Deeds Recorded. Marion L. Bowman to James T. Fowler, lot with improvements near Columbia College, in Eau Claire, $3,500. Robert S. Brawley to Minnie Lee Reynolds, lot with improvements, in Eau Claire, $5, etc. E. M. Cudworth to Brunel Perry King, lot with improvements, east side Edisto avenue, between Lower and Tugaloo street, $5, etc. C. H. Dixon, as receiver for the National Loan and … Continue reading Yesterday at The Courthouse

Ridgeway, Oct. 15. – Of interest to a wide circle of friends throughout South Carolina was the marriage of Miss Cleo Dinkins and Charles McFadden which was solemnized in West Columbia Saturday, October 8, at the Methodist parsonage by the Rev. John Madison Younginer, pastor of the New Brookland Methodist Church. The ring ceremony was used in the presence of a few relatives. Mrs. McFadden … Continue reading Dinkins – McFadden

City Policeman T. E. Corley, A. A. Frazee, Odie Platty, Harvey Roof and Gatlin Bickley reporting a successful hunting trip for the past ten days on the Santee river near Bluefield . . . Officer Corley remarking that Harry J. Singley, storeman for the Jeff Hunt Road Macinery compnay, killed a coon and a snake for the first day out – and that sight of … Continue reading Seen Here and There

A reward of $50 each for the capture of the two convicts who escaped the Kershaw county gang Monday has been offered by Sheriff McLeod of Camden, Detective R. W. Eleazer of the Columbia police announced this morning. “Columbia Police are on the look-out for the two convicts.” the detective chief said today. “The hunt is still on and they may be headed this way, … Continue reading Reward Offered For 2 Escape Convicts of Kershaw Gang

Claude Mix, Returned Nine Months Ago From New Jersey After Northern Authorities Wage Futile Fight Against Extradition, Escapes Near Blaney. Camden, Oct 9. – Claude Mix, Negro prisoner who once before fled a Kershaw county chain-gang and declared from a haven in New Jersey he would “rather die” than go back to the gang, escaped again today, nine months after he had been returned from … Continue reading Negro Who Declared Would Rather Die Than Go Back to Gang Flees Once More.

Kershaw County Men Sought Near Blaney After They Jump From Truck A posse of about 20 men in search of two Kershaw county escaped convicts roamed through brush and swamp four miles north of Blaney for nine hours yesterday and night without a catch. The two convicts, identified by Lieut. L J. Campbell of the Columbia police as Floyd Mix and Earnest Lane, escaped into … Continue reading Posse Searches For 2 Convicts

Ridgewood Camp, Oct. 8 – Miss Eppie Adams, Miss Sanna Barlow, Miss Elizabeth Durden and Miss Dorothy Tidd, students from the Columbia Bible college, visited the patients Monday. Miss Ada Barfield, dietician, has resumed her duties at the sanatorium after spending two weeks in Brevard, N. C. Visiting the patients Tuesday night from the Business Men’s Evangelistic club were Mr. and Mrs. Guy H. White, … Continue reading Bible College Students Visit Ridgewood Camp

MRS. ANDREW LeROY PORTH, who before her marriage September 17 at the home of her pastor, the Rev. L. B. Jeffcoat, in West Columbia, was Miss Dorothy Arelia Jacobs. She is the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Jacobs (Leila Ray Jacobs) of Blaney. Mr. Porth is the youngest son of Mrs. Mary Dessie Porth of Lexington and the late A. P. Porth. … Continue reading MRS. ANDREW LeROY PORTH