Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^? w - _ . . - ... . o Look Ahead It is the man who looks ahead who gets ahead. Maintaining a savings account almost automatically provides its own reward in the form of mental satisfaction, moral uplift aud material wealth. Loan & Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000.00 ! i i Small Boy Kills Youthful Aunt Asheville, N. April 2?Main 1 ( Sluder, pretty 18-yenr-old high school girl of the Juno section, Buncombe i county, was shot and instantly killed ^ tonight by her six-year-old nephew, ^ Raymond Sluder. ^ Just as the strains of a familiar , dance tune were being started by the dead girl's older brother, Clayton, father of the youth, on an oil | harmonica, the little fellow lifted his ] father's loaded single-barrel shotgun and pulled the trigger. The full load tore through the J girl's left hand, with which she held one corner of a school book, and in- i to the left side of her neck, severing ' the jugular vein. I The little boy, almost paralyzed with fear, could give no explanation of why he fired the gun at the young g:rl, his aunt. Don't Lose Your Temper i | - fixing au?<>m<>hilc tires. That j is our job and the few rents you mitf ht save vioin^ it yourself is hardly worth while when you eonsi ler the rot he? you ani do:nit t :.e time yuu lose? and the etfe- ' i' h:t? upon y< ur u "d d,-: 11":.. W e <re equipped to sen e > u in any n;<tnn? Make Myers S. < \ i.e S a1 - - r. '. .! ' automobile ioad(|uarte:> :' t::es, tubes, part-, aciT??nr!o-. h':o . il ai d air1 W'e want to serve you! MYERS SERVICE STATION i Wind Blows Auto And Baby In Lake Hickory, N'. March 31.?A sudien gust of wind and a resounding splash Thursday brought Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Burngarner, pick nickers, :o the brink of Phodhiss I^ake just in iiue to see the automobile in which hey had left their year-old baby .anish beneath churning surface. The baby, Kenneth* brought from. Hickory with his parents on theii* 'ir-t outing, of the spring, bad been left in the car, which was parked on a high bluff overlooking the lake, while the couple fished in the waters below. The crash was without warning and the baby was lost in 20 feet of water before the parents could reach the scene. Divers were summoned from Connelly Spring- and the automobi'e was hauled to the top of the bluff by a cable and truck. Ed Grady. World War veteran and mechanic. wa$ hailed as a hero in that section by jvitnesse* who described hi< precarious plunge from the top of the bluff into the water that comealed the wreckage. Grady attached the cable while under water. The b->dy of the child was found in the car. Mrs. Bumgarner was prostrate with grief at her home here. Son Scared Father .lam- - Buchanan Duke, the tobacco king, died worth ninety million dollars. But it wasn't tobacco, primarily, that did it. Advertising should take the credit. This father, Washington Duke, conducted a tobacco enterprise, his son beii g in with him as partner or asiate. Business then was none too g- i. My -on came hack from a bu<: trip to New York," said the old gc::*'.-man. "sa\mg he had pledge 1 our fi r $.7-">0,01)0 t<> be spent :v inivi rt .-ir.g dur.rv twtlve month-, tiic ent !i asset - didn't amount t that much. 1 t-'ld Buck so. IBn er- !y smiled. For three nights I d . 1 - t cl"-e my ?yes in slumber, w- >:ng over what 1 regarded a* rtain rum. Buck slept p? acfully. when the advertising began, t r- came so fast we had to ;nr? a<e production. At the end of the 'ue.'.e months every cent of the ad. t-11. -. r g w as paid f >r and our awere several millions."? Tr A ml?as-a<h-r. We Have Money To Loan on Improved Real Estate Also any stock-holder having shares in our SERIES NO. 3 may borrow from us and pay note when series is retired on October 1, 1928. Series Number 3 will be started on that date. I Camden Building and Loan association at Loan & Savings Bank APRIL FARM CALENDAR f Thingn To It*- Done ThU Month A? Outlined By ClrniMoii Agronomy Sign up in the Five-Acre Cotton ConU'ut, and profit by the experience of last year's couteatants who produced -Cotton economically. plant plenty of cotton seed to secure a got-d eland. Plant a I crop?, and es|>ecial]y cotton, or a well prepare<l an<l firmed need !