Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Kciety news Mfod by Mrs. Franees M. H. llCun. Item* for thia page If 23 be Telephoned to No. 188-W $?E one o'clock. In the afternoon. ISgridge Party at Legion Hall. E* American Legion, assisted by American Legion Auxiliary, ia Eoring a bridge party to be given vKonday evening, December 80th, uyion Hall on DeKalb street. The E wil begin at 8 p. m. Couples Ebe charged one dollar or two dolE for a table. Make up a party and S Williams Insurance Agency for a |;| Bowery Ball Tonight HL of the moat attractive enter* Eents during the holidays will L Bowery Ball which the Ju.uior Efire Workers are giving tonight Eprecipice Tea Room. Dancing lEe *n ?rder from 9:80 to 1:00 IjHg ?nd for those who only wish fEjoy watching the fun and ^the |E? costumes tables w?ll be :.E) in a novel setting. Everything jEt the Ball ^11 be different from [Efldinnry dance and a good crowd S* each couple one dollar will be the proceeds of the dance E towards the tonsil clinic which , i",| Junior Welfare Workers hold 'i|Ji Chapter To Meet L Leslie Zemp Chapter No. Ill Etr Eastern Star, will hold its EtWy meeting on Thursday, JanE 2. 1930. The meeting will be Ed to order promptly at 8:00 Eel p. m., and all members are Eeted to attend. Visitors will be H^toe. I Mrs. Spencer Was Hostess. Homing in every detail was the H^etea which Mrs. Frank W. SpenEjtve on Friday afternoon last at Hfcme on Chestnut street honoring K John V. Butler, of Greenport, L tables were arranged in the livEroom, where lovely cut - flowers Hjjerns made an attractive setting Hihe affair. Hk high score'was made by Mrs. vKDavidson and the consolation Kto Mrs. Frank Zemp. The low Hmprize was won by Miss Minette E The guest of honor Was also md with s- lovely gif$. After ;;jHfcme the' guests were invited to 'uHning room where tea was feerv;lHm a beautifully appointed table. .' A. s. Davidson poured ten while Leslie Zemp presided over the He urn. Had Christmas Dance, delightful dance was held on Hesday evening at the Armory t>n PHifle_st reet. The .spacious hall was rated with gay Christmas colors with the lovely music furnished '"Efc Country Club orchestra the Epollege boys and girls spont an HjyiMe evening. ?? ???_ First Game of Polo. E?lively opening of the polo sea, Ewe Christmas day the Blue E Seated the Rods eight to six. Bliles first took the lead and then EReds got going and evened the E-The Red team then forged i H?d by two goals but in the last idihft Rlnoe .? _IX*. tv ; w tj ??- .hu|uv up nmii viioir E^lf8 and won ?ut two goals to Hftjt Those on the two tennis Russell, Bassett, Allison, Red's line up was Pomeroy, ; K'tj.. _, i e Twephone Girls Remembered. Beyoung ladies1 who are emps of the Southern Bell TeleEiSifmpany here wish to take Hj*ns of thanking thos* who so sent them Christmas gifts. many lovely gifts from | E and tlle'r thoughtful remem| Hp wet e greatly appreciated. * Hfestic Program E*nd Saturday, December 27:28 E?p)y? showing of the jHTUO RITA", in talking-sing ErhH1 *ntertain,ment; - nothing BS.? Tu to compare it with. E?hr opportunity of seeing |H^S5LJe'riarkable picture. E?ka,?.d Tucsday. Decern be r 30 - 31 H?.i 11 x brothers jn the senHSkf10^?8' "THE COCOANEi 100 PGr cent, fun - ^ ou haven't seen anything Co Mm" V se n "The Cocoanuts ' Sound News. E^ttiles<l?y' January lot. Wk?* ,*hx?rwin& of King Vidor's GpT?f Negro Life, ?*HALLE ..Hjiljworld welcomes a new 1 BleLi /S entcrtainment! Never i . froni the preik. Never *rom the public! See i flEg* by Irving Berlfn. J**n*ry 2-8 All-Talking lifj Personal Mention Uulw M~Brown of UneMter wa? a visitor in Camden for the Christmas holidays. Mr. Mr.. J. W. Sand. ari(1 childr.n, of Hendorvon, N (' pondli,* th. wwk ?t tho horn* of H E ch l",r#nU- Mr. ?lld MM. m ' ^W"in,t on I-yMloton street. Mm. E E. Still; who ha. been in SiES ? C'' h" r*lurned t? Cam. , ",.a1d ???Pyln|f her home on ,Jfytyleton Btreet. I. S- of Ak"?- Ohio. Jghroding the holidays with her of th? r 'w Mr"- J' H hadcliffe, of the Cassatt section of thi. county. Proanerlt i f ,<W,!n h"8 Kone to the holidays." V'8lt rel"Uve" durinic p J- S; Ooart and little daughter Emily Coart are visiting Mrs. Henry Savage, Sr. ??nry Mr. and Mrs. Henry Savage, Jr., are spending the holidays in Summerton with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander fcavage, of Newberry, spent Christmas in Cumdon at the home of the former's parent^, Mr and Mfs. Henry Savage, in Lake View Terrace. