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' ik'n' Rockwell of Krivvloigh, was Suss i-d sshen his car plunged off a roa-i into Id feet of water' near Tar> '! (i, N . ( A Central Motori Product Body by Fithtr YoUR comparisons of the Buick will go beyond models and prices to Buick quality. You will point out to yourself modern improvements for which you will look elsewhere in vain. C heck up on licud room, el how room, le_: room. Sit in a Buick and feel its lu\urv. I In n, take it out. In perKirm* ance aiul riding, vou will experience the clincher in Buick s favor. Buick's sweet, Mitooth, \al\e-inhead power and performance are not duplicated. Its K iu'O- Act ion ^ lu 1 i 11 ^ r ul e is built in by Buick's own engineer* inn. Benin vour comparisons now with a real k demonstration. *795 ant! up. 1 iif prices at Hint, Mich.. iuhjcttto change with* i?ni notice. Special c*t| uipinoni c x f m, C?. M. A. C. tcrnu. WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT . .. BU1CK WILL BUILD THEM LANGSTON MOTOR COMPANY Camden, South Carolina Editor N. (i. Osteon JI2 Years Of Age: Columbia, Feb. 9.?N, (J, Osteon, of Sumter, is perhaps the oldest active newspaper man in South Carolina. Mr. Osteon is 92 years old and is at present proof reader on the Sumter Daily Item, which is being operated now by one of his sons. Mr. Osteon went into the printing business as "printer's devil" 75 years ago. He has had varied experiences during these many years. He is still very active and looks as young as many men at 65 years of age. While in Columbia last week Mr. Osteen called on Governor Olin D. Johnston and expressed his best wishes for the success of the new governor's administration.In speaking of his boyhood days, Mr. Osteen said: "The' people of today have no idea of the many problems which faced us in years gone by. The task of making a living and being able to keep the home fires burning was difficult, but people of my day were so accustomed to hard knocks that they pushed them aside and went forward with wonderfpk courage. We met our problems bravely and were able to work them out and get along, not so fast and efficient as is the case today, but we made progress. "The people of the little city of Sumter are wide-awake and doing well. In years gone by our town was known as Sumterville, We only had a handful of people then, but now we are growing at a rapid rate and we expect to have a governor from our section in 1938, and the time is not far off. Four years will pass very rapidly." Mr. Osteen had Wyndham M. Manning in mind in speaking of the next governor. Queer Accident While Hunting Columbia, Feb. 12.?Harry Bell, a | banker at Ward, was in a local hospital today suffering from a gunshot wound inflicted by one of his hunting dogs while he was disciplining another. Bell, whose condition was described as "serious," laid down his shotgun to discipline one of his dogs. The other stepped on the trigger. The full charge entered Bell's leg,! shattering it. After improvising a tourniquet from a bootlace and dragging himself nearly half a mile to his parked automobile, he drove to hi.* home and iater was brought 10 the hospital. Death Of Mrs. Payne Mrs. Lucy Payne. .70. wife of ( larence Payne, died last Saturday evening at the hospital in Camden, where she was taken <>n Monday preceding to undergo treatment. Being in an enfeebled condition from weakness she was given a blood transfusion. the blood being supplied by her older brother, I). B. Love, but while this revived her somewhat her condition grew gradually worse until the end. Her remains were brought to her home at Kershaw to await burial in the ceftiotery at White Bluff Baptist ( hurch Sunday afternoon at 7 o'clock. Funeral services were conducted in the church by her pastor', Rev. J. T. Dabney and interment fob lowed immediately after. Mrs. Payne was a lifelong resident of this section and was a faithful member of the Kershaw Second Baptist church. She was highly respected by all who knew her. Surviving arc her husband and an infant son > uV five weeks old; her mother, Mrs. K-ther Love and the following brother. and a st-ter: \\ . A. Love. Midway; I K. L'>ve. Lor- Mill; C. A. Low. f ; .a; I >. 15. Low . John. IL l.?<\? . ; : M- 15. F. P Ke -ha V. K law K I S la \ i r o I ( ) 111 cer (let-. I w en I \ ^ ea r s ' G -a! onvcn-! ' } ib-:.; \ Juig. K w.v oxr.er pC- j - :;ng ar d Soa.ito- S. S. T.-on rept -1 g :he .- .ate. Court ad h.urn. d j ed.ne-day at noon. p. .,,n ,a . ( were ior.-pi : i-l ai ;ii- ; or m for their ah-er.ce. t ?r..v ore -act; c.a-e wa- tried. .1. X. I.and? ! getting three month*. Bruce Koi ie. charged with mur 1- ring officer David 1 bason of Page'.ami la.-t December. was found guilts of manslaughter and was sentenced to twenty years ;n the penitentiary. The officer had gone to the home of Rorio on the night of December 2nd on complaint that he was drunk and di>orderly and had shot hi* wife - Page ; land Journal. Jt 1" . 1" ?