The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 12, 1939, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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Legion Auxiliary
To Sell Poppies
Poppy Day will be observed throughout
the United State# on Saturday.
Mtiy 37. with the wearing of memorial
nopplea in honor of the World War
dead Mr#. J. WUliford, Poppy chairman'of
the James Leroy Belk unit of
lhe American legion Auxiliary, announced
today. The observance will
be led by the auxiliary women who
will distribute poppies on the street#
during the day. ?. ' .
Morq than eleven mllllou of the littlo
red memorial flower# have beeu
made by disabled World War veteraue
working In government hospitals and
in poppy workroom# maintained by
the auxBlary. These flowers are crepe
paper relics of the poppies which
grew on the Wprld War battlefields
and among which the dead and woundod
fell They are recognised throughout
the English-speaking world as the
memorial flower for those who fell in
defense of democracy.'
plans for the local observance of
Poppy Day are being completed. Volunteer
workers^from the unit will offer
popples on the streets all da/ and
will receive contributions for the
legion and Auxiliary welfare attd relief
work among the disabled veterans
and dependent families of veterans.
Poppies for distribution here have
been ordered front hospitals where
w disabled veterans have been given
employment through the winter and
spring making the little flowers. They
are expected to be worn more generally
than ever before on Poppy Day
this year.
tennis tournament at
kershaw, may 15-19
The annual Bi-county Tennis tournment
will be played on the courts hi
Kershaw during the week of May 1519.
Any player from Kershaw conutv
or from Lancaster county Is invited
to enter. Those entering are asked
10 send their names along with the
$1.50 entrance fee to H. E. Edwards,
local tennis coach, Kershaw.
Three trophies will be presented]
the winners, one to the singles chain-1
piou and one to each of the doubles'
champions.
It is expected that members of tho
Camden high school team and the
Kershaw high school team will enter
along with several older players from
both counties. In the list will be a
former member Of the Erskine college
team and the singles champion and
one member of the doubles champion
team of the first annual. Bl-county
tournament which was run three years
ago. V
The week of May 15-19, the sponsors
feel, offers a good brand of tennis to
the people of this section as the boys'
finals and the girls' finals for the local
high school tennis tournament will
be played on the hardwood court of
the school gymnasium at night during
the first week. Attractive medals
will be awarded the girls' champion
and the boys' champion. Then on
Thursday night, May 18, at 8:15, there
will be two exhibition matches, with
Sam Daniels, former collegiate champion
of South Carolina playing in one
and Sara Rushton, formet high school
champion of South Carolina, and now
perhaps the best woman player in the
entire state, playing in the other.
Finally, to conclude the week of tennis.
the final match In singles ana in
doubles for the * Bi-county tournament
will be played Friday night.
All entrants are requested to send
their names to H "ft" Edwards, Kershaw.
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county young people get
many nya scholarships
Columbia. May a.?State Director
Roger L. Coe, of the National Youth
administration reported today that
104 college aid scholarships of ,the
NYA went to Kershaw county young
people during the past three and a
half school years, including twentyseven
In 1935-1936, twenty-eight In
1936-1937, twenty-thf&ef in 1937-1938,
and twenty-six during the first half of
1938-1939.
The NYA has distributed a total Of
vllO of these scholarships throughout
the state on the basis of nine perant
of enrollment at thifty-flve certi"^
:ied institutions In South, Carolina
luring the first half of the current
school year. They ranged from three
at the Lutheran seminary in Columbia
to 148 at Clemson college. / Since the
college aid program was begun iff
1935, 8,110 scholarships have
issued by the NY A in this a tat
College aid recipients eara an ||ter'
age of 115. a month, working - flltY
hours a month for thirty .xentti. an
hour. A recent check showed $h"em
engaged in forty different projects,
including assistance, in correcting papers,
Laboratory and research assistance,
campus construction and beautlflcatlon
and library work.
NYA college, mid la strictly an institutional
program. The oollagea afo
responsible tor eeleotlon of itgdente.
assignment pf projects, tlme^eejtej
Mrs. Allen Boy kin
Dies In Columbia
Mrs. AUen J. Boykln. 85, died early
Friday morning at the home of her
d&ufhter, Mrs. Edmund It. Hey ward,
2430 Terrace Way. Columbia, after
an illneaa of one year.
She was the former Miss Elisabeth
Courtney, of Charleston. Since tly>
death of her husband, Allan J. HoyKin,
of Camden, she had made her
home lu Colombia, with her daughter,
Mrs. lleyward.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs.
John F. Bennett, of Charleston; two
daughters, Mrs. Heyward and Mrs. U.
D .Bostwick, of Jacksonville, Fla.;
fourteen grandchlldreu, Mrs. Eugene
Salmon, Miss Bessie Heyward, Mrs.
