The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 01, 1929, Image 7
I Bride of a Year Dies
I of Poison at Sharon
I Bock Hill, Jan. 27.~<Mre. Fay Wilf
son King, 28, bride of a little more
K than a year, gave some medicine to
I her huaband, ill in bed, FYiday morning
and kiased him goodbye.
I "I won't come back to wake you
I up," she told him.
She didn't come back. Her body
| waa found m u smokehouse near her
home in ftharon last night, a victim
of poiaon, after an intensive search.
Her disappearance and the discovery
of her body had the little
community in a fever of excitement,
to which rumors of possible foul olav
added fresh fuel. *
A coroner's jury will probably in
hw fc,tb Tne?rt.* tfM>noon.
Indications pointing to suicide
were strengthened by her husband's
.statement that she had been worried
the night before and that she had
several tidies threatened to take her
life. No note of explanation wa^left,
however, and she was apparently in
the best of health.
Investigators explained blood about
her body and a bruise on the head by
- injuries received in a fail. Scratches
on hdr throat, they said, were selfinflicted
in the agony caiised by the
poison, which had badly burned her
thront and lips.
She had been dead about seven*
hours, according to physicians, when
her body was found at dusk by neighbors.
An autopsy was conducted at
King's Mountain, N. C.f today and
physicians stated they, found lysol ir
iirs. King's stomach.
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I Uncle Sam's I'rintery
I The government printing office in
K W ashington lg the greatest printing
f establishment in the world. In round
I numbers?180 presses, 376 type-com[.
posing and 325 binding machines,
4,100 employes;"'occupies' a building
containing 17 acres of floor space, 30
motor trucks are kept busy handling
raw materials and finished product,
a belt conveyor with a capacity of
360 sacks an hour dumps its mail in
the postoffice?-cost to operate, about
$12,000,000 annually.
Congress is its largest customer?
The Congressional Record, averaging
80 pages, of which some 36,000 copies
are printed every day when Congress
is in session, is perhaps its biggest
job. The Department of Agriculture,
also a big customer, had 27,955,223
copies of various farm bulletins and
publications run off during one recent
year, while among the jobs for the
_ postoffice department during the same
period were 1,596,802,880 postal
cards and 720,000,000 money-order
forms.
Materials ana supplies required for
a year's operation include 40,000,000
pounds of paper, 12,000,000 yards of
wire, 118,000 pounds of ink, 4,000
printing press rollers and 60,000
pound of. glue, 3,000,000 containers
for postal cards, 200,000 yards o?
binding cloth, 22,000,000 square inches
of stamping materials, 28,000,000
yards of sewing^thread, 10,000 square
feet of- leather and 4,600 tons of typj
metal.
Two persons were killed and two
injured when an Italian passenger
airplane crashed on the rocks off
Corfu, Greece, Friday night. Charles
Holder^ American'""bahker, and his
daughter, passengers In the plane,
were uninjured.
Dennis Acquitted
On Liquor Charge
Charleston, JMl. 24.?Forty-fly*
minutes deliberation was required by
the jury to acquit Senator E, J, D?.n.
nis of, Berkeley county, and six codefendants,
charged in federal court
here with conspiracy to violate tho
national prohibition law. The jury,
which took the case at 5:45 o'eloca
when Judge Ernest F. Cochran coneluded
his charge, returned to the
court room at ?:30 o'clock.
Ihe snowy-haired senator wept a?
the foreman announced the verdict.
And broke down in the arms of his
son, a senior in Furman university,.
*he court room.
^ "I know how my clients must feel,"
Jten&Uix Hiurnla. aaid. H* i* *
ing lawyer of BePkeley county .and
has handled virtually all the criminal
work of the county for a score of
years.
Indicted with him were:' S. N.
