The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 06, 1927, Image 8
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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