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^V'OLIME 37?NO 32 THE COUNTY RECORD, KINGSTREE, S. C, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 12, 1922 PRICE $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
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I HISS MABLE HODGE
. USES REVOLVER
WHEN NEGROES ATTEMPT TO
W ENTER ROOM THROUGH WINDOW?MEN
ARRESTED..
James Mouzon and Henry Wood,
young negro men were arrested and
lodged in jail here yesterday morning,
by Sheriff Gamble for alleged housebreaking
and larceny. Tuesday night
aUfc, .about 11 o'clock the sheriff received
H a phone call to come to the home of
^ F. H. Hodge. The call came from the
i home of Mr. J. E. Baker, a near
^ neignoor 01 .nr. nuugc, unu mmv
Miss Mabel Hodge had gone after the
negroes are alleged to have'ramsacked
the Hodge home.
The facts in the case so far developed
are in effect that Mr. Hodge was
with a party on the river at a fish supper
Tuesday night. Mrs. Hodge is ill
in the hospital and Miss Hodge was
at home alone. She had retired to
her- room which she had locked. She
heard some one in the house but did
not leave her room, finally the burglars
came to the door of her room
and attempted to open it, failing they
tried to unlock it with a key but
couldl not insert the key from the
outside as Miss Hodge had left the
key in the lock when she locked her
room from the inside. Not satisfied
at thus being foiled the men vent
outside and attempted to enter the
room through the window and were
tearing out the screen when Miss
Ho<i'/e fired several shots through
the window from an automatic re.
volver. The men were frightened off
the premises and 'hen the young lady
left the house and went to the home
UJL jXir. OO&CX auvuv iiau IIUJV uion~.?)
where a telephone call was sent in
to Sheriff Gamble. The sheriff and
his deputy responded promptly and
took up the trail of the culprits which
I led to the home of the Rev. Harry
.Pressley on the Kingstree-Manning
road about four miles from this place
and an equal distance from the Hodge
home on the Greelyville road.
About daylight yesterday morning
Sheriff Gamble called at the Pressley
home for the negro, James Mouzon,
who he took into custody, although
he denied having been absent from
home during the night. The other
negro, Henry Wood, works for Mr.
Hodge, having been in his employ for
a number of years. He also was taken
into custody by the sheriff when he
appeared at the Hodge home to go to
work early yesterday morning. When
the two men w?re brought face to
face with each other and shown the
tracks made by the shoes they were
then wearing, they confessed that
they had entered the Hodge home
about 11 o'clock the night before and
were frustrated from entering the
room of Miss Hodge, through the window,
by being shot at from the inside
by Miss Mabel Hodge.
Miss Hodge is being justly praised
by citizens hereabouts for her bravery
and some express regret th*;t the
shots fired by her did not h:.ve a
mortal affect upon the would-be in-,
traders.
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MR. JAMES R. HOLLEMAN
Passed Away Suddenly Monday at
GreelyviUe.
The announcement of the death of
Mr. James R. E.olleman, at Greelyville
Monday night, came as a shock
yesterday to a wide circle of friends.
The deceased was for about eighteen
years engaged in the sale of pianos
and sewing machines on King street.
He was on a visit to his brother in
Greelyville when he was claimed by
death.
In latter years Mr. Holleman hed
been engaged in the real estate business
and was known as one of a sunshiny
disposition and always possess
ing a kind word for all. He is survived
by his widow and two daughters?Charleston
News and Courier.
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Legion Auxiliary Request Magazines.
Attention Magazine Readers:
When you have finished reading
your magazines, kindly dilever any
number of them which you may feel
disposed to part with to the Ameri v*
can Legion Hall, over the Wee Nee
Af Bank, Kingstree. S. C., from whence
. they will be forwarded to Chick
Springs for the disabled World Warj
veterans.
l Respectfully, j
_J_ Mrs. Bentom Montgomery, j
chairman Publicity Committee.;
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Greelyville School Notes.
Greelyville, Oct. 10.?On last Friday
evening the teachers of the Greelyville
high school and several persons
in town gave a play entitled
"The Spinsters' Club." The school
auditorium was well filled. The
amount realized from this was over
forty dollars.