Rourk, J. N. Myers, and Raybourn
Anderson, state constable?; James
Anderson, a magistrate's constable,
*. Jervey Villeponteaux, and John
Jager, a Negro. They were accused
of being linked in a corrupt liquor1
ring, the constables seizing liquor,
the senator defending the bootleggers,
and the two other defendants
peddling the liquor seized by the
raiders. Three of the 13 defense
lawyers addressed the jury. All made
impassioned talks, and one Edgar A.
Brown, senator from Barnwell county,
had a clash with Judge ErneaiF.
Cochran which for a moment looked
Serious when he persisted in bringing
'/! Glennie McRnight of Berkeley
county, who had not appeared in the
case.
Others of defense counsel who addressed
the jury were VV. Turner
Logan, former United States congressman,
and Olajad. ?L.Sapp of Columbia.
Each of the throe attorneys
consumed the entire time allotted
them by the court?a half hour
apiece-^?John H. McEvers, special
United States attorney of Washington,
who has prosecuted the case,
spoke an hour and a quarter in a
dispassionate resume of the government's
evidence. He spoke minutes
in rebuttal.
Judge Cochran took an hour and a
quarter to deliver his charge to the
jury. There had been 39 witnesses
in the case, which came to a close at
the end of the fourth court day in
Eastern district United States court.
Thirty-five of the witnesses were
called by the government. Beginning
with Governor John G. Richards/
they included a number of other state
and county officials and a - dozen
Berkeley county moonshiners who
testified to alleged corrupt practices
prohibition enforcement in Berkeley
county.
Senator Dennis took the stand in
his own defense. He was the only
important witness for the defense of
the four called to? testify. He denied
all the charges.
Mr. Brown, of defense counsel, told
the jury in his address that Glennie
McKnight was responsible for the
charges brought against Senator Dennis.
McKnight's name has been .-mentioned
in the testimony in an indefinite
manner during the trial, and
Senator Dennis had called him "the
biggest bootlegger in the cdunty."
Judge Cochran instructed Mr.
Brown t<? omit references to him in
his address to the jury, saying that
it was irrelevant to the case on trial.
When Mr. Brown persisted, he called
the lawyer down rather sharply. "I
have ruled on that matter," he said,
"if you wish to have it out with tho
court, the cburt has means to pro|
tect itself," the judge told the at|
torney. Mr.v Brown said he had a
[ high respect for the court, and with
| a ple^ant remark, made the judge
smile and the incident was forgotj
ten.
Later Judge Cochran said he wishL
jaL_lo correct a mis^ndcrgfaadini
made public, perhaps through an eri
ror of the newspapers that he had
| rebuked counsel for the defense, sayI
ing he had merely confined them to
the 'evidence.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES |
Laddie Boy, the "Firet Dog of the ,
i a 11<i" during the administration of
President Harding and a magnificent i
specimen of the Airedale breed, died !
at the home of Harry L. Baker, se-;
grot service man, at Newtonville, |
Mass., Tuesday.
Marshall Ferdinand Foch, 77, supreme
commander of the Allied
armies In the World war, has so far j
recovered from his recent illness e*
to bp able to receive visitors at his
home in Paris.
Col. dames I?lverson, Jr., 60, president
and publisher of the Philadelphia
Inquirer, died early Monday
r morning.
Seats along the line of march fa?
the presidential inauguration at
Washington on Mar^h ^Hi w.ill range
from $3 upward, with $7.60 paying
for a seat in the covered section opposite
the White House.
During the year 1928 the state of
Pennsylvania built 748 miles of hard
roadways and eliminated 26 grade
crossings. The state's public service
commission has ordered the road department
to eliminate 43 additional
grade crossings at a cost of $4,000,000
or more.
Former Governor A1 Smith, Mr.|.
Smith, John J. Kaskob, and Mr. and
Mrs. William F. Kennedy are spending
some time in Florida on a Vacation.
Roy O. West/ of Chicago, wus on
Monday confirmed as secretary of the
interior to succeed .Secretary Work,
by a vote in United States senate of
b i to 27. Secretary West was appointed
to office several months,,
and considerable fight ?was made
against his confirmation.
