The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 29, 1927, Image 8
Wll,!> HOK8B8 IN VIRGINIA
Hound up Occur* Annually It) Nalive*
of Small Inland
Georgetown, Do!., July 27 A wild
horae round-Up i?u<h a? would at Dint
thought. be associated only with
Montana or Wyoming, will bo hold
tomorrow within 250 mile* of Now
York and within fifty mile* of Norfolk,
V'a. It will be on the island of
('hin< otcugue, Va., near the tip of the
Dele w are cape. The pony-penning,
a* they rail it, l* an annual affair.
i'hmcoteague Island u a low lying
i*Je about eight miles long and three
mile* wide, famous principally for
the oyster bearing its name. About
4,00<) {MTftons live on the island, mostly
along the eastern part. All obtain
their living from the sea, hence
no constant conflict between them
and the hundreds of wild horses run- 1
ning on the western end. The conflict
*i.* only once a year.
Tomorrow will start early for the
band* of men who perform the active
part of the penning. They will mount
horsca that were obtained from previous
round-ups, ami rtde into the running
grounds of the wild horses on
the western end of the island. The
ponies caught in the round-up will
la- driven into the town, where especially
constructed pounds have been
prepared for them.
The riders are taxed to the utmost J
to keep from being outrun by the
wild pome*. They must ford narrow
streams, jump <1 itches brush
through woodlands and undergrowth,
and e\en venture out m Assateaguc
bay. Thej finally get their victims
together and drive them in a herd to
the pounds, where thousands of persons
await the event.
The round-up i- the island's big
event of tin- year, hornier residents
make it a home-coming day. Persons
i? nearby citi?? come out foi
t he spectacle.
I he most interest is that shown
by the men who conduct the roundup
as a business proposition. Kach
penning ends with a public auction
where as many ponies as can be sold
are disposed of and the left-overs
are allowed their freedom.
THIN(iS WORTH KNOWING
A terrapin with 'H. K. ('.., 1K73'
carved on the shell was found on a
farm near Salem, Virginia. If. K.
(.aidwell of Koanoke says he remembers
carving his initials on the back
of a full-grown terrapin in April
1873.
More than forty-five per cent of
the windmills of Holland have been
removed or demolished since 11(2(5,
according to a report from an official
mill association m that country.
Under \ lenna's 'spigot' tax plan
each homo or apartment is allowed
one water faucet free of tax. Since
with every additional outlet the
duties rise apace, installation .,f hot
and cold water m both kitchen and
bathroom is a distinct luxury.
The most northern radio station wi
the world is that just planted by the
Soviet government on Cape Desire,
which juts into the Arctic /?,ne just'
west i.f Archangel. Siberia. It will
1m- use,I communicate with aerial
A rein. ? \ plorers.
Plat ir.urn, employ,,| by jewelers f?r !
about th - - \ year* only, is now so j
populai : -hrs , ounlry that it was
found net i -Miiy to import more than
*10.000.0(1(1 worth last year. The
most surprising thing aj>oul (hjs
metal is its weight. A bar of platinum
four inches wide, one-half inch
thick and a foot long weighs ,'{() i
pounds and is worth about $30,000.
'Parasol' ants derive their name
from the fact that they cut large
pieces out of leaves for making nests
and then march along carrying the
pieces ovei their heads like umbrellas.
Owning an auto in China is distinctly
A luxury. The license fee in
one city costs $37.50 a month and
when gasoline is cheap it is $1.50 a
gallon. In addition, a jaunt off the
main thoroughfare requires the services
of at least four attendants.
Five million dollars a day is expended
by the women of the United
States in the effort to keep themselves
beuutiful.
Meissen. Germany, the town where
Dresden china is made, will be one
thousand years old in May, 1929. A
feature of the festivities will bo ?
ihime of bells of porcelain to be
made and hung in a local tower. The
argest bell will be three feet high.
Fish scales are now valuable, being
used in the manufacture of imitation
pearls. A Heathsville, Virginia, fisherman
recently sold $100 worth of
herring scales from one day's fishing.
Post-mortem examination of IdH
famed ostrich at the Umdon Zoological
Gardens, disclosed the following
articles in her gizzard: Three gloves
a handkerchief, cord, an empty film
spool, two large and several smail
nails, a pencil, four halfpennies, two
farth.ngs. a French coin, parts of a
comb and a gold necklace, a collar
button, bicycle tire valves, a clock
key. a dozen short bits of wire, metal
Naples, screws, rivets, a glove fasten<
r and a piece of wood four inches
long.
lighting an American match ft
Pern may be cause for a twenty-dol1*
fine. A Swedish match company
ha* a monoptly on the sale of matches
i? that country, which makes ?]|
others highly dutiable.