* Lady Still Living Saw Lincoln Shot Huron, S. J)., Fob. J 2, -On ihi? day w hen millions of Americans arc thinking of the humble birth and towering life of Abraham Lincoln, a little old ludy of this town is thinking over-jiowwfully of his tiagic death. The passing of 70 years hus not dimmed the picture of that horrible moment for Mrs. Nelson Armstrong. As a young actress she was backstage in Ford's Theatre the night Booth'* murderous pistol shots cut through the light comedy of the play to present a sudden and stark tragedy. Mrs. Armstrong was then the child wife of Kdwin Brink whom she had married at 15 shortly before the tragedy. Through her husband she was soon playing small parts with the troupe. She well remembers .John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, as a popular and light-hearted player. "He was nothing like his terrible deed suggests," she recalls, "He was always ready for gaiety when with the company, and never struck anyone as particularly serious." The play presented that fateful night'of April 11 was "Our American < ou-in"?a fill-in while Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" w a> being rehearsed, for the Ford's Theatre company was at that time spec- , ializing in Shakespeare. Kitty Brink did not have a lulo in j "Our American Coursin." but her husband did. Kitty was relegated to 1 the dressing rooms to help make up the other actors. "I recall something my husband tohk me during rehearsal that morning thut puzzled me," Mrs. Arm| strong says. "He ha 1 been talking to Booth. And Booth said, "Somej thing will take place here tonight that will make the name of Booth live forever." Here is the way the events of that night burned themselves into the brain of the child actress so that the i little old lady still remembers them: "Everything backstage was going along in routine fashion despite the fact that we were conscious of President Lincoln's presence. The knowledge circulated backstage just as he arrived, soon after the curtain rose. We weren't too excited over that, as he often came to Ford's- theatre during the war. for relaxation. "It was near the end of the second?or third?act, at about 10 o'clock when 'things happened.' In the dressing rooms we heard two indistinct noises. We thought nothing I much about it until we heard shouts both from the stage and from the auditorium. Realizing that the shouts were foreign to the lines of the play, we stepped into a little hallway. "Just at that moment we heard the clumping of footsteps of someone running through the stage scenery, down to the rear entrance, out the door, and into'the alley. I hat was Booth, though of course, two didn't know it then. "We rushed onto the stage. All was wild chaos. The first thing I saw was a number of men being lifted up from the stage into the president's box. And further back. I saw the picture that has never left me for a moment. Sitting in his chair, his great shaggy head slumped on his chest, was Mr. Lincoln! Mrs. Lincoln was screaming and Would Sterilzie Certain People A hi!: to authorize the sterilization of mental defectives and criminals who "by the laws of heredity" might become the parents to "socially inadequate oflNprirg> i- now awaiting actio:: by a r.ou-e of representatives t whim fai.c.l to pass a similar bill las;. I spring. T" ' 'ma-.*:-. . in.'! oa. ?.y ; ,v. j a pry-; ia-. pro; > that the s'ate. boar : t !. alth may authorize sii idi-j zat!..-: a Per an ir.ve.-t :gat in each ! specific case : e< ommen<ia: ion of 1 cha: i tabh- in. t It a: :,<n where the in-' mate i- i or.lired. Do< ? Bhekb :rr, oermi rtlrg up- ' bis Mil, sa l it had the support of man\ scun::ti. ami , hantahle organizations. He asserted that the pas -nge of the bill would result in ait "untold savings" to the state in funds now being spent for the care of hereditary criminals and , mental patients. Iaist jtar a similar hi!] was introduced in the senate by Senator S. K. Xas'n of Sumter and was passed to ?.he hulls*.. It failed to receive action there. N r'h < aro-ir.a has a sterilization law. Sunday's State. More than 2ft0 Havana school teachers were jailed Saturday on charges of "illegal assembly." crying unintelligently. I heard her cry once, 'Mr. Lincoln has been shot!' By this time two actors of our cotnpany, Miss Keene and Mr. Ferguson, had worked their way through the panicky crowd and come up from the rear to the door of the box. "I stood on the stage, glued to the spot, overwhelmed and terrified. I could see doctors working over Mr. Lincoln. Finally a group of men carried the chair with the president on it out of the theatre. "The performance was hopelessly disrupted, of course. Patrons were leaving the theatre in a frenzy of excitement. No one was quite sure what had happened, and many had no idea that Mr. Lincoln had been shot. "Miss Keene came back to the stage, and it was then that I learned that it was Booth, our fellow fdayer, who had done the slaying." M rs. Armstrong (she divorced Brink, married Nelson Armstrong, and is now a widow) is one of thtose who believe that John Wilkes