The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 22, 1929, Image 5
I SOCIETY NEWS
I .:Club Meetings:.
I New hooka In Library
Mrs, W. L. Woot?n librarian of
the Camden Public Library announce*
? list of new books for the library
I as follows; /
"Peder Victorious," Rolvsar
| "Jublilee Jim," K. H. Fuller;
| "Mamba's Daughter," DuBose Hey
ward; "Joseph and His Brethern,"
H, W,?Freeman; "Scarlet Sister
Mary," J. Peterkin; "The Window,"
Alice Bosman; "The Lonely Island"
Rose Rogers; "The Double Chance,"
j, S. Fletcher; "Leave M<- With a
! Smi^"dE" sPrin*8; "Cock's Feather,1"
H The one who borrowed from the
library the first volume of "The
Memoirs of Queen Hortense" and
;) I failed to return same, please bring it
! in tit once as others are asking for it.
Announces Engagement
The following announcement of the
approaching marriage of Miss Mattle
Lee Benson will be of interest to her
many friends here, where she made
her home for several years.
Charleston, S. C., March 18, Mr.
and Mrs. James D. Benson announce
the engagement of their daughter,
Mattie Lee Benson to Dr. Herbert A.
Gross, of Bamberg. The marriage
ceremony will be performed in the
: Circular Church, of Charleston on
April 3rd.
Gives Piano Recital
On Saturday evening, at 8:30
o'clock, Miss Sarah Kirkland, a pupil
I of Mrs. J. W. Smith, of Columbia, deI
lightfully entertained at her home on
DeKalb street a group of her friends
I with a piano recital.
The youthful pianist presented the
: [ numbers from memory, playing with
poise, accuracy and pleasing style,
showing talent and thorough training.
Bridge Club Meeting
I The Wednesday afternoon Bridge
Club was entertained afe^its meeting
for this week by Mrs. W. L. DePass,
Jr., at her home on North Fair street.
Mrs. Donald Morrison was the guest
?f the club for the afternoon. ' The
score prize went to Mrs. Thornwell
Hay. After cards the hostess sensed
a delightful salad course.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Lyle Harmon, 22, student at Cort
land normal school, Cortland, N. Y.,
died Tuesday morning, after the first
ft vertebrae of his neck had been
broken.by a.fall of a.scant six inches
while engaged in football practice.
Washington reports^'have it that
Hon. Charles ,G. Dawes, former vice
president of the United States, is
slated for appointment to the Court
of St. James, London, as ambassador
for the United States.
I Robert G. Poole, prominent business
man, and 'Harold Hunwoody,
police captain, were killed Wednesv.riay
when the airplane owned by
Poole stalled at an altitude of 300
feet and fojl near Amarillo, Texas.
The big rayon plant at Elizabethton,
Tcnn., was ordered closed down
Wednesday by the president of the
company, after 800 strikers had made
a demand for increased pay,.which the
management said was "out of the
question." The plant employed 2,000
people.
I Three persons were killed and nine
others, mostly children, were inJu
1 , in two mysterious explosions
H which wrecked two separated build
at St. Joseph, Mo., Wednesday
^ft morning.
I - Majestic Program
I MONDAY AND,;TUESDAY
" March 25th and 26th ?
Warner Brothers presents a Vita
,lw??.ne All-Talking Picture "ON
TRIAL' with Bert Lytell and Paul
me Frederick. Great stars and great
picture. Added Vitaphone vaudeville
I Acts.
Admission 50c. Children 25c.
w f iUtESDAY aND~thuRSDAY'
March 27th and 28th.
Samuel Golfhvyn presents Ronald
' "THE RESCUE," by Jom
i?h Conrad. One of the screen's
I ycatest lovers in the supreme love
H dentures of his career. Colorful!
' iptivattrtgt TITear the especially'
I prepared sound and musical acconiI
' aliment by the internationally popI
11 >"United Artists Orchestra. Add
'"(i \ itaphone Vaudeville Orchestra.
Admission 50c,; Children 85 ft:....
I FRIDAY, MARCH 29TH ~
.... ,ew^e Daniels and Neil Hamilton in
I ^HAT a NIGHT". What a day,
M hat a night is Coming! JBebe Dan
I *?ls romantic riot. Gangster plots
and thrilling danger. What a whirl!
A'so Vitaphone Vaudeville acta.
Admission 60c. Children 26c.
I ^SA TURD AY,' MARCH 80TH
I *ox PrOR??ts Rex Bell in
' A KING. A CHANCE." A big vital
( ,ama of the great out-doors. Grip^^B
entertainment. Amj Mir-frwy
I ^vmedy. and ViuPhone talking Vaud
eville Acts. r
Admission. 60c. Children 25c.
I Monday and Tuesday at the' Majea
'-C. sPecial Vitaphone all-talking
!'ctuJe be "On Trial," with Paul
nec Frederick and Bert Lytell.
