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LThe Camden Chronicle i CAMDEN^SOUTH CARQE|H^[ FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1?27. ~~ NUMBER 12 | gtjKturr WII.I.IH KILLED :v;- ij of Greenville County SUin Q Emerging From Garage . .. ? nville, June 12.?<Cept. Sam 1). BfilliH, sheriff of Greenville county Ej veteran of the World war, was Kot to death in the yard of his resiHenc-e here around midnight tonight Ey an unknown asaaasin. A mob of Several hundred persons had formed Ky 12:30 o'clock and were scouring She section of the city in which SherSff Willis lived looking for the asEuilunt. S Neighbors of Sheriff Willis heard She shooting and two or three said Shet they ran out and saw a negro Sunning from the scene of the killing. E;omc g&ve chase, it was said, but She n? gro was lost in a sparsely Settled section nearby. I The body of Sheriff Willis was found lying at the door of his garage. had been downtown on business Em! after having put his automobile En the garage he had apparently ^fcurned to walk to his house when shot Siown. f Sheriff Willis apparently had no Erhance to defend himself. His body H*as found lying in the doorway of She garage where he had fallen when Sit by four bullets. Death was in^^^Ltantaneous, as one shot entered the konhead and passed through the Bhead, another piercing the heart and Sil* two entering the abdomen. The left door of the automobile S?a? open and the keys vyere in the Snritch, which led to the belief that mthe officer had seen the negro at the door of. the garage as he entered and had gotten out to investigate. His I pistol, however, carried in" a shoulder I holster, was untouched. Sheriff Willis is survived by his I wi low and four children, all girls, ' Virginia, 12, the eldest; Julia, Ethel and Marion. Deputy Charged With Crime - Greenville, June 14.?Henry Townsend, deputy Sheriff, whs arrested tonight for the murder late Saturday night of Sheriff Sam D. Willis of Greenville, ifnder whom the accused iman served during the entire term II he deceased was in office? The arI -st was made upon a warrant sworn it ut by Detective W. W. Rogers, of ne governor's constabulary, and ownsend was taken to the state lirison in Columbia immediately after c had been arrested. He protested nnocence of the charge. I The arrest was affected at the Rome of Mrs. Willis, widow of the ate sheriff on a warrant sworn out By State Constable W. W. Rogers k>eiore Magistrate J. L. Ballenger. Acting Sheriff John L. .Parks went k> the home and served the paper, kiputy Townsend, it was said, lost kething of his composure which U marked his demeanor since the Immediately upon the appearance of Mr. Parks, Deputy Townsend went qaietly from the house and stepped into a waiting automobile. The car, filled with officers sped immediately out through a suburb and onto the Columbia road.'4 It roared off sputh ward at a* terrific .pace, followed by I two other cars pf officers, all" heavily armed. At the city limits one car, filled with police, _ returned. No word of the furrest, which h?4 ( I been carefully guarded, was given out I hy the officers until af$pr midnight. Deputy Townsend And Sheriff Wii lis were known to have been very) close friends; They served in the ume company in Fraiice during the World war and * had been associated together for ,many. years, City To Do Mora Paving Engineer J. A. Loughlin of WllH vington, N. C., has been here this making preliminary surveys for *^ additional paving for the struts. ?>?re will be approximately .one mile paved on the northern am) ^ vathem ends of Broad street and Intern and western ends of De|j* street. These streets-mtev on Ihighways passing through town ^ ^ the paving will have ?to. be . paid ^ ftr by tho city in order to connect P WHh the paving to be done by the *** highway department on these though routes. ia a possibility that some . ^ "treeta will ybe paved in C*mif lhe property owiiers signify, desire to have the work done. / ' - ? " I Ward Four To Meet I n,eTT>ben of Ward Fpur of tie Blrtlu m are r?P??