Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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EFIRD'S I s COLUMBIA, S. C. Annual Chain Sale (THE ONCE A YEAR SALE EVENT) " "" ' " '' ' "'* 1 "" pp COMMENCES IN ALL EFIRD STORES FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 1|i 8:30 Ind continues every business day during the entire month of June. r, lis is the sale announcement you have been waiting for? tiday mbrning June 1st. You will find the best merchan- i ise in all lines at prices that will make.this the biggest EF1RD CHAIN SALE (JUNE 1ST THRU JUNE 30TH) IN OUR HISTORY IECIAL PURCHASES FOR THIS SALE have bought ffla^this sale the best merchandise obtainable twill be thrown out on bargain tables Friday morning in., ry department to make the opening day a record breaker d we promise to keep these bargains gtfing the entire month , * . V> . V June?with new ones added daily. Come expecting barins?you will not be disappointed. ireater Values Were Never Offered <r ' ' . v - - - r~~7" 'ever in our history has such an array of supermerchandise alues been offered as we will offer to the public in our Annual hain Sale, Friday Morning. |L # * "is promises to be the biggest value giving sale we have ever if i uempted? again we say, come expecting bargains?you will Pt be disappointed.? Without.a doubt you will find the greatst array of real bargains in this sale ever offered?values I [>at are unequalled I ?,?! ? 1 ?? II ta ^ II IFIRD'S CHAIN SALE ; || L " . II 'a sale where the public shares in the profits. Nothing re- || pved, every article cut in price. If you want to economize, be II 3re and attend this sale?arid buy for the entire summer. ': / .:'ll ..... - I I (Don't fail to see one of our circulars out this week) 11 Cotton and Truck Crops Being Hurt Clemson College May 80.?Complaints of injury to cotton and truck crops by wire-worm* arc being received by Prof. Franklin Sherman entomologist, who states that convenient remedies lutvc not been found and that the best proyffeive measure is a long rotation so that an infested held is planted two or more years to less susceptible crops such as clover, peas, soybeans, etc., before being planted again to the crop which has been damaged. Various aids in control, l>of. Sherman continues, have been noted. Birds devour some of the wirewonms in frrshly plowed holds, and chickens can be thus used to some extent. Pigs will devour many wlsen given the run of infested fields. Tests with salt, kainit, fertilizers show that while fertilizers help the crop being grown they do not kill nor repel the wire-worms. For those not already familiar with I the insect Prof. Sherman explains I that wireworms are so named be| cause their bodies are long, hard, I cylindrical ond smooth, suggestive of wire. They burrow through the soil and by means of their strong jaws they cat (or burrow) into and through the roots or underground stems of plants, including the tubera of potatoes. An enlightening point which most persons do not under stand is that they are the larvae (or grubstage) of the "Jack-Vmappers" or ''click-beetles,"?those fellows which when placed on their backs will snap up into the air to turn over. The relationship between the wire-worms and jack-snappers is exactly the same as that between the grubs in the cotton squares and the boll weevils, for in each case the grub or the worm is the young developing stage of the parent insect. There are many species of wireworms, which do considerable damage to grass and grain crops, and as a rule are more destructive in the northern and western state than in the south, but they also dapiage cotton and truck crops in the South to some extent. Sweet Potato Demand Good Clemson College, May 26.?Without any sweet potatoes available foe at least a month, there has arisen the greatest demand for them known for many a day, writes T. B. Young, general manager of the Carolina cooperatives Consolidated. "Tlfa reason for this," Mr. Young explains, "is that the demand, which was normal through the early part of the season, consumed every potato that We could get and although we are searching North and South Carolina and Virginia we have nothing to offer the hungry trade. Of course the cool weather and the short, supply of green vegetables accounts for some of the demand for potatoes, but the facts are that for the past three or four years we have never had enough*J>o' tatces to last us through the season. Even much uncured stock from banks has found ready sale this spring." Regarding prices Mr. Young states* their sales of the 1926 crop brought an average of $1.15 per bushel package for cured No. 1 stock and that the 1927 crop, the business of which is now being closed up, will probably be a little -better than that. He gives the following price averages received per package per year: 99 cents in 1922; $1.85 in 1923; $2.07 in 1924; $2.15 in 1925;-$1.16 in 1926. As to future prospects Young says that he s^es no reason why under present conditions-sweet peotato growing properly handled should not prove profitable. But Mr. Young andthe Extension Service of Clemson College lay stress on moderate acreage per -farm, proper cultural., methods to produce the maximum . of No.