Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I ^mmpWkK % MJZtTr (feysivt LS ? JfJ __ Jit?? il>? in IP **!,? ??kfu from 9 I nuiiirul i:<P*y Mloerul Wuier? H nothing mliloil. You ??!? 1 ihriii to youi <li*ink lnt> %* liter. H M Quirk, |>lt?i#nt?non-lfriutliig H Mild Iion-hulill formliiK. <?'*?> your* jJ I Mir II daily hnlh Imlde/ | j TUNE IN ^ | | Dekalb Pharmacy Telephone l a J 8**jfcVl . 1 . Wateree Bridge ?' Is Target of Bill The long-sought transfer of the Wateree toll bridge between Camden and Columbia to the state highway department? was proposed in a bill introduced yesterday morning in the senate. The measure would lift the tolls after county bridge debts are paid. The bill, introduced by Senator J. S. Lyles of Cuirlield, us his first measure since election, was referred to the roads, bridges and ferries com- j mittee. The state highway commission would operate the span on United States highway No. 1 as a toll bridge j until the bridge bonds issued by Kershaw county for its const ruction are ret i red. The tolls w??u!d then be abolished as. t/u bill .'aMr ihcrbndge "is an impiu tan' and much u-e.i bi ulg*. The highway <. himis.-ion wouid asmi me title t" tie- bridge and maintain * it a- a pa.t of i tie state road .system. Senator I .vies said in his bill that the Kershaw eounty board of direct-., was te ha.'e lifted the tolls inoi e than t.htee year- ago under an act d.reeling the state highway department to hard-surface the bi idge. Am etf"it to free the county-owned Mars H'.u IV toll b: idge, between Florence and Darlington counties, by a similar bill wa> blocked last year in t his house. Wednesday's State. Memphis police locked up a bunch of touring Califoritians on charges of vagran. \- I here were six of them and the police chief termed them as :i "bunch of radicals, dissatisfied with the way the government is being run." Frank NeJ-ott D aih'eday, 72. b"ok ' " "r and magazine publisher, ded at Miami. Fla. Ilia remain- will be bin a d at Oyster Hay, N. V. TAX NOTICK. After Januaiy .?l.-t, libit, the County Air: to? will add an additional penalty of one pi i ccii'. "ii a.I taxos not paid, which were iom'^oI tor year I When inquiring about taxes please state .school district in winch you 1; v v ui own pioperty. Your* respectfully, S. W. IICHICK, Treasure Kor-haw County. S. C. notice To Delinquent Taxpayers on Personal Property, Road and Poll Taxes. v I will collect tax executions that 1 have in Sheriff's office if thu parties that I have execution* against will come in and pay them any time during the next six months, and there will be no Sheriff's and Treasurer's , cost added. T. TT. McLKOD. Sheriff of Kershaw County. FINAL 1)1 SClI ARC IB Notice s hereby given that one month from this date, on the 20th day of February 1 1. :it 11 o'clock a. m., w k w ill make . <> t r.e Probate ' ourt of Ki-rsnaw County <>ur final n'urr. a- I* !\o< u" <?: > ,.f the state of K. SI1.!, diseased, an on the sane- a e w.b app.y '. -a ( ' , i ; go a aid .1 W si!.!. M \ Mill S. HAMILTON i : IN \' !?is< !i \t:i, r 1 ' : b. -:... .V % ". r. a \ ! tv..t isfrat r: x < f the ea:a >ft v.* .:. t\ it .. . a a ' . r. ' > -an- . i' i I W . a-;.;. * ' a: i urt for a lira' discharge a* -ftA-tfi. * -!: a t r. \ AN NIK L. R11AME, Administratr \ of t.\. K-: r< ]b k . r. \S 11 r a m< < amden, S. ?January D>. I'.M-L NOTICK Til DKHTORS AND CRKDITDRS All P'-r-..n- :n.i?b-e,i to t'r.e^K.ta11' of I.. .1 a. nsi>r.. <teceasei!. art hereby reo. >-e<l t make payment t< the unders.gned Kxecutor of the sah F.s'ate. and a'.! por>or.s to whom th< sa.d L-tato is indebted are hereby re quired withir. the time prescribed b] law to file their claims, duly attested with the undersigned Rjfcecutor. Wf" * JOHN K d?LOACH. Kxecutor of K.