The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 28, 1928, Image 8
Nobody's Business
Written for The Chronicle by Gee
McGee, Copyright. 1928.
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Timee Have Changed
When I was a boy there weren't
any chewing gum sticking around
under benches and talbles where a
fellow could find it, nor were pennies
so plentiful that a 10-year-old kid
could get hold of enough stick candy
to give him a bait.
Thirty years ago such sprouts
its 1 had to depend on plum orchards
and apple trees and goober
patches and slicky-ellum trees for
his luxuries. And we never got any
jelly or preserves or bought mol^gses
- or cheese either. We' stayed satislied,
mebbe, because we didn't know
there were other luxuries than those
we enjoyed.
Yes sir roe, when I was about 30
years younger, I always had as many
as 5 toes_tied up at a timo from being
-"stumped," and lots of times I had
all of them bound up. And stone
bruises. Why, I wore those things
from one year to another, and got so
used to them that 1 could run a rabbit
n sight race thru a brarnbrew-briar
patch, and never think of a sore heei.
The hardest job I ever had was trying
to keep my knees nnd elbows
clean. The rust was mighty bad then
on whont, cotton, andsoforth, and I
never was entirely free it's ravages.
Washing my foot at night was the |
worst thing that I now recall ever oc- j
curred to me. Nine times out of ten,
there wasnt' any water in the bucket,!
and many a time I have bathed them
in a half pint of water and dried
them and rubbed the dirt off on my
shirt tail?which 1 slept in, meaning)
the shirt. - t
Santa Claua came to see us just 1
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like he did other folks, I reckon,?
but when he got to our house, it J
looked like his little sled had just '
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about discharged it's cargo. The
younguns usually got 2 or 3 nuts, 1
and half an apple, and possibly I
and half an apple, and possibly 1 '
stick of lemon candy, and probably '
1 stick of streaked peppermint candy,
and once the boys got a mouth organ
apiece. I never have heard as much 1
blowing in my life as I heard the 3
days following the arrival of those
sweet-toned 5-cent harps I blowed
over half the notes out of mine the '
first 25 minutes, but kept on a-blowing
till that musical instrument ;
turned to slobbers. Gosh, them was 1
good times.
Now, daddies and mothers; your
off-spring can't be pleased with anything
short of a Packard, or a Babygrand,
or a diamond, or some thing
else you aint able to buy, and old
Santa Claus would be a plumb fool
to trot up the average house without
presents worth a minimum of 2 dollars.
If we'd give our kids the kind
of things we uster let old Santa Claus
fetch us, why, the dear little angles
wouldn't believe in a Santa Claus 15
minutes. And you know it's so, too.
Don't you ? |
Henry Ford, We Are Here
The cotton crop has been harvested,
and most of it has been sold,
and nearly all the money that was
received therefor has been spent*
Possibly 1 per cent of this revenue ,
was applied on old debts, and 49 per
cent of it went on current debts,
which paid about 35 per cent of the
people "out." and the balance that
was "cVaied," especially by the
colored folks, went into the purchase
of an old second-hand automobile;
All of the colored and most of the
PGOODPE1A0W8 FUND
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Previously reported ........ $127.86
Prof. Ted Jacdhson, W. T.
Dempster, Fred Watt# and . ^
0. H. liiwmtn -i; 7.<M>
Harry 8. PortCf . LOO
Mia. 1x>uim; 8. Proctor 1.00
W T. Dempater 1.00
Prof. Ted Jacob*on 1.00
John It. Goodale 1.00
The Toril Shop 3.00
J. W. Wilson 100
J, Blakcney Zemp 1.00
C. C. floater 1.00
Mr*. W. D. Barrett 1.00
T. McKee Graham 10.00
Dr. John W, Corbett 1.00
Mm. Steperi Farralley 100
Carol Bas&ett ... . 20.00
Total $189.83
Charles Warner, 82, who had worked
for 80 years as a painter at Saratoga
Springs, N. Y., was found to be
a woman when she was taken to the
state hospital at Utica this week.