- I I | tubers,'and most of all proper handling and grading and the curing out of the iVnarketable potatoes in curing houses. .. t:< r - ... . . Rev. Norris Sues Paper Jackson, Miss., May 24.?Attorneys for Rev. J. Frank Norris, Fort Worth, Texas, Baptist sinister, filed a $100,000 libel suit against Frederick Sullens, editor of the Jackson .Daily News, Mid News Publishing Company in circuai ^ourt here today. The suit grew out of the publication of_an editorial in the Jackson Daily News of March 10, 1928, which aid in part: "Rev. J. Frank Norris, despite the fact that he is the pastor of the largagt Baptist church in the world, is also a cowardly and cold blooded murdered, d "man who shot down an unarmed fellow without the slightest excuse or justification therefor." - - - - ' - ' . . . i\... Oscar J. Goasstt, insurance salesman* of Gartner, once in the army in the Philippines, shot himself and died instantly at Ma home yesterday. He had been suffering an excruciating headache for hours and seemed CUntic just behwe the shot. I.*ad With Hoga CU*mtton College, May <M>. -Specially fed hoga totaling 15 car* were shipped from Orangeburg county during the spring feeding season, totaling over 200,000 pounds. Records on most of these show that^wer 60 shippera show u coat of $6.09^per hundred pounds Kain and a net return of about $7.60 per hundred, leaving a fair profit which paid well for corn consumed and labor, though prices received for hogs were at a low ebb. Orangeburg took first honors last year in Liu- ton-litter contest, Wallace Connor's litter of 14 grade 1'oland China pigs having registered 3,182 pounds ut 180 days old. His carefully kept records show that these pigs paid him $2.33 per bushel for the corn used, along wi.th which wore used fish meal, wheut shorts, a little skimmilk, carpet grass and soybeans serving for grazing Mr. Connor says that the boll weevils ute up his 100 acres of cotton and that he made more money on this litter of pigs than on his cotton crop. Tire result is that he fed out this spring a carload of pigs which netted him a good profit despite the unfavorable prices prevailing. The county is the only one in the state employing a county veterinary surgeon, l)r. R. R. Salley, who serves as county health officer for livestock and thus is a real public benej factor in advancing economic production of livestock. t ' t ' ' Excursion To Washington South Carolinians who have wished to see Washington, the nation's capital, at a minimum cost, will have that privilege on Thursday June 7th when special excursion rates are being offered by the Seaboard Air Line Railway to Washington. The excursion tickets are for one day only, good on all trains June 7th, with final limit returning June 12th. Places of outstanding interest to be seen at Washington are: the White House, the national capitol, Congressional library, Washington monument, Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, National Museum, and other places of equal importance. All fares are for the round trip and proportionate reduction from intermediate points will prevail. Children five years of age and under' twelve will pay half fare. Tickets are good on all regular trains and in sleeping and parlor cars on payment I of Pullman fare. Some of the places in South Carolina where the excursion tickets may be secured are: Columbia, Camden, Cheraw, Chester, Clinton, Denmark, Greenwood, MaBee, etc. Rates are also obtainable from Piedmont and Northern Railway points in South' Carolina. i The oldest alumnus of 'South Caro-! lina state university, whoever he may be, has a very fine gold headed cane ready for presentation to him as soon as his identity is discovered. B.' A. Early, secretary of the alumni association, will verify the claim of the oldest graduate of the university who has a degree of B. S. or A. B. or LL. B. and then the cane will be engraved with hi8.name and class and presented. Any aged graduate who may think himself eligible for this honor should ^rite to Secretary Early at Columbia. The cane is to be kept by the recipient