Governor Fisher has presented a
two-year budget before the Pchnsylvunia
legistature totaling $301,676,830.
Broncho pneumottie- influenaa has
affected all of the 2,300 inhabitants
of tiie island of Rotuma, one of the
Fiji Island group, says* ft dispatch
from Suva, Fiji.
Three persons were filled and a
fourth seriously injured in a crossing
accident at Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday,
when an automobile was struck by a
\J3ig Four passenger train.
Elvin B. Grainger, 26, held in the
jail at Los Angeles, Cal., on a charge
of banditry, is the heir to an estate
of $1,000,000, which is held in trust
for him until he is 30 years of age.
Grainger has an income from the estate
of $400 to $600 a month. f
A naval officer, two petty officers
and two seamen were drowned off
Balboa, Canal Zone, Sunday, when the
naval gig they were in collided with
a barge while returning from Balboa
to the destroyer tender Whitney.
When James Stokes was before a
Brooklyn magistrate last Sunday on
a charge of drunkenness, the magistrate
placed the man's wife on the
bench a no authorized her to sentence
her toper husband. She said "1 sentence
you to go to the workhouse fo>ten
days."
Political parties of Porto Rico will
soon make an appeal to Mr. Hoover,
after innauguration, to grant the
people of the island the right to elect
theft own governor and administer
-thp governmental affairs of the is-land.
The Dollar line steamship Presi-!
dent Garfield grounded on a reef off
the Bahamas on Sunday. The 83
passengers aboard were safely taken
off the ship, at "Nassau on Monday.
The ship was not materially damaged.
Jack Sharkey won his fight with K.
O. Christner at Madison Square Garden,
New York, last Friday night on
points, but at that he had nothing
very much on his opponent. Sharkey's
next scrap will be with Young
Stribbling when, the pair meet at
Miami, Fla., on Feb. 27.
W. K. Hale, known.as the "King of
the Osage Hills," and alleged by the
government to have been responsible
for the reign of terror among the
Osage Indians several years ago. was
"convicted of murder at Pawhuska,
Qkla., Saturday and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Lieut. J. B. Haddon, tost fiyer,
saved his life at Wright Field, Satur
day when he Jumped from a burning
airplane at a height of 3,000 feet.
A break in the* motor caused the
plane to catch fire. . Michael
Riohetti, gang leader of
Long Island City, N. Y., was on Friday
sentenced t6 life Imprisonment
on a charge of grand larceny, rob,bery
and assault, ind four "Of, Ida
underlings were sent up for periods
of 15 to 30 years. The gang held
up a taxi driver and got $3.86.
Gordon Stewart Northcott, on trial
at Riverside, Cftl., charged with the
murder of three young boys, on Frith
ree ' alleged confessions made - by
him and introduced in the evidihee
by the prosecutor.
Governor Reed of Kansas, started
out Friday to make Kansas the "dryest
state in the Union," under a new
raw -wnicn it* iraujtiit signed.
Funeral at Uhgtown
Funeral service* for Hayne M.
Mathftion, 31, who was found dead
in his room in a hotel in Atlanta,
Tuesday afternoon, will be held ut
Longtown Presbyterian church, about
six mile* from Ridgeway, ut 1 o'clock
Friday afternoon and interment will
follow in the churchyard. The Rev.
M. Franklin will conduct the services.
Mr. Mutheson was originally from
I<ongtown and was well known in Columbia.
He had been practicing law
in Atlanta for the past seven years.
He was a member of the Presbyterian
church and ulso the Elks,
Surviving are his father, Alec
Matherson; four sisters, Mrs. J. M.
Croxton, . Kershaw, Mrs. H. Scott,
Longtown; Mrs. H. W. Smit}i, Rock
Hill, and MathesKn. Lib:
erty Hill; and two brothers, Willie
Mutheson, Longtown; and Dr. D. N.
