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Richland County, South Carolina Newspaper Articles
The State - Sept. 19, 1911 The State - August 8, 1911 Captain WD Starling has been made
disbursing officer for the fund of $1500 appropriated by the State of
South Carolina for the Confederate reunion. Mr. Starling has had years of
experience at this sort of work and at several reunions held in Columbia
the commissary department was turned over to him. (contributed by Brenda
Duckworth) The State -
1909-07-19 In the Confederate Home, opened
but a few weeks ago, the Angel of Death is already hovering. Thomas Mood
of Richland County was at the point of death last night. He was
desperately ill all day as a result of sunstroke. The State -
1895-04-16 On Friday evening there will be a
dime reading given for a charitable cause at the residence of Mrs. WD
Starling. An interesting program has been prepared and the ladies who have
the matter in charge should be given a large audience. (contributed by
Brenda Duckworth) The State -
1906-08-22 The place is Shandon. A home
there will be a home not only in the chill of winter, but in the heat of
summer. With the cool breezes and scarcity of mosquitoes the discomfort
and irritation of summer are removed. We have lots to suit any taste,
at prices lower than the same quality of lot can be bought anywhere near
Columbia. No trouble to talk the matter over and to show the property. For those who would prefer buying
a ready made home rather than to build their own house, we have a most
desirable place for sale. This place is in Shandon and is a bargain at the
price for any homeseeker. R.W. Shand, President, 1328 Main Street
(contributed by Brenda Duckworth) MR. GEO. F. FITZWATER, Head of
Railroad’s Police Organization, Fell Between Two Tug Boats at Savannah –
Was Guarding Company’s Property From Strikers MR.
J. M. HARRISON, the local detective of the Seaboard, received a telegram
today summoning him to Savannah at once on account of the drowning there
at 2:40 this morning of MR. GEORGE S. FITZWATER, the head detective of the
Seaboard system, who had been in Savannah recently in charge of 25 armed
assistants protecting the road’s interests in the strike there of the
stevedores against the Coast Line and Georgia Railroad people. MR.
FITZWATER was a powerful man physically and a good swimmer and that he
lost his life by drowning is a surprise, as well as a shock, to his
Columbia friends. It seems that the Seaboard’s wharf is off on a little
island from the wharves of the Coast Line and Georgia roads and MR.
FIRZWATER has been using a tug to patrol his company’s property and
prevent the strikers interfering with the stevedores at work
there. Persons arriving here this evening say FITZWATER, in
attempting to step from one boat to another, fell into the water between
and has not been seen since. The State
September 18, 1921 Officers Disturb Youthful
Couple Sheriff Heise's office was a busy place yesterday
afternoon when an irate father rushed into the office and asked for the
arrest of Condy Geddings, who had married his daughter, who, he claims is
14 years old. Geddings was married to Annie L. Foxworth at about 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon in the court house by a minister and the couple left
on the 4:30 o'clock train for Manning. Mr. Foxworth asked for the arrest
at 5:30 o'clock and Sheriff Heise wired the sheriff at Sumter to detain
the couple. Mr.
Foxworth said his daughter was only 14 years old and he insisted that
Geddings be placed under arrest. The train rolled into Sumter and the
sheriff questioned the couple, according to advices from that point. A
message from the official of Sumter county caused another stir. The
sheriff announced over the telephone that he allowed the couple to proceed
to Manning as he had refused to make the arrest following their
announcement that they had been legally married. The couple was armed with
the marriage license. Grasping another chance to stop the young husband,
the father appealed through Sheriff Heise to the sheriff at Manning. This
official promptly told the Richland county officer that he would hold the
couple in custody if they reached that point. Mr. Foxworth told Sheriff
Heise to have a warrant issued charging Geddings with abducting a girl
under 16 years of age. CRASH KILLS FORMER COLUMBIA
WOMAN ANNE CHAPMAN, WIFE OF BANK EXECUTIVE Anne
Morrison Chapman, 58, of Atlanta and formerly of Columbia, was killed
Monday in a car accident in Williamsburg County. She was the wife of
NationsBank executive Hugh M. Chapman. Anne
Chapman, a native of Georgetown, was killed when her 1985 Mercedes Benz,
headed east on U.S. 521, collided with a tractor-trailer, said
Williamsburg County Coroner Harrison McKnight. The accident happened two
miles west of Andrews. Cpl.