M ' ('^ '()n Trial" at the Majestic on
H Monday and Tuesday. This is a ViI
f!!ft a,i * diking special picture,
''"-. ft I vf"n mfir Frederick and Bert
Vitaphone vaudeville acts
11 ** *hown each day.
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PERSONAL NEWS NOTES
Mr. W. 0. Hay U on buainea, trin
to Now York.
Mr*. W. H. Pearce wu a week end
visitor to relatives in Columbia.
Mrs. George Khame and children
are spending the week end in Sumter
with relatives.
Mrs. J. H. Osborne whs called to
Ilendersonville Monday on account of
the death of her brother.
Miss Helen Whiteker, of Heath
Springs, was the guest of Miss Lk>u
Young during the horse show.
Miss Polly DePuas, who is teaching
in the schools of Pelzer this
season; If ? home this week.?
Iuh,in Burns, who Was operated on
at the Camden hospital Tuesday is
reported to be steudily improving,
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. McDowell have
as their guest this week their niece*
Miss Helen Mcl^eod, of Bishopvllle.
Dr. T. B. Jacobs and Mr. L. G.
McCullough, of Newberry, were
-visitors here Wednesday for the horse
show.
Mrs. Hufus Thurmond and little
daughter, of Cheraw, are on a visit
to the former's father, Mr. R. B. DeLoache.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurens T, Mills
were visitors for the-week end ' at
Newberry, the guests of Mrs. Alan
Johnston. *
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Allen and
daughter, of New York are here on
a visit to Mrs. Allen's parents, Mr.
arid Mrs. D. A. Boykin.
Miss Agnes Corbett and Miss
Agnes DePass are among those from
Camden attending the teachers' meeting
in Columbia this week.
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. VanLandingham
and 89n Billie, were in Columbia
Monday. Mr. VanLandingham was
serving on the United States petit
jury.
Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Walsh, Jr. had
as their guests for the week end the
formers parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. V.
Walsh, of Sumter.
Mrs. H. H. Wilson and daughter,
Bettie Sue, of Bishopville, are visiting
the former's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. E. Holland. __ , r_
Mrs. Hughey Tindel returned Friday
from Greensboro, where she attended
the state conference <of the
Daughters Qf the American Revolution.
The many friends of Miss Mary
Thompson will be glad to know she is
getting along nicely at the Camden
hospital after an operation for appendicitis.
Mrs. W. B. Carns, of Columbia, and
Mrs. J. M. Stewart, of Camden,
spent the week-end with their mother
in Lancaster, to ' be wrth her on her
ninetieth birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. 'F.'Nettles and
Mrs. S. Wylie Hogue attended the
meeting of the grand lodge of Masons
in Charleston last Wednesday and
Thursday, Mr. Netties was a delsgate
and Mr. Hogue senior warden
from Kershaw lodge.
The following Winthrop girls are
home for the Spring holidays: Mary
Eleanor Goodale, Gertrude Zempn
Mary, Cureton, Thomasia Guthrie?
Louie Lang, Virginia Lee Nettles,
Elizabeth Lorick, Dotty Zenip, Virginia
Nicholson. I'ay Kirkland, Vy-i
gir.in Haile, Sarah DePass, Virginia'
i LaLoache, Molly Blackwell*Louise.
Watts and Ellen Stewart. ? Mr.
C. W. Evans attended tjiri,
funeral of his kinsman, Mr. J, L.
Sims, who passed away at his home
in Orangeburg Monday_at the,jgye^.
age of eighty years. Mr. S.im^was
perhaps the oldest newspaper man in
South Carolina, being bdnnected>jvith
the Orangeburg Times and Democrat
for many years. He also served as
United States deputy marshall under
President Wilson for eight years. Services
at St. Mary's
Services at Saint Mary's Catholic
Church, corner of Lyttleton and Pine
streets, will be as follows for the
coming days;..
Friday, March 22, morning service
at 6:30.' Evening service at 8:40
o'clock.
Saturday, March 23, morning service
at 7:30. Sacrament of penance
at 4:30 and 8:30 p. m.
Palm Sunday, March 24, first service
at 6:15 a. m. Second service,
Blessing of the Palm, followed by
mass at 11 a. m. Evening service at'
4:00 followed by children's instruction
class at 4:45 p. m.
Week day morning services at 6:30;
Monday, Wednesday and Friday..
~ On Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-!
day at 7:30 a. m. j
The week day evening services for j
this week, Holy week are as follows:
Maunday Thursday night, Parian
hour of Adoration 8:40 p. m. and
reading of the Scriptural account of
the institution of the Lord's supper.