Mutheson of Fort Worth, Texas.*?
The State.
Cf the 5,612,260 spindles in the cotton
mills in South Ca'rolina 5,446,008
were active during the month of December,
according to a report made
by the cenusus deportment at Washington.
In number of spindles in the
mills of the country South Carolina
now stand# third, being exceeded only
by Massachusetts and 1 NoHh Carolina.
CLA1MS PASSED 117THE COUNTY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DECEMBER
I, 1928.
Merchants Furniture Co., six
" mattresses $16.00
Threat t-Carson Co., supplies 180.30
S. W. Rofce, services bridgekeeper
100.90
McDonald Service Station, gas,
oil, etc 32.81
Catoe Brothers, 1204 lbs. hay.. 15.42
Gulf Refining Co., gas and oilf>18.0#
Kershaw Merc. and\j Bkg. Co., ]
supplies and phone messages 18-1.85
W. T. Baker, 532 ft. lumber.... 15.96
I C. A. Juluisun, guards chaingang,
etc 530.50
The Peoples Meat Market,
supplies .... .. .;-. ........ 287.73
-L.--T. Gregory,lunacy
examinations 5.00
A. C. Rose, auto pqrts, etc 11.40
W. B. Turner, medical service 20.50
T. W. Watson, 40 lbs, meat ...10.60
Blaney Mercantile Co., supplies
" 288.51
J. L. Kirkland, Jr., water for
mules at Blaney . .. ......... 10.00
H. E. Munn, salary rond superintendent
'V.r. .... . 125.0G
Camden Chronicle, printing and
advertising 88.35
McCask'ill and Lollis, groceries
'. 53.20
Beard's Filling Station, gas,
oil, spark plugs, etc, . v .186.10
J. Team Gettys, salary, stamps,
etc . 129.36
J. M. Moseley, tmlnries, guards
and supplies 468.53
J- A. Thernc.Jir bearer, salaries
maintenance 279.00
Jenkins Auto. Parts Service,
auto parts and supplies ....61.17
Columbia ' Office Supply Co.,
chair cushion 3.32
R. I.. Bryan Co., office' supplies
180.93
GaJion Iron Wks. & Mfg. Co.,
blades and bolts ...09.00
Loric.k &. Lowrance, one barrel
creosote 25.00
Midway Service Station, spark
plugs, tire and tube 11.95.
Lena M. Lincberger, salary "
Deputy Clerk 75.00
Walter Jacobs or bearer, salary
- janitor 40.00
W. F. Russell, salary Coroner 41.67
G. F. Cooley, salary Deputy
Sheriff 126.00
J. H. Thomns, M. D., examinations
?.-,10.00
J. H. McLeod, salaries, sheriff,
janitor, jail fees, etc 410.40
~K. "M. Ford" or bearer, salary
and expenses ;rr. .. v.. .155.00
G. B. DeBruhl or bearer, salary
155.00
S. W. Hogue, Treas., court
vouchers 825.80
B. M. Smith or bearer, salary 75.00
B. E. Sparrow or bearer, salary,
stamps, express 59.05
S. W. Hogue, salaries treas.
and clerk, postage r. . .83.05
G. E. Taylor or bearer, services
Bd. of Registration 25.00
M. II. Deal 01$, bearer, salary ..125.00
T?.B. McClain, 200 lbs carbide 13.00
Alma M. Burgess, salary and
travel 136.3'J
City Water and lil?ht Dept.
