The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 08, 1933, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
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T?ken From the Fil$*?o?Vrhe Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yeara Ago
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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