>? !. Turn under all winter cover crops at least two to three weeks prior to expected planting date. Plant plenty of feed crops, and summer ngumes for soil improvement. Horticulture Sow onion seeds for growing eets the latter part of the month. Sow a.sjjaragus seed for roots to be transplanted next fall. Bed sweet potatoes early this month. Fertilize fruit trees at once if not already done, and start cultivation. Apply firet Bordeaux spray to bunchygrapea before buds open. Spray plums, peaches, and apples by authorized schedule. Plant tender vegetables this month. I ransplant tomato, eggplant, and pepper in the cold-frame and gradually harden the plants. Remember that for a good fall garden the seed of many of the vegetables will have to be sown in the spring. Plant Diseases 1 reat sweet potatoes with mercuric chloride before bedding. (jet the spray pump to work on the home apple and peach trees. Be sure to have wilt-resistant tomatoes for spring planting. Give tomatoes first Bordeaux spray when six to eight inches high. Delint cotton seed for angular leaf spot. Spray dewberries with 4-4-50 Bordeaux mixture for anthracnose. Put on first Bordeaux spray for I>eean scab when first leaves are well formed. Entomology Begin spraying apples to control j I 'odling-moth. and peaches to control I curculio. | See that spray materials are on hand and that the machines are in working condition. I/' ok forward to the boll weevil work you may need to do this summer. It is thoroughly proven that prepi r du-t-poisoning pays. Provide dusting-machines and calcium arsenate, to be able to use them promptly when the time come-;. If aphids for "plant lice") bo-*1 come abundant in garden and flower bed. use commercial tobacco preparations by directions on label or spray with one pound laundry soap d.ss'dved in four gallons of hot water. Spray Irish potatoes with poisoned Bordeaux mixture to control the bug- and reduce blight. Tran-fer bees, and condense where nece-sary. Requeen any queen less colonies. Animal Husbandry Sow soyo.-ans jp i?te April for summer a: ! fall grazing. Provide .t creep for feeding the suckling pigs. ( astrat.- p.gs six to ten weeks old. Shear the .-heep and dip both sheep and lambs. 1 rcat shoe: for stomach worms and apply tar to nose to prevent, grubs in head. Market the unproductive sows. ( lip horse- i mules that have r >t shed their -ng hair. ' Prevent shoulders in horse< by having col.a1? which fit proper! v Dairying >ee that the -alt boxes in the pa-tures are kept weil filled. t or.tinue t . feed liberal grain rata to the cow- in milk especially, i b : - r green gra-< .s very watery an 1 contains little food value. Pant plenty of corn for ensilageat : grain feed f?r next winter. Save enough land to grow plenty ' it soybean or peavine hay for winter; u-e. Keep the .own off pastures the! iiist two weeks in April, and thus' a.low them to get a good start. See that all manure and rubbish , are removed from the barn lots and ' premises. Flies will begin to breed r.tpidly now. Remove cows from pa-* urea in-! ft -ted with wild onions ar : hitter i weeds at- least three hour- before ' milking to prevent bad <d an! ' fia\ rs to milk and cream Poultry P ant crops for gr**n f?-. d cate r rrape, lettuce or cabbag. Treat the flock for lie Spray ! the house for mites. K'-ep clean houses, clean water, j a d clean feed for young chicks. Feed growing chicks liberally for rapid growth. M atch young chicks for coccid- i iofcia. t a, ji - ***ra^TM i t f in . H 1 v K KRHHAW NKW8 NOTK8 loteresting News Netea Gathered From The Era of That Place Jame* T. Clyburn, who resides only a phort distance east of Kernhaw on the Haile Mine road, lost his large barn, all food stuff* and farming im plement* and two wagon* by ft re last Saturday afternoon. Hi* loss will be exceeding $2,000, and will be total as he had no insurance. X. L. Parker, the efficient and faithful lineman for the Kershaw Telephone Company, met with the misfortune of having hi* foot injured last week by a guy post falling on it, and has had to remain indoor* on account of the injury. He is now much better and hope* to be out and at his dutws again in a few days. Dr. L. D. Simpson's poultry house and automobile house were consider ably damaged by lire before the arrival of the fire department Tuesday afternoon. The fire originated ril,.r the brooder and it i* the conclusion that it was the cause of the fire. The chicks all made their escape, as the poultry house was open. From the poultry house fire was communicated to the automobile house, and but for the prompt response of the fire department the fire might have spread to nearby buildings and caused considerable loss. The damaged buildings were uninsured. Mrs. Brumett Mobley, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. C. Ellis, at Heath Springs Tuesday, March 20. and was buried at old Salem cemetery at 3 o'clock Wednesday, March 21. The funeral services were conducted from the First Baptist church of Heath Springs by the pastor, Rev. F. T. Cox, assisted by Rev. Samuel Long, of Latta, n former pastor of the church, and Rev. R. B. Herbert, pastor of the Heath Springs Methodist church. The active pallbearers were the six young grandsons of Mrs. Mobley, C. F. Mobley, Ray Mobley, Hey ward Mobley, Jake Mobley, Taylor Mobley, and I^em Mobley. The funeral was largely attended by relatives and friends and, the floral offerings were many and beautiful. Mrs. Mobley, who was in her eighty-fourth year was born and reared near Heath Springs, in Lancaster i county, and was a most excellent Christian character. She numbered [among her friends all who knew