Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IIIECAMDEN CHRONICLE H. D. Prtjtab* "T'ubiltbed ev?ry Fliday ,t Nc.'uOt Broad Street and entered at ths Camden, South Carolina postoffics aa aeooad class mail matter. Price per annum >2.00, payable in advenes. ? Camden, S. C., Friday, Aug. Id, 1929. Humor in a Will. m ?? The recent death of William Kreter, ? WL * R*yf Y^rk city, frtwftftei' liked to fish in Long Island Sound above everything else, revealed a strange will. "To my friend Charles Whistler," the document' reads, "I bequeath $300 to be spent on a fishing trip after my death." Kreter also left $60 to Whistler to have his body cremated and the ashes strewn over his favorite fishing spot on the Sound. To the New York Times the deceased left $200, "to be utilized to Americanize the Irish, particularly those of American birth." Two . bequests of $100 each were made to a library and museum, nnd the rest of his estate, $3,500 went to two grand-nephews.? Capper's Weekly. , ^ 9 ' ' Ah Kansas He r the Situation. Emporia (Kansas) Gazette: If your vson is playing the market and thinks it's smart, take an elm club to him. If your clerk is pouring his savings into the Wall Street rathole, look for another clerk. And if you are tempted to try the game yourself, Just remember that Ix>ngvIsland and Greenwich highways ar<> lined with limousines carrying big, fat plutocrats who thrive on the stream of money that comes from small town hicks who think they can win ? game in which they have no chance. If ink stains on linen are rubbed . with ripe tomato they will soon disappear. The linen should then bo washed in warm water without soap. Death Preferred To Prison Term Huntsville, Texas, Aug. 2.?Harry .1. Leahy, Southwest Texas rancher, who chanced death rather than accept a 50-year prison sentence, died in the electric chair at the state penitentiary here today in expiation of the murder of Dr. J. A. Itamssy of Mathis. In 1926 a jury at George West found Leahy guilty and assessed punishment at 80 years in the penitentiary. Leahy presented a motion for a new trial which was granted with a change of venue to Georgetown. Additional bits of evidence were woven about the testimony of Roberto Martinez, a Mexican, at the second trial and Leahy was sentenced to death February 9, 1927. Then began a steady fight for life which was not terminated until a few minutes before I,eahy went to the chair early today. With the time ' for the execution at hand Governor Moody telephoned a 30-minute reprieve to permit the rancher's attorneys to make a final effort to find a judge who would stay the execution. Bravely but without the bluster of the professional criminal, the rancher walked to his death. He said nothing aa he was strapped into the chair but suddenly motioned a warden to him and whispered. Quickly the warden removed the sandals from Leahy's feet. Maniac Races Car Thru Crowded Street Anderson, August 13.?L. Homer Filison, of Williamston, was in a hospital here today the victim of a malady physicians have been unable to diagnose, which caused him late yesterdny to drive fifteen miles through a heavily traveled road while semiconscious causing threo automobile wrecks. A Ellison's ride ended when, aftef threading heavy city traffic several blocks, he collided with an automobile standing near the busiest corner in the city. No one was injured in any of the wrecks. Police late yesterday received a telephone call from persons on the Anderson-Greenville highway to watch out for "a crazy drunk man" driving a car at high speed. Officers were sent to intercept him before reaching Anderson but missed him Ellison drove into the city yellinp and leaning out of the car. Some times he drove with one hand anc then with the other. He sideswipe* one car without damage and foui blocks farther along hit another tear ing away fenders and running board His own car was damaged b\it continued two blocks with Ellison lyinj over the aide of the door screaming then veered into another car. At the hospital doctors said tha Ellison was delirious and was quiete< * only by the use of drugs. His con