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Anerum, of Chester, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Lang oh" Mill street. Dr. and Mrs. E. A. McMillan, of Columbia, are on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Smith on Mill street. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Griffin of Columbia, spent Christmas day h^re at the home of Mrs. William Shannon. Sandy Heyward, of Annapolis, is at home on a furlough visiting his parents. Dr. Bennie Team, of Baltimore, is spending the holidays at the home of his sister, Miss Alberta Team. Mr. and Mrs. Hughey Tindal and children were guests of Mrs. Tindnl's parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Madden, in Columbia on Christmas. Mrs. Hubert Wilson is visiting relatives in Union. Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Cobb and daughter, of Paw Creek, N. C., are spending several days here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Brasington and children, of Paw Creek, are guests at the home of Dr. and Mrs. S. F. Brasington. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Chapman and sons have gone to Newberry to spend the week. J?** Mrs. N. G. Anderson apieftt ,^brj^tmas with relatives in Dillon. " ' r ' Taylor Mobley, of Charlotte, was the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Mobley during the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Muller and daughter, Betty Muller, of Charlotte/ are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs, John S. Lindsay. Mr. and Mrs. Claud L. Williams and son, of Raleigh, N. C., are "spending the noiidays~fit Psrlr Ytew Imuwith Mr. William's mother, Mrs. Etta Williams. ? Miss Ida Kibble, left last week for Oak Hall, Va., where she will spend several months. James Gandy, of Cincinnati, 0., is here on a visit to his family at Park View Inn. Mrs. Robert Taft and Miss Harriet Steedman, of Charleston, spent Christmas here at the home of their mother, " Mrs. R. Y. Steedman, Mr. James ?DeLoache, Sr., spent Christmas day in Charlotte with his daughter, Mrs. Kennedy Blakeney. _ Miss Cornelia Nelson, of Rock Hill; Lieutenant John E, Nelson, of Columbia; Mr. i and Mrs. Joseph Neb son artd children, of Bennettsville, -were guests at the home of Miss Cor' nella Mickle for Christmas. " * "f .??? Miss Virginia Douglas, of Charleston, was the guest of Mrs. W. -S. Alexander on Hampton Avenue for Christmas. Mrs. Fred Parham, of High Point, N. Co is visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. ^Alex West. Mf. and Mrs. E. M. Wilson had the following relatives and friends as their guests for Christmas: Col. and Mrs. J. D. Fulp, of Bailey Military Academy, Greenwood; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Phillips, Dr. G. A. Brummett, of Tampa; Mr. J. W. Wilson, of Cheraw; Mr. A. F. Wilson, of Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Osborne and family left Monday for Fletcher, N. C., where they will spend Christmas with the latter's mother, Mrs. Carland. Mrs. D. D. Parish arrived on Friday from Fayetteville to spend the holidays with her daughter, Mrs. Hunter Lang. - . ? Fire Destroys Residence. A six-room residence, the property of Mr. L. A .Shiver, of near Antioch was completely destroyed by fire on the night of December 2, around mid-, night The furniture and furniahinga were also destroyed. Mr. Shiver haa no idea how it originated. He carried partial inauranoe on building and far General News Notes When Senor Orti* Kuboi, prfceident-elect of Mexico, now in New York for bis health, was asked "Have you control of your banditry," ho asked his questioner, "Do you control yours, in Chicago, for instance?" John Young and Ms wife, negroes, are held by authorities at Cushing, Okla., accused of killing Otto Butler, a prohibition officer, and wounding another officer. E. L. Hardegree, a cigar maker, is held at Atlanta, Ga., on his own statement that he kilted Prof. Alexander Hamilton Johnson, a school principal, at Hartwell, Ga., laat June. Heretofore it has been believed that the school man was killed by a negro. Fog of such density prevailed over a large area of Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas Tuesday night that all automobile traffic had to be abandoned. The bodies of Henry Grew Crosby, 32, and Miss Josephine Rotch Bigelow,. 