The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 30, 1931, Image 8
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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. Jackson, Kobert
Marye, Frank Oliver, Isaac Pitts,
Woodrow Sanderg, Carolyn Cantey,
Minnie Sue Bruce, 101 len Little, Kli
itubeth Pitts, Rebecca Rush, -
Savag?? Jean VanLandingham, nM
omi Walker, Nancy Watts.
Grade 7*1$ Willis Dial, Edwin Mill
1.-1, Ross Shirley, Lou Clybum, ty>roB
thy Creed, Marjoris Cullen, Cath?r|
ine Dempster, Zfclma Goodman, J
May Hall, Annette Hasty, Idabtlll
Mooneyhap, Bertie Lee Roberts. I
Grade TO?^Raymond H i Q s o *|
James Hough, J. T. Kelley, CharlJ
MoCafWH J?hft Mary l}r|J
bum, Berntce Hendrix, Pledabvl Horl
ton, Ixjuise Mol^eod, Alma Smyrl, All
bcrta Wattsj
Savory
Roast Beef
WHICHEVER way you r,..,st
it?well done or to that rareness
your folks may proier
?you'll find it flavory. leader,
tasty. And as everybody
lik^s Reef, why not a
roast for Sunday?
Telephone 318-J
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North Brood Street Near S. A. I..
Crooning
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1 Picnic Hams - - - 14c]|
10 lbs GRITS 25c
10 lbs. POTATOES 25c
LETTUCE, lg head . 10c
5 lbs. RICE 21c
10 lbs. CABBAGE ... 25c
CELERY, lg stalk .... 1<*
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48-lb. Bag Self Rising 99c I
24-lb. Bag Self Rising **
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Pork Chops, lb 20c
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Hams, sugar-cured, slic. 50c |
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Lamb Stew, lb ^
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Pork Liver, lb