-tate >.f W. L. Jackson I ~ """ " " ' News of Interest In And Near BetKune Hethune, S. C., Feb. <>. ?Mr, and Mrs. K, R. Hums spent the week-end with Mr. Hums' parents at (J;ay ('ourt. Mr. and Mrs, (Jordon, Sarah at <1 Keith (Jordon, and Mrs. \V. K, Roziei* fpent Sunday in Monroe, N. <\, whore they went to vi*it Mrs. (JordonV taiher, Mr. Mc.Manus, who has been quite ill. Mis- Kurioe Severanee i>' visiting l.?r. K.don Saveran e and Mr-. Savei-> ?ri e n' A ndt ew ? , Horn to Mr. and Mr-. Leslie Jpjjes on Wednesday, January .'list, a >oii, L? ()_ Jones, ,1 unior. Mi.--> Josephine Smith le^t-.Sunday for Halt imore to go for a nurse at U>e Frank/in Square hospital. ( Masts Arlone and vhtdma Wages made u b. iei visit u> .Richmond duiti t he \ . i i; i i d. Members of (he H. Y. 1'. U. enjoyed a social at the home of Mr, and Mrs. 1). 1,. McLcod Friday evening. The new presiding elder for the Sumter district, the Rev. Mr. Fowler, filled the pulpit at the Methodist church Sunday. Mrs. A. K. McLaurin spent last week in Florence with her daughter, Miss Mary - Lm?i,se, who was a patient at MyLeod's Infirmary, Hoth Mrs. Mel.aunn und Miss McLaurin returned home Sunday. Mi ss Midge Hillings of Lancaster, was the week-end guest of Miss Stella Hethune. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McDaniel spent the week-end in Kock Hill with Mrs. [ McDaniel's parents, Kev. and Mrs. J. J. Ik own. J Miss Carrie Varbrough of the Ha[ ron heKalj) school faculty spent the ! week-end at home. I M!.-> Mildred Manning was hostess 'to a heart dice party Saturday afleri:< < n honor of Miss Margaret Man| n;ng n;' cj-jn, jTwo Boys Are Held | For Theft Of Auto ( I'a !>>.<>-. giving their nanus as ' Ralph Mi/.< and Haul Yoim'.s and who ^ <duna il to he from Winston-Salem . we-e am.vted Sunday by state highway pat-olman and Leo Jenkins | placed'*!he boys under rrest in Lanla.-'ir jails on charges of having a .stolen automobile in tluir possession. Mr. Jenkins wa- on the trail of these !> >> when a tire went flat and the vre-t was made near Camden on llghway " 2I by an otTiver stationed at Camden. I M./.e admitte<l to Officer Jenkins that he stole the Ford coach in which he was tiding from a town in Yir! ginia. Mi/.e said that the other boy i named You ills was not implicated in I tin theft but the boy is being held | pending further investigation. I While the two boys claim to be 'from Winstow-Salem they were un.1 b 1 ? to give the nanus of the officers i at that place and Mr. Jenkins is not ; -uiv that they gave their right names. Tiie-e two boys say that they arc i in; 111 vear.s of age and the officers 1 -ay that while they may be older than j l'i that they arc under L'ti years. Mizc appears to be a hard boiled | youngster and he told Mr. Jenkins | that he was released about eight | months ago from the reformatory at J Concord. Jenkins became suspicious when he saw the boys drive through Lancasi ter with a car that was similar in many respects with a car that was reported stolen in Virginia, i When they reached Lancaster the car had a North Carolina license and the Mi/.o boy said that this license plate was stolen in North Carolina. One of the boys is being held in the county jail and the other in the city ja:l. I*anvaster News. j Benjamin Franklin Pruitt, osicaped convict from the North Carolina -tate pii.-on sir.ee 1 js hole at San Antonio. Texas. Pruitt claims It rat a fr.< nd of his in his home anc a-, i \ r.v.vt. heard hi.