22, a bride of a few months, and socially prominent . In Boston, were found in a New York apartment Tuesday night. It is believed to have been the result of a suicide pact. Andrew J. ((Bossy) Giliis, "big boy" muyor of Newburyport, Mass., has been reelected mayor of the town, defeating Mayor Cashman by a narrow margin. Giliis once served a jail sentence for a fight he had with Cashman. The total of automobile deaths in ,78 cities of the country during the year ending Nov. 30 was 8,528, an increase of 1,159 over the previous year, according to figures compiled by the department of commerce at Washington. o Ben B. Lindsay, famous as a juvenile court judge in Denver, Col., has been disbarred by the Colorado supreme court on alleged unprofessional practices. Lindsay claims that he is the victim of a conspiracy inspired by lawyers who opposed his activities for reforms in legal practices. The municipal airport at Tampa., Fla., was destroyed by fire early Thursday morning and along with the hangar went thirteen airplanes and other property totaling a loss of $100,000. The cause of the fire is undetermined. J. Harris Rogers, 79, inventor * of many radio devices, died Thursday at ,his home at Hyattsville, Md. The vice president and manager of the Pathe Film company, owners of the building in New York, where ten persons lost their lives in the fire | which destroyed the property Tues-1 f cfay, have been arrested on charges of manslaughter based on negligence, growings .out of an alleged violation of thek laws prohibiting the storage of more than five picture reels in cer- j Itui" typpw nf buildings. ? > The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity ' of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, was virtually destroyed by fire Thursday I morning. Harold L. Mims, former Columbia policeman, now serving a life term in the penitentiary for the killing of W. B. Henson, brutally beat his wife in the face Sunday when she visited him at the pen and on leaving asked him to kiss her. He is now in solitary confinement. Three boys, 9, 8 and 6 years of. age, were drowned in a pond near | Philadelphia on Friday when a small wagon they were riding 1n plunged I through the thin ice of the pond, j The dead body of Capt. W. L. Mills was found in Skull creek near Beaufort last week. He was alone in his I launch. The coroner said death was j due to heart failure. Lack- Toby, white, 20, and a husband of only 10 months, was convicted In Greenville last week of criminal assault on a 12-year-old girl, but was recommended to mercy. He will I serve from five to forty years. The Spartanburg county legislative delegation will be asked to set up a county court in order to relieve congested conditions in the court of coni'mon pleas and general sessions. I Dr. Samuel R. Preston, 80, president of Chieora college, when it was located in Greenville twenty years ago, died in Atlanta, Ga., early FriWill Barnett, negro, convicted in the Greenville county court of general sessions last week of slaying his wife, Irene, October 1, was sentenced by Judge Henry to die in the I electric chair on January 17. I The lower. house of congress on Monday passed an appropriation bill totaling close to a quarter of bilI lion dollars to be used in the construction of public buildings over the 1 country, but ij?>hich sum 000 would be expended for FederaL 1 structures in the District of Columbia. | The largest submarine ever built I for the United States navy, was I Wnnehed Tuesday at Portsmouth, ISt sub will he tau>W* ** Joseph R. Eastman, of Boston, and Robert M. Jones of Knoxville, Tenn.I were on Tuesday appointed members of the inter-state commerce commission by President Hoover. Both appointers are Democrats. The United States senate on Monday ratified the agreement for refunding the 4,0226,000,000 French war debt to the United States. Julius H. Barnes, chairman of the board of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, is making a determined fight against the policy of the Federal farm board in advancing to wheat cooperatives funds equivalent to the current