The number of pupils enrolled to
date in the Grelyville high school is
one hundred and ninety-two. This is
an increase of about thirty-five over
the enrollment of last year.
It has been arranged that on each
Friday morning one grade may give
a program in the auditorium at the
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opening period, ine pupns a*e iaiving
great interest in this. The tenth
and eleventh grades have already conducted
these exercises at which times
many visitors were present.
Miss Juanita Xeely, the state organizer
of poultry clubs, will meet
with the Greelyville Poultry club
Tuesday, October 10 at four o'clock.
There will be a meeting of the Parent-Teachers'
Association at the school
building Wednesday afternoon at
four o'clock. At this time the teachers
will serve refreshments.
The following is the program:
Music Dorothy Fair
Reading Helen Allen
Music Dorothy Fair and Wylma
Mishoe.
Recitation Alma Cook
Talks on "School Hygiene"?S. P.
11- ?j ir:? Pi.nn^|a,
StacKiey anu iuiss duic vnauuiti.
Mr. Garris, assistant state agricultural
inspector, visited the school
October 9.
The following is the honor roll for
the school for the first month:
First grade?Annie Ard, Nautie
Ard, James Provider, Vermeil Browder,
Etta Frierson, Coley Gamble,
Buster Hogan, Florie Hogan, Fred
Joseph, Ruby Mixon, Ned Montgomery,
George Salley, Samuel Taylor,
Mary Touchberry, and David Sports.
Second grade?Ethan Allen, 95%;
Clyton Hughes, 94%; Beckman Guess,
92%; Evelyn Hair, 96%; Eula Lee
Bradshaw, 91%; Hartwell Brunson,
91%; Thomas Sports, 94%; Eula Mae
Chewning, 91%; Julius Powell, 92.
Third grade?Lucillel Alsbrook, 96;
Helen Rhodus, 95; Willie iJiacxweii,
94; Joe Joseph, 94; Billy Fair, 93;
Imogene Graham, 93; Miller Montgomery,
93; Thompson Montgomery,
92.
Fifth grade?Cassie Dean Graham,
96; Rebecca Salley, 95.
Sixth' grade?Wylma Mishoe, 93;
Patty Hair, 93; Mildred Blackwell,
96; William Touchberry, 95; Franklin
Montgomery, 90; Piccola Guess, 93;
Jodie Boyle, 98; William Allen, 92.
Seventh grade?Virginia Touchberry,
98.
Eighth grade?Evelyn Boyd, 92;
/-ii?1 no. ra,'r Q9
JCillUiy V^mrKSUII, Jt*, uuivui; .....
Ninth grade?Mattie Clarkson, 91.
Tenth grade?Myrtle Mishoe, 93.
Eleventh grade?DeHon Clarkson,
92; Mary Clarkson, 94; Edelyn Montgomery,
92.
Drainage Contract Let and Bonds Sold
The contract was let here last week
for the contraction of drainage canals
by the commissioners of the Kingstree
Drainage District, of which Mr.
W. E. Nesmith is chairman. The
contract was awarded to E. J. Doan,
of Mason, Mich., he being the lowest
bidder among the number submitting
bids on the project. The price bid
by Mr. Doan was 12 cents the cubic
yard and it is estimated that the
work will cost approximately $150,000.
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At the same time the contract was
let for the drainage work the bonds
for carrying the work through were
also sold to a firm in Toledo, Ohio,
at a very satisfactory price, amounting
to $190,000. The work is to be
commenced at once, or as soon as the
successful bidder can get his machinery
and working force on the
ground.
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Recent Births. !
Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. D. O'Bryan J
on September 11, 1922, a son, J. D.
O'Bryan, Jt.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Godwin,
on September 9, 1922, a daughter.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Hay McCIary, |
on September 11, 1922, a son.
Bor^ to Mr. and Mrs. H.
ford, on October 6, 1922, a^aughter.
Born to Mr. and Mrs.JI^^ Burgess,
on September 23, 1922, a daughter.
