The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 15, 1932, Image 8
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I LOOKING BACKWARD
Tokoa From the FIIm of Tho Chrooiclo Flftoon and Thirty Y?ars Ago
B THIRTY YBAR8 AGO
8 January 15* 1902
Statement of Bank of Camden
ahowc tola) resources of 1212,463.69,
with depoaifa of $137,313.67.
Henry O. McLeod ami Mlse Lottie
Young, of Kembert, married.
Bill to provide for the aale of the
k State Farm is killed in the houae.
Assembly passe* law prohibiting
the aale of any platol weighing lee#
than three pounds and measuring leae
**?~ than 22 ii*he$?/?fcAfc \
Lgwis Thompson, formerly of Liberty
Hill, die* in Atlanta, Ga.
Mra. J. C. Raine*, former Camden
lady, dies in Abbeville.
Rev. Jabez Ferris named as new
I pastor for Camden Baptist church.
T. Edmund Krumbhol?, heed of a
hotel corporation, buys residence of
Mrs. K. G. Whistler ami will convert
it into modern tourist hotel to be
ready for guests following winter.
Rev. and Mrs. A. K. Crane go to
Orlando, Fla., where Rev. Crane ac* J
cepta call to pastorate.
F. E. Muthis purchases the stock
of goods formerly belonging to late
E. B. Capers.
Miss Margarite Sale dies at hre j
U home in Columbia.
IVKalb Cotton Mill, of Camden,
increuses capital stock from $100,000
!f?T~ to $300,000^
FIFTEEN YHAKH AGO
January 26, 1917
Charlie Napper, of Westville, married
to Miiui Lillie Davis, of Bethune.
A. W. Rabon, 64), well known and
prominent citizen of West Wateree
dead.
James H. Watkins, of Lucknow,
married to Misv Nettie Hall, of Cassatt.
Lock-wood, Greene -A Company,
northern capltaMata* to IfUTH
cotton mill at Winnsboro.
Manager Kruinbholz givea delightful
dance in honor of Robert E. Lee's
birthday.
Mrs. John A. Victor, formerly Miss
Eleanor Woodward, of Leroy/ N. Y.,
donates $1,000 to Camden hospital.
Camden fire department holds banquet
at headquarters on Rut-ledge
street.
Lancaster News sold at auction to
C. D. Jones and associates at $6,656.
Frifhds in Camden learn of the
death of Miss Nannie Lathuni, former
Camden girl, in Richmond, Va.
M rs. S. R. Adams returns from a
stay at her old home in Ohio.
Dr. Steve Twitty, of CatUden. mar-1
ried to Miss Inez Bradley in Florence.
Maine's dairy products last year
were worth $300,000,000, announces
[Governor Gardiner of that state.
1 Three Negroes Die
in Electric ('hair
Columbia, Jan. K.?Confessing free-,
ly to the crimes of which they were
convicted, three negroes were electrocuted
tinlay at the state penitentiary
here, two for murder and one
for an attack on a white woman.
James L. Sturdevant. 27. attacker
of the white woman, was the first
to be electrocuted. His victim, a <18year-old
Horry county widow, her
sister and son. witnessed the execution.
Sturdevant, was pronounced dead
at 10:1 J, approximately seven minutes
ufter Sergeant Matthew Wallace,
the executioner, turned on the
current.
David King. 22, ami Richard Dean,
18, who robbed and slew Haskill Hill,
Spartanburg?filling station operator,
in March, 1030, were executed a few
g minutes later. King went to bis
death at 10:30.
Dean, after confessing he struck
the blows that killed the Spartanburg
filling station operator, was executed
at 11 a. m.
The white woman Sturdevant bod
dragged from her home and attacked
approximately two months ago
watched the negro casually as he was
strapped in the electric chair. She,
her sister and son turned their heads
as the current was turned on.
. She was smiling faintly as she left
the death chamber.
King, before he died, said he and
Dean had deliberately planned the
murder of Hill "so nobody would
jS* know we robbed him " Several
W months earlier, he said, ho robbed n
white man at l>e\v Drop Inn. Spartanburg.
'lie also ver.fcsM to burning the
IS- home of r.uthcr Cambrel:. Spartanburg
'negro. l*eau ? "he ?li<i me
menu" and -a d in tad -h<-t
at two negio g.D Sparta-d-urg
Dean ?.a.d b< , d up behind
Haskill ID.' and mm "two or j
three time*," he and K.ng lunning'
awaj to lea\e tn?-i'- v ':m d\ir.g lie
saiii King p'ann. robbery and I
slaying am* a* he t-'r-ed t ha\ e.
w a pa : in i; i t. k-.-g me
get a pint i.e ; m, .trunk
toD and tu- -u.t - ' from
a '<lvartarV:' g h. ti . a at nr
time u a n<p..i\,.i ;i ' l-.y,
=i|- r A Ti:::. > a-.,- ,.rg. father
J of Ha-k; !i a: -r> e and
a broth*'- '..a . f *. -'.a.--, man..
the exeeut. * K n.g am: Dear.
.lame* N .nten.i, .?