Booth was not the man who was shot when cornered in a burning barn by pursuing troops. "The man they got in that barn was not Booth," Mrs. Armstrong avers, "Of course I can't prove it definitely one way or another, but I. and a great number of others who knew him. have always been convinced that he got away and died under another name many years later." After the tragedy, Mrs. Brink played in Shakespearean plays all over the United States and Canada for la years, following which she retired and married Armstrong. Today as a widow, two of whose children live here, she is alert and very much alive at 85. And the anniversary of Lincoln's birth as observed today only serves to make more vivid to this old lady, one of the few remaining eye witnesses, the terrible tableau she saw 70 years ago. Blood Transfusion Given T. Y. Williams j Owing to the serious illness of Col. T. Y. Williams at a Charlotte hospital a number of local residents were called during the week for examination of blood for the purpose of giving a transfusion. After a number ( of tests were made Hazel Funderburk j of this city was selected and he guve j blood to Mr. Williams oil Wednesday. I A number of others were examined and it is said that the blood of Iai wis M. Clyburn matched so that he will probably be called on for a transfusion in a day or two. Mr. Clyburn is a double second cousin to Mr. Williams but this fact is said to have i nothing to do with the matching of! blood. During the past week Mr. Williams) i* said to have had a high tempera- j turo and the doctors are endeavoring to build him up physically by the blood transfusion method.?Lancaster News. Former Governor I Removes Picture I mvmmmmi.i lu i_ 3 m * Columbia, Fob. 9.?Former Gover- I nor Coleman Livingston Blease, who wus defeated la.st summer for gover- fl nor by Olin I). Johnston by ahnoitlfl 35,000 votes, wulked into the gover-* nor's office u few days before the in. augural ceremonies of Governor? Johnston and took his phoi..graph, I from the wall and walked out with.3 the picture under his arm, giving aC* his reason that "this is not a very* good picture of myself. 1 wish to I have a better one made." fl Mr. Hlease, as a rule, does the un-fl expected. Just before his term ex. 1 piled as governor in 1014 he resigned 1 and Lieutenant-Governor (has. a. i Smith assumed the duties as gover-* nor. Many people of the state won- fl dered why Mr. Blease resigned. Few people?many who know Mr/fl Blease intimately?ever know just fl what move he will make next. He fl has intimated that if his health will I permit, he will be in the race for the fl United States senate in 103(5 against I Senator James F. Byrnes. If the race I is a three or four cornered one, Mr. a Blease is likely to enter the second fl race, and as a rule, will lose the con-* test. Cole L. Blease has been in al- * most every state-wide campaign since J 1805, winning only three of the con- fl tests?elected governor twice and I one'time to the United States sen-fl ate. In the last campaign, in speak- I ing for the governor's office, he said: fl "I do not care anything about the fl honor. I have held almost every high fl office in the gift of my people, but I my friends, many of whom are ladies fl from many sections of the state, urg- fl ed me to run for governor, and I fl am running in order that I may serve fl the people in an economical way, fl which was the case when I was gov-fl ernor from 1911 to 1915." Killed In Crash I Near Bishop vill? Ernest S. Norris, 31-year-old Sottr.^fl ter county man, was fatally injnitdfl early this morning when his ,cii fl struck a bridge three miles northeast H of Bishopville on Highway 401. Nor ris' two companions, Carl Robb and fl Eugene Boyce, escaped with painfnlfl injuries. ^ -9 The injured were brought to the^B Tuomey Hospital at five o'clock this? morning and Norris died shortly af- H terwards. Robb was discharged fiomfl the hospital this morning, but Boy?fl was still at the institution suffering? from head injuries. He is expected to ? recover.?Friday's Sumter Item. General Luke Lea, Nashville, Tenmfl banker, serving a term in the Nortkfl Carolina prison, was released on P?J role that he might attend the funeral"? of his mother at Nashville. Mrs. La? died Sunday in Washington. Lftgomufeton YMr #wn b Mtfcorixtd to cfcttrftMy rifwrf ywr Mncy m tfi# j if foa irt Mt r*ii?v?4 ky pMniliiaa. f COUGHS Don't let then get a strangle hold. Fight > them quickly. Creomulsion combine* 7 helps' is one. Powerful but harmless. Pleasant to* taksh No naruotica. Your own druggist 1st authorised to refund your noasy on tho- j spotif your cough or cold is not relieved by. Crooftrtrftloa. (adv.) j ? -i . -i ,i i _.i I " '- a-* ' 5 J. C. COX I Sanitary Plumbing and Heating |: ' Telephone 433 J | ! Estimates Furnished on Short Notice mm????mmwmwmwmmm? iMULESl I Ju^t received carload of [I TENNESSEE MULES | I Can be seen at the old Clark I I Stables on West Rutledge 11 Street, Camden, S. 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