D.R. Webb of the South Carolina Highway Patrol said the driver of the
westbound tractor-trailer, Delouis Davis, 30, of Hemingway, was trying to
slow down. Webb said Davis wanted to avoid hitting cars in his lane as one
was trying to turn. "He
apparently went into the other lane as he was braking," Webb said.
Chapman's car struck the fuel tanks on the passenger side of the truck.
Webb said charges are pending. McKnight said Chapman was taken to Georgetown
Memorial Hospital where she died on arrival at 2:05 p.m. from trauma and
multiple injuries. Chapman was a graduate of Converse College and was a
former board member there. She also served on the board of Brookgreen
Gardens in Georgetown County and was active in civic affairs in Atlanta,
said Chris Spencer, a NationsBank spokesman. Her
husband is the chairman of Nations Bank South, which includes the
corporation's Florida, Tennessee and Georgia operations. Hugh Chapman also
oversees all trust operations for Nations Bank, Spencer said. Hugh
Chapman also formerly served as the chairman and chief executive of
C&S South Carolina. He went to Atlanta in 1986 as president of C&S
Corp. In 1989, he became vice chairman of C&S/Sovran Corp. He assumed
his current job when NCNB and C&S/Sovran merged in July 1991.
Anne
Chapman is survived by her husband; three daughters, Allston Chapman of
San Francisco, Rachel Chapman of New York City and Mary Boyd of Chapel
Hill, N.C; her father, James B. Morrison, of Georgetown; and a grandchild.
Funeral arrangements are being handled by Mayer
Funeral Home of Georgetown The State, September 11, 1921 - Transcribed by Carrie
Fichtl Shandon News. Home from Mountains. Mrs. C. D. Harden and children have returned from a month's stay in the
mountains. Returned to Florida. Mrs. Marion B. Craig and two daughters, Alice and Elizabeth Craig, who
have been on a two weeks' visit to Mrs. Charles Suydam on Blossom Street,
returned to their home in Jacksonville Friday. Visitor From Charlotte.Mrs. James P. Gladden from Charlotte is the
guest for a few days of Mrs. H. D. Butler on Blossom Street. Mrs. Lawson's guest from
Clearwater, Fla., Mrs. T. A. Spivey, went home last
week. At Home Again.Russell Rabb, who has been visiting relatives in
Florence, returned home last night.Guest from Jacksonville. Miss Sara Flelming from Jacksonville is the guest of Mrs. John E.
Lawson on Woodrow Street.Former Resident of Columbia. Morris Burnside, after spending his vacation here, leaves tomorrow to
resume his studies at the Citadel in Charleston.Leave for Virginia. Misses Agnes McDuffie and Claudia Gilchrist leave Monday of Farmville,
Va., where they are pupils in the State Normal Institute of
Virginia.Returned to Durham. Miss Augusta Gilchrist left last week to resume her course of studies
at the Conservatory of Music at Durham, N. C.News of Two Shanden Boys. The numerous friends of two former and popular Shandon boys who have
been for several years residents of New Orleans and are graduates of the
medical school of Tulane University, Dr. Alfred and Dr. Mims Gage, will be
interested to learn that they have recently received foreign appointments.
Alfred has been made assistant surgeon in a hospital in Trujillo,
Honduras, and Mims has been appointed acting surgeon for the United States
Public Health Service at Belize, British Honduras. Their mother and
sister, Mrs. A. A. Gage and Miss Kathleen Gage, are still making their
home in New Orleans. Silver Tea. A vocal solo by Miss Myrtle Davis; a piano solo by Miss evangeline
English and a reading by Mrs. Eugene B. Rabb, followed with an
instrumental duet by Mrs. Joe Shealey and Miss Mabel Toney. A group of
selections on the piano were pleasantly rendered by Mrs. Algie Sims. The
event ended with a sweet course served by lovely ladies who included
Misses Margaret Puckett, Mary Watkins, Elizabeth Hartin, Willie Davis,
Della Louise Harliee and Coralee Summerset, Miss Elizabeth Harliee
collected many donations at the door. This entertaining little play given at the Waverley school auditorium
under the auspices of the Shandon epworth leage for the benefit of the
piano fund was a most decided success. Miss Edna Coleman of Florence is the guest of Mrs. C. G. Coleman on
Cypress Street in Shandon.Visitors From Augusta and Chicago. Mrs. M. E. Chandler is at home again from a three weeks' visit to
friends and relatives in Spartanburg. Called to Bedside of Sister. Mrs. J. B. G. Campbell has been called to her former home at Calhoun
Falls on account of the severe illness of her sister, Mrs. Lawrence.Home
From Vacation. The Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Harden returned Tuesday from a delightful
summer vacation. They visited Montreat and from there went to their old
home at Statesboro, Ga., where Mr. Harden was a former pastor. They made
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Married Women Barred
from Richland Schools
After the present session is completed no
married women will be permitted to teach in the public schools of Richland
county. This was decided by the county board of education at a
recent meeting. While a rule of this nature has never before been
made by the board of education of Richland county, it has been somewhat of
an unwritten law for some time, and but few married women are at present
employed in the publice schools of the county.
