The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 31, 1929, Image 8
!| Woman Kil? Children
Take9Her Own Life
Lebanon, Ky., May 24.?Apparently
worried over flnancial trouble#, a
mother who yaatarday aaid ahe
"would not go through another day
' like thin" today had kept her word
taking three of her children with
her in death.
The mother, Mre. Mamie fthey
fthoaf, was found dying in a cemetery
here today and near her were
the bodies of Tom, 2, liui, 7, and
Catherine, 11, her children, all with
throuta slashed. The mother apparently
had killed the children, then
cut her own throat. She died soon
after being found.
GrojutB coming Trout under a'
tarpaulin in the cemetery led two
negro youths to find the dying woman.
She pointed weakly to a fteld
nearby, where the bodies of the children
were found,
Mrs. Shoaf was the wife of Gurey
fthoaf, lumber company employe.
The couple moyed here from Lexington
Ind., eleven years ago. There^
are four mors Children, ranging in
age from twelve to seventeen years.
Members of the family said Mrs.
. fthoaf had been worrying over financial
troubles for some time and
quoted her as saying yesterday she
would not "go through another day
like this."
Kditor Gets Fleeced
Since writing last week about the
fellow who sold "watches" to filling
stations in order to get home to his
sick wife, I have learned that a number
of Union county families have
purchased linoleum rugs,
cf * It appears that two young fellows
in a fiivver,;^yould carry a rug or twe
to a farm home. The price would be
$12. But in order to make a quick
sale " and get back to Raleigh, vthe
rugs often .were sold for $10, $8 or
even us low as $4.
The young crooks would tell prospective
purchigMRS that a brand new
automobile awaited the team that
first sold their allotment of rugs.
The strange thing is that they sold
dozens of rugs and made delivery,
after they had "only two left."
Well, I've" alwuys been told that an
honest confession is good for the soul.
One day last week a fellow came
along?one of these newspaper reporters
out of a job-^-and he told me
he waa strapped. And, further, that
if he didn't receive some assistance
he'd likely be on our hands.
Pulling out a silver watch?15-jewels,
he said-^the timepiece was offered
for hock, pawn or pledge, until
better days, when it surly would be
redeemed.
The watch hasn't been called for.
I haven't received $5 by mail as promised,
and if any of you guys who
purchased a linoleum rug want to exchange
it for a watch, come in and
we'll trade.?Monroe Enquirer.
Honor Roll for Midway
Grade 1.?Linward Champion,
Archie Gordon, Margaret West,
Willien West.
Grade 2. ? Kathleen Anderson,
Thelma Brahnon, Duncan Corbett,
. Elizabeth McCoy, Willie J. Parker,
Rhoderick Rozier.
Grade It?'Margaret Anderson, Gene
Cooper, Mary Laney, William McCoy,
Emily MoCoy, Milton McGuirt, Clifocd
Threat, Dorothy West. Laurie West.
Grade 4.?Stella Poison, Ruth
Walters, Thomas Tidwell.
Grade 5.?Ruby Gay West, Thelma
Stokes, Oralie Brannon, Margaret
Holland, Floree Rozier.
Grade 6.?Annie Mae Hearon,
Frances Hyatt. 1
Grade 7.?<Ruby Horton, William
Hunnieutt, Mary McCoy, Ruby
Spears, Vivian Stokes, Carolyn Tidwell.
Grade 1).?Moneta West, Myrtle
Elliott.
Grade 10.?Janie Brannon, Louise
Hunnieutt, Geneva Truesdale.
Grade 11.?Leila Tidwell, Elsie
Hough, Ruby Mosier, Mittie West.
Makes Clean Sweep
Dealer?"Somebody stole three sets
of harness out of my store."
Policeman?"Did the thief leave
any traces?"
Dealer?"No, he took the traces, i
too!" v.
More than 1,200 houses, almost the
entire city of Funateu, Japan, were
destroyed by fire on Tuesday. Several
persons are reported to have been
killed.
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DeKALB PHARMACY
Telia Hih Sob Story; I
"Soakrf' Bum Watches
A tew day* ago * stranger going!
east in a big Hudson drew up at the
A. A W. garag* a quarter of a mile
east of Lake Lea and had some conversation
with Mr. Julian McLarty,
the proprietor. Said conversation was
satisfactory to the stranger, who
filled up with gaa and hurried on.
Iu a few minutes the stranger and
the big Hudson pulled up at Small
Brothers at Wipgate and had some
conversation with Mt> Carl Small.
The same stranger and the same big!
Hudson pulled up at one or two
Marshville and had conversation
and went his way towards
Wilmington.