value of the product. Dr. Hjalmar Schaeht, president of the richbank of Germany, has approved the proposed loan of $80,000,000 to the German government. The loan is to be floated by Dillon, Read & Company of New York. The salaries of New York municipal officers, including that of Mayor Walker, have recently been raised .a total of $60,000 per year. Tuesday, Dec. 17th, was the 26th anniversary of the first flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, N. C., in a heavier than air machine. The Republic Steel company, a $360,000,000 corporation, has been organized lit Cleveland, Ohio, under the leadership of Cyrus E, Eaton, by the merging of four or more independent companies. The new corporation will be the third largest sttoel company in the United States. William S. Vare of Philadelphia, recently refused a seat in the United States senate, is in such physical condition that he is perhaps permanently eliminated from political power. Capt. Dieudonne Coste, holder of the world's record for long-distance flight and Paul Codos, a pilot of the Lorulon-Pnxis air service, landed at Paris on Tuesday after completing a new world's record for long distance flying over a closed circuit. They covered a distance of 4,984.8 miles. Announcement was made at Mexico City Saturday of the discovery of several plots for the overthrow of the present government. Seventy persons were under arrest on vnrious charges. A telegram of Saturday to Mrs. Belle Bowers, in Chicago, announced the death of her father, James Irving, 84, at Shenandoah, Iowa, while a telegram at about the same hour arrived for the father, announced the death of the daughter. 1 .1 Congress adjourned Saturday to iteiyime its work on January 6. p! William Granger, president of a j bank, at Gracemont, Okla., shot and wounded two men Friday afternoon when- the pair attempted to hold him up and rob the bank. President Hoover has signed the j bill, appropriating $9,470,000 to W useff^n building a structure .for the i United States supreme court, j Joseph Laman, bootlegger, waa psentenced af Detroit, Mich., Saturday j to serve thirty years in prison for his part in the kidnaping of Fred Begeeman, retired bootlegger, last April. A Bpecial postage stamp is to be issued by Italy to commemorate the coming * wedding of* Crown Prince Humbert. The order of the Federal raido, commission issued in September, 1928 limiting broadcasting by chains within a radius of 300 miles and duplication of programs, has been revoked. One fireman was . killed and three injured by falling walls at Fayetteville,pN. ., Saturday. ^ / Jtygh A. Lockie, independent candidate for governor, and Senator Heflin, of Alabama,, barred from participating in the Democratic primaries of the state because they did not support Alfred E. Smith last year, will -run as independents and will attend a state-wide meeting of their supporters to be held Jahuary 3 at Birmingham. About 700 persons were taken off a ferry boat crossing the Hudson river at New York Friday night, afterjthe ferry boat had been badly damaged in a collision with a car float. The government of Mexico has donated $10,000 for the relief of the families of 61 miners killed in a mine explosion at , McAlester, Okla., j last Tuesday. Funds collected for the relief of the families has already exceeded $50,000. H. L. Davenport, assistant vicepresident of the American Trust cornpan^ of Charlotte, N,-G., was arrested Saturday night on charges of * embezzlement. Davenport in an effort to save himself from disaster because of stock market speculations, purloined about $48,000 of the, bank's funds. A liability insurance company will make good the shortage. * Ten persons were Injured, one perhaps fatally, on the highway near Barmrville, Ga., Sunday morning. The accident was due to the ice'covered roads, causing a collision of two oars. Automobile builders throughout the country will probably restrict their product during the coming year, a eurvuy showing that more than 5,500,J 60*%ars have been built this year. L. H. Wannamaker Dies in Columbia 4k Columbia, Dec. 28.?L. H, Wannamaker, Jr., 52, telegraph editor of tho Columbia Record and for a number of years connected with various newspapers, died here this morning at 6:20 o'clock following an illness" of two weeks. He was