The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 29, 1928, Image 2
Hcout News No4?a
The regular troop meeting was
held Friday, June 22, at 8 p. in. anJ
ak it wit* raining we went directly
into the scout house. The Lord'*
prayer was repeated the? we said the
scout oath and hud the roll calM.
ten scout? answering to the roll and
a collection of $100 wus taken up.
Ansel Buternan and George Ithame
agreed to have aome inter-patrol con- ,
tests. Once the lights went out but
before the candle* could be found and
lighted the electricity came back on,
We ant around the table and told
atoricB until the rain stopped.
GKARGK RHAMF, scribe.
The fire department of Greenville
ami Spartanburg will have an old
fashioned water battle at Greer, following
a challenge. Kach will have a '
line of hose with four men at the nozzle
and one or the other will Ik washed
off the field of buttle.
THE CITADEL
The Military Callage of South
Carolna
VACANT SCHOLARSHIPS
A vacant scholarship in Kerahuw
County will be flllod by competitive
examination to be held at the county
seat on Friday, July 13th. Applicants
must be ut least sixteen and
not more than twenty years of age,
and must meet the educational re
quirerrients for udmlssion to the
freshman clues, which are a certificate
from an accredited four-year
high school, covering fifteen units,
or an equivalent examination.
This scholarship covers tuition,
board, hospital, laundry, room, and
an allowance for uniforms.
The Citadel is a liberal arts college,
offering electives in civil engineering,
science, language and
literature, and business administration.
It has an excellent military system,!
hnving been rated by the War Ue- j
partinent continuously for many years I
as "distinguished military college." j
An inspector says'of it:
"It is so superior in all its methods,'
it must 1h* classed alone."
It provides thorough physical train- i'
ing of all students under comj>etent!
supervision, and encourages all nth-'1
It-tit* sports.
For catalogue and blanks, write to I
Col. < >. .1. Hond, president.
Col. (>. J. BOX I), President.
The Citadel, Charleston. S. (V
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WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT
Women About Men and Men Abeut
Business Chiefly Ha Two CUieft.
In order to determine what people
talk about, investigators classified
conversations overheard in public
places in ( leveland ami New York.
They found that the subjects vajp^d
but little in the two cities.
Men's conversations were fortywight
per cent, about business, fifteen
per cent, about sports and amusements,
12 per cent, about other men,
these being the most frequent topics.
Conversation of women were most
frequently about men, this topic showing
great variation in the two cities,
22 jx*r cent, in Cleveland And 44 per
cent in New York. Clothes were the
subject of twenty per cent, and other
women fifteen per cent.
In mixed company, men talked
most to women about amusements,
next, of business and women. Women
conversed with men about themselves
and other women.
Frog Attacks Catbird
Hopkinsville, Ky., June 21.?big
bullfrog recently established himself
in the lily pool of Mrs. Rodman
Meacham. In the garden about the i
pool many birds fflake their home a/id
drink from the |K>ol. Today it became
known that a 'catbird while
drinking from the pool was grabbed
by the frog which swallowed the
bird's head. In a little while both
bird and frog were choked to death
and their corpses, fastened together
in death, were found floating in t'he
pool.
The disintegrated pavement on the
Travelers Rest road out of Greenville,'
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which has been fussed about for over j
a year is found to be bad because poor i
cement containing too much magne ium
was used by the state, und the
contractors are blameless. The report
was made this week to the state
highway department by a competent j
board of investigation appointed last J
summer including the federal district j
engineer, and out of four brands of!
cement used, the trouble all cam-' ;
from Piedmont cement made in Gem- 1
gia, it says. The poor cement had
been testied by a Richmond laboratory'
and guaranteed by a Charleston concern.
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* our line, from PRESCRIPTIONS to Corn Plasters. We j
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Buick Dealer
stands back of the
USED CARS he
d Bid ^ our Buick dealer's good reputaw
vll 3^ tion in the community is worth far
more to him than the profit he makes
on any used car transaction.