- wife talking i while :n a delirium and thus learnt*' l:r.V was f u g 11;e and ther : .t-d r. m u;> >I'M \|i i\S Kilt RMI.IKI i. . . I i.t 1 ? ! '...a ' T The lb f< r.dnr.t Ki-r.n-fj Hair A -. a: ? r< 1 e: > -uiiiiij : and e , . : . r-wir the Complaint u a? t.on. of which a c.py-is serve* ! y. a. a: ] -ervc a copy o y .1 r answer '<> the -aid complaint oi niiv raicr at ins office in < am den, South Carolina, within twent; lav- after tie service hereof, exvlii jsive of the day of such service; and ' if you fail to answer the complain I within 'he time aforesaid, the pia.n jtiff in this action will apply to th Court for the relief demanded in th > . complaint. L. A WITTKO WSK Y. 1 Plaintiff's Attorney ? I >ocember 21. 1 P.'l.'t - To the Defentiar.t, Richard Had: ?" H.t as?- take c. .< *> that the origins , 'Summons, of whan tie ab<-\?- py. wa- fill-; in H<- - tfioe ..f h ;Cierk of < koirt f<?r Ker-haw i ; ,. 1 'he 2fr..*:av f .'a- . . : : ;; L. \ WiPTkiiA K Y. PlaintdT- A", rr ? > Hermit Took Charity With $5,367 In Trunk (Hy (lonovievo Reynold* in Churleaton News and Courier) Charleston, S. 0., Jan. 21.?Five thousand, three hundred and sixtyI seven dollars and sixteen cents in cash, besides seventy-five dollars of .Confederate money, lay in the trunk of Mrs. Me 11 Rogers, eighty-eightyear-old recluae of Lamar, who cried | petulantly when neighbors and relatives came hi to see her, "1 haven t any money, nothing, to eat or wear. Last Monday she'died alone as she had lived for the last thirty years and as she desired it. Neighbors and friends offered to stay with her, but she queriously ordered . them a way. jv With nhVnty of food in the house ana money at llpi/hl'to replenish the supply, she was too niggardly to eat but enough to barely keep body and soul together. Friends and relatives took her bountiful trays of food, but instead of feasting and enjoying the repast she would save it until it became stale and moldy. She was af fa id o eat the food for fear it would run out and they wouldn't bring any more bofore she starved. A few days ago a kind hearted-woman of Lamar paid the supposedly destitute woman two dollars on an old bedstead in order that the hermit might buy food to prevent herefrom starving. This same woman had hired the aged recluse's, laundry done for the lrtst few years. Yet, in a small old-fashioned trunk, made of cow hide, but which looks like a large doll trunk was a small fortune, just a few steps from her bed. Many of the !>UU were so old they crumpled 1 like avhes when touched. ' \b.rc w<?od was burned Monday, ! I'm night Mrs. Rogers lay a corpse, than lias been burned in live years on ihe pare." -aid Mrs. Rogers' daugh! t( ; in-law to a large group of specta '<>:- who had come from far and mar it>? -ce the miser's home, j With >e\eral cords of wood stackled' '.n the yard, piled under the edges Jul tin house, -he never had a large I tlame no matter how cold the wca1 tiler but hovered over a few glowing ! embers. If any one should happen to : come in and put more wood on the tire. - tie would become furious and orjder them from the house. A tiny flame was kept alive in the wide-open ' fireplace summer and winter with a Mere modicum of wood. } Three days have been required to jdestroy all the useless plunder found 1 packed away in the dead woman's four-room log house. Mrs. Rogers ' never gave or threw anything away. rot even a match box or empty bicovbinate of soda box but kept them | j?i tiu- kitchen along with all the cof! fro or tomato cans that she had used i for the last thirty years. In the rickety old kitchen behind ' the kitchen stove is a box of wood i that her hu-band. Abel Roger.