Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Society Newt Note* (TJif Term* That 1'uauJr Brasay, or Brawie? Bithet spelling 1? correct, but the weight of evidence i* in favor of branny. The Badminton Library, , vm goll elnaaic if eve/ th?e were one, and Chamber'* Scoi* jMalect Dictionary (com pi led by Alexander W^wHjki refer to braaay and make no jnention or hraaaie Mng a vaHhnf ofbras-y <>n the other hand, Webater'* New IrttevnaUonal Dictionary (102)6) given braasle as' art alternative for brassy. fr ** ' u? *'' Yulrtide Dance. Among the yuletlde' dances none waa diore 'delightful than that of Mias Elizabeth Zemp's on Friday evening at the Kirkwood >elub ht*We. ' About half a hundred young friends enjoyed1 Mis* Zemp's hospitality. I'u.u h>64 CM* were seiyM-throughout ffxj etenlnjif*/ Miaa StunyfPtyHpqk/ . Mi?s Alice y en'UHainetl ;the I Wednesday aft/roo^A , Bwph hpd Bridge Club laat week at fie ho*? of her sister, Mb/MvK^nnQ^ n Fair Street. RJgh *cor# for the afternoon went to Mrs. Nettles Lindsay. Fruit salad V and tea were served at the conclusion of the game. 1,806 Hogs Burned. Kast St, Louis, III., Dec, Eighteen hundred hogs we? burned to depth in a blaze of undetermined origin which destroyed a hog barn in the National Stock yards here on Tuesday.. To Meet Thursday. The Hobkirk Hill Chapter D. A. R. will hold their January meeting at the Chapter House?the Old Court House, on Thursday, January Utn. After a short business session at 4 o'clock the chapter will be "at home" to interested friends and visiting Daughters in town, to whom a most cordial invitation is extended. Here For Holidays Ensign D. B. Miller, U. S. N-, at present detailed to the U. 8. S. "aratoga at the Philadelphia navy yard, spent the holidays with his mother, Mrs. W. J. Mayfield. He had as his guest. Ensign Claude W. Haman. Return From Kershaw. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Richards, Jr., with McKain and Jack Richards have returned from Kershaw, where they spent the holidays. Mrs. J. M. Dempster has also returned from Kershaw to resume her duties in the Camden graded schools. Returned To Winthrop. The following young ladies left Monday afternoon to resume their . work at Winthrop: Misses. Sarah DePass, Willie Porter, Fay Kirkland, Tommy Guthrie, Gertrude Zemp, Mary * Goodale, Annie Murray Melxtod. Mary Cureton, JumeUe Haile, Virginia Nettles, Virginia Nicholson, lxiuis Lang, Sarah Gettys, an<l Mary Jane Gettys. I At Home I'ntil January 11. John RioWudson, who is a student ! at Virginia Military Institute, will j he with his mother, Mrs. Robert Marye, <>n Lytvleton Street, until January 11. He wU thi n return for , second semester. In Columbia For Day. Misses. Maw Curoton, Gertiude Zemp. Mary Goodale. apd Elizabeth Daniel, motored to Columbia la-v Wednesday and spent the day with Miss Nancy Pope. Bennie Smith spent Monday in < olumbia on legal business. *Whiie^%ose\ VEDDINO AND ENGAGEMENT RING IQmdimni ? OmnmA The Sparklets Sing Oh! What jo jan as a bride m June! Why, a bride of December or March, Aj she trtps m tmte to the l^ohengrm tune Through a "WH** Rase bridal arch! Oh! Roses white are the bride's delight For the joy they are bound to bring, And joy is found the uhoie | year round in th* radiaju Rose" ring! nfcf the hoffer co i - v CAMDEN. R. C COLORED LABORER INSTANTLY KILLED Kokcoc Goon, 19 year-old negro, w?? instantly killed at the plant of the Southern Paving Construction company on Kant DeKalb street yesterday afternoon around 3:30 o'clock. Death was caused, according to testimony of Dr. A. W. Humphries < who appeared at the inquest, by timber falling from a scaffold. Th# negro, whose home address was given as J^ewberry, had been in Camden only a short while. The inquest which wa? ordered oy Judge W. F. Russell was held in the undertaking establishment of A. R. Collins. Gue*l* of Llewellyn's. Mr. and Mrs. W, B. Anderson of Richmond, Va., are the guests of Mr. und Mrs. Stanley Llewellyrt. Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn spent the holidays in Richmond, and were accompanied home by Mr. and Mrs. Anderson. Announces Birth of a Son. Mr. and Mrs. Julian Graham announce the birth of a son, Julian Graham, Junior, on Sunday, January I. IN THE CAROL IN AS# Items of Interest Gleaned from Newspapers of Two States. J'aul Stepps, 20, was arrested for shooting his older brother Vernon in the back of the head with a shot gun near Gaffney. Grady I'. McNeeley, of Charlotte, was instantly killed when his automobile swerved, turned round and then upset near t^ary, N. C., at 2 o'clock Sunday morning while he was on hia way from Rockingham to Raleigh. He was a prominent realtor, president of the McNeeley Land company and of Chimney Rock Terraces, Inc> and operated largely in western North Carolina. The funeral was held at Waxhaw, where he was born and lived until ten years ago. He leaves his widow, one sister and eight brothers. The mayor of Shelby and the entire police department of that town were besieged in the city hall for two hours by a howling mob Saturday night, after the governor had refused- to mobilize the National Guard at the* request of the mayor. A crowd of 500 men expressed their intention of taking the town in wild west fashiun on New Year eve, and began by shooting fire crackers at the feet of policemen When the officers threatened to arrest the disturbers, the crowd became a mob which chased the police force into the city hall with a fusillade of fire-works. The mayor telephoned the sheriff for help, and the latter officer persuaded the mob to disperse. But the police turned a fire hose on some laggards and the attack on them began again and worse. Having seized a man and placed him in an automobile, police drove through the crowd which refused to part, the ear knocking down several men. This made the mob frantic, and at midnight Shelby was entirely in the hands of the mob with its officers barricaded in the city hall. Eleven hi rests were made during the melee. ( 1 he police of'Greenville arrested I an average of ten persons a day durj mg K?27, the total being 3,733, half white and half colored. John T. Tidwell, well known mill ; superintendent, died at Greenville i Saturday after an illness of several i months, aged -4it years. He was a native of Fairfield county and had lived in Greenville for fourteen years. Thomas [). Johnson, a prominent and much respected citizen of Allendale, aged 52 years, committed suicide Saturday by shooting himself, because of prolonged ill health. He leaves a widow and seven children. A: L. King, the Florence attorney who defended Bigham so valiantly for several years, has offered his services to defend Hickman, the Los Angeles murderer of a little girl hi had kidnaped. * John English Dody, aged 19, of Dalzell, near ?pmter, who died following an operation for appendicitis, was a graduate last. June from the high school, a star football and baseball player and a highly respected youth. jo William F. Walker, prominent retired textile executive, of Greenville, died there aged 69 years after several years of ill health. He was born in Westminster, Oconee county, and had lived in Piedmont, Union, and since 19It) in Greenville. A case against a bootlegger at Spartanburg has been dropped from the docket of the court of general sessions there after remaining on the docket for twenty-seven terms of court and going to the supreme court and back. The A. M. E. church at Spartanburg was sold under mortgage foreclosure to satisfy a debt of $1,999. The colored congregation at once begun a campaign and raised enough money to get the church deeded back to them, with a $1,500 building and loan mortgage on it. The Illinois Watch, company of Springfield, 111., has been purchased by the Hamilton Watch company of Lancaster, Pa. The price paid was $5,000,000. Police of Madison, Wis., are trying to trap a burglar who makes a spccia.ty of entering homes and taking nothing hut the contents of children's penny banks. Ten feet of snow is reported from Northern Japan on Saturday. Telephone and telegraph lines and railroads were put out of business by the storm. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS "> ,rl " vil'aJmvr Smith, 21, of Anderson I cbtinty, w*? killed Friday night when Ma automobile overturned from a high embankment twelve naijea west of Greenville. Miss Belle Trtpp was thrown clear of the wreck and made j horoic vfforta to ''extricate 'her rompardon from the wreckage. J^uronu waa thrown Into a fer- ' njent of excitement Saturday afternoon by the kidnaping of an. il.