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looking backward T?ken From the Fil$*?o?Vrhe Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yeara Ago la I ' ' F1FTBBN YKARS AGO December 13, 1918 Rev. W, W. Daniel.cornea to Camden as paator of LyttUiton. Street Retfhodist church and/Rev. John U. Graves is moved to L. VV. Co pel and. rural mail carrier out of Bethune, dies of pneumonia. BoggftH C. Trlppett, of Boykin, married to Miss Louise J. Johnson, of Knappa. Oregon, Rev, John H. Craves performing the ceremony. S. K. Kelly, 67, dies at hi* home in the Shaylor's Hill section. Richmond H. Hilton, of Westville, reported seriously wounded in |Srance. Mrs. Iittura J. Moseley, 73, wife of (j, W. Moseley, dies at her home in the BeulftK section. Casualty lists show Albert H in son 'wounded, Lewis W. Boone missing, Oscar (ijmjner died of disease, Sam j. Cook missing, William A. Clark missing in action. Rev. I). 1L Green, of Latta, to be 'pastor of Kershaw and Beaver Creek Presbyterian churches. William McDowell, son of Dr. and Mrs. W. C. McDowell, suffered dislocated hip and broken bone while at play at school. Crawford Roach, of the Annoy section, accidentally shot himself under the arm and died from <ttfe wound. (hover C, Welsh, new sheriff' of Kershaw county, purchases house on Kast DeKalb street and will move from Kershaw to Camden. ^ Claud Moore, of Bishopville, reported killed in action in France just . before the armistice was signed. William Gregg McCutcheon, 30, of Bishopville, dies of typhoid fever and other complications. Plants of the Spartanburg Journal and Herald both destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at $75,000. Mailing lists saved but files were destroyed. I John K. Bradford, for six years sheriff of .Sumter county, dies. Mr, andr Mrs. Ernest WobteiT^come THIRTY YKAKB AGO December If, 1JI03 E. J. Lewis gets shoulder bone broken when hurt in a runaway accident. W. E. .Osteon killed when struck by Southern railway passenger train at crossing south of Court Inn. Edward C. Hughes, former Camden man, married to Miss Kate Hayard Irwin, of Mobile, Alabama. T. O. Sanders suiters loss of barn, stables and farm implements. Loss estimated at $3,000. Walter Lowry suiters loss of thumb while working with the Vulcan "Supply Company. W. R. Hough elected secretary and treasurer of Enterprise building and Loan Association. Mrs. Davis Pore her, of El Paso, Texas, on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hoy kin. Rev. A. H. Earle returned to Camden by conference as pastor of Methodist church. , John M. Villepigue, in high school, has composition published on subject .."Life in The Country." " ' < J> 11 " ? to Cafaden frgpn North Carolina to make their home. Miss Ellen Tweed dies in Columbia and her body brought here for burial. , She. for ma\\y years conducted a millinery establishment and owned the home corner of DeKalb and Lyttleton streots. Captain Robert M. Kennedy* J'-, receives his discharge from the army and returns here to resume his connection with the Williams Insurance Agency. Dr. Sidney C. Zemp receives his discharge from service and returns from Camp Meade to resume his practice. ._ Henry Truesdale property in West Wateree, 350 acres, sold a year ago at $14,000, sold at auction by E. L. Wooten and Dr. R. E. Stevenson for "the sum of $26,000. i i i i Italy has,offered a token payment of $1,000,000 to the United States on the installment of its dybt of $?2,133, 90$, due December 15. It is up to President Roosevelt to accept or reject the token payment. J, S. Elder Passes James S. Elder, 74, died at hie home in the Three C'? community Friday, November 24, ubout noon following an illness of five weeks. Funeral services were held at Bethel Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Elder was a member, conducted by the pastor of the church, Rev. C. M. Brown, and interment was in the cemetery on the church grounds. Mr, Elder was born and rented in Fairfield county, where he resided until coming to Kershaw about 1910. He was married to Miss Lida Brown, of Liberty Hill, who with three children, one daughter, Miss Etta Kate Elder, jind two sons, Frank L, Elder, graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y? now a lieutenant in the Twenty-ninth Infantry stationed at FoA Penning, Ga., and Robert Elder. Mr. Elder received his education in the schools of Fairfield County and was also a student at Erskine College. He enlisted for service in the SpanishAmerican War -and served as Sergeant in the Engineering corps until discharged from service at the end of his period of enlistment following the ending of hostilities. In 11)20 or 1021 he stood the competitive examination for postmaster at Kershaw,, and received the appointment,0 resigning from the office, however, after serving only a short while, For some time he had not been in the best of i health and was receiving a pension from the fedeypl government. He was a good citizen, retiring in disposition and had the goodwill and esteem of his fellow citizens.?"Kershaw Era. vV Notwithstanding the fact that^Dr. Alice Wynekoop, of Chicago, had three hours before renounced her alleged confession that she had caused the death of her daughter-in-law, Rhetta Wynekoop, the Cook county grand jury on Tuesday indicted act ! for the murder. 