The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 03, 1919, Image 9
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VOLUME XXXI. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1919
tVOMK* TOVVN OWNKI^S.
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ds n H.( I'opuiHtio" Mofty
V* y mhI Spinster*.
jjtuiti"!
ju* four Ulilcx north of Kxotor, X,
,1 lie- t?io little town of Newflelds,
,#*?# i?ro*i?erous manufacturing center,
f?u* it* water huater and machiue
^,p>, ?dth "?< H > iiM'ii on the payrolls
it ha* 1,ss ,lmu that number of
liM-hi<lliiK women ?n.t
fkiMrt'liv ' \
the*' ?1<?S l,H' tl,WM wws <,tt,l|,(I
?V,uth ^vfTnnrkrt. It boasted several
''!(X>|lSi twu hi. His. corporation hoanl
? houW. ? viirliM.v of stores and four
(Lnb.'s ?iMM?"it?Hl by substantial con!
ntfatio"^ ' j
j today all that ,,IUV ,M" s<,('a of
Hotels is tho empty collars over which
{hfy oik* stood, for lire long ago >e
povfil t hoi r frames.. Only two stores
rrtimin. One "f ,ht <*buivho8 has closed j
its door* ttiid the other three struggle
ilons with dwindling congregations.
fhi* once <mwded boarding houses, the!
Mpolar and the livery stable
?#? all fT""1'
Tho foundries and the machine shops
4?,l? piece by piece, year after year,,
into hweless ruins. The wharf on the
Ktfter Hiver, ' where the coal )>argos
pipped oil the \Vay from Portsmouth,
jjjjji n j t jed away Tin d the ba rges paw
?lisdainf nils by with cargoes straight in
to Exeter.
|V old excursion steamer that once
toade jdo?Mir? trips to Portsmouth has
<tnod in the boat house for years, until
within the la-t year it was bought and
remodeled f'"' ? barge. The deck stltl
?tands (in the river bank, a mournful
relic <?f many happy days of the long
ifo. r;
When the <>li) imlust ries^clo*ed tbejr
doors niftiiy <>f the better class of men
sold their well built, attractive homos
it a less, ;i 1 1 < 1 sought other manufactur
ing centers. Kentx dropped, property
values dropped, hut* taxes have gone
steadily upward, until for the current
year the tup notch at $'Jt> -per thousand
ba< bc^n reached.
New-fields is- scarcely known outside of
it? own style. Hut it is here that the^
first white settler in New Hampshire,
Edward Hilton, made his home; he lies
buried in the family burying ground on
the Hilton farm. It is in this town
thai the famous Hilton family made his
' t<>rv f<>r New Hampshire from the year
l&El until a few years ago. when George
K. Hilton of the eighth generation liv
ing upon tin- old lnvmoKtead passed away.
Xewtields today is unique in many
nays.
It is essentially a woman's town. The
houses h re mostly owned by women; in
fact, some women own several. Both
??'tore buildings in the town are owned
by women. The Odd Fellows "Hall is
owned by a woman, also the piibiic li
brary building. The bulk of the taxes
therefore necessarily paid <by women.
Newfieli^ may be called an almost
Adaroless Kdcti. for there are more un
married women in proportion to the
population that you may find in a day's
travel elsewhere. There are young wom
fn. middle agerl women, aged ,women,
pretty w um-n. homely women, all vari
files of the feinule type; but ( h?*n> is
almost one charaeterUtio dominating
them nil ; lilt'}' are educated, re lined ami
Wonderfully capable women.
They are versatile women, these dwel
lers in NowHoIUh : they can write .essays
on the Higher thoughts of life; tlp'.Y cat*
learn letter perfect page upon page of
lodge or grange ritual; they van plant
and harvest large erfijis ; they can mow
their green lawns and grow beautiful
flowers ; they 'ran sew and knit tre
mendously and cook well, ( *?xl bless
you ! \lu ?ir eooking is par cx<vll,?n?-e,
"?the kind that mother used to m;ike."