-yiarold boy in a mill village by two negroes in an automobile. A crowd of volunteers staged a big hunt for the i pair and the boy, and at 6 o'clock the chief of police reported the boy found, but the negroes not captured. , 'Greenville will have ,aix convention* with {about 16,000 attending them, in the first half of 1028, the biggest one being the Baptiata beginning January 17, with 3,000 delegates. Others are the Southern IntercolleSiate Glee clubs association, the outh Carolina Elks, the South Carolina Travelers Protective association, and^ the Baptist State assembly. The appointment of a new .postmaster to succeed the late John R. Cochran called Joe Tolbott to Anderson a few days ago, but there was no intimation there as to who will get the political plum. It is said that there is no available RepubUv**1 *n Anderson capable of filling the'?place, and a Democrat must perforce be appointed, since the one Republican, i post office clerk, refuses to be promoted outside the civil service protection. The legislature which convenes next Tuesday will have nine new members of the house and one new , senator. The senator is F. D. West of Abbeville county. The representatives come from Abbeville, Anderson, 1 Berkeley, Edgefield, Florence, Horry, Oconee and Greenwood counties. The new member from Horry, Rev. J. ' Robert Carter, and the new dne from 1 Oconee, Rev. Wade H. Nicholson, add two ministers to the roster of the house. I.EAR YEAR FACTS One More Day in February jn 1928, Girls Have Righta To Propose There will be twenty-nine days in the coming February, for the year just beginning will be a leap year. A leap year is one whose number in the Christian era can "be divide*} by four without remainder, century .years? 1900, and so on?being excepted. The necessity for leap years lies in the fact that the solar years consist of 365 days 5 hours- and 48 minutes, and therefore periddical readjustment is necessary. . It was in the year B. C., 46 that Julius Caesar introduced the bi-sextile, or what is generally known as lea)) year, into the calendar. Previous to the adoption of the Julian system, the Roman year consisted of 365 days only, divided into twelve lunHi- months, with an occasional intercalary month to make un for the fact that more than twelve exact lunar months are required to complete the natural year... This system was very unsatisfactory, and Julius Caesar much improved matters by his calendar which made each year to consist of 365 1-4 days on the average, by inserting another day every four years. The addition of an extra day.to leap year has given rise to many curious traditions, customs and supeijjstitious beliefs. Probably the most widely known custom associated with leap year is the one which gives woman the ^privilege of proposing on every February 29th. This privilege is legendarily said to have been.'cajoled out of St. Patrick by St. Bridge^ In more recent times the right has. apparently been extended, to cover the whole of leap year. Though it is woman',a privilege to I purpose during leap year, there is a certain-etiquette to be observed. According to one old authority, should the man to whom she offers her hand decline it she may claim from him a silk dress, hut only if at the time of proposing >he is wearing a scarlet petticoat ami shows it to him. According to a seventeenth century writer, when a woman exercises her leap year privilege "no man will be entitled to the benefit of clergy who doth in any wise treat her proposal with slight or contumely." Nearly every country * of Europe and America has its own traditions and supersiitutions in relation, to leap year. One that still lipgers in various parts is a curious belief that in leap year beans grow on the wrong side of the pod.. , Mrs. Prances Wilson Grayson and her three-men crew of the amphibian plane, Dawn, who on last Friday started on a trans-Atlantic filght, have been given up as lost. Five ccupants of a hydro-airplane were killed when their machine crashed from a height of 1,200 feet near Etang de Berre, France, Saturday. The city clerk oL_the Bronx, New York. performed 2,300 marriage ceremonies during 1927-. ' 200 more than in 1926. The navy department last week'' placed orders for 25 PN-10 n{?pl*nes with the Douglas company of Santa Monica. Cal., at a cost of $i,$$8,600.1 "T * PRESCRIPTIONS DOC BLE-CH ECK ED . t ' Before Delivery By Compftrnt PhurmsoiM* ZEMP 4b DcPASS PhoiM 10 t ? FIERCE BUZZARD RAGING ' Playing Havoc With Man and Beast la Northern Europe. * . t London Doc. 29.?Airplane* uud armored tanks are playing relief roles in England's great storm?the fiercest blizzard in some parts that England has known In a score of years. ' Bread and' hotter were dropped with parachutes into WcsterhaQ) and neighboring villages in Kent, whose inhabitants are suow-impriaoned. Two airplanes from an airdrome near London