The County Record is mailed to
subscribers at $1.50 the year, invaria-1
bly payable in advance.
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COUPLE SHOT BY
MISTAKE, SAYS BOY
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BULLETS MEANT FOR PEARL
I BAHMER AND HER STEPFATHER.
New Brunswick, Oct. 9.?Clifford
Hays, nineteen, was held in communi'
cado in the Somerset county jail tonight
on a warrant charging him with
j the first degree murder of the Rev.
' Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor
Reinhardt Mills, September 14.
Authorities have not revealed any
evidence which would show a logical
; motive for his alleged act.
j Raymond Schneider, twenty-two,
| caused Hayes' arrest. Hayes, he
j said, thought he was shooting fifteen-year-old
Pearl Bahmer and her
step-father, Nicholas Bahmer.
But the only motive he advanced
was a sort of quixotism on Hayes'
o /lociro tn rifrht. SljnnOSeH
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wrong done a friend. Haves' retort
was that Schneider was "a damned
liar." He admitted going with
Schneider to the deserted Phillips
farm, where the bodies were found,
in serch of Pearl Bahmer and her
step-father.
They heard shots and screams,
he said, and ran toward the crab
apple tree whence the shots seemed
jto come, observing an automobile
'dash away as they ran.
Beneath the tree,, he declared, they
i found the minister and the choir sing|
er dead and?he added?Schneider
I bent down and stole the minister's
! watch.
Accuses Hayes of Theft.
This Schneider denied during the
all night grilling to which both youths
were subjected. Schneider, in turn,
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ilCCUMCU najCJ U1 uatuig i,vuitiu?wu
the theft.
Schneider's story is that neither
he nor Hayes touched the bodies, except
for the filching of the watch?of
which he accused Hayes.
It has been established, however,
by a belated autopsy that Mrs. Mill's
throat was cut from ear to ear, and
her head almost severed. Scllneider
could not explain this.
Neither could he explain how the
bodies came to be laid out side by
side as if for burial.
He was also unsatisfactory as to
how the letters written by Mrs. Mills
to the minister came to be scattered
about the scene?or who propped one
of the minister's cards against the
sole of his shoes, as if to make sure
of identification. His account does
tally with the first statement attributed
to Mrs. Hall after the murders
were discovered?that her theory of
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identity."
This statement later was repudiated
by Miss Galley Peters, confidante
of Mrs. Hall.
Authorities Still Working:.
Although they expressed confidence
that the case had been practically
solved, the authorities wore still hard
at work tonight trying to i-econcile
all the tangled skien of evidence in
Schneider's story?or to batter him
down to further admissions which
would make his story more plausible.
Schneider's story?as much as she
could have been expected to know
?was corroborated by Pearl Bahm?r.
On the night of September 14, she
said, she was out with Schneider, re
maining until 9 o'clock. When she
returned home, she continued, she
found her step-father on the porch,
intoxicated, and consented to go with
him while he attempted to "walk
off" the effect of his drinking. They
passed Schneider, Hayes and Leo
Kauffman on a street corner, she said,
and the three youths followed them.
After they had walked some distance,
she said, she became tired and wanted
to return home, but her step-father
seized her by the arm and insisted
that she continue. She began to cry,
she said, and the trio rushed up,
Schneider doffing his coat and expressing
his determination to beat
Bahmer.
Step-Father Returns Home.
The'encorner ended without blows,
however, she said, and she and her
step-father returned home.
| Scjkaider's story tallies with hers
perfect^ up to this point, except that i
Schneijlr said Pearl and Bahmer]
w^T on toward the Pihllips farm.
Kauffman left them then, he said,
but he and Hayes determined to follow
on, Hayes shcwng him a 32-caliber
pistol and assuring him there
was no danger, suddenly, he said,
I they saw a couple beneath the crab
apple tree and Hayes whipped out i
his pistol and began firing, exclaiming.
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HEYWARD NETTLES
| ACCIDENTLY KILLED
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WAS ON HUNTING AND FISHING
TRIP ON BLACK RIVER
NEAR HERE.