Many of these women are or have been
school teachers; there are also ' nurses,
dressmakers, (milliners, an .artist," a jour
nalist, bookkeeper and just plain, every
day housekeepers or homemakers.
There air a few unmarried men in.
i Nmvflehls, i|?? ? t li bachelors and widowers,
but the boys and men of the town'do
i not seek their mates at home, Let a
new girl unove into town ami all the
boys will seek to become her "steady,"
but the girls who were born there and
j grew ui? with the boys iinust look beyond
their native' towu /or mates. .
Hachelors occupy attractive houses of
many rooms, living alone in single bliss
and selfishness. Spinsters and widows
live in great, roomy colonial houses, all
aloue in the lonely .spaciousness of ten
or twelve rooms.
And these w^meiu?who f > ? i- the most
part owjn their own fine homes and have
money enough to keep that comfortably
all 'their lives, shrug their shoulders as
I they read the divorce columns ami say,
"I should worry !"
With .their large woodpiles, their well
stocked preserve and fruit cellars, their
flocks of hens laying truly gidden eggs
at (10 and 70 cents a dozen, their pro
ductive gardens, their tine old homes
w>th nary a mortgage on them, they are
not worrying about matrimony.
Women with limousines, a winter
home on Commonwealth Avenue, a beach
cottage, a palatini home in Xewlields ;
women with mortgages on mauy farms
occupied by iinen, women with city and
town bonds ; and as for Liberty and
victory bonds, the town of Xewlields went
way over the top every time.
Traveling throiigli Nebraska and Wy
oming. one sees from the car windows
great bulletin boards reading :
Wanted : Housekeeper^ for the
ranches. Highest wages paid. Hest
of references furnished.
The ranchers are hungering for a
j woman's voice, and they ar?^ not asham
ed to proclaim it in a manner t lint all
who pass may read
Perhaps some of the New England
women are jilst as lonely and feel the
need of a strong arm to keep things up
around the place, but i-t. is not f-ir women
to cry their ^secrets 'from the housetops.
To Be Held Jin Sumter.
Thfyvcivil service commission will hold
an examination at 'the court house for
the position of rural mail carrier in this
county on .October 11th. On October
22nd another examination will be held
here for the purpose of electing a post
master for Camden. Both these exami
nations will begin at J) o'clock. ? Sumter
Herald.
Corrfrtnl Statement
Bank No. 235.
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
BANK OF BETHUNE
Located at Bethune, S. C. at the Close of Business Sept.
12th, 1919.
Resources
I -o a ii nii.l Discounts
Overdraft*
ainl S'torkv Owned by the Bank
Furniture ami Fixtures
Nankinp Il< use
Due fn>m I'.anks and Bankers
Currcnnv
Gold ...!
Silver a tul i >ther Minor Coin .
Exrhatiip?-< f. r Cl?arini House -
T'tal
$117
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STATE (IK SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Kershaw
$177
74.-25
,047.71
,732.00
MK5.70
482 00
,056.50
.200.00
282..ri0
410.73
188.29
201.68
Liabilities - $ir,. 000.00
(1,500.00
Stock Paid in o ?^so 9T
Surplus Fund Z'J .....i Taxi"* Paid ? iMi .">6
Undivided Profits, less Current fexp?ns
I?Uf t.. Ba:.k> and Bankers ~1?S.992.24
Individual heposlts Subject to Check- 4s.0l4.41 i-,ofl(17.1'>
Tim.; Certificates of Deposit " :V0G0"?<t ------ ~ ' 'rt1 ,.o
Cashier's Cheoks _L- *lu,201?8
Totjii
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Inp fjU|? K n? rarnp J. C. Parker, Cashier of the above nnmed bank, who be- 1
?lor, ?f \J] V'.rn* sa-VH *hat the above and foregoing at* fement la a true condl-l
<>ank, as shown by the books of said bank.
