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J - vt? ' # LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the File* of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Year* Ago THIRTY YKAK8 AGO October 30, 1901 Highwayman attempts to rob J. L. Gillis at Turkey Ford but Mr. Gillis fires at man and lie gets away. Col. John Boykin Ix-e, a native of Camden, dies in Baltimore, Md., at the i^ge of 50 year a. l>r.' A. A. Moore, of Camden, visiting th?- slate charitable and pena) ~-t institutions. City council of Camden decides to build new city prison. , Camden and Sumter Military Academy to pluy football at Polo Grounds in this city. N. G. Gonzales, editor of Columbia; State, married to Miss Lucile Barron of Manning. Lee edtsnty wins out in election to form new count> from portions of Sumter, Darlington and Kershaw < counties. Citizens of Saluda county threaten Mormon elders unless they move from that county. John Goolsby and Charlie Fullerton, two prominent farmers of Jusper county, fought a duel over a piece of land and both died. ' At Flizabethtown, Tenn., Frank kidwell, 23, shot and killed his sweetheart, Ada Thompsorvaged Id. Governor Bilbo of Mississippi, has honored the requisition made by Governor Blackwood for the return to Spartanburg of one S. II. Allen, wanted there to face a charge of conspiracy to defraud. FIFTEEN YEARS A(J4) November 3, 1916 Julie Ia:v, 6-year*o)d son of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Catoe, died at Kershaw. Baptist church organized at the Kershaw cotton mil). Miss Ix'nu Lineberger receives news of death of her" brother, C. H. Lineberger, ut Mobile, Ala. I,. 1. (iuion sell# one hundred head of Hereford cattle to a Virginia dealer. Miss I/enora S. Higgins, aged 70, dies at home of her nephew, J. M. 1'orter, near^laney. (ieorge T. Littlo win*', cash prizes of $135 with his horses entered in State Fair. ?S. lie)ton Heard married to Miss Maude Cook at Salem church in Lee county. T. ('. Hogue, of Virginia, comes to Camden to build "Timrod Hall", a ; new tourist .hotel. John H. McGougan, aged 55, dies j at Hethune, following stroke of paralysis. Kev. Nelson Hovkin, Hit-year-old negro preacher, died on ( apt. J. K. McLeod's place near Kembert. (J. M. McLeod, cashier of People's Hunk of Sumter, dead. J. A. Arvants, of Cedar Creek section of Lee county, killed at Fort Valley, (la., when he fell under a passenger train. W. C. Josey's dwelling burned in Lee county with u loss of around $2,00(1. Aiken Man Kills Six of His Kin $ugener, S.* Oct. 20. A 10-! yuar-old Aiken county farmer, who ran amuck with ;i shotgun and a pistol, today left six of his near kinsmen dead in his wake. The farmer was George Jackson, described by authorities as "an eccentric character seized with a homicidal mania." His victims were two of his uncles, an aunt and three cousins?all farmer folk of the Bethcar church section, six miles from this little town. Their names were: llamp Jackson, 52, and Hayes Jackson. (51, uncles of the slnyer. Mrs. Darl Jackson, 40, an aunt by marriage. Quincy (Bill) Jackson. 22, Melvin Jackson, 2H, and Herman Jackson, 20, cousins. George Jackson, accompanied' by his 11-year-old daughter, Georgia Lou, shot down his kinsmen one af-J ter another yesterday?five** at ono] home and one at another?turning ai quiet Sunday afternoon into a car-! nage. With his weapons still in his hands and a half emptied gunny sack of . buckshot shells and pistol cartridges over his shoulder, he fled into a wood near his home. The slayer went to the home of Darl Jackson shortly after the noon hour, yesterday. Darl Jackson, one of the two out of se\cn at the home to escape aim. said his nephew talk-; e?r quietly tor neafty nan an m<m., Suddenly he jumped up. exclaimed, "I'm of a good mind to^kill every! tl? one of you." and started firing. Dari Jackson said. The first shot struck Darl Jack-( son's son. Quincy, who ran wounded into a nearby field, llamp Jackson; fell seriously