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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>
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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.?<\? .
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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.
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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.
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