J. C. Parker. Cashier.
Correct
Sworn to nnd subscribed before m e thi* 22nd day of Sep*.
H. E. Hyatt, Notary Public.
Attest :
K. Z. T rn??^del}
T. Yarbrough ? Directors. _ ?
A. K. M^Laurfn
WHO ARE THE MIDDLE CLASS
Brain Workers Who Are Corapelled
Do Manual Labor to Ekt Out
an Existeno*.
Few for cos tend so strongly to pro*
due? serial consciousness us a griev
ance. Not so many years ago one
might have searched the worhl and
found nobody who would admit he
was of the middle class, remarks the
New York Times. The term was au
epithet used in derision. * As the mid
dle class was vaguely supposed to be
respectable, respectability Itself went
out of fashion. Today all this Is al
tered. People write to the papers to
say they are of the middle cl?vss and
they say Is with an air of one who
after all is somebody. Yet nobody has
defined the middle class, even the
sociologists and economists, whose
business such things are.
In England W. H. Mallock gave a
few stray thoughts to the subject and
concluded it is middle class to have an
Income of some $730. Prof. H. R.
Seage.r stated in America the figure
would have to be raised to $1,150. It
Is the way of the elder sociologists to
write as if the' determining factor is
always money.
Our common sense knows better.
The middle class is distinguished from
the class on its one hand by the fact
that it works, not with one's body, but
with its mind. It Is distinguished from
the class on Its other band by the fact
that, not having sufficient capital to re
tire upon, it lias to work. The middle
class man is a brain worker, who is
obliged to work or go under. And he is
obliged t?i conform to current stand
ards of respectability,' physically as
well as mentally and morally.
In the nineteenth century the In
come standards had at least a shadow
of justification, for wages and salaries
still maintained some definite relation
ship to the character of work done
and service vendered. Today we have
changed all that and with one notable
result. A large group of people among
us have become class conscious ? those,
namely, who do professional work for
less than the pay of a hand laborer.
Mentally and morally they have two
strong props of character ? the fact
that the Instrument of their labor is
the mind and the fact that they are
urged on by necessity to use it. ?
Explanation of Humidity.
Humidity, technically speaking, says
the Philadelphia Press, Is the amount
of water or vapor moisture In the air.
A given space at a given temperature
can cohtain only a definite amount of
water. If it contains less will en
deavor to fill up by evaporation. If
it contains mort4 the surplus water
will condense. When a mass of air
contains all the moisture it Is capable
of holding it Is said to he saturated.
The higher the temperature the more
moisture it takes to saturate the air.
If it contains less moisture than
would saturate It at a given tempera
ture, then the lower temperature at
which this would sufficient for satura
tion is called the dew point. The per
centage of moisture In the air to what
it would hold if. saturated Is called the
relative humidity. Thus, if the Mr
contains one-half the moisture neces
sary to saturate It, the relative hu
midity 16 50; If only a third, It Is 38.
It Is of course, at its maximum when
at 100 and fog'forms and mist falls.
The Most Ancient Egg.
Just before the war began, during
excavations In the ancient Moguntl
ncum, under the auspices of the Arehe
ologlcal society of Mayence, there
was found a hen's egg which was es
timated to have been burled in the J
earth for something like 19 centuries.
Moguntiacum was built by Drusas,
the son of the Roman emperor Augus
tus, In the year 14 R. C. Upon the
site of the ancient Roman eastrum or
encampment near the city the excava
tions In question brought to light many
interesting relics, including some wa
ter cltfterns of Itornan make. It was
in one of these, which was located
some 20 feet below the surface, that
a damaged Roman claypof was discov
ered containing the shell of a broken
egg and also a whole egg that had
been kept from being smashed by a
shred of the damaged pot, which coh
ered it. The ancient eggs was depos
ited in the municipal miraeum.
Ten to One Against.
"Sorry," said the village constable,
"but I'll have to arrest ye ? ye've been '
drlvln' along at the rate of T>0 miles |
an hour."