He is the head |of an established
business and he knows that in order
to get more business, he must please
his present customers.
He carries a representative stock of
used cars, including both used
Buicks and cars of other makes?
and he represents them honestly.
You're sure of a square deal when
you buy from the Buick dealer. He
stands back of the used cars he sells.
BUICK MOTOR COMPANY
FLINT. MICH?DIVISION OF CENTRAL MOTORS COHfORATK*
LITTLE MOTOR COMPANY
T. LEE LITTLE, MANAGER, CAMDEN. S. C
8TOKY OF THS NKBOLB
Mm Hrru The Tool of W?aa?kM
Bine* the l)?wq of History
It i? impossible to ?t*te postively
(When needles were firat u*ed. The
historians do not agree on thin point
it was way back in the dun pant,
however, for stone needles have be*u
found in remnants, probably, of the
stone age, which had a hole in the
opposite end from the point. The
very earliest needles did not have
holes in them at all. They were used
ike awls to make holes, through
which the thread was drawn or
pushed.
Tki? sketch of their history, be- j
cause their origin is so obscure, is
the beginning of a study of the tool
of womankind by Arthur Cornwall,;
who has been looking into how the
modern needle is made. He finds it I
a fascinating and wonderful triumph '
of machinery in these times when machines
do what even deft fingers cgn I
not accomplish.
Metal-eyed needles were made with |
a stamping machine, during the early '
part of the 18th "century and then ,
finished by hand. They were -not
tnade entirely by machine until some
60 years later. !
Soft steel wire, cut into lengths of
about eight feet is used to make the i
ordinary sewing needle. The wire is
coiled in such a manner that there are 1
exactly 100 pieces in each half of the
coil when cut.
These bundles of 100 wires are then
cut again to the length of two needles.
During the coiling process the
wire becomes somewhat curved, and
it must be made exactly straight.
This straightening is done by making ,
the short lengths of wire into bundles
and placing them loosely together.
The next step is to soften them by
heat until they are red, and put them
upon an iron plate. There they are'
rolled back and forth, by a curved bar
which is called a smooth file, until
they are perfectly straight. The i
needles are then taken to a grindstone
and both ends of the wire are'
pointed.
Two grooves are then stamped on!
wach side of the wire, by means of a
die and counterdie. The needles are
pierced under a press with two holes,
which make the eyes, anil then cut ,
In two. Being still in the rough, they
have to be polished and tempered,
and then their heads must grow into
hape.
All the processes which a needle
must pass through until rr has reaci-j
ed its finished state are now done ! '
machinery. An enormous quantise j
can l>e turned out in a day.
I se in .Machines j;
Noodles for use in machines, su -i I
a- the ordinary sewing machines, ami !j
f-r coarser work, are made by a proi?'sS
similar to that of the hand-sewv
needle. A special machine was
m. .-.ted. which is a marvel of mecmrical
art. for the manufa.tuio oj
ne? <il"S.
( * K- Gibson, in his account '
of ' :u> automatic needle-maker, says:
"We find groat reels of steel wire
fiorn which the sewing machine need-'l
les nit- to I*.- made. '1 he wire is fed
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into the machine which ?tr*ighteii9
it and cute off one inch at a time,
afhile a little metal arm with two flnger?
catch the iittle kita and places
them in a miniature rolling mill. The
oae-inch wire is rolled out to" about 1
1-2 inches, leaving at one end a small
hank of the original thickness of the
wire. These places are then pulled
out of the rolling mill ky the little
fingers, which deposit them ui the
collecting box.
"The next process is to cut a groove
for the thread on both sides of the
needle, so the little rolled pieces are
handed over in bulk to the grooving
machine. This machine feeds the
pieces forward one at a time toward
a little arm, which closes its two fingers
upon the shanked end of the needle
and lifts it over to a pair of cutters.