'She is a very sick woman and is under guard. ? | Summons Foi* Relief State of South Carolina County of Kershaw . (In the Court of Common 1 leas) W. A.' Edwards, Plaintiff, against Thomas E. Carpenter, Marion Carpenter and Mamie 'Turner, or Mamie Murrell and, if she be not living, John Doe, representing cohectively all heirs at law and'tnstribu% tees of the said Mamie Turner, deceased, unknown parties, DefendTo The Defendants Above Named: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action of which a copy is herewith served upon you and to serve a copy of the Answer to the said comSlaint on the subscribers at their ofees in the City of Camden, S U, within twenty (20) days after service thereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for theCrelief demanded in the complaint. KIRK LAND & deLOACH, Attorneys for PlaintifF To the defendants, above designated as Mamie Turner, or Mamie Murrell, and if she be deceased to her distributees and heirs at law, un-, known parties: . Take Notice: That the complaint and Summons in this action were filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas on the 13th day of November, 1933. KfRKLAND & deLOACII, Attorneys for Plaintiff TAX NOTICE Books for collection of School, County and State taxes year 1933 -will open October 15, and stay open until December 31, 1933, inclusive, without any penalty. Any information con-, cerning this office will be given by mail. When inquirhig about taxes please state School District in which you live or own property. Following is a list of total levies for each School District, for School, County and State taxes: DeKalb Township Mills District No. 1 40 District No. 2 36 District No. 4 38/a District No. 6 40 District No. 25 24 District No. 43 24 Buffalo Township District No. 3 . District No. 5 District No. 7 30% District No. 15 21% District No. 20 28% District No. 22 40 District No. 23 28% District No. 27 35 District No. 28 21% District No. 31 29% District No. 40 40 District No. 42 ... 21% Flat Rock Township District No. 8 3o District No. 9 35 Distritt No. 10 25% District No. 13 24% District No. 19 35 District No. 30 . 21%. District No. 33 35 District No. 37 36 District No. 41 35 District No. 46 25% )istrict No. 47 21% , Wateree Township District No. 11 24% District No. 12 35 V4 District No. 16 26 District No. 29 27% District No. 38 21% District No. 39 26% Yours respectfully. S. W. HOGUE, Treasurer Kershaw County, S. C. Hj^HpaiHeipmHWMagissrEssssavpiMnHSPIRP^^^ HILTON CHILI) CUSTODY Final Stage of Fight Over Little Boy Staged In Court Whether to give the custody of little Richmond Uo.bson Hilton to his mother, now the wife of an army officer teaching in West Point, or to Mr. and Mrs. it. M. Lee, of Fort Mill township, was taken under advisement by Judge Dennis at the end of a long argument by lawyers, oh Saturday afternoon. ? An almost empty court room at tested that the public misled the best theater of this court term, by not turning out that day, when attorneys argued exactly three hours to the court, with affidavits read as evidence, and other afiidavita refeued to, but not read. Some of the affidavits disclosed as sordid and sinful a life as the screen over showed, and others painted a tine picture of cherishing a child from love. If the parts of the affidavits and letters read in open fcourt arc specimens of them all, it perhaps was judicious to hide the rest in the files of the case, for'the eye of the judge alone, for enough filthy stuff was read to satisfy almost anybody. , Shells bursting in court and scattering tales of immorality came from both sides of thd' case, which was a habeas corpus proceeding brought by the former Mrs. Richmond 11. Hilton to obtain possession of their little son from Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Lee. who have cared for it since it was a few 'months old. The former Mrs. Hilton is now Mr*. Virginia Hertford. One side read devastating evidence of the wrong doing of Mrs. Herttord before and just after Hilton divorced her. Then the other side exploded a shell of affidavit evidence about an affair of Mr. Lee and a young girl in Rock Hill. The respondent lawyers then sent in another high explosive about Mrs. Hertford while the baby was very young. And so on, until, thaj proceedings were well plastered with nastiness. Meanwhile, Judge Dennis peered over the bench intently at the debating lawyers, that dickering, masking smile on his face, his eyes keen as poignards, and looking wonderfully like the extant portraits of Voltaire. Just inside the bar sat Mrs. Hertford. between her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sewall, of Kershaw. 