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Christmas Greetings! Thanking you all for your patronage during the past year, we sincerely wish for you ; , a most joyous Christmas and a .Happy and prosperous New Year! Hirsch Brothers and Company ? i , ? i. i . . i. i. .. Negro Admits Killing Young School Teacher MaryviLle, Mo., Dec. 19.?I-Hjclare.l by county authorities to have con- j fessed slaying 19-year-old Velma Colter, rural school teacher, Raymond . Gunn, JO, negro ex-convict, was held at St. Joseph, Mo., -today where he j was rushed to avoid possible mob j violence. The negro was arrested yesterday while hunting. After hours of ques- ' tiorting the suspect, county attorney, ! Paul it. Jones, announced Gunn had confessed. He was spirited away im- 1 mediately. The prosecutor said Gunn related j how he had met the young teacher i at the door of her school room and followed her. Jones quoted the exconvict as saying Miss Colter fought viciously as he attempted to seize her. Gunn then rushed at her with a club and beat her about the head, the prosecutor said. Teeth marks were visible on the negro's hand when, he was arrested. I Gunn was sentenced to a prison j term for criminally assaulting a 1 young girl attending the Northwest i Missouri State Teachers' College j here, officers said, and had been j ught since the murder of Miss Col- j tor Tuesday. Miss Colter, who was teaching her! tils' term of school, dismissed her handful of pupils "Tuesday afternoon 1 and remained at the school to grade ; examination papers, sweep the floor j and repiepish the ooal supply for the I next day. II. T. Thompson at whose home she j resided went to the school building ; when tlie girl failed to return home1 at the usual hour, lie found the body' i with tlie clothing torn away. The ! next clay a posse of national guard j troops, aroused citizens and officers j made an unavailing search for the' slayer. Notable Inventor Dies at Great Age Uridyl'port, Conn., Dec. IK.?A Ion# career of invention and experimentation, which contributed greatly "To the extensive mechanical development of the pant 70 years,, was brought to .1 close today with the death of Henry A. House. Credited with more than .'100 inventions, House, who was 00, numbered among these the first successfully self-propelled automobile, which screamed and puffed its way through the streets of bridge^ort in the summer of 1866. It was in a spirit of vengeance, it is repc ted. that House developed the automobile. A battle with a refractory horse impelled him to turn his attention to a horseless vehicle. Shepard (Juilty of Killing Wife. Kansas City, Kas., Dec. 22.?A federal court jury today found Major Charles A. Sheppard, 57, army specialist in pulmonary diseases, guilty of the poison murder of his second wife, Zenna, and recommended life imprison mcnt. The physician, whose love affair with Miss Cirace Brandon, blond stenographer of Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas, had been bared dur- I ing the long trial of the case and a!