born in Orangeburg, the son of L. H.. and Cornelia Neuffer Wannamaker. Among the positions he held outside the newspaper field were those of secretary to the interstate commerce committee of the United States senate and executive secretary of the South Carolina Retail Merchants Association. Mr. Wannamaker is survived by his widow, who was before her marriage, Miss Marie Izlar, of Orangeburg; three daughters, Misses Marie Wannamaker, of Columbia; Frances Wannamaker of Washington, and Mrs. H. B. Dominick, of Washington; his mother, who resides in Washington; four brothers, L. Cleveland Wannamaker, of Augusta; Ashley T. Wannamaker of Rock Hill; Frank S. Wannamaker, an officer in the U. S. Army, stationed at Brooklyn, N. Y., And Harold H. Wannamaker, of Orangeburg, and two sisters, Mrs. H. L. Smonk of Orangeburg, and Miss Claudie Wannamaker of Washington. One marr-was kilted and two injured when a passenger airplane struck a stump or a high snowbank in landing at Indianapolis, Ind., Sunday evening. Mrs. Charles E. Culp and her three children were found dead in ' their home at Ossing, N. Y., Sunday. The woman had stuffed paper in the cracks around doors and windows and* turned on the gas. A man, woman and child, names unknown, were killed near Cleveland, Ohio, Saturday night when their automobile was hit by an express train on a grade crossing. I Emile Loubet, 91, former president of France, is dead. j The grand prize in the Christmas lottery of Spain, 15,000,000 pesetas, ($2,070,000), was won by a ticket that sold for $275, Which was paid for by scores of subscribers, some of whom paid only a few cents. The money ^ will be divided?among nil" pro rata,' and some of the participants will receive as much as $100,000. The smallest shares will be several thousand dollars. * The suit of Mrs. Kabherine Fogarty against Gene Tunney, in which she charged brench of promise and asked for $500,0000 damag^, will be dropped if Mrs. Fogarty has her way, as she has indicated a desire to withdraw her charges and demands. Tunney says nay. He wants the matter settled by the. court. _ I " " 1 Chinese Steamer Goes Down in Storm a . ? t 1 llong Kong, China, Doc. 23.?The Chinese steamer I^ee Cheong with her Chinese officers and crew and 260 Chinese" passengers including many women and children, sAnk late Saturday night with practically all on board. * The vessel was caught in a violent storm shortly after leaving Swabue Saturday afternoon for Hong Kong and went down at midnight swamped by huge waves. Two seamen clinging to wreckage were picked up yesterday and brought here. Goodfetlows. George Coleman $1.00 Jack Whitaker, Sr 1.00 Mrs. H. G. Marvin............ 2.00 C. P, DuBose 1.00 W. C. Salmond 1.00 II. S. Porter ........... 1.00 Mrs. Louise Proctor 1.00 Cash ; 1.00 Miss M:.. A. Clyburn 1.00 $10.00 C ii Beverley English Dead. 1 Beverley Means English, 37, of Columbia, only son of Mrs. Elise Doby English of Columbia and the<f late Beverley Means English, died in Washington, 1). CX, Wednesday morn ing at 10 o'clock. Mr. English was born in Camden, S. C. He was graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1914 with the degree of civil engineer and immediately began work with the Southern Railroad.?Thursday's Record. < Because of failure in their studies, 310 of the 2,000 cadets at the Annap-. olis naval academy were not allowed the usual Christmas holidays. j 1 ? . ^ Clark Scott, 26, was seriously injured at Townsend, Tenn., Friday when he opened a package that he had received through the mails. A half hour before the package was received he received 'a telegram from Los Angeles which said, "Do not open the package. It will explode." folds Checked modern vaporizing \ ointment?Jutt rub on n^visa? OVER ty MILLION JARS USED YEARLY "EFANDCE" ^ ANN TEEK'S PLACE Antiques and Oddments Ill Jonei Street Beet ----- Savannah, (?corgi a -I - +* "? EiiI>iy 11 if ii hi.i \mmmmmamjummjiimvulnmmdmmi *** * THE PRECIPICE TEA ROOM WILL OPEN JANUARY FIRST Tea served every afternoon including Sunday. Special orders for luncheons, dinner or bridge parties. Call Miss Lucile Mickle on TELEPHONE 553 To our friends and to I those whom we have not yet had the . pleas- __ ~ lire of meeting??'a Happy New Year! ' - . - . -' ' ' W. SHEORN & SONWg " * I r W -''v' 1 > i i iij 1