Pretty quickly, Julian McLarty
pulled up at Small's garage and asked
Carl if he had seen a blankety
scoundrel going by in a big Hudson.
Carl had seen him. Not only had the
?ti anger and the Hudsdn gone by,
but they had stopped. /
Julian .related that the stranger
had toljl him that he was hurrying
to the bedside of his sick mother in
Wilmington that he had suddenly run
out of money and of gas, and wanted
to borrow fifteen dollars for which
he Would leave a fine gold watch in
pond. Julian, all sympathy, let him
have the money and took the watch
without paying much attention to it
until the man waa gone.
"And the blamed watch hasn't got I
a sign of any insides in it," J*li*n
told Carl. .
'Well, he got ten bucks from me
on the same story," said Carl, "let's
see if my watch has any insides."
No, his watch had no insides. So
the two polled interests and spun out
towards Marshville lobking for the
distressed stranger and the big Hudson.
They did not find him but
found two more sympathetic garagemen
with watches without insides.
There they desisted and for aught
they knew the stranger in the big
Hudson might tyave spilled watches
without insides on Highway 20, until
he finally arrived at the bedBide of
his poor, sick mother.?Monroe
Journal.
New Poultry Specialist
Clemson College, $lay 18.?P. H.
Wooding, a South Carolinian and
graduate of Clemson College, has
been appointed Extension poultry
specialist, succeeding Lyman Neel
who resigned recently to go into
commercial poultry work. Mr. Gooding
graduated at Clemson College in
11)23 and , after, teaching a year iu
Georgia, received his M. S. degree
from the University of Kentucky,
in 11)25. He was then county agent
and Extension poultry specialist in
Kentucky for over two years, and
Extension poultry specialist of
Purdue University, Indiana, for
nearly two years before coming to
Clemson. He was also secretary of
the Indiana Poultry Breeders Association
while in that state. He
is, therefore, well equipped for his
new work. His headquarters will be
at Clemson College.
Freed on Murder Charge
Anderson, Muy 23. ? Faris B.
Spence, 22, today stood acquitted on
a charge of murder, preferred
against him after the body or Mrs.
Clara Bryson Adams,, partially decomposed,
was found in the Saluda
river near here early in March. It
took a jury only 30 minutes to reach
the verdict late yesterday.
Spence told the jury he had been
pursued by the 50-year-old woman
and had left a job in an Elberton,
Ga., cotton mill to escape her attentions.
A trip to Tennessee was
made with her, he said, but he deserted
her and had not seen her since.
Honor Roll of Schools
Scholarship Honor Roll
Grade 1-, CM ills)? Betty Boineau,
Minnie Belle Cunningham, Annie Mae
Godwin, Marjorie Hatfield, Martha
Smith, Betty Sowell, Ann Whltaker,
Eugene Campbell, Jerry Hancock,
Jimmy Little, Hill Pitts, Benton
Sheorn, Follin Watts.
Grade 1?*(Zemp)?-Margaret iFischel,
Phyllis Karesh, Jack Marshall,
Herbert Moore, Robin Zemp.
Grade 1 ? ( Latham ) ? William
Brown, Hugh Cox, Jack Ellis, Albert
Shirley.
Grade 2.?(Midyear)?Frances D.
Baruch, Margie Creed, Marjorie
Rush, Margaret Sinclair, Dorothy,
Smith, Arthur Brown, George Partin.
Grade 2-A?Harriet Foster, Helen
Goodale, Jane Halsall, Dally Jackson,
Ruby Jackson, Neta Kirk land, Elsie
Redfearn, Lois Rhame, Sarah Sheorn,
Kathaleen Smith, Lottie Smyrl, Maggie
Trantham, Betty Whitaker, Mae
Whitaker, Mary Zemp, Grace Rhoden,
! William Christmas, Ernest Freitag,
I.Massenburg Trotter, Harry Lee
: Waters, Billy Wilson.
Grade 2-B?Elah Evans. Caroline
Woldon, Evelyn Trimnal, Rubina
Hatfield, Inez Brickie, Olive McQuirt
Grade 3-A?Sophie Creed. Dorothy
Durfee, Betty Holland, Louise Mickle,
Dorothy Moore, Margaret Osborne,
Wilhelmina Strak. Pauhtte West,
Wylie Hoguo, Daniel MoCaskill, Hal
Norman. Jack Richards, PaytOT
Shirley, Fur man Stewart. Jack Villepigue,
Douglas Wooten.
Grade 3-B?-Alva Lee, Katherini
Myers, Bobby Bell, James Graham
H. T. Lovette Jr., Albertus Rush
Mendel Trucsdale.