While these cutters are muking
the groove, the little arm has returned
to fetch a second needle, and
while it is doing so a pair of fingers
takes hold of the first and lifts it out
of the cutters, placing it upon a
sloping tray and releasing its fingers
so that the needles roll down into a
collecting box.
'These partly-formed needles are
now handed over to the slabbing machine,
in which there are no less than
eight grindstones, against each of
which the shank of the needle is
pressed in turn till the fiat slab is
completed. After this, the needles
are entrusted to the machine that
puts the points on them, and the
needles are kept revolving during this
grinding process.
"It still remains to pierce the littlu
eye in the groove near the point. Tho
fteedles are fed along by a spiral
crew, so that they lie side by side at
httle distance from each other. Tho
first difficulty is that the machine
must not merely pierce a hole in the
needle, but this eye must be through
from one groove to the other. The
needle is caught by a pair of finger;,
which turn it around, so that it lies
with the grooves in their proper posi- tion.
A second pair of fingers place j
the needle absolutely straight, so that!
the hole is pierced exactly where it is
required.
The funeral of Robert Wingo, who
was shot doing guard duty in tho
Canal Zone, was held at Greer Sundny.
He was 28 years old and born
and reared in Greer, a son of the late
H W'tgo, and his mother lives
-'I V funeral two companies
the National Guard furnished the
escort and it was a military one.
John Roper was stabbed to death
at a ball game at Spartanburg by
frank Simmons who claims seK cV
ffnse A month .v ,merely
choked a ? ?, ?f Simmons and thjs
' th<- homo Simmons sur.
rendered at once a constable.
A (iG-room. dr.;. .. f hoU>| js ,Q r{_
place the one burned at Shelby las;
winter, and a cntraet for it. several
store rooms a:?l a bank quarters ha.
boen let f( r j?200.0i?o.
The WinRsK.ro mills at the town ?
- ^ same nam,, have U>en taken over
i'T operation by the owner, the Unite !
States Ruhber company, and hereafter
will be managed by the Akro ,
fence rn.
I A baby fifteen months old of Mr.
and Mrs. K. P. Dorsey, near Badin,
N. C., drank kerosene from a glass
tumbler on the kitchen floor and died
from the poisoning.
Hurley Hubbard, a
youth of Gastonia, was drovwdB
the lake at Davis Park while nj^H
ming and probably sank from
failure.
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Washington, D. C.
Tuesday, .////{/ 7.92$.
Round Trip Fares:
Camden $12.00
Cheraw 10.OH
Columbia ltt.00 y
Denmark 14.50
Kollocks 10.00
McBee 11.00
Other points proportionate.*
Final limit July 8, 1028.
F5>r further information, consult
Ticket Agent.
Seaboard Air Linc
Railway
ROBT. W.MITCHA\1
Architect I
Crocker Building,
Camden, S. C.
BETTER BE SAFE THAN
SORRY
Be Sure by Insuring With
DAVIDSON INSURANCE
AGENCY
ANNIE S. DAVIDSON
Manager
We Write Imtanre of Ail Khuts
Ream or ee Comes too Late
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We are fully equipped to thor. I
oughly recondition your car. I
Wrecking Service Day or Night 9
L. A. CAMPBELL & CO. I
GARAGE 1
DAY PHONE 138 NIGHT PHONE 341?
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JUST ARRIVED fl
TURNIP SEfiD "9
of all varieties for f*ll planting.
Half gallon bottles for poisoning weevils, under the 1
Mackey plan. /
ZEMP & DEPASS ' 9
TELEPHONE 10 THE REXALL STOW 9
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I c 4tall cenou service Drugstores i
i SOLD IN CAMDEN BY DeKALB PHARMACTi
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Nitrate of Soda I
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will give you the very best prices.: 9
We also have some SULPHATEOF 9
AMMONIA and MIXED FERTIU-jj
ZERS for corn. J
You will notice that the best author- fl
ities recommend using SODA at this 9
time to cotton. See us for any quan- jl
tities, from a sack to a car.
SPRINGS & SHANNON I
INCORPORATED 1
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