*ted to meet Jn tteV Jun? 17? mt 6:80 ?'ck>ck rn I to 1 t*rnoon on .Monument Squire ^^onsalt about the aihor toA* I I H TO HOLI) COUNTY CAMP At Charlotte Thompson High School For Farm Women's Council A county camp for Home Demonstration club members and any farm women who care to come will be held at Charlotte Thompson High school June 21, 22 and 23, under the uuspices of the Farm Women's council and Miss Alma Hurgess, county home demonstration agent. Miss Juanita Neely, poultry specialist, and Mrs. Dora Dee Walker, production and conservation specialist, extension workers from Winthrop college, will be there to give some instruction. ! Miss Neeley will talk Tuesday evening ut 0 o'clock on poultry raising and answer questions on this subject. All interested are invited to hear her. I Mrs. Walker will give demonstrations in canning, nit kling, and preserving on Wednesday. Visitors are also invited. Chapel will be held every day at 11:30 and visitors will be cordially received at this time particularly but are welcome at all times. Leaders of this movement hope to have a number of visitors so they will see some of the work being done. f All women are requested to meet in front of the court house in Camden on Tuesday morning at 10:30. They will go from here to the camp. All will be at liberty to go home after dinner and to those who come for the women is extended the invitation to dinner. A small fee is charged and the women are asked to hring vegetables and fruits with them to help with expenses. Members will also be responsibjjs for their own sleeping conveniences. / Death of Mtb. Porter Mrs. Anna R. Porter, wife of the late R. W. Porter, who predeceased her about twenty years ago, died at her home near Blaney on June 14. She is survived by the following children: J. M. Porter, C. M. Porter and Miss Ella Porter, all of Kershaw, and several grandchildren. Mrs. Porter was in her seventy-eighth year. Funeral services were held at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at her late residence conducted by Rev. J. l5. Harrelson, pastor of Blaney Baptist church. The body was interred in the family burying ground near her home. Death of Lee County Woman Spring Hill, June 9.?Mrs. Maria M. MqCaskMl died at her home in the Egypt section of Lee county Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. Her funeral services, conducted by her pastor,^the Rev. A. H. Arnold, assisted by the Rev. J. C. Kenr.ey of Rembert, were held in Mispah Baptist church, Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Interment was made in the [ church cemetery in the presence of a large concourse of relatives and friends. The many beautiful floral tributes attested the love and esteem in which she^ was held.1 Mrs. MoCaskill has been in -failing health for several years and confined to her bed for 18 months. However, she was a patient sufferer and everything possible was done to alleviate her suffering. .She was always cheerful and submissive to the Divine Will. Prior to her sickness, she was very 'active in domestic affairs, having led a long useful life. She would have been 74 on the 19th* of this month. Surviving her are her husband, W? M. MoCaskill, and the following sons and daughters:- Dr. Stephen M. McCaskill of Camden, Charles K. McCaskill of the U. S. Navy, and John F. McCaskill of Lee county; Mrs. J. N. McLeod and Mrs. J. S. Folk of I*e county and Mrs. D. L. Johnson of Kershaw county. Death of Miss Hay Miss Jolie Hay, daughter of the late J.. Thornwell Hay, an eminent Uvjfsr and former senator from KershaW county, died Monday night in $M>don at the residence of Bonham Brisks, her brother-in-law. Miss HA, while a native of Camden, made hel home for several years past in Snndon and was a member of the, Swindon Presbyterian church. She .Jg of a retiring disposition and had Wen an invalid for several months last. She waa a lover of the beautiful in nature and art, and has left at4ny evidence* 'of her unusual gift in this field. She is survived by her mother, Mrsr-J. O. Hay, of Shandon; her sister," Mrs. Bonham Brooks, and her brothers, Oakman Hay of Camden and Dr. J. T. Hay of Boykin, and her nephew and niece. She was laid io feat beside her father in the cemetery at Camden.?Wednesday's State. Mccoy honored uy cZkmsonE -,y? ( hesterfield County Farmer Awarded Certificate of Merit Ciemaon College, June 11.?W. ^ McCoy, progressive pioneer and toad' er in the Sand Hills fruit industry, successful farmer, ideal landlord, r#*'" cent legislator, and patriotic citiaetl ' of Mcliee, was awarded a certificate of merit for notable agricultural work by t lemson Agricultural ( ollege it commencement, June 7. ith only a second grade. uducatiojM Mj. MoC oy and a brother "twrtlfl fanning on fifteen acres given ay > their father. He saved money?.. and* bought land almost every year since. Now his early vision bears fruit? success as the result of fruit growing. 