wounded. The slayer) re-loaded his double-barrelled shot- ! gun and wounded Melvin Jaekson, a; son of llamp Jackson, who fled down ; a hill into a patch of woods. As George Jackson chased hisi cousin Melvin, his little daughter, Georgia Lou. ran out of the house crying. "Daddy, Daddy," and followed the two. Mrs. Quincy Jackson, who saw her husband shot down hut escaped herself. said she did not see the little girl return and feared she too had been killed. After pursuing Melvin several hundred yards and killing him, George Jackson went to the field where Quincy Jackson had fallen, fatally wounded. There he shot and killed Mr*. Darl Jackson and Hayes Jack- >n. lli fired twice at Darl Jack son and Mr*. Quincy Jackson, who ran to safety in the house. Returning t > the house, George fired a fatal shot into his uncle Hamp, lying wounded in the door/ j Next, the slayer went to the honiej of Herman Jackson, a short distance away, and shot him through a window. At an inquest, called by Magistrate H. B. Garvin, a verdict was returned that all six of the victims were slain by George Jackson. Relatives who survived Jackson's murderous fury said they could give no reason for his apparent desire to "wipe (nit" the family. They said they know of no grievance he held against them and attributed his outbreak to insanity. Darl Jackson said, however, his nephew had, gone to the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Del Williams, near Springfield, Orangeburg county, early Sunday, and threatened to "go back to Betchar and wind up one family and come back here and wind up another." Officers said Jackson shot and wounded his uncle, Hamp, ten years ago, and four or five years ago drove his wife from his home with a shotgun. Since then he had lived alone with his small daughter, who accompanied him yesterday on his errand of slaughter. The daughter was his only child. Mrs. Jackson lived for a while with her mother and recently went to Columbia to make Tier home. Hamp Jackson is survived by his widow; a son, Henderson Jackson, of St. Augustine, Fla., and a daughter, Mrs. Reba Hydrick, of Aiken county. Hayes Jackson was unmarried. Mrs. Darl Jackson leaves a husband and a 12-year-old daughter. Quincy, Jackson is survived by his widow; Melvin by his widow and five children, the oldest only six years of age, and Herman by his widow and three children. Wagoner Slayer Captured Wagoner, Oct. 2f>.?George Jackson, Aiken county farmer, sought as .the slaver of six of his kinsmen, was captured today at his home near here. He surrendered without a struggle! after his daughter had gone out to tell officers -surrounding the house that "Daddy says please come and get him." Negroes had reported to officers they saw him in the house. The officers at once left with him for Columbia to place him in the I state penitentiary for safe keeping, j South Carolina was one of only j five states where the sales of jnsur; ance in September were ahead of the : sales in the same month of last year, i Nationally the per centage of sales I was 89, while in South Carolina it was 10<>. A warehouse fire in And^rs^n county Saturday night destroyed 10V bales of cotton belonging to D. O ' Brown, with an estimated loss of $-1,-1 000. The water level in the Savannah river and the power developed at the Port man shoals plant is said to be lower now than at any time within the {>nst six years. C. M. Pennington, Hartsville undertaker. was found fatally shot Sato urday. morning two hours after he had left that town enroute to Raleigh, N. C. He had been shot twice and his pockets had been emptied when found. Colonel and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh reached Newark, N. J., at 9:2*4 o'clock Friday night after a flight across the country returning from their visit to Japan and China. They cut their visit short because of the death of Senator Morrbw, the father of Mr?. Lindbergh. V Teachers To Meet v. In Chester Saturday The teachers of the Fifth