- { leged a< the motive for the crime charged. wept silently when she heard the verdict. Stunned by the verdict. Shepard tonight wa> showered with offers of sympathy and monetary aid. An hour after the verdict was read Harry S. Clans, Denver defense attorney, reported a dozen offers of fi- j nancial assistance to carry on a new trial, ifogranted, or to further appeal. One-third of the Florida citrus fruit crop has already been harvested and sold, totaling $15,000,000 to $-().000.000. It is estimated that the entire crop will total more than $15,000,000. When did she last hear from you? Don't write!.. Telephone... Those who love you and who have you constantly in mind would like to see you. Next best they would like to hear your voice. Telephone them ... wherever you may be. * * Though many miles may separate you and pressing obligations make it difficult for you to write as frequently as you would like?still you can talk to them by telephone, and the cost is negligible. ? . You cap talk a distance of 50 milea for as little as 40 * ^ cents; 100 miles, 60 cents; 150 miles, 80 cents; by using Day Station - to Station service. During the evening and night periods the rates are lower than during the day on all Station -co-Station calls coating more than 35 cents. Southern Bell Telephone St Telegraph Co. (INCORPORATED) - ... rw -? " - ' it X..,:YY Y. : - All-Star Selections IJpper-State Teams The Cheater Reporter has selected a first, second and third all-star football team for upper State and Camden players' names appear on all thrfce ten ins. The lists follow: first .Team. Left End?'Proctor, Chester. lAtft Tackle?'McDonald, Chester. I^eft Guard?'Smith, Union. (Center?Mcl>eod, Camden. Right Guard?Ilulvey, Pickens. itight Tackle ?Boheler,. Camden. Right End?-Woods, Chester. Quarterback?Martin, Cheater. lA*ft Halfback?Cloud, Chester. Right Halfback?Russell, Camden. Fullback?iPowell, Union. Second Team. Deft End?Wooten, ('amden. I*eft Tackle?Leonard, Due West. Left Guard?'Atkinson, Chester. Center?Reeder, Union. Right Guard?Hunter, Chester. Right Tackle?Anderson, (.'heater. Right End?Thompson, Camden. Quarterback-?Chewning, ('amden'. Left Halfback?Hivens, Pickens. Right Halfback?Allen, Cheater. Fullback?Honey, Chester. Third Team. Left End?Crawford, Due West. Loft Tackle?-Cheek, Union. Left Guard?Jones, Camden. Ce nter?-Porter, Chester. Right Guard-?-P. Hagen, Due West Right Tackle?'Pitts, Camden. Right End?Holding, Pickens. Q u a rte rbac k ?tPerr in, Union. Loft Halfback?Ellis, Due West. Right Halfback?Perry, Union. Fullback?-Brown, Cii mden. These players were chosen by comparison with other players with respective positions. An example?Quarterbacks, for Chester, Martin as compared with Chewning of Camden, Perrin, of Union; Gantt, of Pickens or Sim-1 mons, of Due West, we find Martin unanimously the choice. And so on the players were selected, finding the entire champion Cyclones listed on the three teams. Added Goodfellows Previously reported $131.5(1 , Lament Domtnick 10.00 j T. C. Gladden . 