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I Krom the Fil?? of The Chronicle Fifteen ami Thirty Years AKo
^^TiFTEKN YEARS AGO
I July 26, 1918
B&ipio English, an <*M and highly
^E?itcd negro citizen, died in a
HJjaubia hospital after lengthy ill JJ^of
Quentin Roosevelt is conby
war department. He died
En airpl?ne encounter with a Ger ^id
Perkins, of Darlington, sucM,
Milium King: as superintendent
HJftadcn Oil Mill. Mr. King goes
Bell resigns as postmaster
B ^tville after serving twenty
^R^rnian U-boat sinks three barges
{ jthc coast near Orleans, Mass.
H (jjii,'i?'l Benson, sixty Ave year old
^Ljoretl citizen, dies. He was env
H^.lk.i b\ I'r. I>. IDeSaussuro and
Er by J- B. Steediman.
B'>: Fannie Bowers, aged lady,
K?t her home on North Lyttlcton
B ; a. Lam . prominent farmer of
Belaud, himself to death.
B R. G. McCreight, of Columbia,
^ irhes nine-pound trout in Hormipond.
B p MeCorkle, .Jr., married to
By., Mildred Goodale at home of
By x on Ly ttleton street.
John L. Elmore dies at home near '
Bjtsviile, in Leo county, after con-1
Baling blood poisoning. j
B J. Arthur Josey dies near St. I
B{tirles from blood poisoning.
B John R. Norms, 59, dies in Concord
Bferch section of Lee county.
B Mrs. Lou la Plyler, of Lancaster,
Bjiti letter telling of safety of Lieut.
Bra Hazel Plyler, who fell in his
Byiue behind German lines.
tlUKTY YKAK8 AGO
' July 31, 1903
Lightning1 sets fire to barn and
stables of A. 1>. Kennedy near Lugoff
and destroys contents together with
three mules and two horses.
Lightning destroys polo stubles in
Kirkwood and sparks ignite barn of
G. T. Little thereby causing a loss to
both estimated at $2,600.
Mr. and1 Mrs. IC. C, Whitaker chaperone
party of sixteen young people
to Liberty Hill for a stay of ten days.
A long procession of buggies and
wagons filled with pots, kettles pans
and bedding carried the merry party.
Quartermaster (Sergeant W. M.
Young given rousing cheer when
train arrives bearing returfling Kershaw
Guards from encampment *at
Isle of Palms for his excellent feeds.
C. II. Yates leaves on extended trip
to northern points. J. B. Wallace
serving as cashier of the Bank bf
Camden during his absence.
Sons born on Saturday to Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Savage and Mr. and Mrs.
Thos. J. Kirkland. Mrs. Savage and
Mrs. Kirkland are sisters. Both sons
bear tho names of their fathers.
Two were killed and seven injured
in rear-end collision of Southern
trains near 'Springfield, Va.
Commercial Hotel at Nashville,
Tenn., badly damaged by fire. It
was occupied alternately during the
war by Federal and Confederate soldiers.
In a gamo of dice in a church at
Camak, Ga., two negroes were seriously
wounded and five others severely
injured.
Thirteen desperate prisoners escape
from Folsom prison, near Sacramento,
California, after fierce figl$.
I Dies From Exhaustion
* Fort Lauderdale, Fla., J-uly 20.?
I|!L< heart overtaxed by efforts to
ire the crew of the burning Cities
Knife Petrol, off the North Carolina
B?ut last week, Captain Anton
Bgillson, master of the tanker, Gulf
B Gem, died Tuesday night in a hospital
Bfee. After being on the bridge of
Hh?ship for 36 hours before and durH
sf the rescue, Captain Nillson was
H teted by a storm off Jacksonville to
40^ his post when he should have
Hks resting. He was in a state .of
aQspse when taken off his ship MonHday
morning by a coast guard1 vessel
Bvbirh brought him to the hospital
Hhere. Physicians attributed his death
to exhaustion.