water and l_igh4b 32
J. W. A. Sanders, M. D., examination
and visit 8.50
T. M. Moore, M. D., lunacy
examinations ,...10.00
Aussie West, salary bridgekeeper
.tt.hh rvrrrr 100.00
Jeff Hunt Road Mach. Co.,
v road machine supplies 225.89
Southern Bell Tel. and Tel. Co.,
telephone rental 32.15
J. W. Sanders* salary and travel 91.66
C. P. Hilton or bearer, salary
and expenses r:... 155.00
S. P. Watkins or bearer, salary
and expenses 155.00
Mrs. Margaret C. May field, Vice
' Chiton., nurse appropriation. .400.00
Gulf Refining Co.* gasoline 61.00
Hasty's Battery Service, tire
and tube .7777 7.50
Rhame Bros., Inc., hay^'oats,
groceries, etc. iv.v, 488.80
Dr. W. I). Grigsby, medical attention
..-sr. 32.50
MoLeod Rush Co?j meal?and",
groceries 62.85
M. Citron & Co., Inc. 12 blanketa
m ^, 30.00
Standard Oil Company, motor
I olV 16.00
A. K. & Bros., 1088 ft.
, lumber 3Z64
Carolina ..Motor Co, ItUaW|pM,,i
* ( oil etc. .127.46
The Fowl Motor company recently
placed an order for 100,000 piston
ring* per day for tho model T. Ford '
for an indefinite period. It is estimated
that there are now 8,000,000 i
model T. cars in daily use. The same
manufacturers also'have a Ford or der j
for 00,000 piston ring* per day for
the model A Fords and FordJon tractors.
The Chevrolet company is tak
?ng *H),000 ring* per day from the
same makers,
lORKCLOSUUE SACK j
State of South Carolina,
County of Kershaw.
(Court of Common Fleas)
The Enterprise Building and Loan
Association of Camden. S. 0., I^lain?tiff,
. .
~"iar#tiar :?r?
.Charles Addison, Defendant,
Under and by virtue of a Decree of
his Honor, W. H. Townsend, Judge
of the 1' ifth Circuit, of date January
15, 1929, I v\i 11 offer for sule to the
highest bidder for cash, before the
Court House door in the City of Camden,
during the legal hours of sale,
on the first Monday in February
(being February 4, 1929)> the following
described real estate:
"All that pared orjot of land in
the County .of Korshaw, State of
South Carolina, designated as Lot
Number 8 on u plat of Monroe Boykin
Park by It. W. Mitcham, recorded
in plat Book Number 4 at page 24,
in the oflke of the Clerk of Court!
for Kertihttw County. The suid lot
fronts fifty (50) feet south on First
Avenue as shown on said Plat and extends
back north to a depth of one
hundred twenty (120) feetT- and is
bounded north by lot Number 23;
east by lot Number 0; south by sai l
Fiist Avenue, and v.c,l by lot Number
7."
Any bidder at said sale shall deposit
wifh the said Master, Twentyfive,
($25.00) Dollars in money oi
certified check on some responsible
bank, to make good his bid in case
of its acceptance.
W. L. DoPASS, JR.,
Master for Kershaw County.?
January 15, 1929. ->
Laurens T. Mills, salary clerk,
poor, fund, etc. . . .1050.00
H. E. Munn or bearer, drafts
paid by Bank of Camden.. 1045.78
L. Ib Ogburn, salary bridgekeeper
.* 100.00
R. C. Bennett, blacksmith work..7.t)0
Peter McLeod, cutting two
trees out of road 1,50
Sowell's Drug Store, medicine
and supplies for jail 49.35
W. R. Clyburn, examinations
. and medical attention 88.00
W. L. McDowell, salary, lunacy
and commitments . .. . 86.00
A. B. Boykin, surveying of air
Port > 15.00
The Bank of Camden, note due
1-2?6?28 15,000.00
J. F. Prettyman & Sons, piling 829.50
W. A. Campbell, Clerk, 18 man
convict cage 208.90
J. (i.-Richards, Suptv SCfltes for
County Nurse 1G.40
N. H. Summers, mule fly and
cage curtains ...205.06
M. L. Smith, Jr., holding, ^
inquests .'.."20.00
L. J. Whitakcr, clothing supPlies
...^ 59.10
S. M. McCaskill, examinations 45.00
Welsh Motor Co., auto parts J>,.
and shop rent 6^.85
Mackey Mercantile Co., hardwzyp
supplies 48.46
J.. E. Jackson, shoeing 21 mules 24.15
J. T. Watson, damages to mule 20.00
Total ;. $27,256.51
L. T. MILLS, Clerk.
Ground was broken on the South
Carolina side of the Savannah river
near Klberton, Ga., at Calhoun Falls,
Friday afternoon, for what promise?
to be an important development of
that section of South Carolina and
Georgia, an enterprise fostered by S.