Congressional District will meet in Chester on Saturday, October 31st. The program for this meeting has been planned with the idea of being of real help to all who attend. Teaching practices that are actually being used in the classroom by successful teachers will be discussed by experienced supervisors, principals and teachers of this state. The general meeting opens at 10:30 in the morni 'g at the Chester high I school auditorium with several prominent speakers on' the program, among whom are State Superintendent J. II. Hope, Superintendent AVj ('line Flora of the Columbia city-, schools, , i^r. J. P, Coates, secretary of the South Carolina Teachers Asso-j ciation and "Dr. H. L. Caswell, Professor of Educution at Peabody Col-j lege. The general theme of this meeting will he "Improving the Klemon taiy School Program." The speakers in the departmental meetings ill discuss such subjects as. reading and language, number and number work, and the social studies, u? history, geography and civics, j Teachers may learn here what to teach, how to teaeh it and how to; measure results. The high school group will be in ] conference with Mr. .J. McT. Daniel, state high school supervisor, who will discuss "Some Curriculum Problems in South Carolina High Schools." Home economics teachers will meet with Miss Lillian Hoffman, state supervisor, for an hour of discussion and planning of the year's pro-j gram. Miss Nell Whaley will speak i in the departmental meetings on the "Health of the School Child." Miss | Whaley is state worker for the tuberculosis association. From present indications, the at-t en dance at this, meeting will represent a very largo, percentage of the j teachers in the Fifth District. Bethune News Notes Tnld by Correspondent Bethune, S. C\, Oct. 27.?The October meeting of the Bethune Chapter U. D. C., was held at the home of Mrs. M. G. King. The chief item of business was the election of officers for the incoming year. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. W. E. Williams; vice president, Miss Stella Bethune; treasure!-, Mrs. M. G. King; recording secretary, Mrs. J. N. McLaurin; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Margaret Marjion; recorder of crosses, Mrs. G. B. McKinnon. Interesting readings were given by Mrs. Margaret Marion and Miss Eloise Miller. The hostess served a delicious sweet course during the social period. Miss Lillian Goodlett, accompanied by Miss Thelma Stroman, visited her home at Traveler's Rest the past week end. Miss Alma Pitts, of Greenville, is the guest of Miss Bessie Seegars. Boyd Clyburn has returned home after a very enjoyable trip to New York. The Bethune high school girls haVe reorgnaized their basket ball team recently. Miss Ruby Lee Horton was made president and Miss Edith Clyburn business manager. Miss Sara Lee Heustiss, who is teaching at Simpsonville, spent the week end at home. -\Jr. and Mrs.,G. E. Brant, of Bamberg, were the week end guests of Mrs. Brant's parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1L. Vlaou). Mrs. Anna Stone, of MaltlanJ, Flrw, -pent part of the week end with Mrs. G. H. Hnney. Mrs. Sallie Davis, who has been spending some time with relatives in Cheraw and Chesterfield returned ho me Tuesday. Miss Louise McLean, of Hartsville, was the week end guest of Miss Thelma Davis. Alvin Clyburn and Vance Morgan spent Sunday with friends in Bock | Hill. The members of the local chapter Order of Eastern Star with a few invited guests enjoyed a delightful oyster supper Tuesday overling. Mr. 1 .eon Burr has returned from Washington, D. ('., where he went on last Wednesday to attend a Scottish Rites meeting. Mrs. Leon Barr has been visiting I relatives at Gilbert. ~A quarterly conference meeting [was held at the Bethune Methodist church last Friday. The Rev. Mr. [ Kir by. presiding elder of the Sumter | district and delegates : i. m other] churches of t-his charge were pres-| lent. Dinner was served at the noon] :u>ar by the ad -'s of