-, put j there just before he died. The stove | wood is dry ami full of insect holes j but it remained as untouched as "the untouchable of India." There wore at least 2.000 bottles of every conceivable shape and color packed away and on the door facings of the kitchen. Many of the bottles were the pride of the distillers and brewers. A pint of gin and two quarts of whiskey which her husband bought in 1001 was found where he had placed it a few days before his ' death. The shelves were filled with jars of peaches, tomatoes, preserves, pickles and soups that are a good ' recorder of the years from 1001 to 1934. J In her bedroom, which was cluttered with old pasteboard boxes, are cal. endars hanging on the wall, one for | each year since 1O01. Moss forms : , f-atiies for pictures, yellow with age. | 1 "rider the edge of her bed was a pair r I of men's shoes that had been in tbe j same spot for thirty years. On the i mantle -die.t* are two pecans and a : peanut that her adored husband plact 1 : h< re ju-t b- fere he deed. Hi- old . . x:\- ' - r?o* ' e left ' ei.M'Uii is St.:: -tar.- e g in \ .e 1 #r.e: f * ;r ,h> , , . , . y pre v 4? t .one A . T y r.a 1 one m. < 'arl lb g- r-. who repeatedly uHY-ed hi- moth.: n . >me. hut -r.e ref<i-eii : ju-t as . f en ^ he olfeled It. 1 Al>el Rogers' spirit howivd and f reigr.od supreme :r. the little u>g eab^ n. ever, though he has beer, dead for 'pmtirr thar. thirty years. "Aren't you .ur.e-.ome ami atraid to -tay .i.one, I. asked relatives of the peiuliar and ' mysterious old woman. ! "No." she replied, "Abel m il. be back ir. a little while. He - lay- with me all the time He w n't be gone 1 ?t;g." The I. r.e woman never lost faith or hope hut that Mr. Rogers would .] soon return ' > her. i She kit* ry letter. ( hr <t ma? e :i. !, \ a.? n* i : < r - up of 1' : a-> r trat -r.e ever rc'.v-f.ed m her ..It. The hou.-e ;.- .so ..Id and shabby that it leans to the right as if on the yerge of falling. 'She.had propped the decayed side with poles instead of having it repailed. In the yard and barn is sufficient lumber to build an eightroom house. When people working in the nearby ! fields asked for a drink of water from the well, s-he would follow them and caution them not to waste any, but I to pour the remaining water back into I the well after they had finished drinki log. | Vet. this parsimonious, lone haunt! ed creature was not always like this.' I Ai the daughter of Miles Joye, Meth- I lodj-t minister, she was gay, beautiful , and the envied belle of the country- j side. She lived in a beautiful eolon' ial plantation home. There were scr: van's and money at her beck and call. | 1 Her life was filled With gaiety and fun; every desire and wish were fulfilled. j "All might have gone well," ex-, plained the wrinkled woman to the] author a few years ago. "but love in the form of a good-looking tall, de, bonair man of the neighborhood gal! loped up the long shaded avenue and into my heart." j Her parents violently objected to her courtship with Lester Lodger i whom she married after u short acquaintance. Their marriage seems i to have been just as tempestuous as . the brief courtship. Mr. Lodger squandered a moderate fortune for hi.s wife and that probably caused a ! great deal of the dissension in her first marriage. # i To this union one boy was born. He died several years ago, leaving , a small daughter. * Ju.st before retiring one night Mr. j Lodger offered his girl-wife half an 'apple with enough poison on it to kill five men, according to the doctors of the day. For some inexplicable reason, a premonition most, likely, the aged old lady did not eat the apple i but laid it on the window sill. Dur- j ing the night her erstwhile husband disappeared and has never been seen or heard from since. After the desertion and near tragedy she began her long life of solitude. Bitterness, disappointment and tragedy left their impression upon her body and soul. Instead of the etchings and drawings of a happy girl, there emerged a portrait of a bitter woman. The black gypsy-like eyes became sober and sad with j>ain. Jet black hair, streaked with grey, covered a fine brow now wrinkled and rugged. Her nose was slightly acquiline, sensitive and well-shaped. Perhaps it was her high cheek [bones which predominated, in spite j of the proverbial "sun bonnet" that gave her'a "witeher\ appeaiancc to tiie passerby. II? r mouth gave fttr J, nv. <' v a: ; t r< uh'.e. \o laughter l.r.