Hey ward Nettles, son of R. M. Nettles,
who lives about three miles from
Florence on the Florence-Darlington
road, was accidently shot and killed
about 8:30 o'clock Friday night while
on a fishing and hunting trip on Black
river near Kingstree, with his father
and H. B. Goodson. The young man,
who was just 21 years of age, received
| the entire load of No. 5 shot from a
pump gun in his right arm and side,
and died within ten minutes. <
According to Mr. Goodson, the party
had just come in from the river and
it was raining. Mr. Nettles had taken ]
the guns from the tent in which they
slept at night and presumably was j
; putting them in the automobile when j
the accident occurred, there being no i
eye-witnesses to the tragedy. It is i
presumed that he had the gun by the j
barrel with his right hand .and was i
putting it in the car when it fired. ]
Mr. Goodson who was in the tent j
at the time, stated he heard the gun ?
fire but thought it had been discharg- j
led on purpose until the young man .
staggered into the tent, holding his
right arm about his head and crying ]
out that he had been shot in the side, i
[Almost immediately he sank to the i
ground and expired within a very lew '
minutes. ]
The body was immediately taken to j
the home of Mr. Chandler, who lived i
a short distance away, and from there \
it was brought to Kingstree, where
it was later shipped to Florence. The j
body was taken to the home of Mrs. ]
C. F. Middleton at 10 North Harrell <
street. ]
r unci ill services <mu liucna^nt wvvi\ j
place, at Mt. Hope cemetery Saturday
afternoon at 4 o'clock. Dr. H.
Tucker Graham, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, officiating.
The death of the young man, who ,
was very popular, was a shock to his <
many relatives and friends in Flor- (
ence and the neighborhood in which ,
he lived. Besides his father, the de- i
ceased is survived by the following <
brothers and sisters: William, Em- j
mett, Louis, Harry Lee, Lawrence and ]
Robert Nettles; Misses Louise, Eu- ?
ge*ve and Mildred .Netties.?norence
Daily Times. ]
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Mr. Nettles and his party had spent
several days at Simms Reach bridge j
and were breaking camp preparatory i
to leaving for home when the acci- ]
dent happened. (
The body of the young man was ]
taken in charge by Undertaker Stackley
of the Kingstree Hardware Company
and prepared for shipment to
Florence Saturday.
Heyward Nettles was a nephew of ]
the late Mrs. *B. W. Butler, formerly ]
of this place. ]
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A termite is causing serious damage ]
to lead-covered cable at the locks of ]
the Panama Canal. These termites ]
i arm-lr fhmnarh 1 mH mnsino' larce 1
openings. They then travel between ,
the two wires of the duplex fable, ;
eating the lead insulation. ]
"There they are?I'll fix them." ^
After the struggles of the pair ^
beneath the tree were stilled, he said, <
he stole forward, struck a match and *
cried to Hayes: '
"My God, man, you've made a ter- 1
rible mistake."
Hayes then snatched the minister's
watch and they both fled, he declared.
Took Pearl to the Scene.
Schneider was quoted as telling the i
authorities he had taken Pearl to the 1
scene on Saturday?two days after t
the shooting?partly out of morbid 1
curiosity and partly because he want-> I
ed to show her how nearly she had 1
come to being slain for her walk t
with her step-father. i
It was Schneider and Pearl who i
first "discovered" the bodies and no- 1
tified the police. i
"Raymond saw me Saturday and I
insisted that we take a walk," she t
said. "He took me up in the lane, }
It was the first time we had ever 1
been up that way. We sat down in c
the grass near the apple tree to r
talk. I looked over and saw the
bodies and said to Raymond, 'there
are two people lying down.'" r
" 'Why don't you attend to your t
' own business,' he replied." t
"Then I -stalked over and saw they t
were all bloody and ran away fright- t
eried. Then we told a policeman." s
William Hubert Punk Passes.
William Hubert Funk, age twenty- j
three years, died at 10.25 o'clock Monday
morning at the home of his broth-1
er, Mr. Marion Funk on Mill street,!
cause of death being attributed to J
chronic nephritus and appoplexy.!
The young man came here with his:
mother Friday morning last and was '
under the care of a local physician !
until the end came.