S, MtCluro and associates, the scheme
being the building of a model industrial
city at that point. Contracts
totaling $14,000,000 have already
been made for the development, it
is stated. On the South Carolina
side there will be developments of an
industrial Churactci' and on the Georgia
side the developments will be
along the line of an all the year round
resorts for pleasure. Governor
Richards 'handled the levers of the
Attftua ahovul wlikh.J3ftoyfid.-Ahfl-flrit.-.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
All persons having claims against
the estate of David U. Williams, dej
ceased, will present same in uroper
form to the undersigned, and all persons
indebted to said estate will likewise
make paymont.
ELLEN M. WILLIAMS,
Administratrix of the Estate of David ,
R. Williams, deceased.
FORECLOSURE SALE
State of South Carolina,
County of Kershaw.
(Court of Common Fleas)
The Enterprise Building and Loan
Association of Camden, S. C., Plaintiff,
against
G. L. Blackwell and the Loan and
Savings Bank of Camden, S. C.,
Defendants.
Under and by virtue of a Decree of
his Honor, W. H. Townsend.yudge of
tno Fifth Circuit, of date January 15, ,
1929, i will offer for sale to the highest
bidder for cash, before the Court
House door in the City of Camden,
during the legal hours of sale, on the T
first Monday in February (being Feb?
ruary 4, 1929), the following de- ~
scribed real estateHv
"All that parcel or lot of land iff*"
the City of Camden, In the County of"
Kershaw, and State of South Carolina,
fronting ninety-one ($1) . feet
north on property of Camdori Graded
Sfehool and extending back southwardyly
with a uniform width to a depth 6l
two hundred (200) feet and bounded
north by property of Camden Graded ,
School; cast by property of MrsDaisy
T. Lang; south by propertyv of
Mrs, N. M. McClain, and west by
property of the estate of F. R. Alexander."
Also?Twenty-seven shares of the
Capital Stock of the Enterprise Build- *
ing and Loan Association of Camden, ~
S. C. . i
Any bidder at said sale shall dd-^7
posit With the said Master, One hun- r
drcd ($100.00) Dollars in money or '
certified check 'on some^ rcaponsi bis
its acceptance.
W. L. DePASS, JR., ' ^
Master for Kershaw County.
January 16, 1929.
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hereby given that ono"
i month from this date, on Tuesday*.,
February 19th, 1929, I will make to
the Probate Court of Kershaw County
my final jeturn as Executor of the
Will.of J. Wilson Jones, deceased, qnd
on the same date I will apply to the
said Court for a final discharge from
my trust as said Executor.
CHARLIE JONES, ExecutoK"
Camden, S. CM January 15th, 1929,,
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Post master Convicted *
Charleston, Jan. '25.?Randall E.
Haddock, postmaster at Parris Island,
was cony^cted in eastern district
United States court here today of
embeaalement of $5,016.67 of government
funds. ~ Judge Ernest F.
-Cochran sentenced Mm to serve two
years and three months in Atlanta
Federal penitentiary.
Haddock admitted a shortage, which
he trie<l to cover up with forged
checks, but denied criminal intent.
He discovered the shortage last summer,
he said,, after workmen 1i*d repaired
the postoffice building, and had
become frightened when the time for
the audit drew near.
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SEDANS . . .$1220 to $2145
SPORT CARS. $1225 to $1550
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liberal O. M. A* C. Time Payment Plan.
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