75he sat almost' motionless for the whole three hours, her forehead on her hand and her face nearly invisible and fixed like a plaster cast. Back almost in the middle of the audience benches sat Mr. and Mrs. Lee with little Richmond H. Hilton beside them, and in the next seat back a half dofcen friends. There were only a dozbn persons in the seats altogether, and half of them were ladies. It was real oratory that was heard there, albeit of several varieties. The diction of Solicitor Finley was excellent and rhythmic. Lawyer Hildebrand made a really great speech by any standards, full of meat excellently expressed. Lawyer McDow made pathos, prayer and mother love roar and reverberate all over that part of town, sometimes with his face to the audience and his back to the bench. Lawyer .Joseph R. Moss made a forceful oration and logical argument, forging a chain to hold the child in 'the Lee family. For Mrs. Hertford, the mother of the child, appeared McDow and HildeI brand. For the Lees, .the attorneys were Hart and Moss and Finley and Spratt. The court gave each side an hour for the presentation of the case, and each side took an hour and aflhalf. The topic was the welfare of the child sitting in the court room not understanding what it was all about. It the very beginning, to make a clear cut issue for debate, both sides agreed with the judge that under the South Carolina law there were only two questions involved in the whole proceedings. Had that mother relinquished her right to the custody of the child? Had she forfeited her right to it by becoming unfit to rear it? That the right to it was originally and inherently hers, at the death of Captain Hilton, nobody disputed, unless she had lost that right, or it went against the welfare of the child itself. Judge Dennis said that he had thoroughly studied the evidence in the record?many affidavits and letters? and counsel need not read them all, but might refer to any parts of them the lawyer desired. "It is unpleasant to relate the sordid facts in this case," Attorney Finley began, and then he paid a very high tribute to Captain Hilton, hero of the World war, as a South Carolina gentleman, a lawyer of high rank and goodman who, after the war, "made a most unfortunate and tragic marriage with a woman who by her own testimony in writing?in letters ?admits that she was not a faithful and true wife to him," This referred to an affair with the army officer she afterward married, while he Was in Panama and otheT V. , ? parts of the world, and Lawyer Finiey put j>n gloves and went into the de-1 tails of the mess he uncovered in the I record of the case. | He also referred to statements in i the record that Captain Hilton had I said he would rather see his child dead than be given into the custody of its mother, and that he had promised Mr. Lee he could have thu child, if anything: happened to the father. Attorney' Finiey said his side had affidavits from nearly everybody itround Fort Mill for the Lees, while Mrs. Hertford's testimony was mostly by her kinfolks, and that she had made no tight to get the child until it was left $8,000 or $10,000 by the death of its father. Attorney Hildehrand came next with a legal argument on the rights of a mother to her own child, and admitted that the question in the case at bar was the tltness of that mother to have the care and custody of the child. "The influence of a'.Christian mother is best for the child," he gave as the foundation of the law about pai> ental rights, and the rest of the speech of Mr. Hildehrand was aji argument that Mrs. Hertford is morally tit to take her son. He made a learned, eloquent and philosophical dissertation on the marital relations and what wrecks married life, especially foj^ the modernistic youth, and then heuttered a fine tribute to the devoted sitlh'itice of motherhood. " Mr. Hildehrand became truly eloquent when he argued that ono who strayed and returned to the narrow path should have credit for reforming; that regeneration had changed Mrs. Hertford, and that the shortcomings of the past are irrelevant to the present, for during the last two years, she has lived correctly. "It's her child," he said over and over and thus emphasized the basis of her side of the court proceeding. "I never more fully believed in, nor more fully felt the justice of, any oau in my many years of practice," were the opening words of Attorney Thomas F. M'cDow, in a voico that trembled on the verge of tears and tones that corroborated his next statement that he had difficulty in con-, trolling his feelings. "Mother love sanctified and glorified," was the text, topi? and basis of his speech?except the time when he fired the shell , at Mr. I^ee. He analyzed and criticized the letters in the record written by the present Mrs. Hertford, said some of them had been kept for a purpose?and some we$<T mutilafed, and then he shouted at the top of his voice: "What about the other side?the star figure in the petitioner's case? It's the damned spot which oan't be washed out by Neptune himself with all. the water in the oceans." And then he read part of an affidavit about Mr. Lee in Itock Hill, one night five years ago. His vituperation of Mr. Lee was really terrific, delivered with the roar of a tornado directly into the rear of