Mr. Funk is said to have contracted jl
the disease some years ago while at j1
Camp Jackson as a ioldier in training j'
for overseas sen-ice. After being;1
discharged he spent some time seek- j *
ing relief from the disease in sani- j(
tariums, but was finally advised that 11
his case was incurable., js
Hubert Funk was born in Kinestree 1
on February 11, 1899 and was the
youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. *
R. Funk former residents of this place {
but now of St. Stephens. As a mere 1
lad Hubert was full of energy and *
possessed of unusual business quali- *
fications. In recent years he took up *
the shoe repairing business and at *
the time of his death was operating ?
successfully two large shops, one in *
Columbia and one in Charleston, the c
latter equipped with the machinery *
and appliances he used here for a ?
short time. He had made his home ?
in the latter city the past year and *
a half. *
The body was prepared for burial I
ay Undertaker Stackley of the Kings- s
:ree Hardware Company and taken
to St. Stephens on the noonday train ^
ruesday for interment. Besides his 1
parents the young man is survived e
ay a number of brothers and sisters 0
ivhn were here Mondav to accomDanv 0
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ihe remains to St. Stephens. ?
Those from Kingstree accompany- 11
ng the body to St. Stephens were: 0
Messrs M. A. Ross, L. S. Dennis, Os- c
?r Dennis, S. J. Deery, R. K. Walace,
R. M. Hare, Geo. Dallis, S. C. *
Anderson and Dr. LeRoy Cates. c
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List of Jurors. 1
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The fall term of the sessions court
will convene here Monday, October ?
12. The following are the jurors
irawn by the jury commission to
serve during the term. ^
(V. L. McDaniel, Hemingway, R. F. D.
3. P. Cooper, Suttons.
A.. L. Scott, Kingstree. c
9. L. DuBose, Kingstree. c
T. L. Joy, Kingstree. c
A.. L. Burgess, Kingstree. r
T. McClary, Kingstree, Rt. 2. '
9. 0. Smith, Kingstree, Rt. 1. c
W. A. Fitch, Lake City, R. F. D. *
EL Z. Vause, Kingstree. 1
W. J. Flowers, Trio, R. F. D. c
R. K. Johnson, Hemingway, R. F. D. *
S. E. Hill, Lake City, R. F. D. 1
R. B. Tanner, Hemingway, R. F. D. 8
J. D. Barrineau, Kingstree, Rt. 1. *
f. B. Wallace, Cades. 1
1. A. McClary, Lanes. 11
9. H. Parnell, Hemingway, R. F. D.
9. J. McFadden, Cades. I
E. R. Rowell, Trio.
D. M. Young, Kingstree, Rt. 2
3. D. Cunningham, Nesmith, R. F. D. I
9. E. Alsbrook, Suttons.
L. D. Smith, Andrews, R. F. D.
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D. A* DU/IC, UlCCi^viuc. m.
R. F. Epps, Cades.
T. E. Brown, Kingstree, Rt. 1.
5. L. Parsons, Suttons. I
[. C. Player, Greelyville, R. F. D.
L. Arnette, Cades. I
Paul Gilmore, Kingstree. b
0. F. Ward, Kingstree, Rt. 1.
1 F. Stuckey, Lake City, R. F. D. I
3. B. Eaddy, Hemingway. I
5. K. Mouzon, Kingstree, Rt 2.
3. 0. Pipkin, Andrews, R. F. D.
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Mob Violence in Florence County.
While he was returning to Florence J
n an automobile last Thursday night, n
P. W. Brown was attacked by a doz- u
;n or more masked men who dragged a
lim from his car into a thicket and tl
>eat him severely about the head. ^
3?? o+afa/j that tVia men tried i'
JIUWU OiSU ovowu WiMv VMV
o force him to sign a paper promis- fi
ng that he would not open up bus- d
ness in Florence but he refused. t<
Pwo men who were with Brown were a
orced to leave the scene by the mob.
Brown's scalp bore marks of the J
rrL__-ijr T> V .lannflac H
(eating, anerm duiui nun u?|>?wvb
o the place described by Brown. ?
rhey found a mask and a hat. Brown !
leclares he recognized some of the J
nen even with their masks. ?