Good Friday, Stations of the Cross
at 3:00 p. m. and abbreviated Tenebrae
office at 8:40 p. m. and reading
of the Scriptural account of the passion
and death of Christ. _ j
Holy Saturday sacrament of
Penance at 4:30 and 8.30 p. m.
Easter Sunday, morning services at
6:15 and 11:00 o'clock,
The Charleston grand ,4jury Pri
Thursday handed ou?~ indictments
charging Harvey Afong, said to be
the son of a wealthy Hawaiian, and
R. J. Watson of Wagener, both of the
United States array, with the murder
ora fellow soldier near Fort Moultrie
during the Christmas holidays. The
case was continued to the June term
vrf 'tK* court. .
David D. Buick, 72, inventor of the
Buick Automobile company* died in
a Detroit hospital Tuesday night. H?
was almost pewflese-sifter an iilnessof
several yeart^
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES
For the first time since his illness
King George whs able to toko <*]
short waik of 60 yards unaidod along
a gravel path in the grounds at
Craigwell house at Bognor in Sussex.
Sims G. Brown. M. n wejl known
farmer of Newberry, attempted f.uH
tide with a shotgun Friday afternoons
on bis farm near the city. 'Mr. Brown
had been in a highly nervous state
for several days. Friday about one
o'clock he was found on his place by
a negro tenant with a load of birdshot
completely through his abdomen.
Financial ..trouble -ia said to be the
reason for his ra#h act,
.* The bill of Representative Dulin, of
York county, to increase the pensions
of all Confederate veterans of South
Carolina to $240 a year Hnd the pensions
of all widows, who have reached
Che age of 60 to $160 a year with all
other widows receiving hat been
ratified by the general assembly and
signed by the Governor. The bill U
effective January 1st, 1030.
Thirteen air joyrMers ware killed
late Saturday at Newark, N. J., in
the crash of a colonial airways metal
plane one mile of Newark metropolitan
airport. All were killed outright.
Two men who occupied the pilot's
cockpit escaped death, but were
seriously injured. The pilot was said
to be Ix)u Foote, 32, of Newark, a
mail flyer, and the man with him in
the control cockpit was Belmont Parsons,
of Brooklyn. '
The Winchester Manufacturing
company at New Haven, Conn., this
week shipped two carloads of arms
and ammunition to M^x^co for the use
of the federal government in its fight
against the revolutionists.
David Lloyd George, former premier
of England, has announced that ho
twill support any party in the coming
elections provided that party will back
his plans for vast road building in
the empire in order to reduce the
number of unemployed by a million a
year.
Princess Victoria, sister of tho
former German kaiser, has, been
foreed-Tntor bankruptcy by her Prussian
creditors.
King George of England is reported
to be improving so rapidly that
^he idea of appointing the Prince of
Wales to serve as regent in his stead,
will probably be abandoned.
Memphis, Tenn., dispatches of Wednesday
brought the disquieting news
of rapid rises taking place , in the
rivers feeding into the \ Mississippi
and fears were expressed that, the
valley of the Mississippi was in for
another period of high waters.
Captain Ira C. Meeker attempted^?1
make a dawn-to-dark flight from
Brownsville, Tex., to Panama on Saturday,
but was forced down at Managua,
Nicaragua, at 5:21 p. m., Satuf*
day. \ ']*
Dr. William Dekleine, head of ,thfe
American Red Cross medical servic^,
left Washington Saturday night to
take personal charge of the health
program in the flooded portions of
\ Alabama.
?-George Washington Olvany, for
(several years past the head of Tammany
Hall, New York, has resigned,
ion account, he says of ill health.
jJeremiah T. JVIahoney is spoken of as
<hip possible successor.
. ..-The census bureau at Washington
iannounced last week that 598,098 bales
of lint cotton and 68,552 bales of linters
were used by the mils of the
,CQpptry during the month of February.'
* Rudolph Xarg, chief of the forrtidr
Kaiser Wilhelm, II, and in fact chef
for three German emperors, died at
his home at Fair Lawn, N. J., on Friday,
aged 76 years.
Poison, believed to have been taken
in mistake for an indigestion remedy,
caused the death of W. R. Slate and
his wife, in Atlanta, Ga.,- Tuesday
night.
Body of Collins Stolen
But Later Recovered
Horse Cave, Ky., March 19.?The
| body of Floyd Collins, stolen from its
metal and glass casket in the-Crystal
j cave, where it was on exhibition, Was
found tied in a burlap sack, about
four hundred yards from the cave
here this afternoon.
.Bloodhounds, led searchers, who
; included. the sheriffs of three counties,
to the body. It was hanging
over a bank on the Green river, ac,
cording to reports-No motive for
i the theft could be adduced by the
sheriffs. According to - advices received
by the county attorney, the
body either had disintegrated or had
[ been mutilated.