the big court room. Lawyer Joseph R. Moss made the marshalling of facts in the evidence fit into the legal principles involved in a speech very logical, very forceful, very eloquent and very cogent. He spoke most of the present Mrs. Hertford, the mother of the Hilton child, and could see no good in her as a mother. "Before he had left her breast, she had carried him to the home of B. M. Lee and left him there," Mr. Moss said, and the years since then she had left him in the Lee family shows that to be a good home in which to place the boy. Not so loud nor furious, but equally powerful and tremendous, as the attack on Mr. Lee by Attorney McDow, was-the bombardment by Attorney Moss of the actions of Mrs. Hertford before and after her marriage to Captain Hilton, as shown by her own letters in the necord. < He also emphasized the letter from Captain Hilton saying that if any-! thing happened to him, he wanted the I-ees to have his son, and that 150, York county people testify that the ' Ix?es are good people to rear the ; child. Yorkville Enquirer. I Lad Kills Self While Explaining Accident Union, Doc. 3?"It was like this?" Waiter ( udd, 13. proudly lifted his now rille to show a group of hiR playmates how narrowly he missed being killed while hunting quail yesterday. "1 was holding the rifle just this way, with my linger just like this, see? 1 stumbledBut the story was never finished. The rifle exploded. Walter, a bullet through his cheat, fell to the ground?dead. Death of Daniel M. McCaakill Daniel M. MeCaskill, 53, died at his home in Kershaw November 22, 1033, following an illness of several | months, Funeral services were held I at Mt. I'isgah Baptist ohureh and inI torment was in the cemetery on the church grounds. Pallbearers were taken from t'he Business Men's Bibleclass of Kershaw as follows: Shelly Tunnel!, James 1J, Watson, Wade H. Jones, Otis Hinaon, Jack Hilton and Ben Baker. Mr. MeCaskill was a member of the First Baptist church of Kershaw. Before he became unable to wy>rk, he held a position with the Kershaw Lumber company. Until about three years ago Mr. MoCnskill made his home in Columbia, whore he held a responsible position with the Hoffman Lumber company, of Cayce. Ho has many friends, who deeply regret his passing. Mr. MeCaskill was married in 1001 , to Flora E. Sowell, who, with sev-' en children, Mrs. J. B. Johnson, of State Park; Mrs. E. H. Brazelle, of Ashcville, N. C,;J. W. MeCaskill, of \ Kershaw; M. K. MeCaskill, of Staten Island, N. Y.; Mrs. J. D. Catoe, of Jefferson and Misses Maude and Kate McCaSkill, of Kershaw; two sisters, Mrs. Ella Hough, of Norfolk, Va., and Mrs. Net Horton, of McBee; Ave brothoi's, Gus MeCaskill, of Detroit, Michigan; Sidney MeCaskill, of Flor1 ence, S. C.; M. C. MeCaskill ahd Small MeCaskill, of Bethune; and Neal MeCaskill, of McBee, and five ! grandchildren also survive.?Kershaw Era. Death of Mrs. Mary Outen | Mrs. Mary Outen, 6(5, widow of A. J. Outen, died (Sunday night, Nov, ember 26, at the home of her son, E. 1). Outen, following a brief illness ' of only two weeks and was buried . ! in the cemetery at Buffalo Baptist J church on Monday, following ser} vices held in the (Buffalo church conducted by Rev. J. T. Dabney and Rev. J. H. Hunter. Mrs! Outen was a . devoted and consistent member of > the Second Baptist church of Kershaw and was highly esteemed by all who knew her. She is survived by ; four daughters, Mrs. J. C. Hunter and Mrs. Frances Hunter, of Kershaw; , Mrs. G. W. Bennett, of Gastonia, j N. C.; and Mrs. Yancey Poston, of I Great Palls; and Ave sons, J. E. j Outen, Henry F. Outen, E. D. Outen, ! D. C. Outen and J. M. Outen, all of I Kershaw.?Kershaw Era. ' Life Span of Animals A sheep lives 10 years. A?sr*nt lives 1'5 years. A lion lives 20-years. A camel lives 40 years. A dog lives 14 years. A squirrel lives 10 years. ! A canary will live 6 years. A crow will live six years. I An ox lives 25 years. A horse will live 25 years. .? j A swan will live 25 years. A whale lives 300 years, j An elephant lives 400 years. A tortoise will live 100 years, j A parrot lives 125 years. A mob of a thousand or more men attempted to rescue four men from National Guardsmen at Salisbury, M<1., Tuesday after they had been arrested by the militia charged with lynching a negro, George Armwood, in Somerset county, some weeks ago. The arrests were made on direct orders of the governor after local officials had refused to make arrests. Tax Notice Notice is hereby given that after the 31st day of December, 1933, no discount will be allowed on the payment of city taxes for the year 1933. All city taxes paid between now and December 31st, 1933, will beosubject to a one per cent, discount. J. C. BOYKIN, a) Clerk and Treasurer, City of Camden, S. C. November 27, 1933. HERE'S THAT QUICK WAY TO STOP A COLD T ?ke 2 Bayer Aspirin Tibiets. am~ Drink full glass of water. Repeat treatment in 2 hours. If throat is sore. crush and dissolve J Bayer Aspirin Tablets in a half glass of water and gargle according to directions in box. 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