She said she donned men's garb sixty
years ago because she could earn
men's wages, because as a woman she
ould not earn enough to support herself
and her widowed mother.
Jean Dubion, Lyons, France journalist,
and Mademoiselle Renaux
were marooned on an Alpine peak
Sunday. Duboin was rescued on TuesJay.
His companion was frozen to
death. When found she was wrapped,
in Duboin's overcoat and mufler.
Grover A. Whalen on Tuesday became
the head of the New York poice
department, succeeding Joseph
A. Warren. Mr. Whalen, to accept i
;he police job, gave up his position
as general manager of the John Wanna
maker stores of New York at a
salary, of $100,000. His police job i
pays $10,000 a year.
white people in this country like to
ride, and I don't blame them. The
average colored man is happy if he_.
can get an old Ford and load it up
with not less than 6 or 8 charcoal
blossoms, and poke a big 5-cent cigar into
that food receiver of his, and
light out down the highway at as .
great a speed as a 19 and 22 model
will go. If Gabriel were to toot his
born and Saint Peter beckon to the
coon thus emblazoned, he would say V
?"Boss, I jes' caint come right now,
wont you please air wait till I has <
a puncture?"
And, by the way. did you ever ?
notice what a job the poor niggers |
have keeping "wind" in their tires? |
It's not at all uncommon to go down j
the road and see 'em pumping and i
pumping every two or three hundred !
yards, and did you know they don't J
mind a little thing like a few blow
outs in a 5-mile trip? They take I
such things as a matter of course. I |
have always craved their capacity to j
enjoy the task of patching a tire. j
And while we are on this sub- j
ject, let's talk about our colored i
people that live in the South. As
a whole, they are all right. They '
work about as good as the rest of I
us. They don't want to lay up any- j
thing for a rainy day. In fact, they
don't look for a rainy day, and none
of them believe in rainy days at best.
One meal ahead is frequently desired
by them, but not always expected.
They don't love money, but they love
to spend it.
I was a in Niagara Falls, New
York, a few weeks ago, and a yankee
asked me how ^ere we solving
the negro question. I told him we
didn't have any negro question. We
treated him right, and he treated us
right, and he stayed in his place, and
we tried to stay in our3: I asked
him if it were not different in this
section where they ate with them and
slept with them and went school
with them and voted with them, and
he said?"111 tell the world it's different
up here, and we see trouble
ahead;" Personally, I think the
.South is th?* place for the colored
man, because he can have friends
down here even if he's broke. They
are indeed a very deserving people,
and SJ. believe they are being appreciated
more nnd more- in ^Dixin"
every day. There are many dependable
negroes in all parts of the Southland,
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DISTRESS SALE
Under and by virtue of the levy
made under distress warrant Issued in
behalf of Ch'rles H. Baker and Ella
K. Baker against P. V. Dixon doing
business under the name of DlXon^i
Grocery, I will offer at public auction
at the garage building number 1119
situated on the ureat side of Broad
street in Camden, 8. Cm within legal
houre of eaie Q* Monday, January
seventh, A, 1>, 1829, for cash the following
described property:
A certain lot or quantity of merchandise
ceasisting of groceries, can
goods etc-, formerly located in the
store hutiwug located on the east aide
of Mala atreet and occupied by the
said dTV; jDixon doing bugfress under
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Landlord.
Four Men Met Death
From Fireworks
Haurd, Kjft, D?c. 24?Tb? old
epstiMn, prevalent in th* South, of
delebraiing Chri?tm*a, a? well ail the
Fourth of July, with fireworks, cost
the live# of four children here yesterday,when
a firecracker, tossed in fun,
landed in a can of blasting powder. H
The dead, children of Cornelius
8ta<-y, who lives on... Troublesome
cjrcek, ten miles from here, are: Taylor,
Sally, 5; Richmond, 7; and
% wtjp ~n.
1 he firecracker landed in a can of
powder used for "shooting" coal.
There was a terrific explosion, followed
by a fire. A daughter, Frankie
Stacy, 17, may lose her life as a result
of heroic efforts to save the
smaller children. With the flames
roaring about her, she passed a yearold
baby out of the window before
he would leave the burning house,
poctors say she has a chance to live
although her condition is grave.