carried supplies but were unable to find a safe landing in the be- | leaguered towns. i * . . . r Tanks from two army stations in Hampshire were employed to crush a pathway through the roads piled with snow. For four days - three villages, (Irosmont, Uanvetherine and Llangatlovk, lying near the foot of the ,Black mountain, Monmouthshire, have been isolated. Floods are adding to the distress. They are widespread in the Ouse valley i/i Huntingdonshire, while the Thames floods, from old Windsor to Walton, show little signs of subsiding. Bleak tales of suffering in all the snow-buried counties of southern England and Wales, were - told in London tonight, while weather ex-perts are not yet able to foresee immediate relief from cold, which has gripped Britain and parts of the continent, of almost unprecedented duration. On the sea, too, violent easterly gales have prevailed causing distress to shipping in varyjng degrees for six days. Many rural villages are still cut off from supplies l>ysnowdrifts reported to be from ten to 14 feet high. An aged farm laborer of Somersetshire, missing in Hhe blizzard, was found dead, frozen in the mud and snow. The imperial airways service to Paris was resumed today after a two-day suspension. The Southern railway has reopened its FolkestoneBoulogne service, but the DoverCalais sendee is still suspended, for the fourth day because of heavy seas J in the Channel. Hundred of expectant travelers are stalled in both French and English Channel ports. London, though it experienced an unusual snowfall, suffered least of all southern England, for it was protected by the great pall of smoke and j warmed air, which overhang the me- ! tropolitan area like a monstrous leaky umbrella. The inhabitants of many parts of I Europe are also suffering from the long extended cold and heavy snow. So severe is the winter in Transylvania that wolves have been attack ing the people. On the other hand, Switzerland re- I sorts complain that the snow supply is much below normal, threatening the success of their programs of winter sports. Officer Falls To His Death. Brevard, X. C.; Dec. 27?Trag- ! edy lurked on the mountain side this' Christmas and brought stark grief j into the family of one of Transylvania's most popular citizens, when , J- "B. Summe.v, police officer of Brevard, and former sheriff of Transylvania, fell 150 feet down the face of Maiden Hair Falls, on See Off Mountain, breaking his neck, t The officer was dead when searchers ! arrived on the scene. Mr. Summey had gone with I Sheriff B. J, Sitton, of Transylvania, j in search, of a huge still, which had1 been reported to be located some- ! where in the Maiden Hair Falls sec- ! tion, about four miles east of Brev^MT As the two men roamed the mountainside in search of the still, former Sheriff Summey, confident of his knowledge of the mountains, walked ahead of Sheriff Sitton, and fell over the falls. . C Big Pistol Injures Man Chester, Dec. 27.?The condition of Burnett Hicklin, well known in Chester county, who lies in a grave condition at the Pryor Memorial Hospital, as^a result of the accidental discharge of a World War German type automatic magazine powerful range revolver, continues almost the same, and it will be several days before the crisis is reached. He is said to have a fifty-fifty chance. He was demonstrating the workings of the pistol to friends Christmas Day when not knowing a bullet had jumped up from the magazine, it fired, penetrating his entire lower body! Death of Mrs. W. C. Adams. Funeral services for Mra. Angeline Adams wife of W. C. Adams, wellknown farmer residing near Kershaw, were b?ld l^riday afternoon at Pleas* ant Plains Baptist church, of which Mrs. Adams was a consistent and active member. Mi*,-Adams was highly esteemed by Jjer neighbors and the community and she will be sadlv missod. She is survived by her husband and one daughter, Mrs. J. T. Clyburn. Interment was made in Ken.haw cemetery, the Rev. George , Pastor conducting the services. - _ Registers Seven Below Greenville, Jan. 2.?What is beicved to be the lowest temperature recorded in the State this morning was made at Caosar^ H*ad in Northern Greenville County where ' the mercury reached a minimum of seven t?P'-twl there. The lowest reading. in the elty ?.? f degrees above zero. - - " * v?7 - ? .4-.* n?mpe.i. '' I ; ?? , N* M8X ? ;'c ;; '< REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE I FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CAM At CAM DION, IN THE STATE OF ftOUUTH CAROLINA AT TRtl I OF BUSINESS ON DECEMBER 81, 1927. 