1 he entire Sand Hill region ! shares the harvest, for Mr. McCoy j was the first man to believe in the j peach enough to plflnt it extensively,! showing others that it could be done.1 Not only is \\. L. McCoy the largest Sand Hill fruit grower, with 250 or more acres of peaches and 125 acres of dewberries on his 3800-acre farm, but he is the foremost landlord. He operates on the share-crop basis; entirely. One tenant has been with1 him twenty years and another fourteen years. Each tenant, who has been with him several years, has a nice home with running water and other conveniences. The twenty-year ( veteran tenant grows peaches and dewberries as share crops?so far as we can learn, the first share cropper! on such a basis, and in any event, one ! of the few. Is not this extraordinary 1 arrangement a meritorious step toward the tenantry solution ? For years Mr. MoCoy has co-operated with the South Carolina Experiment station on peach fertilizing experiments and with the Seaboard Air Line Railway testing the adaptability! of 49 grape varieties, both promising1 valuable information. His spirit of industry, b.rothetdyl love and fellowship hajs won for W. L,j McCoy Clemson College's benediction* and placed his name, like that of Abou Ben Adhem, among the blessed. Mrs. K. G. Whistler has gone to East Flat Rock, N. C., where she will be the guest of Miss Bessie Steedmau for some time. Representing a Reliable Company Mr. R. E. Campbell who has been residing in Ciearwater, Fla., for the past year or more, is in Camden this week in the interest of the Southern Paving and Construction Company of Chattanooga, Tenn. Mr. Campbell had charge of the company's interests here when the city streets were paved, and. every one. was delighted with the Camden; job. The entire program in Camden went through without a hitch or un-, pleasantness between the contractors' and city council. His company did the paving work in the city of Newberry the first time, and so well pleased were the Newberry folks that the extended, program was "^awarded i to his company. They have also done other work in' this state and we are told by Mr.! Campbell that in the thirty years of I the company's operations they have | never produced a faulty job. They are the oldest concern in the South in this line of business. Friends of Mr. Campbell and the other operators Working under him; would be delighted to see his company awarded the contract for the, large paving program soon to be i under way in Kershaw county. The' contracts for this Work will be let by the highway commission in,. August. Engineers and surveyors are already at work making the preliminary surveys on the roads to be paved. ?^ : ? First Blooms Reported Mr. J. B. Zemp brought the first cotton bloom of the season to our office Tuesday. It was plucked on the 13th day of June, and came from Super-Seven seed planted on the old race track property west of the Seaboard passenger station. ?Mr. W. Ancrum Boykin of the Boykin section reports a bloom in his cotton seen on the eighth day of June, but did not bring it to town, j The first bloom for 1926 came in on^June 16. The first bloom for 1925 came in on *June 15, and the first bloom for 1924 was on June 23. ' -Th^l 1923 first bloom was on June 21. Smith-Nell Mr. Henry Jefferson Smith of Blenheim, S. Cm ?nd Miss Julia Frances Neil of Winnsboro, S. C., were married on Sunday last, June 12, by Rev. J. T. Peeler of the Camden Methodist church. ~ - - CAPTURE NOTORIOUS BANDITS I Roy Hud Kay de Autremont Taken in Ohio After Four Years' Search Steubenville, Ohio, June 9.?Roy and Ray de Autremont, arrested here j last night for the murder of four men ' in connection wHh a holdup of a train >n Oregon four years ago, late today were arraigned before an United! States commissioner and ordered held i without bond as fugitives from justice. I ostoffiee inspectors are on their way here from Washington to file charges agumst them for robbing the! mails. After this charge has been filed, they will be taken to Columbus, Ohio, for* hearing in federal' court for an order of removal to Oregon. 