BETHINK NKWH NOTES
Happenings of Jflterrat in Told Hj'
Our Kt Kulir ( ofrrkpuiidriit
Bethune, July 27. Mis# Kay* JlurU?n.
Iftf aUrictivr daughter of Mrs.
Alice Hor'.on, and Mr. Italic Jones,
son of Mr ami Mrs. K. I.. Jones, were
married on last Thureduy afternoon
at the home of the bride. The Rev.
M. B. (Junior, pastor of the bride,
per for mod the ceremony. Mr*. Jones
lives in the Timrod section but attended
school in Bethune later graduating
from Diuughon's Business College.
Mr. Jones is u progressive
young farmer ami itjAo has business
interests iri town. Both of these
young people have number* of
friend* and relatives who are extendI
rig congratulations and best wishes.
Mr. C. C. Bate, magistrate of this
town, has just completed a census of
Bethune ami reports that there are
within the incorporated limits the following:
whites below the age of 21,
22-1; whites above the age of 21, 24*1.
There are (>7 negroes who have attained
their majority and fid minors,
making a total population of 600. We
should like to be able to add another
cipher U* that figure.
Two whiskey distilleries have been
captured within a radius of nine mile*
i of Bethune in the last two weeks by
j Messrs. Bate, Walk ins and Murm.
A number of the lady teachers of
the Bethune school of 1026-27, with
a few friends, are ramping at Big
Spring- this week. Mr. and Mrs.
I). M. Mays are chaperoning the
party.
Mr. Mays Daw- has gone to Dothan,
Ala., to bring home his wife
who has l>eet! visiting ? her parents
at that place. Mr. Davis was accompanied
by Mrs. Love Hearon, Mr,
( . K. ( assody ami Mack Davis who
have gone to visit relatives in Georgia
and Alabama.
Misses. Faye Bethune and Elizabeth
I witty of ilartsville have been the
guests of Mrs. L. D. Robertson.
Miss Edith Clyburn has gone to
Hollands pond near Camden on a
camping tpp with the children of the
Home I>emostration clubs of Kershaw
county.
Mrs. W. B. Davis of Chesterfield
is visiting her mother, Mrs. Juanna
('aston.
Misses Eva and Frances Severance
are visiting relatives in Lamar.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Brannon
are the guests of Mrs. Ellen Brannon
and Mrs. Hugh Oliver.
Mrs. (J. B. King has returned form
the ( olumbia hospital where she went
for an examination.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
After a thorough examination intu^
conditions about the promises on
whi< h is conducted a dairy, the property
of Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Trutxiale,
we found nothing indicative of an
infection of the milk supply furnished
t herefrom.
Further, each member of the family
(members of the family alone
handling the milk) have been examined
?o determine whether or not
thei e wei e typhoid carriers handling
tins miik supply and the report from
the State Laboratory gives each member
of the family a clean bill of
health: in other words, there are no
typhoid carriers among the members
"t the Truesdale farflily, who alone
handle this milk supply.
(Signed) A. H. HAYDEN. M.D.,'
Epidemiologist. State Board of Health
I hree in Family Killed
j Sumter. July 27. Cert rude, fouryear-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.
Xternsill Smith and granddaughter of
Mr. and Mrs. (leorgc E. Epperson,
was instantly killed today when
struck by an automobile driven by
J. W. Haiper, a local contractor. The
little gitl and her brother had ju^t
stepped out of a truck driven by
their father and started across the
Street to their home. The boy saw
the car and darted back, but the little
girl run into its path.
Mr. Harper, witnesses said, did all
he could to avoid hitting the child.
1 his is the third tragedy in the
family within a few months. In
; March ( harles \\ . Smith, a broth|
er of H. S. Smith, was stabbed to
death by a negro. In May Ixiretta
Stimson, niece of Mrs. Smith, was
fatally hurt in a fall from a bicycle.
Child Hurt in Blunge
Sumter, July 27.? Charjes Player,
seven, son of the A. (\ L. ticket
agent, O. V. Player, was seriously
hurt in a fall from a tree ut his home
on Magnolia street today. A leg was
broken and internal injuries are
feared.y
Mack Geddings, injured in an automobile
wreck on the Pocalla causeway
Sunday, was brought to a local
"hospital last night in a serious coa<
1 ition. Tonight, however, he i* said
to be much improved.
general news notes
The salary of Mayor Dorsey of
Shelby, N. has been fixed at $1,S00
per year, and the aldermen are to
receive $f? for each meeting of the
city council that each alderman attends.
Mrs. Ru> Wilson. 31, n farmers'*
wife was on Friday sentenced to .10
>ca:s at hard labor in prison, after
>he had confessed ttf the killing of her
mother 'St RU^u^-Ncb.. by. poison\nK~
woman begged the
judge to1 sfcnd her to the electric chair.