Grade 3?(Midterm)?Iy<*roy Bran
ham, Talmadge Dabney, Guy Mayer
Gilbert Shirley, George Wilson
Rhetta McLeod, Ada Truesdale, Rub;
Vereen, Margaret West.
Grade 4-A?Minnie Sue Bruce
Virginia Davis, Lillie Mae Smith
Willie Mae Smith, Jean Van Landing
ham, Naomi talker, Nancy Wbttl
Francis Chapman, William DeLoach<
Robert Marye, 'Basil -Mann, Lyle
*?E^3J2?V mm.
James McKenzie, Emerson Branham,
I Frank Oliver.
| Grade ft-A?Jack Halsall, McKain
Richards, Robert Shaw, Marion
Smith, Elisabeth Goodale, Farode.
Mickle, Emily Shannon, Emily
Bheora, Lena Stevenson, Helen
Tindai, Barbara Zemp.
' Grade ft-A?Estelle Myers, Florence
Sawyer, JJorothy Van Landingham,
Ruby Gardner, France# Mcleod,
James Chapman.
Grade ft-C?Lisa Jackson,
Grade 7-A~Golda Shirley, Cecil
McCaskiU, Luther Shaw, WiM*m
Thompson, Hamilton Osborne.
Grade 7-B?Troy Godwin.
Grade ft-A?-Virginia Drawdy.
Grade 8-B-^Retjoen Pitts, Margaret
Barnes, Orace Love,
Grade 9-A?Grace Robinsor^ Harriet
Lorick, Margaret Goodale.
Grade 9-B~-Grayson Shaw, Solomon
Mims, Donald Barnes.
Gt'ade 10-A?Willie Halle, Emily
Pitts, Lenora Rhame, Elisabeth Zemp.
Grade 10-B?John Bolin Clayton,
Mattle Shaw;
Grade 11-A?-Arthur Davis, Robert
Kennedy, Duncan, Lang, Leroy Mason,
Althea Sanders, Grace Sawyers, McLean
King.
Grade 11-B?Caroline Richardson,Helen
Baker, Betty Cureton, Inez
Gardner,. Lucy Kirkland. '
Attendance Honor Roll
Grade 1?(Mills)?Betty 'Boineau, i
Minnie B. .Cunningham, Annie Mae .
Godwin, Marjorie Hatfield, Rosa I
Peebles, Bessie Reynolds, Nancy
Sanders, Lorine Smith, Martha Smith,
Betty Sowell, Betty Thomas, J. G
Baxley, Eugene Campbell, James Norman,
Edward Vereen, Follin Watts.
Grade 1 ? ( Latham? William
Brown, Lorane Mathews, Robert
Morford, Julian 'Branham, Hugh Cox,
Ralph Connell, Gene Hilton, Ar^jmr
Proctor, June Connell..Grade
1?(Zemp)?^Margaret Fischel,
Phyllis Karesh, Jack Marshall,
Herbert Moore.
Grade 2?('Midyear)?Margie Creed
Marjorie Rush, Andrew Mayer, Banks
Tucker.
Grade 2-A?'Helen Goodale, Dally
Jackson, Ruby Jackson, Sarah Sheom,
Lottie Smyrl, Mae Whitaker, William
Christinas, Ernest Freitag, Raymond
Harris.
Grade 2-B?Olive McQuirt, Goldi
WWI I. I . "? t JMIU
Corbitt, 7riac?? Moseley, H aroW
Trapp, Archie Bteln, Ralph Stevenboii,
Klah Evans, IJUie NM Rabon,
Sibyl Robinson.
Grade ?-A?dLesta Davit, Dorothy
Moore, Margaret Osborne, Wilheknina
Htrak, LucTle Watts, Carlyle Jackeon,
Daniel MoCaekill, Jack Richard*,
Psyton Shirley, Jack VHJepigue,
Stanley Watt*, Douglas Wooten.
Grade 8-B -Julia May Hough, Alva
Lee, Katherine Myers, Jvey Connell,
James Graham, J. C. Hough, John
Melton, Harry Moore, Edward Moare,
Claremont Rabon, Harold Smith, Paul
Smith.
Grade 3 ? (Midyear) ? Talmadge
Dabney, Gilbert Shirley, Sal lie Ellis,
Rhetta McLeod, Ada Truesdale,
Margaret West.
Grade 4-A?Allen Caulder, William
DeLoache, Sidney Kirkland, August
Kohn, Lyles Munn, Manley McLeod,
Willium Nettles, Isaac Pitts, H. B.