1.00 j Dr. Sowell 1.00 1 Thomas' Coffee Shop 1.00 1 Elmer Watts LOO: Carroll DesChamps 1.00: J. ('. Gillis ; 1.00 j Dr. (V A. West 1.00; W. R. Denton 1.00 jG. F. Cooley 1.00 i | W. L. McDowell 1.00 [Wiley Hogue 1.00 ' J. H. Clyburp 1.00 | I Miss Lena I.ineberger 1.00 ! j Mrs. K. H. Watts 1.00 j | Cash 1.00 j W. P. Heath LOO Kirk land Trotter 2.00 W. D. Whitaker 1.00 E. P. Truesdale 1.00 T. J. Kirk land 1.00 J. S. Lindsay 1.00 -lack Whitaker, Jr 1.00 R. G. Sanders 1.00 Mrs. Woods Robinson 1.00 John K>. delvoach 1.00 Miss Lou Young 1.00 Mrs. Gus Hirsch 1.00 Mrs. L. C. Proctor LOO ill. S. Porter 1.00 Laurens T. Mills ' 1.00 | John Laurens Mills 1.00 ! Cash 1.00 J. T. Reason 1.00 Miss I). E. Brown 1.0Q Miss Virginia B. Wallace 1.00 M. M. Johnson 1.00 Mrs. M. M. Johnson 1.00 Henry Lewis Johnson 1.00 Eva Johnson 1.00 Mrs. W. E. Jackson , "1.00 | Mrs. C. C. Whitaker, Sr 1.00 Miss Margaret Burnet 1.00 Cash 2.00 Mrs. Stephen Farrelley 1.00 The Torii Shop 2.00 Miss Maude Gardner 50 Miss Kellor 1.00 Miss Fallen 1.00 N. ('. Boy kin 1.00 Mrs. Wooster 1.00 Rev. J. B. ( aston 1.00 ; Sam Russell 1.00 , Mrs. Sam Russell 1.00 1' M. k Graham 5.00 Rev. A. D. McArn 1.00 Mrs. Newton ('. Boykin ....... 5.00 Total $20K,00 An examiner's repbrt to the Federal Radio Commission Tuesday recommended an increase of power to 50,000 watts for station WBT at ( harlottc, N. C. W. B. T. now operates on 5,000 watts power. 1 he combined mail and passenger airplane service between Atlanta, Ga., and New York, was inaugurated Wednesday, the first plane from Atlanta, carrying six passengers and a large quantity of mail. ? The Bleucher palace in Berlin has been bought by the United States government for the housing of the American embassy in Germany. The price paid is said to be $1,800,000. Killed My a Live Wire Sumter, Dec. 18.?A. Pecoraro, 35, an Italian mechanic employed by the Brooklyn O>operttge company, met instant (loath by electrocution at fche corner of CaMioun and Magnolia streets here early tonight when he took bold of a live wire. The man sought to remove the wire from the street. It had broken from a light. Becoraro tame to Sumter two years ago from New Orleans. Cleveland Welle, 40-year-old farmer of Nash county, North Carotojv*. was killed and William Cunningham, 35-year-old farmer, was wounded in a gun battle near Rocky Mount early Friday night. Officers said the two men had been drinking. HONOR ROLL CAMDEN SCHOOLS (Continue^ From First "Page) Shirley, Ralph Shirley, Viola Brewer,. Minnie Sue Bruce, Virginia Davis, joiien Little, Marie Morgan, Florence Savuge, Dorothy Snyder, Jean Van Landingham, Louise Vareen, Mary Watkins, Nancy Watts. Grade 6B?James McKenzie, Manley Mclx'od, Martha Bailey, Ia>u Clyburn, Marjorie Cullen, Zelma Goodman, Bertie Lee Roberts. i I Grade (>C?Nettles Myers, Ross | Shirley, Boyd Trapp, Ethel Evans, J Ixma Sinclair, Ruth Waters. Giade 7A?Jack Brown, Raymond Moore, Robert Rhame, Robert Shaw, Marion Smith, Mary Burnet, Sara Bissoll, Leila Christmas, Mary F.. Copeland, Sadie Frietag, Regina Goodman, Fannie Mickle, Emily Sheorn, Lena Stevenson, Helen Tindal, Ruth Moseley. Grade 7B ? Ned Beard, Clyde | Brown, Norman Connell, Roddy Connell, Laverne Conyers, S. B. Hatfield, Raymond Hinson, James Hough, J. T. 1 Kelly, Carl Scarborough, Jennie Cul | len. Pearl Godwin, Eliza HaT), Fledabel Horton, Mary Huckabee, Eivin McCain, Mary Purser, Louise Reed, Alberta Watts. Grade 7C?Boyd Branham, Frank Clyburn. William McLeod, William Moseley, Jack Shirley, Mary Lee Hilton, Willie Hough, Elizabeth Reed, .Jennie Traxler, Mable Yates, Ruby J Roberts. Scholarship Honor Roll Grade 1 (Mills)?