I The flying guild of Kaunas, LiH
thosia. is proposing to erect a suit
tbie monument to commemorate the
Mtoiof Stephen Darius and Stanley
Cirenas, the two Lithunians who flew
New York across the Atlantic
Bod were killed Sunday when they
nshed in Germany.
It CMC UNA BCYS
I TO SEE CHICAGO
I AS GUILD GUESTS
I Also Earn Chance at $5,000
Scholarship in Fisher
I Competition
Detroit, July 20 (Special) ?
P'oat 1 ' ( ''Icuko Century of
n' 1 opportunity to enmJtwo
f..i-?(x OOO scholarships
. }>Y l lsher Hody Craft str'i*
'/ i:" ! now within tho
"?hft V. l *v" s'"if6 Carolina boys,
' l r''- t"! judged tho chamth,
'' """ "" ?f their statu in
\i, _ "i Southern entries ut
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. Kor.i6u.'' H ;i " 'iUnp> K. Pryor, of
> ' " ' ^ '' Sheridan, of
'firev>n' !",:i !?rs tho two mini*
fee vo ' ' ' ' <:"IlC6 models which
fM-.'t: " ''-fcthest. scores In their
bunari" d' visions. Pryor has
three "r,sl""'' !<f winner throughout
?tlii x'it'* ''' (,u'ld activity, and
io.Bri' '* sft ian's second trip as
Tw6.D:o;i "> State,
fr'-s/, ho-, Wlt'1 similar winners
*i!l ?r s and from Canada,
' rJ Cuild at tho
B<xk;. 1'"('tjsive. Their
tier; w-?h " r" "dged, in competiu
i >: " "t h<-r state wi n ners,
" : ? on m "larding tho seholar.
" ' " ' t 'd Auk 10.
! n ' 6e competition.
_ P^ioiiu.-V * 1'' S 1 OO each, were
j?rr..-i o ' !,"r"V Johnston, and I
n, " !" Jr. of Hock. Hill,
: Mast, jr , l'aul A.
C^'rn.r " ! Hobb, Jr., of
oa* ,, ^ " '"h Carolina's entries
flc>! at the Pea body
^" throughout tho
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J\ A. F. M.
YG ^^l^r communication ot'
this lodge la held on the j 1
f I first Tuesday in each month ;
Visiting Brethren are wel5*
N R- OOODALB, JR..
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Vandals Desecrate
Old Cemetery Grave
' Vandalism, the acme of shocking
and mysterious, is the desecration of
the grave of the grandfather of Attorney
Thomas F. McDow, in an old
cemetery on the line between Lancaster
and Kershaw counties done recently.
John D. Cunningham, the grandfather
of Mr. McDow, was buried 82
years ago in the Summerville churchyard.
It is now a very old and abandoned
cemetery, seldom visited. Word
came to one of the family that the
grave had been desecrated, and it was
forwarded to Mr. MoDow, who at
once had an investigation made.
One of the family accompanied by
former Governor Richards, and others,
found first that the large monument
of a shaft on a marble base
which in turn rested on a stone
foundation with steps, had been torn
dowi\ and completely removed, the
heavy stones being scattered around.
The grave itself was open down two
feet and the dirt below showed signs
of having been dug out and thrown
back.
The investigators duj^jjown t into
this dirt in the grave and found
splinters of the broken coffin, some
charred indicating the desecration
was done at night. The skull of the
old gentleman buried there had been
taken out and thrown back, and all
the evidence was that the grave had
been thoroughly ransacked.
There is no clue to the vandals,
and no conceivable motive for the
shocking act which required much
hard work to tear down the monument
of heavy ttojies and dig open
the grave. The condition of the soil
proved that it was done since the last
rain, before the investigation, which
was over a week previously.
The motive for the act is difficult
to guess. One time in the past the
grave of another member of the same
family was desecrated and the van- j
dais caught and convicted. They said
they were hunting treasure. How
anybody now ?can believe that money
was buried with the venerable John
S. Cunningham over 80 years ago is
hard to understand.?Yorkville Inquirer.
Several hundred workers on the
$18,000,000 bridge being built at New
Orleans with relief money, went on a
strike Tuesday for higher pay. Common
laborers who were receiving 25
cents per hour, demanded GO cents
per hour.