her I and was beloved of them. For a number of years she resided with her children, and spent a good portion of the time with her son, C. B. Mobley, in Columbia, from which place she had returned only about two weeks prior to her decease, taking sick soon after her arrival at home, and was never able to be up again. She is survived by the following childrefo: W. T. Mobley and Mrs. W. C. Ellis, of Heath Springs; E. B. Mobley, Camden, S. C.; C. B. Mobley, Columbia; Mrs. L. F. Robertson, Pleasant Hill, and one step-son, H. P. Mobley,. of Heath Springs. Card of Thanks. The widow and family of the late A. B. Rabon requests The Chronicle to extend their heartfelt thanks to the many friends for the courtesy and and sympathy extended to them duri: g the recent death of their husband and father. Last Bank Closed St. George, April 2.?At a little after 10 o'clock this morning, the First National bank of St. George posted on its doors a notice that, being unSnble to realize on its loans, the bank j had been placed in the hands of a national bank examiner. The clos} ing of this institution leaves St. : George without a bank. The First ] National was the oldest bank here, j having been organized over 20 years ago. I A wave shipped by the electric ferry Peralta in San Francisco bay i swept 30 persons from the deck. I I Seven were reported dead or miss- 1 ing. It is believed that the vessel's, "dip" was caused by water in a for-| ward balancing tank intended to be i i empty. I CITATION | The State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw By W. L. McDowell, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas, B. B. Clarke, Jr., made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of B. B. Clarke, Sr. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said B. B. Clarke, Sr., deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Cpurt of Probate, to be held at Camden, South Carolina on Saturday, April 14th next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 3lst. day of March, Anno Domini 1928. w. l. Mcdowell, Probate Judge for Kershaw County, j Published on the 6th and 13th? i days of April, 1928, in the Camden i Lnronicle, and posted at the Court j ! House door for the time prescribed' i by law. The Illinois supreme court has dared unconstitutional the gato|^| tax law of 1927. The law hill crimiratcry because it does notifffl to users of gasoline other than m|||H ? Dreaded Aches, I 1 PAINS I % Disappeared 9 ! "My health had been pool !for ton years, boforo I took 59 Cardui," gays Mrs. Ansa 9 Cronin, of Rock port, Ind. 1 9 was lifeless and 'no account. g9 I dragged around day after 9 gg day, every move an effort, 9 ??? and never feeling tho joy of |H ^ being well. ( 'S "At times, I had a dreadful 9 ache across my back, and my 9 gg sides hurt me. I worried 9 'aSi along, sometimes hardly able 9 ^5 to leave my bed, but the do-Ma 2 mands of a growing tartdlyO :j*? had to be attended to; so ltH would get up, do what was 9 <2 absolutely necessary, and 9 then lie down again. 19 "One day, someone suggest I 2 od Cardui to me. I took it I for several months, and all 3S the time I was growing I I stronger, and loss nervous. My aches and pains finally I disappeared. "That was two years ago. H My improvement has besal permanent. Tho good health. H which followed the taking oil Cardui, is still with me, so 19 do not hositate to recommend it to my friends." r ||4 9 eXARDjj 1 '' I I SOME FIGURES THAT^ I TALK I Mr. Farmer, do ytitl realise that it takes froifi^| i fourteen to sixteen months to raise and market ttn^| thousand hills of tobacco, which will net you at i)t,.H 1 sent prices not over $25.00?when you can take thr*l I stands <>i bees, properly cared for, wihich will only H I take a small part of four months to raise, and market H ! a crop of honey that will net you more than $50.00,1 | to say nothing of the pleasure and recreation derived I from their care? I We Carry Root Beekeepers' Supplies I Hives, Supers, Sections, Foundation, Hive Tools, M : Bee Escapes, etc., which are the best that can beH bought, and our prices are very reasonable. j | In addition to the above, we carry Paint, Var-1 I nishes, Hardware, Fisiing Tackle, Base Ball Goods, j and Sporting Goods. We are expecting you. j | j Service is Our Motto ! . I MAC KEY MERCANTILE I I Phone 21 Camden, S. C.I I WE WISH TO ANNOUNCE TO THE PUBLIC . | I THAT IN ADDITION TO OUR LINE OF LARRO 1 FEEDS WE HAVE TAKEN ON THE HAPPY FEED I I LINE OF POULTRY AND DAIRY FEEDS. THE '9 I HAPPY FEED LINE NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION I I TO CAMDEN. THE ONLY TROUBLE HAS BEEN I IN THE PAST THAT NO STORE BOUGHT THIS I I LINE OF FEEDS IN CAR LOTS AND THEREFORE I I COULD NOT GIVE THE RIGHT PRICES OR HAVE I IT CONTINOUSLY IN STOCK. WE WILL ALWAYS I I KEEP THEIR ENTIRE LINE ON HAND. WE BUY I I IT IN SUCH LARGE QUANTITIES THAT WE CAN I I GIVE YOU THE LOWEST PRICES. I I Springs & Shannon, Inifl I Camden. South Carolina