-John Langford, Bill Mims, Thomas Myers, Marion Schlosburg, Kirbv Tupper, Thomas[ Turner. Artie Dixon, Dale Morgan, Mary Pitts, Rosene Trimnal, Gwendolyn Shirley. Grade 1 (Zemp)? Joby Hough, Willard Kelly. Ben MeManus, Henry Niles, Kamel Shcheen, Frank Sulli-1 van. L. J. Wattjj., Doris Hin-son, Margaret Hinson, Geneva Jackson, Nell i i Jeflfcoat, Margaret Sanders, Margie Thurman. Grade 1 (Wolfe)?Pargon Jennings, Azale i>ixon, Vivian Huggin&, Myrtle Outlaw, Geneva Thigpen. Grade 2A?Claud Lamoy, Walter Minis, Charles MoCaskill, Leonard Sehenk, Jack Smyrl, Osicar Wooten, Edna Aldret, Wilma Christmas, Carolyn Cooley, Dorothy Flowers, Lois Gaskin, Ixiuise Moore, Ithetta Mc-> Powell, Nettie lxMi.se Ogburn, Frftn- J ces Khame. Grade 2B?-Wilma Laney, Annie B. Branham, Nell Corbitt, Sibyl Mae Hasty, Myrtle Sinclair, PHza'beth Sinclair, Marvin Shirley, Murry Smith, Jack Stein, K. T, Price, Leon Roberts, Earl Harvey, Earl Pavney, Banks Tucker, Mendel Williams, Paul- Williams, Ix>uis Smith. Grade 3A?Minnie B. Cunningham, Margaret Fischel, Marjorie Hatfield, Ruby Jackson, Phyllis Karesh, Clarine Munn, Martha Smith, Betty Sowell, Ann Whitaker, Ida Lee Smith, Jerry Hancock, Herbert Moore, Billy Pitts, Robin Zemp, Hazel Twitty, William McManUs. Grade 3B?William Brown, Sarah Brunson, Juaoita Trapp. Grade 3C?Arthur Brown, Charles E. Trapp, Lonnie Wilson, Margie Creed, Teresa Reed. Grade 4A?Ernest Frietag, David Williams, Billy Wilson, Frances Baruch. Aileea Belk. Dally Jackson, Constance Kinney, Neta Kirkland, Margaret Munn, Elsie Redfeam, Grace Rhoden, Ixittie Smyrl, Vashti Thigpen, Maggie Trantham, Harriet Foster, I>ois Rhame. Grade 4B?Matthew Munn, Doris f Hall, Olive McGurit, Lillie Mac bon, Cora Lee Trap p. m Grade 4C?William Baxley, UroyH Branham, Leonard Goff, Guy "Mayer.* George Wilson, lthetta Mcl/eod, La* cile Watts, Margaret West, Gtinl Williams. , Grade 5A?Leroy Caulder, WylJ Hogue, Jack Ithame, Jack Richards? Jack Villepigue, Dorothy Durf?(jdJ va Lee, Louise Mickle, Hazel Shir-? ley, Ben Mildred Sowelfy WilhekmJ Strak, Paulette West. - jl Grade 6A?Naomi Walker, Minn J Sue Bruce, Carolyn Cantey, Francis? Chapman, Harold tMcCallum, lttsil? Munn. Grade 7A McKain Richards, Bob? ert Shaw, Helen Tindal, Emily She? orn, Ruth Moseley,^ Fannie Mlcklt? Mary Edith Copeland. { Grade 7C?Liza Jackson. Uf Mu;iic Honor Roll -Jane Hoffer? Frances Rhame, Robin Zemp, Mar? garet Osborne, Paulette West, Kath? arine Myers, Olivia Buddin, France* Grade 8?James Chapman,. Run DeLoache, Ruby Gardner, Leola Hud? son,, Estelle Myers, Stewart Clarkson? William Templeton. :} Grade 9?Luther Shaw, Peggjfl Pitts, Marjorie Walker, Mary EKl? abeth Wooten, Leila Moore. ;, ] Grade 10?Margaret Barnes, Nancy? Brown, Betty Garrison, KatheriM? Kennedy, Sara Kirkland. Grade 11?Margaret Goodale, Clew? Holland, Harriet Lorick, Grace Rob* ! inson, Grayson Shaw, Eloise Rhodes* I Alice DePass, Phyllis Carrsion, Rubj? If wishes will add to your ' * ^ Christmas joy, then here's contributing our humble / share to the gayety of the day. It's a pleasure to wish you a "\ Merry Christmas! 1 THE HOFFER COMPANY, Inc. I Jewelers and Optometrists -.Mm * f ? *' n" Everything that's best in life but, above all, a full measure of Happiness? may it be yours this Christmas . . . THE BANK OF CAMDEN Not too late for you to join our Christmas Savings Club Begin the coming week and save for *> NEXT CHRISTMAS di