Grain prices on the Chicago exchange
had serious setbacks Wednes- (
day as speculators tried to adjust
their accounts. Wheat was off 13
cents at the close of the day as compared
with its high pricc;/corn dropped
*3 cents a bushel, oats 2 cents,
rye 6 cents, and barley 5 cents a
bushel.
Emily Hoskins, 95, of Los Angeles,
nas had her hair permanently waved.
Said her hair, is now as curly as it
was when she heard the guns at Bull
Run. She had her hair bobbed laet
year.
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Guard Absolved In
Death Of Convict
Allen Moultrie, convict who died at
the* State hospital in Columbia Thursday,
came to his death "at the hands
of J. p. Ives with a rifle shot justifiable
in the line of duty," a coroner's
jury which heard testimony in
the case yesterday at the state penitentiary
found. *
The inquest, held in one of the
offices at the penitentiary, was conducted
by Acting Coroner Harry
Lightsey, who called four guards and
two convicts to the witness stand.
The testimony in general was that
Moultrie was with a detail of about
40 Negro prisoners cutting wood on
the state penitentiary farm, near
Boy-kin, Sumter county. As the wood
| was cut it was being. stacked into
cords. Seeing that one pile was leaning,
G. T. Mahalfey, one of the
guards, handed his gun to 1>. W.
Blackwell, another guard, and went
over to show the convicts how to
stack tho pieces properly.
Charlie Black; one of the 40 convicts
working there, said that Mahaffey
stopped by Moultrie long enough
to tell him "to go ahead and cut
wood," then walked on about five
feet. About that time, Black said,
Moultrie raised his axe to strike
Mahalfey, and when he did Ives shot.
If Ives hail not shot, Moultrie would
have "killed him (Mahalfey) dead,"
the convict testified.
Officers at the state penitentiary
said that Moultrie was sent up from
Charleston at the June term of court,
1922, after being sentenced to serve
JO years on charges of manslaughter
in connection with the shooting of a
traffic officer. His term would have
expired June 19, 1950.
Guards testifying were Mahaffey,
Ives and Blackwell, and Robert
Sharp, who was with another detail
of prisoners when the shooting occurred
but made an investigation before
the body was moved. He said
he was told upon arriving at the
scene that Ives shot Moultrie when
the convict attempted to "strike
Mahaffey with an axe." The other
convict to testify was Jeremiah
White, who told of the shooting very
much as outlined above.
Members of the jury were: T. H.
Epting, P. D. Campbell, H. E. Watts,
Jr., E. W. Stokes, . B. Pope and
C. E. Sandifer.?'Sunday's State.
General News Notes
The annual conference of the A. M.
E. church has been transferred from
Clinton to Greenwood by the presidj
ing bishop on account of the recent
murder of a negro by four white men
at Clinton.
| At Estill, in a quarrel about payment
for soft drinks W. JH. Stannard,
a storekeeper, and Kalvfn Shuman
werg. shot in a pistol duel, Stannard
being killed by Shuman's brother, who
i was jailed. Stannard leaves a widow
and two small children, and (Shuman
leaves a widow and four children.
William Franklin Timmons, one of
the oldest citizens of Columbia, was
88 years old when he died at his h^pje
there, rfe was born at Marion and
served through the Civil war in the
18th South Carolina regiment, being
wounded twice in action. He went
from Marion to Columbia 23 years
ago where he became well known a?
a building contractor.
Seven Lancaster county physicians
publish notice that after September
1, all obstretical cases will be strictly
! on a cash basis, the money or preI
vious financial arrangements.
The receivership of the Columbia
! Savings Rank and Trust company,
lasting five years, has been closed
out. The depositors got a total of a
little over 76 per cent, and the receiver
got fees totaling $35,<36.
Mayor Owens, of Columbia, proclaims
the curfew law in that city
still in force. It sends everybody
home at 11:30 o'clock and was passed
during the bank holiday and aimed
at vagrants.