-? of the pr:?r- '* .<v""'f >
(levant \v?>ul.: ... ? ? ;;?*:t - at
Choraw for h-a- N > \r >a d,
' S _. had claimed the l,. .; . , ' K.ng and
T Dean, and arrangeiv . n." re made
jt-tiL to bury them a* TvhM?nr\.
t? the prison burying g o-.;-.d
y Textile I'rogre
BigN news from three textile ,<nH
ters is highly encouraging. Textiles.
? dp. Inc., of Gastonia announces yam orders
to keep plants going 12 or 15
,:j y - weeks; Shufords of Hickory, ^n-,
Lh. nounce big orders of cordage and
cotton twine to keep mills running
Ifc full And Cannon towel order of $500,from
the Woofworth company
adds to the chain of encouraging- tex
tile developments of the new year.?
<& Gastonia Gazette.
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Slayer of Nine Put
to Death in Chair
I Raleigh, N. Jan. 8.?Asbury
Res pus, negro, confessed slayjyh 'O'f
nine persons, was electrocuted at the
state's _pfwm this morning for the
m hi we-?Vera Ijoonard, y-jeur-old
Guilford county child.
Tho. negroDwho. was about 50 years
old, entered the death chamber singing.
He was asked after he had been
strapped in the electric chair if he
was "ready to go."
"Any time," he replied, "any time
you-all are ready." The first shock
of current stopped a repetition of the,
statement. He was given two ,
shocks- before Dr. R. M. Bowie pronounced
him dead.
At his own request, Warden H.
H. Hohoycutt, 4lt state's prison, allowed
Respus- to telt h1s \story to the
newspaper men before he died.
The negro confessed he killed and
burned the body of 9-year'old Vera
Leonard in Guilford county when she
screamed as^he tried to assault her.
The death penalty was imposed for
his crime, the others having been
confessed after the sentence was
passed.
Re.spus said that seven of his killings
were committed while he "was
in a spell." He blamed this trait on
a childhood fall which injured his
head. I
I' He said he killed Lizzie Banks and
Zenie Britt. one with a gun and the
other with a stick, in Northampton
county before 1912, and that about
the same time he killed Beck Storr at
Boykins. Ya.. with a stick.
In 1912. he said, he shot and killed
ltd Wynne, of Northampton county,
and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
where he went insane, but reco\? !
t-d and escaped in 19D>.
i He d?n.o- crimes at Norfolk. Vs..
and Grevcshoro. N. C.. committed
j ri?*i* to 1 '.'Jo. which he had been accus?
<1 "f. but admitted he killed four
I pv-S'-n^ near Greensboro between
! .'Jo ar.'i < h teber of last year.
11- said h?- remembered the names
of only ti.ri-e of these, Mrs. .Jennie
C, .lbreat h. Mr?. Kunice Stevenson and
-i\-ycar old No.il Osborne. _
Killed By Accidental
Discharge of Gun
< 'oiumbia. Jan. 12--Chiif. G. Little,
wounded tins morning when a
-hot gun aecidenuailv discharged into
' ^ >t mach, died two hours later.
11.- .-on. C harles (1. Little. Jr., said
father was dctnutUi tracing -the
[manual of a".n- w herf shot.
had r?-?vnt!y been ma He dis:
j-:v manager of the Charlotte Dairy
i l'r?Hlu> is Company at Charlotte and
run: planned to mou' there soon.
D's. to Dread Still.
The old saying that there were
three D's to dread, viz: Debt, dirt and
the devil. . - still true.
Many people are finding this out
fur the first time, specially the first
of the three.
(1 Many old mAxima still have value.
They are not so merely because they
are old?some old theories are utterly
absurd?but some of those
based on the experience of centuries
and centuries are worth remembering
and heading.?Greenwood Index
Journal.
Pamela CunninghaW
Will Be Given Rites
By^
Columbia, Jan. The memory of
Ann? Pamela Cunnrfwjaam, of "Ro?emont,"
Lapren? Vbunity, who waa IP.ponvible
Aur m.kln* Mount Vernon
a national ahrlne, wtH *? honored on
February li at a unique ceremony- pa
ithe Statehoue? ground?,
A black walnut tree, taken from
Mount Vervnon, near Waehington, and
dedicated to the memory of Pamela
Cunningham* will be planted in a bed
of earth made up of a pound of aoil
from each county of the etato. Soil
al?o will be brought from Mount
Vernon, "Roeojnont," be?lefl?We and
othor hirtorle placeo In the Mate.
The eneNlew W he a part of thp
general George Waehington .Bicentennial
Celebration being observed
thle year throughout the nation.
Among thorn who will take part
in the rite* here will be Governor
BlackWod; Mis? Virginia Lee Porcher,
of Charleston, vice-regent for
South Carolina of the Mount Vernon
Ladies association; Mrs. John
C. Coulter, of Columbia, state regent
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution; Chief Justice Eugene
S, Blease, of the state supreme
court; Lieut. GoV. James O. Sheppard
and others.