9 Htmaroi Loan* ahd discount*, including rediscount* .... , J Overdraft*:' socuiod, $235.88; unsecured, $2,662.10 . . Wv??r9 U. 8. Bond* dtpoaitod to eeettre circulation (par value)#),00^00 9 AU other United States Government Securities 3,700.09 M 9 Other bonds,, stocks, securities, etc. 9 Banking House, Furniture ana natures lawful reserve with Federal l>ney|f Bank,., * 9 Ossb in vault and amount due from national banks 1 Net amount due from State banks and bankers 9 Checks on,banks in the same cRy or 'town j Total of last three items i 8220^693,87 Miscellaneous cash items 1 ? > V S .A A A J f J ?* *4f . 3,692.60 9 9 Kedempttpn fund With ty 8. Treasurer ^ Other assets . , . 9 Liabilities. Capital stock paid in . .;#?/* ......J Undivided profiU 832,666.77 1 Less current eapeneee. interest, and taxes paid - r 19,679.82 9 9 Circulatdng notes outstanding . 9 Certified checks outstanding 1 Cashiers cheeks outstanding ......? . . .^ Dividend checks outstanding ..a , . . <. < Total, of last three items . A4.100.57 1 9 Demand Deposits: ; i i Individual deposits .subject to check ..... .. 1,, .,,g9 _ State, county or municipal deposits .secured by pledge 9 of assets Of this bank ?... ]9 r Total demand deposits $411,263.00 Time Deposits: Savings deposits (including time certificates of deposit other 9 than for money borrowed) 9 9 Postal savings deposits . ..... .l9 l Total of time deposits . 3296,713.41 M Bills Payable .. -l9 9 t Liabilities other than those above stated ..... ..,.,9 > *_*" * * " *... *.*_.?>J||^9 State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. I I, 8. W. VanLandlngbam, Cashier of tbe .above named b9 a Moleinuiy swear that tbe above statement is true to the best of my and belief. . S. W. V,?J.ANDINOHUCl Subscribed and sworm to before me this 4th day of January, 1169 Correct?Attest: - R. T. GOODALE, C. J. SHANNON. AR. . Notary Public fotfl L. A. WITTKOW8KY Directors. ' | 9 STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF 9 BANK OF CAMDEl LOCATED AT CAMD&N, S, AT THE CLOSE OF EDM DECEMBER 31, 1927 iMm Resources. H Loans and Discounts v J. . ....... 8*9 Overdrafts -1^9 Bonds and Stocks Owned,by tbe Bank 9 Furniture and Fixtures i I. rS Bunking House Other Real Estate Owned - . Due from Banks and Bankers v.uH Currency v Silver and Other Minor Coin Checks and Cash Items .j^^9 Liabilities. .Capital Stock Paid In Surplus Fund > 'Jm9 Undivided Profits, less Current Expenses and Taxes Paid '.. .... l9 Dividends Unpaid ...?, ;v , ..... l9 Individual Deposits, Subject to Check. 698,649.73'$|9 Savings Deposits 358,256.33 *\ J Time Certificates of Deposit . 323,411.48 vi'9 Total Deposits ^ 1,1)9 Bills Payable, including certificates f of'money borrowed "x-.. Stats South Carolina, County of Kershaw. 1B>fore me came H. G. Carrison, Jr. Cashier of the above n*medMi9 being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement b 9 condition of said bank, as shown, by tbe books of said bank. ^9 H. O. Carrison, Jf. ^j9 ?Sworn to and subseibod l>efore me this 4th day of January, 1928. *5 t orre<-f ? Notary Public^#? Jno. W. Corbett I W. G? Wilson 7 Directors. * - s^\ I * - u - N?, ssa y": 'I STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE I MERCHANTS AND FARMERS BAB LOCATED AT BETHUNE, S. C., AT THE CLOfeiE OF* BUStifl ' , DECEMBER 31, 1927. . , -9 Rgaourcea I Loans and Discounts |9 Overdrafts, secured by cotton Bonds and Stocks owned by the Bank. .TT.'.'t Furniture and'Fixtures *9 Banking Mouse t A::: Due from Banks and Bankers 1|9 I 1 Silver and Other Minor Coin I Exchanges for the Clearing H0ttie* . V... V Other resources, vi*: - -~:rr^ssSS^=W^M j Cotton Account ?.:rd [ * - . J?.|fciy,* , . vf'. 9 ' . \ Lbk?iti? shFSSI Iw ^ A-: 9 ?T j!?? irHv-itsTfc 5 Undivided Profttx law Current Expenses and Taxes Paid .... M Individual Deposits Subject to Check fi8d,811.63 v| Savings Deposits 9,868.67 Time Certificates of Deposit 39,896.37 ^9 Cashier's Checks 673.86 2S^8?and J?ni? ^^scoutned Bills Payable including certificates for Monty Borrowed ?9 Reserve Fund 1 : ^v.S..jgl State ef 8ootk OaroUaa, Geuaty of ItervhawT Before me came J. D. LaRtte, Cashier of tbe above named being duly a worn, says that the above and foregoing statement b 'I condition ef etid bank, na shewn by tbe books o??*aid hank. a J. I). lafftte. Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me tMa 4th day of January, D*i ^ | ^^or s'outh