"You are wrong, my friend." said 1
the driver. "I nay I wasn't, and here's '
$10 that says I wasn't."
"All right," returned the constable, .
pocketing the money. "With ten to
one against me I ain't goln' to subject
the county to th' expense of a trial." '
Mr*. <?ra*-e Howell, on trial at West
I'alm Reach, Fla, under a change of
venue, far the murder of her husband, <
Thomas H. Howell, in Miami laxt year,
was convicted of murder in the firnt de
gree, with ? rwwmroendstion to mercy. '
*1*be jury was out #orty.-five minutes. J
KIKST -MKTAI, DIKICillHliK
OixtmJhI by Steam ? Olven Huojaucj'
Hy llrHtd Air. v
The world's lir?t all-metal dirigible. a
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Ntonster, steam-ip rope lied 'thermos bottle'
buoyed up by heate<J air, is uow uuder
construction, aud before the end of the
current year is expected to make it>?
maiden trip across the Atlantic Ocean.
"Revolutionary" is exactly t.hoj.woid
to describe the steam-driven, nonco)lai>
siblc (orulRer <*t the skies on which the
inventor is now at work; it is revolu
tionary in both principle and design.
For the ''gas .bag" is really no bag at
till ; rather a truncated portion of a
slender cone, streamlined at bow ami
stern, and constructed throughout of a
light, stroug aluminum alloy. The craft
derives its aerial buoyancy from heated
air which is maintained at a determined
temperature by large kerosene btirners,
placed beneath each of the lit) compart
ments. Mxpanslon and consequent rare
faction of the heated air is provided,
for by valves automatically controlled
from the pilot's cahin. Similar valves,
with suction fans and pumps, permit
rapid intake of cool air for descent, when
it is desired to cruise at a lower alti
tude. To prevent loss of this lieat to
the outside air during normal, horizon
tal flight, however, the, taut metal en
velope is donhle-walled throughput its
length, the intervening 4-in. space being
filled with a special insulated njalerlal/
It is (this Mining', by the way, combined
with the gleaming metal skin, which has
prompted 'the inventor's associates- to
nickname his craft the "Thermos Mottle."
< 'arried under the forward part of this
mct.nl "gas bag," and forming an in
tegral part of the structure, is the metal
gondola, about 100 ft. long, and of sea
worthy const ruction tit to withstand tin'
heaviest seas. Herein is the navigator's
cabin. In the engine room is generated
steam which not only enables three en
gines of 1.500 hp. each to turn t'he great
air propellors, but even circulates through
raTliators in passenger cabhis, crew's quar
ters, and recreation *alons, insuring com
fortahle warmth at t Ik* highest altitude*.
The inventor's consistent purpose has
been t < i provide the traveler with every
coin fort. he has grown to exptvt on the
large ocean ? liners, nut toast of those
being t lio passenger's freedom to wnoke
his eigar in any ?parl of the interior.
Popular Mceh&nlcs Magazine.
The Wonders of America
By T. T. MAXEY
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK
{{fill*} mountain that wan God," wrote
I John I>. WlUlams. "Mount Big
Snow," said the Indian. At any rate,
the moat wonderful mountain In the
United States ? Its hoary-headed peak
piercing tho blue sky to a height of
almost three miles, while its base cov
ers a hundred square miles of territory*
Its Isolation, standing alone as It does
Instead of in a range, makes Its mlghtl
ness all the more Impressive.
Uncle Sum created a national park
around It and thu8~pfeserved It as oiie
of our greatest fights, so we can all go
and see It and wonder for ourselves.
Like all volcanoes, Italnier hullf up
its cone from the material thrown out
from Its Ulterior. But a terrific explo
sion destroyed its conelike top and
greatly reduced 11$ height. It has not
been In eruption fbr nearly T>0 years,
though steam Jets sometimes melt the
snow at its summit and hot springs
flow from its base.
Twenty-eight glaciers, born from the
snow which covers the mountain, ra
diate from Jts peak and form one of
the largeKt known glacial systems.