A Beeton. Ontario farmer, last
week kicked an unknown robber who
had entered his home, to death after
a terrible struggle.
Ci.allomo Campigotto jumped front
the Delaware river bridge at Philadelphia
cn Tuesday. Uv was the
fourteenth person to commit suicide
by jumping front the-bridge to the
river below.
THKA-TIIK FILING FKAl'FKINSay
a Woman Will Our Day K<juhI
Man's Ft-a La
Ntw York, July- A blonde- and buxom
German girl *at down to her firs'American
breakfast a substantial
one, incidentally-?and in a matter of
fact manner announced that she would
attempt a truna-Atlantic airplane
flight in the spring.
She is Thea Kasche, the Dying
fraulein whose daring stunts in aviation
is the pride of all Gerfnan> Only
twenty-three?yet she has exceptional
poise and perfect command of herself
at all time.
Smartly growned in a be-, oming
frock of white crepe georgette, her
face flushed with excitement, she
seemed an efficient modern Juno
rather than a sportswoman who risks
death with that calm, steady smile
of hers.
But she is talk and strong-looking,
and seems filled with a courage that
is almost masculine. Her sparkling
gray eyes, and her flushed cheeks,
belie her upparent coolness.
Not being sure of herself, Miss !
Kasche speaks English very halting- i
1 y, but her uccent is unfailingly per- I
feet. Each new arrival was welcomed '
warmly in her suite at the Hote B it- ,
more, and asked to "sit dahn."
And while she talked -politely to i
the numerous reporters, she eyed !
hungrily and wistfully the ante- j
loupe, cold meats, rolls and roffeei
that was to have been her break-'
fast.
But her time was taken up entirely
in answering the numerous
questions that were being asked by!
everybody at onec. There was a
constant stream of them, and soon
Fraulein Kasche had forgotten her
food entirely in th<? thrill of being!
in America and in talking of the subject
nearest her heart?Aviation, and
her proposed flight to Europe.
Miss Kasche is very wealthy and
ther\ is nothing commercial in her
visit here.
"My flying is all for sport," she
began. "Not for glory, not fori
money, only because I love it.
There's a thrill in it every time 1
step into my little Udet-Flamingo
plane. Every Vlay'k every hour, is
wonderful because it is uncertain.1
and I can fly fearlessly because 1
have no one dependent upon me. j
It's the thought of loved one- who'
must he provided for that would j
cramp the-hand on the controls.
"I took my first ride during the
war, in 1915. In 1924. 1 started
leaining to fly, and a year later received
my license -from the German
government.
I am here t < > ?tudy. I want to!
leain about American methods of
aviation and about American planes.!
I hope to do some exhibition flying. !
1 do stunt flying rather well/'
Ibis latter bit was as near as the
flying fraulein came to saying on!
word of hc-L amazing exploits.
"I would like to fly across the !
ocean, and 1 would like to be the
first woman to do it. but there is no
possibility of my trying it befor next |
spring."
Miss Kasche believes aviation fori
women is a great thing, hut she also;
admits that the<e are many difficulties
to he overcome before women can
hope to receive proper recognition
in thi- new field.
"It will take men a long while tj
recognize \\t men's power in the flying
field. But it will come some day.
At the present time, however, flying
for women is just a fad."
Miss Kasche is anxious to show !
America what the only German woman
flyer can do, and her plane will I
be assembled at once at Roosevelt j
Field. Within a day or two she will i
make her first hop-off from American
soil into American air.
Asked if she had a husband she
replied that she had not. have
ft' thing. in fact, except my plane."
Miss Rasche's parents are living in
Berlin.
Works Flim-Flam Game
Rock Hill special, July 20.?H. L.
Dickens of the Catawba Junction j
section, reported to officers here to-j
day that a man whose identity he i
does not know, had swindled him!
out of the price of a pen of chickens,1
by giving him a check for $20 with !
the signature of a concern in Coluni-i
bia which does not exist. Th? alleg-'
ed flim-flimmer gave Mr. Dickens a
check drawn upon the National Loan ,
& Exchange Bank of Columbia in
the name of the Smith Grocery Co.
\N hen the check was returned4 with '
the information that no such con-1
coin was RfffJwn to be in existence,!
Mr. Dickens felt both insulted and i
injured when compelled to pay a
protest fee.
Jerry, blackest of all black sheep,
has just betrayed his one-millionth;
victim. Trained to lead t procession
of sheep through the long run- '
ways of tbe Chicago stock yards,
uP"n reaching a certain pen he sideand
the rest proceed to their
death.