The State - Mar. 2, 1897
The Richland Mill
Homicide
The jury of inquest in the Richland mill homicide met
again last night at 8 o'clock in the office of Magistrate Smith and in a
few moments rendered a verdict that John Yochum came to his death from a
pistol wound inflicted by the hands of Bryce McComb. The witnesses
who testified on Sunday night were then required to give bond for their
appearance at the April term of court. McComb has retained John
McMaster, Esq., to defend him.
The State - Oct.
6, 1914
Insurance Suit is First Tried
The fall term of
the court of common pleas from Richland county opened yesterday with C. J.
Ramage of Saluda presiding as special judge. After the call of the
roster, the case of H. A. Taylor vs. Fidelity-Phoenix Insurance company
was taken up. This was an action to recover the amount alleged to be
due on a policy of insurance covering a house of the plaintiff. The
jury returned a verdict of $300 for the plaintiff.
The case
of Mary Nunnamaker vs. Smith's, incorporated, and H. K. Smith, was next
taken under consideration. This is an action for damages. This
case will probably be concluded during the morning.
The State - Jun. 23, 1891
Weston, June 22 - Mr. S.
E. Rawls, one of the most progressive and oldest farmers in this section,
died at his home, about eight miles from here, yesterday morning, of
consumption. Mr. Rawls was highly though of and had a host of
friends in old Richland. He leaves a family, but in good
circumstances.
Miss Ruth Adams, of Fort Motte, is visiting Miss
Mary Clarkson here.
The State - Oct. 25,
1921
Chief Justice Gary yesterday issued an order for an en bac
session of the supreme court to be held Friday, November 11, for the
purpose of hearing the cases of J. H. Faust, respondent, against Richland
county, appellant, and Ben L. Kelly, respondent, against Richland county,
appellant.
The supreme court itself has been unable to agree on a
question of constitutional law in the cases and all the circuit judges
will be called in to hear the arguments November
11.
The appeal is taken from the Richland county court
following suits there by the defendant. Both cases are practically
identical and will cover the same ground. The defendant claims that
he resides about a mile out of Columbia on the Two Notch or Camden road
and that the county in rebuilding this road filled in drainage ditches and
built up the roadbed in front of his house, causing great volumes of water
to run through his yard, garden and property. It is further claimed
that great holes were washed in the property and the pillars of the house
were undermined by the tar as well as washing away the top soil.
Damages to the extent of $2,6000 were asked.
The case is one of
considerable interest, involving a constitutional question that will have
a bearing on future work to be done similar to this.
The Charleston Courier, June 24, 1816
Died, in
Columbia, S.C. on Thursday night, the 13th Inst. after a few days illness,
Mr. Reuben House
The State - Nov. 5,
1897
Camps A. C. Haskell and M. C. Butler will vote for colonel
of the veteran regiment of Richland county tomorrow at Lightwood Knot
Springs, and immediately afterward the vote will be canvassed and the
election declared. Col. Wm. Wallace and Capt. W. H. Sligh are spoken
of in connection with this high office. The regular monthly meeting
of Camp Hampton will be held in its newly renovated headquarters at 8
o'clock this evening. A full meeting is desired, as the camp will
cast its vote in the election of colonel of Richland county regiment, and
delegates to Lightwood Knot Springs will be appointed.
The State - Nov. 6, 1897
The regular monthly
meeting of Camp Hampton was held last night in its headquarters.
Commander Capt. R. S. DesPortes presiding. Col. Cadwallader Jones
and Mr. Milton Leveret were proposed for membership. Comrade C. M.
Douglas was reported as being ill and members of the camp were requested
to show him attention. The camp was reminded that it was pledged to
subscribe $100 to the monument fund to Confederate women in South
Carolina. The finance committee of the South Carolina division will
meet in the camp's headquarters next Wednesday night at 8 o'clock, and it
is hoped that the amount pledged will be in hand at that date.