'n qa*c bond is demanded, federal officials indicate^ tonight, the government will ask it to be set at $500,000 each. Charges" of murder also face the men on their return to Oregon. The brothers?27-year-old twinswere held incommunicado throughout the day in city jail here. A heavy gyard has been thrown about the jail. , Both declared today they would yuive formal extradition proceedings, When arrested both admitted their identity. By a queer quirk of fate, Hugh do! Autremont, their brother, went on! trial at Jacksonville, Ore., today'for' his part in the slaying. , R*y, arrested at his home here,; where he had been living with his j wife, a bride of a year, told federal > officials if he had had a chance he! would have killed them "because he \ knew what was ahead of him." "If 1 had got a chance, I would have' killed you and then myself. My life ! is worth nothing to me," federal officials quoted him as saying. He has assumed the name of Clarence Goodwin. Roy, arrested at an employment wgfency, when taken to police headquarters for booking, said*': "Well, itJ looks like some of you guys are in; for a reward." Rewards totaling $30,000 for the arrest of the men had been posted. ! Ray s wife, whom he married at Ironton, Ohio, was prostrated when she learned of her husband's arrest. He never had revealed his identity to her. WTien an officer came to the home last night, he told her he was an insurance adjuster and wanted her husband to accompany him to the hospital, where his brother had been taken following an accident. The wily fugitive fell into the trap, i and when he entered an automobile, I hefound himself surrounded by heavily^atmed officers. A funnel near Siskiyou, Ore., October 11, 1923, the three brothers are alleged to have held up Southern Pacific passenger train No. 13, shot the engineer, fireman and brakeman in cold blood,' then dynamited the mail car, killing the mail clerk. Whenthe mail car took fire, the bandits were forced t<^ flee^without obtaining any loot. Bii|t jydstat~inspectors on examining therwreckage found evidence which eventually led to their arrest. An intensive search got under way leading to the ren^ote parts of the world. Hugh was arrested in the Philippines, where he was serving in the United States army under an assumed name. It was soon after his arrest that federal officers were given information that led to the arrest of Roy and Ray. Delivers Address to Graduates. Judge Mendel L. Smith, of Camden, brought a splendid message to the graduating class of the Saunders Memorial Hospital Training School for Nurses Thursday night at the closing exercises held at the Florence Public Library. . ?. He brought to their attention the dignity of their profession and dwelt more on the many responsibilities of their calling rather than the technical or sdeTfttlfci' side, r? He used this 'beautiful illustrate*#! last night that should he passed on. He spoke* of the great healer Christ who reached up- with one hand to grasp the hand of God and with the other clasped the hand of a devilpursued child, letting the current of a endless chain of lova pass thru his body into that of the afflicted one. Friday's Florence News-Review , Missionary Society To Meet _ The Baptist Woman's Missionary Society will meet in the church Tues day afternoon, 1 June 21, at 4:8( THE WINTHROP 8KNS ATION HurKiil I.ikt'ly to b* Heard From Befor* Kiid of Incident. (By James ]). Grist) Governor Richards' fight on Prof. Willimn G. Burgin, un* of the most popular and valuable men ever con- 1 nected with the if re at girl's school, ' comes as a shock to the state. It is intimated that the governor's ire was aroused because the jfovernor's daughter told him that Prof. Burgin had been teaching evolution, etc. As a matter of fact all Prof. Burgin has done in that direction is to explain the theory of evolution as a good educator should do. There is no proof that Prof. Burgin ever told uny class that