Shirley, Clinton Thigpen, Minnie Sue
Bruce, Virginia Davis, Catherine
Dempster, Beulah Grahfcm, Ellen
Little, Rebecca Rush, Florence
Savage, Hazel Shirley, Willie Mae
Smith, Lillie Mae Smith, Jean Vail
Lnndingham. * r
Grade 4-B?'Pauline Baker, Francis
Burns, Marjorie Cullen, Lena Corbitt,
Zelma Goodman, Gladis Threatt,
Essie Lee Tolbert, Margaret Mayer,
Mary Alice Rabon, Sidney Gardner,
James McKenzie, Jack Lovett, James
Mason, Willis 'Sheorn.
Grade 6-A?-Jack Brown, Everett
Goodale, Murray Graham, Jack Halsal],
Robert Shaw, Marion Smith,
Sarah Bissell, Leila Christmas, Sadie
Freitag, Pearl Godwin, Elizabeth
Goodale, Alma Hunter, Fannie Mickle,
Martha Moseley, Emily Sheorn, Lena
Stevenson, Helen Tindal, Barbara
Zemp, Mary 'Purser,0 Willis Wright.
Grade 5-B?Belton Beard, Nettles
Myers, J. B. Whaley, Delia Lovette,
Ruth Watkins.
- Grade 6-C?'Bruce McCaskill, Ross
Shirley, Ralph Trapp, Mary Branham,
Louise McLeod, Lucille Riggins,
Lorine Talbot,
Grade 6-A?James Chapman,
Joseph Gaskins, Jack Haile, Jerome
Hoffer, Eugene Howard, Roscoe
Johnson, Everette Montgomery,:
Robert Rhame, Ruby Gardner, Mary
Florence Little, Estellf Myers,
Frances McLeod, Beatrice Rosen,
Florence Sawyer, Dorothy Van Land.ingham.
Grade 6-B?Wary Kichey, Frances
[Shanks, Dennie Smith, May Nell
jTrapp, Nancy Watts, Boyd Bran ham,
[Frank Clyburn, Roddey Connell, John
I Flowers, Nicholas Gettys, Ralph
Goodale, Frank Hinson, William McLeod,
Harold Shirley.
Grade 6-G?Ellis Goodman, Lloyd
Rush. Jack Shirley, Lloyd Smyrl,
Caroleen Britton, Mary Lea Hilton,
Liza JackBon, Ora Jones, Oradell
Stevenson, Jennis Traxler, Mabel
Yates.
Grade 7-A?-Billy Baum, Clarence
Christmas, Harvey Davie, Marion
Evans, Cecil MdCaskiil, Alvin Sanders,,
Luther Shaw, Emerson Smith, Leslie
Smith, William Thompson, Mary Lee
11 -ft
Blakeney, Carolyn Kohn, Mary Ellen
McCaskill, Carrie Lena McLeod,
Elizabeth Moore, Kate Shannon,
Golda Shirley, Lorine Strak, Mar.
jorie Walker.
Grade 7-B?Eddie Burns, Atyin
Christmas, James DeLoache, Virgil
Gardner, John Hilton, Richard Jen.
kins, Julian Morford, Bill Rhame,
Peggy Baldwin, Zaida Lang, Grace
Moseley, Louise Packer, Mattie
Ratyon.
Grade 7-C? William Moseley,
Frank Campbell, Herman Jackson,
Cleo Johnson,' Bufort ' Nelson, Alice
bert, Mary i^fei^ler, Natalene Zciglei.
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HAVANA, CUBA I
Ancient, Historic, Exotic and Gay Capital City of the
'/ . Republic of Cuba? ' '
A MOOT INTERESTING PLACE TO VISIT
Contrary to the general, impreatfion, the cliinat. in I
Cuba ie plsaggirt during the summer. The hotel rates
are unusually low, and a trip can be made there at 9
email cost.
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Average summer temperatures, as furnished by Helen College 1
Observatory are as follows:
Minimum Maximum
?rrr~ June ....Thrrrrr... 76.i4
July .. .7. 73.8 88.58
August ? 76.7 89.46
September .. 76.07 89.02
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The nights are always cool and pleasant, due to the ever present
Trade winds which sweep in from the ocean.
All Year Tourist Fares to Havana are in effect via all rail- fl
roads, going either to Port Tampu or Key West thence P, & Q,
Steamship Co. Popular excursions at half fare or lese are also
! offered by the rail lines at intervals during the summer season.
Stop overs permitted at all points in Florida. Consult your local
ticket agent or passenger agent for detailed information.
Steamer reservations made, descriptive literature, hotel rates
and any further information desired will be cheerfully furnished
upon application to: ; --r'"-t
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in performance?that final standard by which all
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