The
camp then went into an election for colonel of the Richland veteran
regiment, and Col. D. Cardwell was chosen for the high position by a large
majority. Major Brooks was appointed by the camp to carry the vote
to Lightwood Knot Springs, where the vote of the three camps comprising
the regiment will be canvassed, and the election declared. A letter
from Col. Wm. Wallace was read declining to allow his name to be used as a
candidate for the colonelcy of the Richland regiment.
The telegram
was received from Gen. M. C. Butler regretting that he could not be
present, owing to important business engagements in Washington, D.C.
Capt. W. H. Manning of Gen. Coward's staff was then introduced and
delivered an eloquent address on the subject "Only a Courier," which was
listened to with great interest and attention. At the close of his
stirring speech Col. McMaster spoke in highest terms of the fine effort,
and moved a vote of thanks to Capt. Manning, which was unanimously
carried.
The camp was invited to visit Lightwood Knot Springs today
and carry one day's rations with them, which was accepted as a whole, and
the commander appointed the entire camp as a delegation. Speeches
will be made by Col. Wm. Wallace and Col. Jno. P. Thomas, and a most
enjoyable time is anticipated. At the next meeting of the camp Col.
McMaster will deliver an address on the battles of Boonsboro and
Sharpsburg. The camp enjoyed the new furnishings and renovation of
their headquarters, and were much moved by the introduction of a bust of
the lamented heroic Tennessee martyr, Sam Davis, the Confederate scout,
who died an ignominious death at Pulaski, Tenn., rather than disclose to
his captors from whom he obtained the information fund on his
person.
The State - Feb. 11,
1918
Robbers Enter Richland Street home in Absence of
Owner
Robbers entered the home of Mrs. C. E. Brown at 914 Richland
Street sometime between Tuesday and Saturday of last week and looted the
house. The intruders forced an entrance from the rear and took
advantage of the absence of the occupants of the dwelling. Mrs.
Brown is off on a visit and the losses can not be determined until she
returns. The robbery was discovered Saturday and the police were
immediately notified. An inspection of the premises showed that the
burglars evidently took their time about going through everything in
sight. They forced open every container that gave any evidence of
the presence of valuables and things were scattered all over the
place. The police are working on the case and as soon as Mrs. Brown
returns the amount of the losses will be ascertained.
The State - Jun. 24, 1910
F. R. Way Accused of
taking money under false pretenses
Following his
arrest in Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday, F. R. Way, formerly engaged in
the drug business in Columbia, was brought here and lodged in the Richland
county jail yesterday, confronted with a serious charge. Way is
accused of obtaining money under false pretenses. It is charged that
Dr. Way secured several thousand dollars of his wife's money by
misrepresentation, it being alleged that he borrowed the money from his
wife with the promise to give a mortgage on certain property for the
amount, and that he told her he had made such a paper and had it
recorded.
The charge is preferred that the mortgage was not
recorded and that no such document was found. The accused has been
absent from Columbia some time, leaving Columbia shortly after the failure
of his business. After the bankruptcy proceedings, Mrs. Way appeared
before Magistrate Frost and a warrant was issued for the arrest of Dr.
Way. This warrant accounts for the latter's presence now in the
Richland jail.
Dr. Way was one of a firm which purchased the DuRant
pharmacy last year and was engaged in the operation of this drug store
until last summer, when proceedings were instituted that resulted in the
firm being declared bankrupt. The preliminary hearing for the
prisoner on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses is ordered
by Magistrate Frost for Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. Mrs. Way is
at present in Greenville, but is expected to be present at the preliminary
hearing.
The State - Sept. 5,
1914
The governor has issued a proclamation, offering a reward
of $50 for the apprehension, delivery and conviction of Morris Jones,
charged with the murder of John Turnipseed in Richland county on February
2, 1912.
The State - Oct. 6,
1914
Memorial services in honor of the late Ernest Gary of
Columbia, judge of the Fifth circuit, and of lately deceased members of
the Richland Bar association, P. H. Nelson, P. T. Youmans and G. R.
Rembert, will be held Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Richland
court of common pleas, according to an appointment made yesterday by C. J.
Ramage of Saluda, special judge, presiding. Wm. H. Lyles, president
of the bar association, has requested the secretary, Alan Johnstone, Jr.,
to give due notice of the memorial session and has assigned members of the
bar to prepare resolutions on the deceased members, as follows: On
Judge Gary, D. C. Ray; on Mr. Nelson, B. L. Abney; on Mr. Youmans, J. B.
McLauchlin; on Mr. Rembert, C. S. Monteith.