he believed that man is descended from monkeys or that tigers were once jack asses. But the governor it seems, is u straight-out fundamentalist, one of those curious persons who believe that after death the good will go straight up to heaven to be fitted with a set of goose or crane or swan wings and have nothing to do forever and forever except Hit around like t agios or Jmzxards or pigeons while those who were bud here will K<> down somewhere into an actual physical fire and burn and burn and burn. There are hundreds and hundreds of Winthrop girls who have sat at the feet of Professor Burgin and who like not the way he has been trouted and it may be that they will bo heard from later. Indeed there is a report that just before the college closed u 1 few days ago about 149 out of 153 or 154 seniors signed resolutions of con- ! fidence in Professor Burgin. He it seems, is a most versatile man. He 1 has edited the college weekly paper; 1 taken an interest in all-college activ- < ities outside of his own particular 1 duties and in fact is regarded as about , the biggest man at Winthrop not ex- | cepting the president,' who by the 1 way, isn't worshipped on the campus with such fear and fervor as the public through the press has been led to believe from time to time. But because of monkey business, leal or imaginary, he gets the gate, while another Winthrop professor who is now under fire and likely to be in the courts for his alleged irregular doings with a broken bank is reelected by the trustees and nary a word said to the contrary. Evolution is dangerous; but banking is not?in South Carolina! Professor Burgin is likely to be heard from before the thing is over, it is predicted.?Yorkville Enquirer. Jurors For General Sessions I Jurors for the first week of Court I of General Sessions were drawn -Tuesday. Court will convene on the first Monday in July, being July 4, 1 with Judge W. H. Townsend presiding. Jurors . drpwn Tuesday are ap follows: ; A. L. Parker, Lucknow; T. B. Cly| burn, Westville; Dewey Rabon, Luj goff; C. L. Mayes, Bethune; Joe Nettles, Lugoff; W. D. Whitaker, Camden; E. T. Branham, Lugoff; J. H. Clements, Liberty Hill; B. E. Jennings, Camden; Dannie Rabon, Lugoff; M. G. King, Bethune; J. E. Copeland, Bethune; J. W. Brannon, Bethune; W. M.- Elliott, Cassatt; R. B. McCaskill, Bethune; J. G. Gregory, Kershaw; E. P. Cunningham, Camden; F. A. Soweil, Kershaw; , M. L. Raley, Camden; J. R. Bell, Lugoff; Ira B. Catoe, Kershaw; William Gladden, Camden; T. B. Campbell, Blaney; Reuben Branham, Blaney; E. F. Bell, Camden; S. H. Kirklanib^pamden; Joseph Sheheep, Camden; Jack Young, Kershaw; A. It. Holland, Caniden; Robert Cauthen, Kershaw; H. J. Hinson, Camden; Hughey Tindal, Camden; Wesley Pate, Camden; R. J. Smith, Camden; Bauson Truesdale, Camden; T. R.| Richardson, English. ' . Colored Woman Died In New York ?| The body of Janie Cook, 'wfto died at Glen CoVe, N. Y., June 9, was brought to Camden Sunday, June ^12, accompanied by her two sons, James j H. Cooke and Bennie F. Cooke, and her daughter, Lottie C. Tyler. She had gone on a visit to her son, James, and while there suffered a paralytic stroke June 2. She was 69 I.^ears aye. She was a member of 1 Trinity Methodist Episcopal church. ' The funeral services were held at Mt. Morlah Baptist Church Monday afternoon, conducted by her pastor, r Rev. B. F. Bradford. ,-f She leaves to mourn her loss twe 1 sons, a daughter; two sisters, two brothers and an aged father. tS^SSBXSBSSaSSSmaeXSm^^^^^^mmmmrn, A DEATH OF MILS. BETH INK I'astifd A^ay in Town Which lifara Her If u?bu nd's Name Bethune, June 15.? Mrs. Mary Bethune, second wife of the late Mr. I). M. Bethune, died early Tuesday afternoon at the home of her son, John Bethune, after an illness of several weeks. Mra. Bethune was sixty- j seven years old and was the daughter uf the Rev. Bradley, u Presbyterian minister, who lived near Bethune, but was originally from Muyeaville. She was until her recent illness an active member of the Presbyterian church, regular in attendance upon services, with a rare devotion and interest that never wavered. In disposition she was frank and fearless, a devoted wifo, mother and grandmother. Mrs. Bethune is survived by two sons, Robert Bethune of