until hia' death and then passes on to hiis successor as the oldest alumnus. Secretary Early asks that anybody knowing of an old alumnus, . possibly eligible for the award, notify~Tiim direct, as the old alumni may be too modest, or too sensitive about his age. &oy Bradshaw, a 15 year old boy of a mill village at Hickory, N. C.i ran away from home to seek adventure and within twenty-four hours was killed by a freight train, his skull crushed and body mangled after falling asleep on the tracks m? : 5B8SMWBE I I 1 Mill.?i, jJUJaaBBW Robber Shot Down As He Leaves Rank Jacksonville, Kit*., MMy 28.?Shot down *? he svu? leaving the bank with $2,60? cash he had taken from the vault, a man giving his name us Arthur J. Dean, 31, of Chicago, today whu near death in ? local hospital, j William T. Barr, 36, cashier of the Fairfield Atlantic Hank fired on Dean after the latter had forced the caahier at the |K>int of a pistol and sawed off shotgun to produce the bank's available cash. The bank i? a suburban branch of the Atlantic National Hank. Columbia Store ltobbed, Columbia, May 27.?Walking boldly into the Atluntic and Pacific conit pany's branch store on tho 1400 block of Taylor street about 10:60 last evening, with a mien of assurance, a lone white bandit held up throe employe* of the store and two customers, secured about $J90 In cash and escaped. AN N OU NCEMEN TS~ FOR CLERK OF COURT I hereby announce my-self a candidate for re-election to the office of Clerk ofrt 'ourt for Kershaw County subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. J. II. CLYBURN FOR MAGISTRATE I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Magistrate in DeKall Township, subject to tho rules of the l>emocratic primary. B. M. SMITH FOR CORONER I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Coroner for Kershaw County, and will appreciate the continued support of the Democratic votem of the county. W. F. RUISSBLL FOR MASTER I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Master i/\ Equity for Kershaw County and will appreciate the support of the voters in the coming primary. W. L. DePASS, JR. FOR CONGRESS I hereby announce that I am a candidate in the Democratic primaries of South Carolina, for the nomination of Representative of the 6th Congre.v sional District for the 71st Congress, and 1 take this opportunity to thank the people of the District for their loyal support in the past and to say that I shall endeavor to deserve their support and confidence in the future. W. F. STEVENSON. FOR MAGISTRATE (Upper Wateree) I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Magis*trate for Upper Wateree'District. BEN A. RABON. FOR COUNTY DIRECTOR I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the office of Director for DeKalb Township and pledge if elected, to discharge the duties of this office fairly, impartially, and to the b&st of my judgment and ability. Very respectfully, H. G. GARRISON, JR. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice Is hereby given that one month from this date, on Thursday, July 6th, 1828, I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as administratrix of the estate of Janie Cook, deceased, ana on the same date I will apply to the ; said Court for a final discharge as atrid administratrix* - ?-RAJG?ABL . DROWN, Camden, S. C., May 81st, 1928. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given thaif one month from this date, on Saturday,, June 80th, 1928, I will make to. the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as administrator of the estate of Moses Lomansky. deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said administrator. " LEWIS DOMANSKY, Camden, ?. C., May 28th, 1928. - Mi ' ' "* " ' g ?r' ^ J. To the Small Householders ' ? ' r v -^v- * ^V 1 ^ -^ijWjj^kj^iIt is very seldom that the well-to-do owner of a large home is uninsured but it often happens that his less fortunate brother who owns only a limited amount of furniture and personal belongings feels that his stuff i is not worth the interest of the insurance agent. Consequently when fire or wind cleans him out he find3 r~~ f>\ Jiiiuself in a sad predicament where he faces a long t tiifte in debt to replace bjp clothing^an^Mjrtture. We appreciate the small poHcy-olwner's business just as much as we dp the big lines, and at all times \ safeguard his interests just as faithfully. I For sixty-three years we have built a reputation for prompt adjustments, fair rates and courteous attention. We arejealous of our standing and permit I - nothing to mar it. No matter how small, let us handle K your insurance. I Williams Insurance Agency I R. M. KENNEDY, JR.. OWNER I