O. Frank Hart, secretary of the
Masonic grand lodge of South Carolina,
assisting in plans for the ceremony,
has requested all civic clubs,
fraternal orders, schools and
organizations also to participate. He
requested that the ministers of the
state call attention of their congregations
to the plans for the exercises.
Pamela Cunningham, whose memory
is^td*. be specially honored, although
an^Invalid, organized the
Mount Vernon Efftbes association in
December, 1853. '-She*was regent of
the organization from its beginning
until 1874, the year before ber death.
Carrying on the work from her
I,aurens county home, she obtained
subscriptions from all parts of the
nation to buy Mount Vernon from
the- Washington estate. Irr this way
she was credited with saving it from
"private speculators ' and preserving
it intact as a national shrine.
She was buried in the cemetery
of the First Presbyterian church,
Columbia. Early in . 1030, 55 years
after her death, "Rosemont," the
Laurens- county ancestral home of
the Cunninghams was destroyed by
fire. Many valuable records were
lost in the fire.
It was Pamela Cunningham's conspicuous
part in preserving Mount
Vernon that enabled South Caorlina
to obtain a walnut tree, instead of
a walnut, to plant as a part of .the6
Washington Bicentennial celebration.
Nuts from trees at Mount Vernon
are being sent to patriotic organizations
in other states for planting
in connection with the celebration.
Mr. 'Hart, in view of Pamela Cunningham's
patriotic contribution,
wrote A. W. Hostetler, of Washington,
an official of the National Tree
Planting project, requesting a tree
for South Carolina. Mr. Hostetler
readily granted the request.
The young tree already has been
prepared for shipping to South Carolina.
It will be received by William
K. Czarnitski, of Columbia, executive
of the Central South Carolina council
of the Boy Scouts.
On the day of the ceremony, it
will be presented to Miss Porcher.
who will receive it for the Mount
Vernon Lathes association. She, in
the namb of the association, will present
it to-ptSvernor Blackwood.
Placing the tree in a spot on the
statchouse grounds specially prepared
with the-soil from the counties
and historic plaVcs; the governor will
ask Miss Porcher to deposit the first
spadeful of earth.
She will use an old spade made
frmn an""ofd plow, from "Rosemont,
with a .handle from a hickory tree
from "Rosemont."
Governor Blackwood then will deposit
the second shovel of earth. He
will use an old trowel made from
Mexican dollars by A. Young, Camden
silversmith", for Marquis de Lnfayette.
Marquis de l^afayette used
the silver trowel in laying the cornerstone
for the monument to his friend
Baron DoKalb at Camden in 1825.
Mrs. Coulter will deposit the third
shovel of earth; Chief Justice Blease.
the fourth; Lieutenant Governor j
Sheppard, the fifth, and other digni-J
taries will toss in additional soil.
In explaining why the earth will
be brought from every county and
special localities, Mr. Hart said it ;
had been decided the tree should "not
be planted in the soil of Richland j
county but of the entire state." ?
The state senators have been asked
to nrrange for the obtaining of the
wd from their respective counties.
Each pound will be certified by the
county clerk of court before being
forwarded to Columbia.
The hour of the ceremony will be
<r
Thursday, F^uWy 11. February
11, Mr. Hart said, wtl the
birthday of George Washington before
the advent of the Gregorian
calendar. Adoption of the new calendar,
he' added, placed the anniversary
on February 22.
Chairman Hearon, of the state
highway commission, believe* that
three-fourths of the contractors
building roads in this state will continue
the work to the completion of
their contracts, notwithstanding notice
to them that the state cannot
pay them soon, owing to lack of
funds in the state highway department,
and its inability to borrow moW*
- ?
. r 1 1 1 ' ' v;
Erdman M. Olsen has been arrested
at L<os Angeles, on a charge of
haringi murdered a woman at Prarie
I)u Phoin, Wis., in September, 1926.
But 6,000 were injured in motor
wrecks, which is a very
figure for,. ,01X0 . year, being an average
of about 17 a day injured, although
only an average of two and
half persons per day were killed in
1031, by automobile accidents, in the
two states. The careless drivers
hope to raise these figures in 1932,
however.
A ^ale of great fury lashed the
whole English coafft along the English
channel on Sunday, doing much
damage to shipping and other property.
.
John P. Stedman, banker qf Raleigh,
has been appointed treasurer
of North Carolina, succeeding CaptNathan
(PBerry, deceased.
The alumni building of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, built in 1793, was slightly damdged^by
fire Sunday.
' All the county officers of Green &
;
ville county except the sheriff have
agreed to accept a voluntary cut in ,
salary for next year.
Ask your grocer f?V Sander** -^3
Creek watefr ground meal, fresh, pure
and .cleans?adv.
ARE YOU GETTING
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"""'toy DOUGHTY'S J
The old reliable firm at 1410 Taylor Street in
Columbia, S. C., on Jefferson Davis Highway.
Dyeing thirty-five years?but still living.
I PRICE. REDUCED
The Willowbrook Dairy announces a price
reduction in the cost of their milk from
I lie per quart to f 2ic per quart
I JOSEPH M. SMITH, Manager
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