the local church. Robert L. Ballentine, mayor of W alhalla. and candidate for rr-cloc-' ion. was called to the bac k door of | his home there Wednesday night, and -lashed under the right ear and on the shoulder by an unknown assailant. The assailant exclaimed as he cut tV" "You won't got to1 run this time." John Folder, negro, was fatally -hot Friday morning just out of Sumter, by W. J. Seale, chief of rural police, who was trying to arrest the ne^ro on a charge of writing an insulting note to a white woman. The negro struck the officer on the head cutting a deep gash. The negro had been recently released from the insane asylum. Forest Fires Rage in Georgetown County Georgetown, Oct. 24.?Aided by continued dry weather and lack of rain, timber fires were raging tonight in a half dozen or more Georgetown county coiinuunitiea. A timber company official estimateded that 50,000 acres of woodland has been burned over since the firea broke out Friday and that the damage to mature timber and younger growth would approximate $100,000. Mansfield Hcncventum, Arcadia, P/att tract and Wee haw plantation are among the large estates sustaining losses in addition to other holdings. heavy fog, combined with smoke, has tied up late flight, traffic on county, highways and city streets. Harbor traffic also has been hampered. Authorities have advanced the theory' that possibly some of the fires were of incendiary origin. Record of The Gins. According to a statement furnished by the bureau of the census the gins of Kershaw county report 15,o.'JU hales cotton ginned prior to October is, ll>61, as compared to 14,!f52 bales for a like period in lliJO. For the state there were 657,77'J in I'J.'il, against 667,601> in 1060. HONOR ROLL STUDENTS CAMDEN CITY SCHOOLS (Continued from first page) Anderson, William Brown, Ralph Connell, H. C. Christmas, Hugh Cox, Bill Drakeford, Herbert MahafTty, Leslie McCaskill, W. H. Thomas, Edward Watts, James West, June Connell, Louise Newman, Lucilc Mooneyham, Rosa Peoples, Nancy Sanders, Juanita Trapp. Grade 4C?rArthur Brown, James Frye, Marvin Hasty, Woodrow Hud| son, Lavern Price, Anna Belle Beasley, Margie DeLoache, Mary Elizabeth Riggins, Margaret Sinclair.. Grade 5A?cSchenk? William Christmas, Ernest Frietag, Lenson ..Graves, Robert Little, George West, Billy W ilson, Marie Ammons, Kathryn Boyd, Harriet Foster, Jane Halsall, Constance Kinney, Neta Kirkland, Olive McQuirt, Margaret Munn, Lavada Parker, Elsie Redfearn, Lois Rhame, Grace Rhoden, Sarah Sheorn, Vashti Thigpen, Maggie Trantham, [ Betty Whitaker. Grdae 5A?Cantey? Clinton Christmas, Edward Harrison, Harold McCaskill, K1 sie Raley, Arthur Robinson, Archie Stein, Ralph Stevenson, Daniel Thames, Odess Tidwell,. Wil, bert Williams, Derrett Wooten, Macie Christmas, Mattie Lee Cullen, Elah Evans, Lenora Sinclair, Cora Lee Trapp, Rufry Vareen. Grade 5B?James Case, Talmadge Dabney, Arlvine Dial, Carl Drakeford, Clyde Evans, Paul Goodale, I Claremont Rabon, Clarence Watts, Mildred Davis, 'Dorothy Dority, Annie L. Eubanks, Lillie Mae Rabon, Marjorie Rush, Vira Truesdale. Grade 5C?Edward Moore, Mendel Truesdale, Katie Branham, Julia Mae Hough, Ethel Kelly, Rhetta McLeod, Rosa Lee Robinson, Gladys Threatt, Lucille Watts. Grade 6A? Leroy Caulder, Edward uCrolley. Albert Irby. Dan McCaskill, Jack Rhame, Jack Richards, Bill Sheorn, Ralph Shirley. Furman Stewart, ( linton rhigpen, Jack Villepigue. Dougla> Wooten, Hugh Gettys, Lesta Davis, Beulah Graham, Louise Miekle, Margaret Osborne. Hazel Shirley, Ben Mildred Sowell, Wilhelmina St: ak, Paulette \\ est, C a t h r y n Wright.. Grade 6B?James Oreharn, George Jfendnx, Carl Humphries, H. T. I.ovette, Jr., Kobert McLain, Herbert Kichey, Kverette Shaw, Fred Sheheen, Dempsey Stogner, Frances Burns, Kosa lAtv Harden, Kdwilla Hough, Klizaheth Jordan, Jeannette Jordan, Velrna Morris, Kuby Player, Mary Alice Kabon. Grade 7A?Kinerson Hranham, Bill DeLoache, W. L. 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