ditkm is regarded as critical. Mr-iiii- Wh'iVtfr If.iflli Teachers Camden City School*. Superintendent J. G. Richards, Jr., Of the Camden City schools hat recently made announcement that the. following teachers have been selected to serve the local schools during the coming school year: First Grade?Mrs. L. T. Milts, Camden, Newberry A. B.; Miss Emily Zemp, Camden, Winthrop A. B.; Miss I/athum, Easley, G. W. C., B.L. Second Grade-?Miss Ada Phelps, Camden, Winthrop A. B.; Miss Margaret Blumiing, Sumter, Winthrop B. M. Third Grad^?Mrs. Italic Mcleod, Camden, Winthrop A. B.; Miss Grace Oakes, Darlingto/i, G. W. C., B. M. Fourth Grade?Mrs. Susie Taylor, Camden,- G. F. C.; Mrs. John M. Dempster, Kershaw; Miss Julia Seabrook, Charleston, Winthrop A. B. , Laurent* Street School. Prin. and 7th?Miss Margaret Burnet, Camden, Winthrop A. B.; Seventh?Mrs. E. L. Guy, Camden, Winthrop A. B.; Miss Cornelia Oliver, Greeleyville, Chicora B. M. Sixth?Mrs. J. R. Montgomery, Camden, Columbia B. S.; Mrs, A. H. Boykin, Camden, Flora McDonald, B. L.; Miss Virginia McSwain, Greenville, U. of S. C? A. B. Fifth?Mrs. Phoebe Schenk, Camden, G. W, C., A. B.; Miss Helen Chambers, Edgemoor, Winthrop A.B.; Mrs. Louise W. Cantey, Manning, Winthrop A. B. High School. Prin. and Math.?L. W. McFadden, Camden, P. C., A. B. Hist, and French?Miss Agnes Corbett, Camden, Winthrop, L. I., A. B. English?Miss Henrietta Zemp, Camden, Columbia, A. B. Mnth.?Mrs. Ethel M. Murchison, Camden, Columbia, A. B. Math, and Science?Miss Ada Montgomery, Gable, Winthrop, A. B. English?Miss Grace D. James, Bishopville, Winthrop, A. B. Latin and Coach?Miss Lucile Cox, Sumter, Winthrop, A. B. Commercial?Miss Catherine Murchison, Camden, Chicorn, A. B. Dom. Arts?Miss Carolina Chalmers, Abbeville, Winthrop, B. S. Science?Miss Gertrude Strother, Johnston, Winthrop and Columbia U., A. B. and A. M. Hist, and Latin?C. T. Baldwin, Orangeburg, Furman, A. B. Mill School. Prin. and Fourth?Miss Ernestine Bateinan, Camden, Coker, A. B. Fourth?Miss Catherine McCarrel, Columbia, U. of S. C., A. B. Third?Mrs. J. G. Richards, Jr., Camden, Winthrop, A. B. Second?Miss Agnes DePaes, Camden, Converse, B. S. First?Mrs. Lou Pearce, Camden, Mrs. D. M. McCaskill, Camden. Special Teachers. Art and Drawing?Miss Jo McMillan, Columbia, St. Marys. Pub. School Music?Miss Hallie Carson, Hartsville, Winthrop, B. S. Private Pupils in Violin?Mrs. Isobel DeLoache, Brcnaa. Private Piano Pupils?-Mrs. F. W. Chapman, Camden. Superintendent?J. G. Richards, Jr., Davidson, A. B. Schools will open Monday, September 9th. General teachers' conference Saturday, September 8th. Never apply soap to a fruit stain. If fresh, try cold water. If old, pour boiling water on spot. If a trace remains, dab with lemon juice and expose to sunshine. Imposing on the Newspaper Man. A recent issue of the Newberry Herald and News was on the press when the editor received a telephone message stating that the engagement of a popular young couple had just been announced. The editor accepted the piece of news in all good faith and published it in the paper, but 't proved to be false and when the paper appeared on the streets the young couple and their families weru /Very much embarassed. Several weeks Ko Another reliable South Carolina Newspaper was made the victim of an 1 unsigned communication which re[ ported a wedding which did not take 1 plaee. It is difficult for a well-balanced mind to understand just why people do such things. Practical jokes are all right so long as they do nol humiliate or injure the person upon i whom they are practised, but wher , they have the opposite effect, th? , public is inclined to look upon th* perpetrator as a shallow-mindod sorl r of person who didn't know any bet ter?and the public is not ofter j wrong in its judgment. Once upon I j time an unintentional error in a SoutJ r Carolina newspaper caused the pub lisher some embarassment. He wen immediately to the person who wa: . supposed to have been injured, bu f the injured one was a philosopher o , the first water. "Tut, tut," he replied "forget it, forget it; those who knov t me know it's