Cheraw and John Bethune of this pluce; two step-sons, I). M. Bethune of JlaVtsville and A1 Bethune of ifiastonia; four stepdaughters, Mrs. J. A. MeCaskill and . Mrs. 1). T. Ynrbrougb of Bethune and Mrs. Maggie Lee of Monroe, N. C., and Mrs Kate MeNaull of Columbia. She is also survived by two sisters, Misses Tyson and Km ma Bradley of Bethune and two brothers, Mr. James Bradley, of Abbeville, S. C., and the Rev. Robert Bradley of Los Angeles, Cal., and five granddaughters and a number of step-grandchildren. The funeral services \yore conducted by her pastor, the Rev. J. D. Hillhouse, from the Presbyterian church and interment was in the Scotch cemetery where her eldest son and husband and many other relatives ure . ' Q buried. The grave was covered with beautiful flowers aft a tribute of love and affection. The pallbearers were Messrs. A. B. Mcl^iurin, A. K. McLaurin. J. N. McLaurin, M. G. King, J. L. King and C. C. Gardner. On last Friday afternoon Mr. Hen- , 3 derson Smith died very suddenly at his home in the upper part of town.' He had been in failing health for Bdme time but his death came as a ihock to his family. Mr. Smith was about seventy-five years old and is survived by his widow, five sons, one ^ daughter and a number of grand- . .--^?^3 children. The funeral services were held at Pleasant Hill church and interment in the cemetery. Mrs. C. L. Mays was called' to ^19 Lynchburg, Va., on Monday on ac- * count of the death of her brother, M?.?. .K^];ahfl\yVv Mrs. Mays was accompanied by "her husband and her son, Douglas Mays, and Mrs. Douglas Mays. Mesdamcs A. K. McLaurin and Hugh Oliver and Misses Mary Louise McLaurin and Lizzie Kate Davis are attending a meeting of the grand chapter of the Eastern Star which is 3j being held in Charleston this week. Mrs. R. P. Hucks and children are visiting Mrs. Huck's mother in North Carolina. Mrs. T. R. Clemens and little daughter of Philadelphia who have ?"?1 been with Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Arthur for the last month returned home Monday evening. , * Miss Carrie Yarbrough entertained the members of the basketball team and a few invited guests at her home on last Friday afternoon. Tables were placetL^in the library and hall for heart dRe and at the conclusion of the game a/ salad course followed by a sweet course was served on the , J tables. About twenty were present at ' this delightful affair. The commencement exercises of the ."' rl< Daily Vacation Bible-school were held at the Presbyterian church last Friday evening. Each class gave , a dramatization of^ some Bible stbry. The beginners dramatized the story of Ruth; the primaries?the Ghod ' Shepherd^ the intermediates, the Tri- ; -. yj umphal Entry; and the juniors, the Ten Virgins. There was also a flower playlet by the larger children and a number of songB and Scripture verses "^C^| that had been memorised were given. Blue ribbons were pinned on the children who had been punctual and reg- ' Xu ular in attendance. Mrs. Johri'nie G. Richards of Cheraw Ha-visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrfc. 3. A. MeCaskill. Mr. J. M. Clyburn is spending several days on the coast fishing. a Mrs; Love Hearon is visiting her father Mr. Ed Davis in Bishopville. Miss Lois Watts who has been teaching at the Antioch school has . accepted a position as dietician at the Baptist hospital in Columbia. . jm Miss Sara Lee Heustiss is visiting at the home of her uncle Mr. Henry Xfsfl Hay near Sumter. , , . " ' ' " . * .y||g Oakland Downs Wateree The fast Oakland squadha* removed another obstacle 4n its inarch to the championship of the Kendall, group of mills by defeating t^e Wateree team at Camden Saturday afternoon. Oakland has met and defeated all the teams of this group of "r' X mills except the Paw Creek, N. C., S team. They will play this team here on the Fourth of July, and supporters of the local team are confident that they will bring the championship to Newberry for this season. The game,at Camden Saturday was featured by some mighty clouting on both* sides and -the game with , score standing 10 to 9 in Oakland's favor. W. Bodie and Dennis were i rhe battipg stars in Saturday's game > and both furnished some sparkling 4 Plays afield,?Newberrt Observer. iXgdM