The 17-day battle to save the life
of Floyd Collins when he was trapped
while exploring Sand cave stirred the
nation in 1925. Relief workers battled
furiously to reach the imprisoned
man but before they could release
him Collins was dead.? _
Recently the body was put on exhibition
in Crystal cave. When attendants
reported this morning, they
noticed that a^chgjn barring the door
had been sawed. Tnside they- found
the casket had been opened and the
body removed.
Crystal cave is owned by Dr. R. B.
Thomas of Horse Cave. Dr. Thomas
reported the theft to the sheriff's offices
early today. He said that about
a year Ago the ?mrTf#d "been broken
into and someone apparently had attempted
to carry away the coffin, but
had been unsuccessful. The body
was i*? a chamber about 600 feet
from the ihain entranceDr.
Thomas said he knW of no;
^tive thaL could cooount-for thej
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The Fashion Show
Pleased Large House
Camden's most alluringly youthful
pulchritude ami the latest dictates of
style and dress went on formal parade 1
before a highly appreciative audience i
that crowded to capacity the new
Majestic theatre in thiB city Thurs-1
day evening to witness the fashion
show sponsored by the American ;
1/ogion auxiliary and the retail ,
merchants association of Camden.
The style show, which has become
an annual pre-Easter festival here,
opened with A. Stanley Ltewettyn,
local Amohcan legion post commander,
on the stage to introduce as
the first model appearing on the
evening's program Miss Gladys West
who wore an evening dross of tlame
georgette, the skirt of which created
a novel elfect in flounces and carried
a rhincstono buckle as its ornament.
Miss Virginia Howard, president of
the junior class of Camden's ^-high
school, modeled an evening dress
'fashioned in light blue taffeta. Miss
Howard's dress carried one shoulder
strap of rosebuds and a large butterfly
bow as its only trimmings.
M iss Dora Thompson, also in evening
dress., wore a creation of black
velvet and lace combination which
featured an imported lace imbedded
with gold circlets.
Miss Etta Robbius modeled an
afternoon dress of monet blue
georgette while also appearing in this
group were Miss Margaret Lan<^ in
crimson maple georgette and Miss
Emily Jenkins in a formal afternoon
dress of soft green georgette.
Appearing together for probably
the most generous reception of the
evening were Miss Mary Thompson
in sports costume, the coat of which
was mude of imported English tweed
trimmed with Alaska fox fur, and
Sam Evans in a collegiate style suit
of striped cashmere and top coat of
Scotch tweed.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mnckey, appearing
in tennis garb, also claimed a
liberal share of applause with Miss
Sara Campbell and Miss Thelma
Truesdale receiving many favorable
hands as they crossed the stage in
riding toys. _
Sports dresses were displayed by
Miss Jumelle Haile, Miss Lucy Kirk*
land, Miss Louise Gregory, and Mins
Margaret DeLoache while models appearing
in ensemble suits were Miss
Elizabeth Clarke, Miss Harriet Lipscomb,
Miss Elizabeth Workman, Mrs.
James Gapdy, Mis? Cora Lee KetchIns
and Miss Thelma Flowers.
Models for the latest styles lj) hairbobbing
and waving included ~ Miss
Catherine Campbell, Miss Harriett
Lipscomb, Mrs. J. R. Montgomery and
Mrs. D. M. Davis.
Others appearing included Miss
Margaret Chewning in a goltlex creation,
Miss Sybil Turner in afternoon
dress, Miss Emily Wooten in a
Premet model of pale pink moire
while others appearing in evening
gowns included Mrs. H. F. Cobb,
Miss Harriett Steedmnn, Miss Susan
Kennedy, Miss Adele Savage and
Miss Carolyn Richardson.
Among those modeling for the
men's shops of Camden were Basil
Bruce, Elihu Schlosburg, Joe McKain,
Robert Bruce, William Nettles and
Christopher Vaughn.
The style show was arranged by
the legion auxiliary in cooperation
with the following Camden Business
houses: L. Schenk Company, Hirsch
Bros. & Co., Camden Clothing Co.,
Miss M, E. Gerald, The Fashion Shop,
The Outlook, Camden Beauty Parlor,
Camden Floral Co., F. D. Goodale,
M. H. Heyman, and the Hoflfer
Jewelry Company.
Gifts and bequests from the Laura
Spelman Rockefeller Memorial fund
during the year 1928 totaled $98,*082,068
to colleges, industrial and sociological
institutes, charities, religious
- organizations and research
bureaus all over the country.
Miss Louise MoPhetridge, landing
at Oakland, Cal., at 1:57:47 Sunday,
made a record for women flyers remaining
in the air. She had beei: in
the air for more than 22 hours when
she landed. .She beat the former woman
endurance record by several
hours.
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down a decision affirming the verdict
-of the lower court hi the case of
Charlie Robinson, Charleston negro,
convicted last ,June of the murder of
Mamie Smith, and sentenced to death
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