a mistake and those wh< J don't won't know the difference.' - Can you beat that for real, ho nest-to goodness philosophy??Dillon Herald ^ * Negro Confesses T o Killing Sheriff Willis Complete and full signed confession that he shot Sheriff Sam D, Willis to death on the night of June 11, 1927, has been made by a negro being held incommunicado in the county jail, it was announced last night by Sheriff Cliff It. Bramlett and Deputy < ? (>?K4- King, who have been working on tha case all this year. The negro was arrested on August 7 at a construction camp 1n the upper part of the county and since that time details of his story have been checked by officers, who last night declared their belief that he was telling the truth. Name of the alleged slayer was withheld by officers because no warrant has been issued for him and also because his confession involves sensational disclosures that are expected to lead to other arrests. Warrant for the negro will be taken out today, it was said by officers, who expressed confidence that solution of the two year-old murder mystery wa? at hand. Confession was voluntarily giv&n, it was stated, the prisoner not even being subjected to severe questioning. At the end of a lengthy confession was a full and free account, give.i under no duress, and that he had been well treated the entire time of his detention. Date of the confession was August 8, the day following his arrest, it was stated. Two representatives of The News were permitted to question the prisoner last night as to his confession, and his verbal account of the slaying tallied in full with the written and signed confession held by Sheriff Bramlett. Great detail into which the confession gbes was declared by officers to be a good indication of its veracity, the negro telling how he approached the .house the night of the murder,1 passing by once because a young couple was parked in front. He re-! turned later when they had departed and walked up the driveway, hiding behind the garage. When Sheriff Willis drove into the left side of the garage, the negro walked around the East side of the building and shot him as he emerged from the door. No time was given for the Sheriff to speak a word, as the initial shot was fired as the officer first noticed, hla assassin. ^ _ After the shooting, the confessieti states, the negro .walked at a >fast pace down the driveway, .turning West on Stone avenue and then North on Elizabeth street. From there he made his way to a hiding place where he remained overnight, later returning to his job near the city. The negro states in his confession that he was induced to commit the crime for the promise of a sum of money. He implicates two white men as having led him to the crime. The negro said that his conscience had been troubling him ever since the shooting and that he had been "haunted" by dreams of the dead sheriff. Officers said he expressed relief that he had been arrested. The murder of Sheriff Willis at the door of the garage at his home on East Stone avenue, shortly after midnight on Saturday, June 11, 1927, was one of the most sensational in the annals of Greenville county. Thousands of persons visited the scene of the crime during the period immediately following, and an immense throng attended funeral for the slain officer the following Monday. City, county, and state officers concentrated on the case. Mrs. Willis and Henry Townsend, deputy under Sheriff Willis, were -subsequently arrested, tried, and acquitted of the murder.?Tuesday's Greenville News. Arrested in Willis Death Greenville, Aug. 14.?Two Oconee county officers late today arrested Harmon Moore, former deputy sheriff, one of the two white men accused by Blair Rook, negro, of having employed him to kill Sam D. Willis, sheriff of Greenville county, in June, ! 