Dwight Cathcart, Mrs. Archie Hardy,
Albert Heyward, Mrs. Colin Monteith
and Duvant Bostwick, all of Columbia;
Mrs.-James Crist, Mrs. Arthur
Ravenel and Charles Boykln, all of
Charleston; Mrs. GL Edwiu Smith, of
Miami, Fla.; Charles Boykln Bostick,
of Jacksonville, Fla.; Mrs. Bruce
Card, of Washington, D. C.; aud Mrs.
Lauren Parrott, of Los Angeles, Cal.;
aiyt a large number of great-grand
children.
Funeral services were conducted at
4 o'clock Saturday afternoon from
Qrace Episcopal church, Camden, by
the Rev. Maurice Clarke, rector, and
the Rev, A. Rufus Morgan, rector of
St. John's Episcopal church, Columbia.
Interment was in Quaker cemetery
in Camden.
Pallbearers were: L. D. Boykln, of
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Hoy kin; E. Miller Boykln, of Oakley;
Mack Boykln, of Sumter; Will Salmond,
of Camden; Harfy Porter, of
Camden; and I^aurence Manning, of
Atlanta, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. Boykln formerly resided
in the Charlotte Thompson community,
where they owned and maintained
a beautiful country home,
known as Woodstock, where In the
years gone by they have beeu gracious
hosts to not only Camden and
Kershaw county residents but to many
of ihcr northern, colony..
Spelling Contest Held
The Kershaw county spoiling contest
was held Wednesday afternoon,
May 3. at the Camden city schools,
and Miss Mildred Hoseborough, of
the Lugoff school, was selected to represent
the county In the grammar
grades and Miss Maggie Trantham. of
the Camden city schools was selected
to represent the high school group.
These contestants will go to Wlnthrop
in June to participate in the statewide
spelling contest.
Other contestants that are excellent
showing for the grammar grades
were: Alice DeBruhl, Camden
schools; Carlisle Floyd, Bethune; Julia
Arrants, Charlotte Thompson;
Ralph Young, Midway; Doris Rabon,
iMno drove; . and Barbara Oghurn,
Ann Ogburn, Baron IMKalb school.
Other high school contestants were:
Marjorle Jones, Bethune; JCd Dixon,
Charlie Thompson, Ruby Young, Baron
DoKalb; and Pauline Catoe, Midway.
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Deadly Drink
[ Used By Ring
Philadelphia, May 4.?Hemlock poison?the
deadly drink quaffed by Socrate*,
(he philosopher, when he was
put to death?wan Identified by police
chemists today a* one concoction
employed by a murder ring
which authorities believe may have
killed one hundred persons for insurance
money.
('hnmlHts Kdward Burke and Charles
l^mpert reported traces of the polsou.
one of the oldest In the world, were
found In the body of Pletro Stea, one
of the latest exhftfued In an Investigation
that has resulted In the arrest of
fourteen persons, Including a physician.
Still another poison?a less subtlie
one?-was found lu another recently
exhumed body, the chemists said. It
was one of the type known to' the
ting's members as "witch's brew" ami
fed to victims so slowly that oven
attending physicians were duped.
The chemists report followed by
only a few hours the arrest of a dapper,
50-year-old physician, Dr. Horace
1). Perlman, who was hold without
hall after Assistant District Attorney
Vincent P. McDevitt declared at a
hearing ho* "furnished poison and obtained
prospects" for the ring.
He was charged with being an accessory
to the murder.
Dr. Perlman, who has practiced In
Philadelphia for twenty-eight years,
was taken into custody at his home,
where detqptlves also seized medicines
and record b.
Police Captain Jamoa Kelly said
the arrest wa? made on information
given by Morris Bolber, known to police
as "I^uie, the Rabbi" and described
by them as one of the "bosses"
| of the ring. Bolber is charged with
I murder.
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Farm Ljibor Excludod
Agricultural labor and domestic service
In private homos are not covered
by the South .Carolina unemployment
compensation law, aud persons ongaged
in those occupations are not
creating rights to unemployment boneilts.
North Carolina has never ratified
the woman suttrage amendment.
One Popular Cop
Kansas City.?Police officials bit oft
more than they bargained for when
thoy transferred traffic patrolman
Harry Sandlfer from the Bancroft
School to the Swope Park zoo.
Harry was buck on the old stand
after an organised -demonstration by
more than three hundred students and
some of their parents.
Queries as to why they 'were so determined
to retain Sandlfer brought
varied responses: "He Is Just a swell
guy." "He Isn't grouchy like other
cops." and "He's not too skinny or
too fat, he's Just right."
KductaMon was made obligatory in
Japan in i?9i.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
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We havo added a Fresh Meat Market to our Grocery
Department and will always have on hand the beat
in Native and Western Meats.
McCaskill's Grocery
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Vegetables and Fruits
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Was I surprised? /
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