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In importations of pure-bred ani- J
nals, by the United States, during ?
he last fiscal year, foxes stood at ?
he top in numbers, with dairy cat- \
le and dogs next in order. Of a ?
otal of 2,639, there were 967 foxes, !
til from Canada. [
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RECORD RECEIPTS
AS CO-OPS OPEN
NINE MILLION POUNDS SAID TO
HAVE BEEN MARKETS^) \
LAST WEEK.
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It is reported by the Cooperative
Marketing Association that 9,000,000
pounds of tabocco from the organized
growers of North Carolina and Virginia
alone poured into association
warehouses last week. Members of
the cooperative in North Carolina
ielivered 6,000,000 pounds of tobac
:o?4,ouu,uuu pounds in tne old oeit
rnd central markets and 1,500,000
sounds in Eastern North Carolina.
The Virginia growers placed 3,250,)00
pounds of the weed on 18 cooperative
floors within four days time,
ill the tobacco of 34 grades delivered
on the opening day to 24 coopera- .
;ive markets of the old belt were sold
;o leading manufacturers before the
sun had set on the first day of coiperative
marketing in Western Caroina
and Virginia. Other heavy orlers
have reached the association since
he opening of the old belt markets
ind according to Richard R. Patterion,
manager of the leaf department,
he association is sellinc at flerures
vhkh are highly satisfactory as com>ared
to the average prices on the
tuction floors.
Local organizations of the Tobacco
Jrowers' Cooperative Association are
ncreasing in number throughout Eastern
North Carolina and at a series
if meetings held last week throughut
the Eastern belt association memers
pledged their support in reportng
any cases of contract breaking
n the part of local warehousemen
r growers in their district.
Funds are being forwarded from
he Richmond office of the tobacco
ooperative to the friendly banks of
iouth Carolina, which have become
ts depositories, and the second cash
idvance will be paid -to the South
Carolina growers in the near future T
iccording to recent advices from the r
tichmond offices of the association.
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Stored Man Drops Dead in Church.
Henry Darby, a respected colored
itizen of the Central community
trapped dead Sunday in a colored
hurch or meeting house'situated on
he Bloomingvale road near Mr. Dick
?eQahaA's place. Darby had just
ompleted a fervant prayei* and as
he congregation rose from its kneeing
position, he started a hymn and
ollapsed before he had completed the N
trst verse. Death was instantaneous. ?
rhe congregation became frightened
ind insisted that an inquest be held.
Coroner Brown and Sheriif Gamble
vere summoned to the scene and the
lecessary formalities were carried out.
lonor Koii, wutee scnooi, suuons.
Grade VIII?Derrick Altman, Isla
Jyrdie, Pauline Cooper.
Grade VII?Nettie Norton.
Grade VI?Ellen Altman, Bertie
1 roach, Flossie Walters.
Grade V?Warren Broach.
Grade IV?Fannie iBelle Blakely,
Smmie Parsons, Nell Cooper.
Grade III?Maggie Altman, Laurie
llakely, Tommie Broach, Troy Gamile,
Odis Norton.
Grade II?Nettie Altman, Manning
llakely, Paul Byrdic, Hazel Eagerton,
va Gamble.
Grade I?Ermon Broach,
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Mower Gets Big Rattler.
One day last week while Mr. J.
1. Brown was cutting hay with his
sowing machine he discovered an ungual
commotion in the fallen grass
nd stopping his machine discovered
hat the blade had come in contact
rith a large rattle snake and clipped
bs lower jaw off. The snake had .
fteen rattles and a button which inicated
that the jeptile was well ino
its sixteenth year.
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[ NOTICE. | ?
h All persons are hereby warn- ? ?
J ed that the Ordinance of the \ \
J Town of Kingstree relative to J J
> the running of automobiles with- ?>
! out cut-outs open or with de- !!
J fective mufflers will be strictly \ \ *
* enforced. ??'.
\ H. V. KINDER, !!
J Chief of Police. J J
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