GRAPES IN THE SAND HILLS
Hamlet, N. C., July 25.-?The progress
being made in the proposed
development of European grape* as
a potential, outstanding cash crop
for the Sandhill lerritiry of the Carolinas
bhs gained still further inomeatum
h> a visit to the Seaboard vin?'
>ard located on the farm of Mr! W.
L. McCoy at McBoe, 8. <\ by Mr.
('. I). Matthews, Chairman of the Horticultural
Department of the State of
North Carolina. Mr. Matthews who
has )>een in Horticultural Extension
work for the past twelve years, was
very favorably impressed with the
work accomplished and in a letter
which he has addressed to Mr. J. N.
McHride, General Agricultural Agent,
Seaboard Air Line Railway, he has
given a complete review of the results
of his investigation, together with his
opinion of the possibilities the Sandhill
territory holds for the future
commercial development of European
grapes. Mr. Matthews' letter is
quoted as follows:
"1 have been much interested in
the proposed campaign of the Agricultural
Department of the Seaboard
Air Line Railway to promote an industry
in grape growing, based on
results secured with European grapes
in their experimental vineyard conducted
in co-operation with W. L.
and J. K> McCoy at McBee, South
Carolina.
On July 8th I had the opportunity
of visiting and examin ng this vineya:d
thoroughly, and was much impressed
with the promise that the
European type of g.ape g'ves as a
basis for a new h ticultural in iustry
in the Carol r: sandhills.
1 was pa * L u 1 a 1 y interes cd in
V . *. * ' ' '
teeing how these varieties checked
up from thp standpoint of vigor, productiveness,
freedom iron) diseases
and insects, and date of ripening, and
was agreeably surprised to find varieties
pf European grapes of both tgble
and juice types scoring high in all
these, respects. You and your associate*
have made an outstanding
contribution in establishing the adaptability
of these grapes to the section,
and a real service in encouraging this
industry in the sandhills. The future
success of the sandhills section, from
an- agricultural viewpoint, will be
closely allied with a diversified program
of growing specialised crops.
New crops are needed, and as a result
of your experiment*, the production
of European grapes promises to take
a prominent place in the list of horti-cultural
crops for the sandhills.
Results being secured in the ex
perimental vineyard make the possibilities
of establishing- a grape industry
in the Carolina sandhills a Very t
promising proposition, and the star..- ;
ing of commercial development is the j
next logical step.
The economic advantages of com- j
paratively. cheap lands and close
proximity to the consuming markets
of the East and South make a development
of this industry appear as
a very alluring opportunity. How-!
ever, grape growing is a specialized.'
j in iustry, requiring specialized attention.
Although a section may posses*
remaikable natural and economic'
|
j advantages for grape growing, there
is icquired a certain amount of hortiiu!'u
al knowledge on the part of the.'
g v. er before success may be
j achieved. Expei ience makes it ad
vUible to cautioTTj
rushing in blindly ifUjU
on a 'Urga ?c?le
quainting- themselv?, j?M
as of producing m%\
crop. Urapo growing jT?
crop industry i? wh, *
the commodity, gualiu 1M:"
arition OFthe conunodbB^
ty in marketing Hr(,
auccesa. This necenjJjBt
amount of capital ;
judgement and lrai?uJH
crops of high quality .jB
telligent marketing, 'wjJW
tent ion to the detaik j|
packing and distribute*
quired with general JJJB ;
I feel certain that ?J
fori the development o(7l
takfes into considerit?u.^B
points. ;:|
Let tap assure you J
pafttneril stands ready t?B
the sound develop,Wnt M
try
Card of ThS*
We wish to thank oumM
friends for the many ?. J
love and sympathy show!?
recent bereavement. fl
Children of Mrs. J. J
Newspaper Mm J
Kloree, July 25.?Wj
dice, circulation man&g^^^
Augusta (Ga.) Herald
his son seriously iniurc^B
day when a tree fell^H
automobile on the Colul
ton high wiy, a mile 9;
The name of the son 9
lea ned. The tragedy o9
ing a wind and rain stor9
\ve:e no witnesses. I
Poultry man Was Had Edl
Richmond, Va., July 1^9
thews Harrison, 27, whojj
two years has been know&9
respectable , poultryman, tdM
held on a charge of bank^fl
He was arrested yesterday, M
ties said, after he had confel
holding up the cashier of thi
deventer Trust company, of St?
on January 8, 1924, and escapiB
?30,000. Harrison was takefi
custody at a local banking infl
wheie -he had been arranging
on some of the allegedly stolfl
For two years Harrison hasfl
ing near here raising chiclifl
modest poultry ranch. PricH
ing Jiere. he lived in New fl
Chicago, he said.
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