In Anderson county. 31,000 acres
of cotton will be destroyed, and it is
estimated that the farmers will get
$700,000 for it. The acreage is 77 per
cent of the quota of the county, and
30 per cent of its total acreage of
ia2,000 acres. Farmers to the number
of 3,333 signed contracts.
Palmetto penitentiary convicts are
also beneficiaries of the new deal in
industry, and are working in prison
factories only 40 hours a week, hut
the guards are on the old longtime
schedule.
A tree dedicated to South Carolina
and bearing the name of Governor
Blackwood on a bronze plaque was
planted Sunday on the shore of Lake
Tahoe in the elge of California, on
the trip of governors to their conference
in that state. There was a
tree for every governor present, and
for Oklahoma represented by Will
Rogers, who said he would rather
plant alfalfa for Governor Bill Murray,
for there was some chance of
reaping the crop on that before the
Republicans return to office.
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'Millionaire Oil :
Man Kidnaped
Oklahoma City, July ?3.?Charles
j F. Urschel, wealthy oil operator, was
| kidnaped by two men in a daring
raid on his home late last night. J
Police and Federal authorities united
today in a widespread search for
them.
Bearing: machine guns, tho two!
men broke up a sun porch bridge
game in which Mr. and Mrs. Urschel
and Walter Janett, a neighboring
oil man, and his wife, participated.
"Which one's Urschel?" demanded
the leader.
Receiving no reply, he said:
"Well then, come along, both of
you." '
Both were spirited away in a large
black s^dan. Jarrett, however, >y?s
released later about ten miles outside
the city limits after the abductors
Checked billfold cards Jo** ascertain
the identity of .their victims.
They took $00 from Jarrett.
No hint of ransom demands was
revealed.
Mrs. Urschel, who was tho widow
of the late Tom B. .Slick, "king of
oil jwildcatters," said the kidnapers
were foreigners and professionals."
Urschel is a trustee of the Slick
estate. Ho married Mrs. Slick in
St. Louis last October 17. Urschel's
first wife was a sister of Slick.
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Woman's Husband
Sees Electrocution
Columbia, July 22.?Glad, ho said,
to die for^his crime, Barnie Smith,
21-year-old negro, was put to death
in the electric chair at the state penitentiary
yesterday for criminally attacking
a young married white woman.
iSitting barely a dozen feet from
the deuth chair, the husband of tho
woman the negro attacked near Ware
Shoals last March, witnessed the execution.
He looked intently at Smith
as the switch was pulled and lighted
a cigarette as the high voltage current
raced through the negro's body.
A brother-in-law and an uncle of
the attacked woman, mother of a
smallfchild, also witnessed the electrocution.
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:Smith already had made a full
confession of the crime, to the Rev.
S. K. Phillips, penitentiary chaplain,
and made no statement in the death
room other than, "I am ready to go.
I am ready to meet my God."
In a statement in his cell, just before
he was brought in to be executed
the negro said, "I am glad to die for
the things I have done."
Smith went to1 his death calmly.
He was pronounced dead by Dr. L. H.
Jennings, prison physician, at 6:06
a. m. ~"
Samuel D. O'Neal, who died at the
home, of his daughter at Sumter, 91
years old, was the last surviving
member of Major Coker's regiment of
the Confederate army. He participated
in the Battle of Gettysburg and
Seven Pines and was at Appomatix
on the day of surrender.
N Enrollment at the 'Citadel for next
^session shows a substantial increase
' over last year, General Summefall,
president of the institution, announces.
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Vacations
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By Dr. ERNEST H. LINES
BmUntnt Autkotky m*4 ChUf UlriWir
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FOOD, MILK AND WATER
/~\N your vaoation, make it a point to have three good meals a day. The
L " proper food in proper amount* is essential to building up the reserve
of mental and phyaioal energy for the next year's work.
Hut do not overeat, particularly duriug hot weather. Many attacks of
so-called "acute indigestion" are due
| to heart weakness brought on by
Svereating and drinking, or undue
xertion.
Most people oonfine themselves
too nu|ch to the staple articles of diet,
such as meat, bread, potatoes and
sugar in various combinations. In
hot weathor it is particularly advisable
to avoid eating too much meat.
