her parents. PrayetilB were offered at other ch^|H city that day. ! Famous Fisherman's Homh London, May !.?The cow Shallow Ford, near Static home 250 years ago of Izaak British writer whose fame b dawn over "years a? fhftt The Compleat Angler, was 4 by fire today. A flying spark on the thatched roof of the a ture started the fire. The cottage had been reafi converted into a museum tk) ago largely through the aid) ican subscriptions. All objects of historic into removed? safely. Services at Wateree 0 The public is cordially all services at Wateree church on Sunday, May 8. ! ing service will begin at II; at which time the pastor, ft L. Willingham, will deli Mother's Day Sermon. Spa will be furnished by Hi* West, Audrey Anderson,Jin* and Mittie West. At foar*"1 the afternoon there will be in the beautiful lake *1 Evening service at 7:45 o'd* Wednesday there are sped meeting services at the d* book?of?the Bible being d these meetings. I)r. Brevard *Blettd Tr* At the convention 'of neg sicians held in ColuinbU 1 Dr. J. A. Allen, of Chester, ed president of the Palm*#* association; Dr. E. B. Bull Charleston, vice-presidertt; Brevard, of Camden, W? ?>r. Durham Counts, of* B^11* secretary. The next pieetl# association will be held in Fi Dr. S. Westray Battle* ] Asheville, N. C., phy*icl?n. day, after a week's illness w stroke of paralysis. Vt, B* specialist in tuberculosis. jj all other I I Expense I Taxes Are Reflected In Telephone Costs ALTHOUGH taxes form a large part of the cost of pro4h?otag telephone service, this company does not object to paying Its Just proportion of the taxes necessary for the support ot the government, the schools and other public institutions. W# do bellsva that talephone subscribers who supply the mommy will be Interested In knowing what part of the money they pay for telephone service goes for taxes In the Htates of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Ixjnlslana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Our total tax bill in these States amounted to |4,432,011 during 1324, an Increase of 366 per cent since 191(1, while the taxalAe property of the company increased only 142 per cent during this same period. The combined tax and wage bill for last year reached a total of |28,K6d,300. Although the enormous Increase in these two Items has been reflected In tha cost of producing service, the ratea charged for the service have not increased In anything like the same proportion. "BELL SYSTEM" SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONEi AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY* INCOUMATI0 V I McLeod-Rush Co. II ALWAYS A GOOD PLACE TO TRADE I I -NOW A BETTER PLACE- 1 I I Staple and Fancy Groceries 1 I Fruits and Seasonable Produce I and'continued offerings of Choicest Meats at our i Market?now under new management?and i j at prices considerably lower than those prevailing heretofore. I I GROCERY I ~ PHONE 44 K V MARKET I PHONE 26 I I Why Wait Longej Own your own Home NJ LOTS OF?AND ARE?GOOD SOUND 1 INVESTMENTS IN CAMDEfr. Thousands of dollars are available here for folhj would like to make an investment joc buy a ho"** J me show you some real bargains feeTltimediaW ance. E. C. ZEMP I Telephone 279-J Ctm^j I