-- ware <r.ga\<ci . around i.er m .1 h, nr.ly th-.-.-c <>: .-ad - ...... <i ..-a op nt m?-r.:. The well for men liguic began to , bond in utter derfe. it e.-s. i She became alone, aloof and dosola t e. I Then Abei Rogers, a devoted husband and father, took ber out of her ! self-imposed seclusion and gave her suc-h a powerful, over-whelming love } that she was restored to a nappy i normal life. I N'o wonder that Abel Rogers' spirit was still omn.present in her home [and life. Kven death and thirty ! years of time did not dull or lessen . her love and memory of him. After his death .-he became a hermit-nuser in her habits and speech. 1 j For year- -he has accepted charity d na'ior.- from the people of the r ghb-.; ;r.g r it-.r.es. Although -1-pt .r. a ' .m with a small fortune ir. her trunk, she lived like a pauper. r?fu-,r.g to .-pend ever, a no agerly .-urn i Kidnaping Bill Is Passed By House Columbia, Feb. 1.?The house today passed on third reading and ordered enrolled for ratification the Ward-Burnett bill making kidnaping a capital offense. The measure, originating in the senate, gives electrocution as the penalty for kidnaping, except that when a jury recommended mercy the sentence would he life imprisonment. Persons convicted of conspiring but failing to carry out a kidnaping would be given from five to ten years in prison. A similar measure introduced by Representative Lane of vRichland, passed by the house and advanced to third reading in t^e senate was left in the legislative mill. Among the birthday telegrams received by President Roosevelt was one ' from Birmingham, Ala., which con- j tained more than 40,000 names. Past[ed together the telegram made a strip more than 1,000 feet long. Almost the entire supply of government ammunition and arms was destroyed by fire at (Santiago, Cuba, on Wednesday. Miss Doris Duke, New York heiress, i has been threatened with kidnaping and New York police are closely guarding her. Monthly Report Of Associated Charities Report of Associated Charities ?of Camden and Kershaw County for January, 1934: Balance from last month . . $341.98 Receipts this month 295.00 * $03(5.98 Paid Out?Children's Home C. E. 1.3amy 8.U Water luTd-'Tv^hts-y^.. Rent .". . . . >. bM Miss . Kirkland, eggs } ^20 Hastings Company, seed ....'. 1.39 S. II. Ross, groceries 7.37 1 Box rent 3.85 Miss Kirkland, eggs 3.00 Plowing . 1.20 Lamoy, groceries . . . .; 10.36 Medical service, matron, MLss Scott 35.00 Telephone 3.70 S. II. Ross, groceries 3.20 Mrs. Truesdale, milk 29.80 jZemp Drug Store .55 | DeKalb Pharmacy 18.56 Mackey ilardware Co 1.75 Camden Chronicle .35 | W. G. Wilson, dry goods .... 21.84 [Thomas & Howard .25 'Stamps, tax .42 Servants hire 79.00 $273.63 Balance $303.35 . f MONEY IN DEAD LETTERS Totaled a Tidy Sum Last Year Due to Careless Addressing Washington, D.' C.?'The government gained $143,430.30 1-2 last year because many persons sent carelessly addressed letters and failed to include 1 their name and address. The one-half cent resulted from re covery of a stamp of that denomina- j tion. i Thg^bulk of that revenue came from j the post' office's dead letter offices and included sales of unclaimed merchan- j dise, money and stamps remove^ from , undeliverable mail, money found loose , in the mails and from the 3-cent fee { for returning dead letters. There was a marked decrease? \ 37.78 per cent?in undelivered letters. Money