The
State - Jun. 27, 1922
John T. Parker, white farmer in the upper
part of Richland county, was acquitted yesterday in the criminal court on
a charge of having shot and killed Mary book, negress, who lived close to
the defendant. The jury retired at 5:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon
and the decision was announced 45 minutes later.
Wesley Strickland,
young white man, pleaded guilty of stealing a motor car from L. P. Scott
and Judge Townsend sentenced him to serve three years in the
penitentiary. Strickland told the judge that he took the machine and
abandoned it when the gasoline supply was exhausted.
William Green,
Negro, pleaded guiltily to a charge of assault and battery of a high and
aggravated nature, and was given three months or a fine of $100.
Green shot and injured another Negro named Jasper Bolick and the judge was
informed that Green was paying the hospital bill and that Bolick had asked
that mercy be extended the prisoner.
Solicitor Spigner called the
case against John W. Crocker yesterday morning when court convened and
attorneys representing the accused asked for a continuance until
Thursday. It was intimated that the defense would make an effort to
show that the defendant is insane. Crocker is held for killing
Superintendent Davis at the Richland count almshouse on May
28.
John T. Parker went on trial for his life at 10 a.m. and the
verdict of not guilty was announced at 6 o'clock.
Dr. M. Langford of
Blythewood testified that Mary Book died from the effects of gunshot
wounds received in the region of the head and throat. He said the
body was peppered with shot that appeared to be No. 3.
Annie Davis,
negress, said she was in a field when she heard Parker shout to Mary Book,
"Say! Say! Come here and het these -- cows or I'll shoot the --
cows," She said she could not hear what Mary Book said in her
reply. The witness said she heard a loud report and running through
the neck of woods she found Mary Book's body in the corn field. The
woman said Parker said, "I have killed Aunt Mary, I was shooting at a
rabbit." The witness said she told Parker that he lied. The
woman said there was no weapon of any kind near the body of the dead
negress. The witness said Parker never said anything to her about
stumbling over a bush.
Walter Davis said he heard Parker curse abut
the cows being in his corn field and that Parker had claimed he shot Mary
Book accidentally while attempting to shoot a rabbit. The Negro said
Parker told officers that he fell over a bush and the gun
fired.
Sheriff Heise, Chief Dunnaway and Coroner Scott testified
that they went to the scene of the killing and that Parker had claimed
that he was in the field with his gun when he stumbled over a bush.
The three officers were united in the opinion that the bush was a small
affair with several sprigs and not calculated to be of sufficient strength
to throw a person to the ground. The coroner said there was no
obstruction anywhere between the point where Parker said he was when the
gun fired and the spot where the negress was shot. He said the bush
was very small and did not think it was strong enough to trip
anyone.
Chief Dunnaway said the bush that Parker showed him was a
"volunteer bush," one that usually grows up in any field. Sheriff
Heise said the bush was about 14 inches tall with several small
sprigs. He said he saw no evidence around the bush of any one having
fallen down. He saw foot prints, he said.
Parker took the
stand in his own behalf and declared that the gun had fired when he
stumbled over a bush. The witness said he had no desire or reason to
kill the negress and that he had his gun to shoot rabbits when it was
accidentally discharged. Parker said he saw cows eating his corn and
that he called on Mary Book to take them away. He said two left and
the third one was near him when he wheeled with his gun in hand.
Parker said he stumbled over a bush and the gun fired. He said he
did not see the woman. The witness said he asked his brother to
notify county officers.
The jury in the case was composed of H. J.
Dent, W. M. Yelton, E. C. DuBose, M. A. Ballentine, E. C. Culley, E. J.
Lever, J. D. F. Monts, C. A. Scott, J. A. McCracken, W. H. Tiller, W. E.
Rawls, and T. J. Elkins
WORK FOR
REUNION - Captain Starling Will Have Charge of Disbursement of
Funds
SOLDIER DYEING AT THE HOME - Thomas Mood,
Volunteer with First Company-Served in Watles’ Battery Throughout the
War
The afflicted man
enlisted with the Richland Volunteers in Maxey Gregg’s First South
Carolina regiment and later joined the Wattles battery of artillery. He
was well known in Columbia in the days when the volunteer fire department
was at its best, be he has somewhat dropped out of sight for four or five
years. He has been in very frail health for some time, and Capt. WD
Starling, the commandant, feared that he could not live through the night.
(contributed by Brenda Duckworth)
A DIME READING
THE TIME IS NOW
Charlotte
Daily Observer, NC July 23, 1906
SEABOARD DETECTIVE
DROWNS
The State - March 9, 1993
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