1927. Oakhurst Citizen Kills Big Rattler [ On last Friday while Clyde Me? Manus was at work about his place ^ in the Oakhurst section, he noticed } "his Shepherd dog furiously harking s near a fig bush, and on going to in^ vestignte what was the matter with _ him. saw a huge rattlesnake coiled x at the root of the bush. Using a i hoe, Mr. McManus attacked the snake 1 end the dog also went into the fray, . but ran away very quickly. After t the snake was killed >the absence of s the dog was noticed but he could not where he found. On Sunday, howf ever, he was found dead in a patfch 1, of woods about 300 yards distant, and e the only inference waa that he had t> been bitten by the snake and poison? ed from the bite. "Mr. McManus inclines to the belief that the dog lost his life in defense of his master.? ' Kershaw Era. ^ Three Men Released in Killing of Love joy Columbia, Aug. 12.?Although a coroner's jury tonight found that J. W. Love joy, 40, of Pelion, died by "unknown hands," testimony introduced at the inquest showed that he planned to die because he could not drag the girl he loved down "to his own level" and the three men held in connection with his death were released. Lovejoy was found in a dying condition on Friday of last week in a Divine street speakeasy. Immediately after his death, police arrested Henry C. Dennis, proprietor of the establishment; Robert Lanigan, who admitted tonight he sold liquor for Dennis; and Colie Anderson, who was present at the time. The three were released by Coroner W. A. McCain after the inquest. He said the evidence was insufficient to hold them. Three letters, showing that Love- ' joy had planned suicide, were read. ' In one of them he declared he could not ask his sweetheart to be his wife and "drag her down to his level," and added he "would not ask her not to love any other man, because it was , not human nature." * Testimony was introduced to show ' Lovejoy was to have been married ^ in a few days. In one of the letters he declared he did not have the nerve to shoot himself and so "I am going to fall off the Brookland bridge." Fourteen witnesses were introduced at the inquest tonight. Police at first scouted the idea of suicide because of the position . in which Lovejoy's body was discovered. His. hands were folded over a pistol on his chest. The pistol, it watf brought out, belonged to Dennis. Dr. Snook Convicted-^' j ; Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 14.?A vew diet of guilty, carrying with it det&l in the electric chair as the pendjB was returned against Dr. Jametifl Snook, confessed slayer of his y<*? mistress, Theora K. Ilix, 28 miniS after the jury of J1 men and ofl woman had received his case this afl ternoon. t The jury took but one ballot, afl so speedy was the action that it hfl to wait ten minutes in the jury roow before the defendant could be brougB in and the court made ready to hefl the verdict. Major Bonnet, holder of the worWB airplane speed record, was killed Bordeaux, France, Tuesday, when tfl plane crashed as he was practicing the September Schneider cup races. 1 " NOTICE All persons are hereby notified that I have posted my pond Aguinit fishing and all trespassing and hereby revoke all privileges pr'evidtnw given. B. H. BOY1KIN, Owner. 1 H King Haiglar Peaches BEST OF THE CROP U $1 00 Per PECK $3.50 Per BUSHEL ON STORAGE AT " I CAMDEN ICE COMPANY'S PLANT I TELEPHONE 18 I n * . Summer scatters the Family the Telephone keeps it Together The family is scattered for the summer. Sally is at a mountain camp in New England. Tom is having the time of his life on a western ranch. Airs. Williams is at the shore with the Garp's. And Mr. Williams is at home. . . . But he is in as close touch with the family as though they were just * across the street. He does it by telephone. He calls them all, regularly, from home. It takes but a few minutes. It is surprisingly inexpensive. And talking to them is next best to seeing them. ? Vacation time is telephone time. You can talk to other members of your family. Plan to meet friends. Reserve hotel or camp accommodations. Let relatives know you will be in their cities. From your own home you can telephone anywhere in the United States?or even to Europe. And the calls are quiak,*clear and low in cost. Use the telephone frequently this summer. It will keep your faitlily together, no matter where they arc. Southern Bell-Telephone and Telegraph Company