found in them totaled $63,432, $44,402 of which was restored to the rightful owners. Over 99 per cent of letters containing drafts, checks and money orders, aggregating $2,082,960, were delivered after passing through the dead letter offices. Unemployed three years and under the care of the welfare board at Portland, Ore., since Christmas, Walter j Hawkins, 57, has been notified that he was the heir to $22,000 from the es- ! tate of an aunt who lived at Belling! ham, Wash. North Carolina's state highway patrolmen arrested 131 drunken drivers on the h.ghways of that state bur.r.g 1 '? > ember. Mrs. John C. Jones , Dies Very Suddenly Mrs. Almetta Jane Jone$, wife of ) John C. Jones, was stricken suddenly on Wednesday night of last week while clearing1 the table following the evening meal and died' early Thursday morning, January 25 without ex-* perienoing any improvement. Fun- ^ ernl services were conducted from the -j home Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by %\v- J- Bradley, pastor of the KersjfcjflfSv Baptist church, of which ' Mrs. .Jrrrrpft-was a membei^Rev^J.* U' r Tuckepf pastor of the^:!Metho(ii9f~*B, churcn; Rev, A. 1). \JeA.m, pastor of MVj the Presbyterian church at Camden; Rev. J. I?. Caston, of the Camden Baptist church; and Rev. Mr. Drennan, I , 01 pastor of the Presbyterian churches at Heath Springs and Liberty Hill; Boj and interment was in the Kershaw |Q H a( cemetery immediately following. The pallbearers were: C. E. Jones, l.u John F. Jones, B. E. Jones, G. JB. I .Jones, S. S. Jones and B. J. Jones, I sons of Mrs. Jones. sn The flower girls were: Misses Lorec B.v Jones, Rosa Lee Jones, Eva Mae I,. Jones, Elfreda Jones, Ozelle Trues- Bj. dale and Eloise Truesdale. |r, Mrs. Almetta Jane Jones was bom In in Kershaw county October 2, 1870, Br! the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Bl> . Washington Gay. She was married It: to John Chesnut Jones, son of Mr. Hc\ and Mrs. Burrell Chesnut Jones, of I j Kershaw county, February 17, 1886. B; She was a consistent member of the Kershaw First Baptist church andB;, was highly esteemed by all who knew B< her. She is survived by her hus- B; band, John C. Jones, and the follow- B . ing children: C. E. Jones, Richmond,?-) Ya.; G. N. Jones, Bishopville; John?u F. Jones and G. H. Jones*, High! Point, N. C.; B. E. Jones, Charles- ^ky ton; S. S. Jones, W. W. Jones and Br i A. J. Jones, Crescent City, Fla.; B. J.Br,. Jones, Spartanburg; B. F. Jones, Bh< Kershaw; Mrs. H. A. Brown, Cam-Be,, den; Mrs. F. B. Truesdale, WesV^li, ville; M iss Cornelia A. Jones, Balti-Boi more, Md.; Mrs. C. C. Stroupe, Lib-B erty Hill; Mrs. J, Y. Morris, Lexing-Br., ton, N. C.? She is survived also byB twenty.four grancLchildren and the? following sisters and a brother: Mrs.?!;; J. W. Weaner, Mrs. Sam Barfteld,? Mrs. Willie West and Willie Gay. _fl The children and grandchildren, B sisters and brother were present al-H the funeral.?Kershaw Era. . : W. J. (Whitey) Walker and Rof? Johnson, desperate criminals wanted? in Oklahoma and Texas, were cap-1 tured after a gun battle at Tallahas-B see, Fla., and are being held under? heavy guard in a local hospital for? western officers. Dilworth Sumpter, former eandi-^B, date for congress, who Sunday tempted to rob a bank at HolbrootB Arizona, and confessed the attempted^? robbery, has been given a suspended^? sentence of a year and a day by Arizona court. I NOTICE! I All past due paving assessments I due the City of Camden must be paid j | at once otherwise property will be ad- I I ^rtised for sale. I By Order CITY COUNCIL | January 30,1934. I TAX NOTICE I Beginning the First of March a 2 I per cent, penalty will be added to all "ft' unpaid 1933 City Taxes. ft. . J. C. BOYKIN, Clerk, ft;