Cereals, fruit, vegetables, egga, milk,
salads, fish and a moderate Amount
of meat should bo the chief articles
of diet. Although green vegetables
and fresh fruits should bo eaten in
abundance, oaro should be taken to
maintain a balanced diet.
Vegetables and cereals should bo
thoroughly cooked. If you carry
cooked food on a camping trip or
picnic, it should he kept in glass jars.'
* By all means avoid keeping food in
nil open metal container, or a can
that has been opened. Any food,
particularly moats, fish ami poultry,
that you may suspect from tasto or
smell to bo contaminated should not
be eaten.
Beverages
Drink pure mill? and pure water.
Avoid drinking too many iced soft
drinks, as well as alcoholic beverages,
which are common causes of gastrointestinal
upsets.
Milk in country places is not always
pasteurized. It is a wise precaution
to inspect tho dairy or storage place
of the milk you have - to driuk.
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Scrupulous cleanliness and a cool
j place for storage arc necessary to
keep milk pure. Don't carry a supply
of milk too long in a thermos bottle,
for if it gets warm, bacteria multiply
too freely. Make a special' effort
always to obtain the purest uiilk you
can find, even If it costs a few cents
more per bottle. If you are traveling '+
with a baby, it is bettor to carry
along a supply of evaporated milk,
dried whole milk and pure water.
If your child is going to a summer
camp, find out if the water aupply has
Ijeen tested and kept under favorable
conditions. If necessary, have it
analyzed yourself. ,
He careful of tho water you drink N
in camps, summer resorts, and by
tho roadside when traveling. Mako
sure that no contamination by sewage
or barnyard pollution is possible.
If in doubt, uso only boiled water or
cerlifiod bottled water, and if you
can't be sure of obtaining it readily,
carry along u thermos bottle of pure,
cold water.-' ,,
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This is Ihe fifth of a series of 12
articles on Vacations and Health.
The sijth, on What to IK ear, will
answer the gu??iioni:
1. What clothes nre coolest?
S. Should men wear belts or
suspenders7 9. What kind of
shoes should be worn?
(Copyright. 1033, N. Y. L. I. Oo.) _ "
Methodist Minister
i Dies At Darlington
j Darlington, July The Rev.
James W. Kilgo, 71, die<l at the home
of his son here today after a week's
illness.
Surviving are five children: James
P. Kilgo, Darlington; Miss Kate D.
Kilgo, Greenwood; Mrs. W. B. West,
Albemarle, N. <C.; the Rev. B. L. Kilgo,
Ridge .Springs; Mrs. J. N. Gibson,
Gibson, N. C.; one brother, the Rev.
P. F. Kilgo, Laurens.
Doctor Kilgo had served the Methodist
Episcopal church, South, for
more than 40 years, including pastorates
in Charleston and Greenville.
He had lived at Darlington since his
retirement five years ago. During
that time he continued his church
activities and pre-ached almost every
Sunday at some church. He was one
of the best known and best loved
divines in the entire state. His passing
is a great loss to the state, as
well as to his church.
About 1,000 additional workers
were put to work in cotton mills in
the Columbus, Ga., section as the result
of the newly adopted textile code.
Oregon Joins Wets
In Repeal Election
Portland, Ore., July 22.?OreKon,
after 18 years of prohibition in one
form or another, today had become
the 20th state to vote repeal of the
18th amendment and had erased every
dry law from the statute books of
the state. ?
A wet tide of ballots in yesterday's .
'special election gave the repealists a margin
of nearly two to one.
Dry leaders said that although they
held some hope of victory, "We were
prepared for such a jolt. We'll fight Ju^
harder than ever now."
Returns from 1,324 precincts out of
1,787 in the state showed 112,541
votes had been oast for repeal of the
18th amendment and 59,490 for its
retention.
State repeal had a greater margin
of victory.- On this proposition the
vote was 117,963 to 60,754. State
repeal threw into the discard the remaining
"constitutional"- prohibition .
laws. The bone dry enforcing acts
had been repealed in the last November
election.
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