From these great ice fields there natur
ally lend off numerous streams and
rivers which find their way, through
beautiful canyons, to the lower alti
tudes. Below the glaciers, In an open
space which circles the mountain, grow
millions of gorgeous wild flowers, pre
senting a beautiful spectacle as well as
a marvelous contrast to the snow
above. Below tin* flowers are dense
and Immense forests of fir, spruce and
cedar.
HK A (*>\V AT \VHJVIlN?JTON
lVeulUr WiMcr Howst Hbtftcd Out to
<ir?xo on |lea*h.
Tin- Wilmington Dtapatch says: .
HuuUrwls of vIkIIxm'h went to Lake
Side l*ink yesterday afternoon and last
night to soo 1 1>?* sea t*ow that was huulod
up in the sands of Mnsoivboro sound
earlier in the day by a crow of fishermen
and I a tor brought to ti?- oity by K. (,).
Fergus, and hundreds ?>f othofs will
doubtlosn go thorn today, tomorrow aud
Sunday to intqwvt the strange creature
that has the bend of a (xtw and tho
body of a hipivopotamus.
Tho rroaturv has been roi>od to a oy
press oloao in shore and is hanlod U|?
at regular intopvalH for tJio inspection
of tho oi'owd. Tho bnrnaele covered
sides havo been tonchod by hundreds of
hands, including both tho timid and tho
fearless, and it seems as ' though tho
crowd never tiro* of lotftking at tho
aquatic bovine.
Tho cow is possessed t*f enormous
strength, although it ?4H>ears to bo per
fectly harmless. 1 1 h mouth has throo
I i |>s and it foods on vegetable matter,
Alroady tho grass growing along tho
large shore has boon cropped close by
tho brute, \vhtoh prefers to remiiiu im
mersed tmt comes to tTio surface occa
sionally and takes deep draughts of
air.
It is no^ known wholhor it will con
tinue to live 4n fresh - water bV- hot and
those who would moo t'ho oroaturo are
advised to go to tho park as early as
possible. lOlortrlo lights havo been
strung around t bo sjn?t where tho beast
is tiod out, making it possible to ox- /
amine the creature at night.
Already tho spot in which tho bovine
has been staked out bus boon dubbod tho
"deep sea dairy* (by an enterprising
youngster and fhere were others who
have calltHl tho park to know when tho
nianagogmont expected to milk the
beast.
Mr. It. Lewis of Atlanta spent a
fow days hero this week.
Look I Here is the globe spread out flat be
fore your eyes. See those stars ? Every
star shows where aU.S, Navy ship was oo
September 2nd, 1919. The Navy trayela
the Seven Seas.
Don't you want to see the "World ?
ROMANCE is calling to youf
- Strange and smiling foreign
lands are beckoning to you. Shove
off and see the world!
%
Learn to 1 'parley -voo" in gay
Paree. See the bull-fights in
Panama. See surf-riding on the
beach of Waikiki.
Learn the lure that comes with
the swish and swirl of the good salt
?ea. Eat well ? free; dress well ?
free ; sleep clean ? free ; and look 'em
all straight in the eye ? British,
French, Chinese, Japanese,
Spaniards, Egyptians, Algerians
and all manner of people.
Come! Be a real man of the
world. Sec the w6rld. See it with
the red-blooded, hard-working,
hard-playing men of the U. S.
Navy.
Pay begins the day you join.
On board ship a man is always
learning. Trade schools develop
skill, industry and business ability..
Thirty days care-free holiday each
year with full pay. The food is
good. First uniform outfit is fur
nished free. Promotion is un
limited for men of brains. You
can enlist for two years and come
out broader, stronger and abler.
Shpve off ? Join the U. S. Navy.
If you're between 17 and 35 go to
the nearest recruiting station foe
all the details. If you don't know
where.it is ask your postmaster*
Shove of? ! - Join the XJ. S.jNcXvy