The mother also was burned trying
to save her children.
Cotton Ginnings in The County
According to William D. Cook, who
keeps a record of cotton ginnings in
Kershaw County there had been
13,645 bales ginned from the 1928
crop prior to December 13, as compared
to 24,023 for a like period in
1927.
Aged Pair Negroes Buried Thursday
Funeral services for two of Camden's
oldest colored citizens were held
here Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock
when William Lawson, 80-year-old
former farm laborer, was buried near
St. Matthews Baptist church five
0?il& south of this city, at the same
hour services were being conducted at
Tripity Methodist church for Henry
tfirclos, 80 years of age and Camden's
first colored carpenter and contractor.
Both negroes were held In high
estfeem and their passing has brought
.sorrow to many members of both "
races with whom they were associated
throughout their long lives in
this community. " .
Attention Veterans
There will be a meeting of Camp
Richard Kirkland at the office of
Probate Judge W. L. McDowell, at
the Court House on Saturday, January
5, 1929, at 10 a.m.
W. F. RUSSRLL,
Commander.
Abandoned Car Found Here
A Hudson coach* the property of
Engineer Brothers, of the Seaboard*
Air Line railway, was recovered here
Thursday morning after two white
men had abandoned the car. ICarly .
Thursday morning Tommy Thompson,
who resides on Campbell street i
notified chief of police Hilton that i
he had seen two white men leave a j
car across the street from his home. I
The officer got the car and carried i
it to headquarters. .
Around U o'clock the- same morn- 1
ing dispatcher Lowman from the
local Seaboard station called the chief 1
and described the stolen car as given j
to him over the wire. He was told i
immediately that the car was safe in i
the possession of the chief. Mr. J
Lowman switched back to the engi- ;
neer at Raleigh and informed him
that his car had been found." Two '
foreign lciense tags were found in
the abadoned car, and no doubt the
two white men are on their way
further south in another stolen machine.
The automobile was not ltt
Dinkins?Harrelsoit.
Lugoff, S, C., Dec. 24.?Miu u
tie Mac Dinkins, daughter jolfl
J. W. Dinkins, of Lugoff, a^|
Hughey Frances HarrelBouTjB
married on Saturday evening [jl
ember 2.2, *t the "Baptist parso3
in Camden by the Rev. C. L. Nfl
man, in the presence of thrljfl
sister, Mifcs Sara. Jane Dinkins, 3
Mr. Johnnie Jones, nephew of t|
bridegroom.
The *bride is an attractive yonJ
lady of her community and her ntfl
friend? and relatives ypgr?? J
make her home elsewhere. Mr. Hm
relson is the son of the Rev, J. I
Harrelson, of Marion/and a popalJ
young business njan of that town. 1
THE RIGHT WAV TO fRAVfl
is by train. The safest. - |fprt coJ
fortable. Most reliable, ^oets fei
Inquire of Ticket Agents regtrdii
greatly reduced fares for abort trij
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
New Year Cards
^ Whitman's Candies
Novelties
NEW YEAR
W.4fobin Zemp's Drug Store
Phone 30 PRESCRIPTIONS
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Your patronage and friendship dur-1
ing the past year have made us very hap-1
py indeed, and it is with a full heart and 1
the greatest sincereity that we extend oull
greetings and say to you:, "Happy Newl
Year!" I
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graraianmiiajBiaiafiiiaiaritiai^^
ffi As you climb the hill of the coming year, 3
1 May you travel in high and never shift flpjjp ifj
? j' With plenty of spark and never a knock/.
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iffi Camden, South Carolina j
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BETTER WAY TO GREET YOU \
THAN SIMPLY TO REPEAT _?
THE WORDS THAT . HAVE
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BEEN REPEATED A HUNDRED
HUNDRED TIMES? '
"HAPPY NEW YEAR"?AND
YET HAVE NEW MEANING ;
EACH TIME THAT THEY ARE J
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UTTERED. WE MEAN THEM
SINCERELY AND WARMLY. '
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