The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 12, 1929, Image 6
Nobody's Business
Written for The Chronicle by Go*
McGee, Copyright, 1928.
Nobody? BusJneoa
TAX ASSESSOR ? "How much
stock do you curry?"
MERCHANT?'"About H hundred
and $0 dollars worth."
!>UN & BRADSTREET? "How
much stock do you carry?"
MERCHANT?"About H thousand
and 5 hundred dollars worth."
I NSC RANGE AGENT? "How
much stock do you carry?"
MERCHANT "Ai?out lh thousand
and 5 hundred dollars worth."
A I A'FRTl/.F.MFNT ? "Big Sal#*:
W> stock of 2* thousand dollars worth i
of merchandise must be sold at once.
I promised a friend that I would
quit writing about short dresses, und
I'm thru. Hut reckon how much
thinner they are going to get? That's
something to worry pbout.
_
Uncle Joe says its not a pleasant,
subject to talk about, but he has already
told Aunt Mi nervy what to do I
in case he died suddenly while in bed.
hirst, he wants hi* night cap and sox
removed and hid. Second, he desires
that his feet he washed. Third, he
wishes his undprwear to be exchanged
for a night shirt. Then she
may call tlx* undertaker and coroner.
Cotton l-etter
New York April . IU.?Liverpool
came in o points lower than due, but
spots hedging. Southern selling, and ,
Northern buying forced the nearby
months to a new low for the month't :
but July eased oif on a forecast for ;
rain in the interior and clouds in the
exterior next week at 1 o'clock. 1
Chopping is progressing slowly hut '
-urely in South Texas and Egypt, but j
the new secretary of agriculture has ;
not yet said whether he's for the i
farmer or the specular, *u we antici- ,
pate a decline in yarns and soft
goods.
Mat Xock, s. C.
april the 1UT 1U2J.
highway cammish,
deer sir:?
please -consider?rrfjr-bid to
biId the road from here to the 4 mile
branch, and here it is: if you will
furnish the mules and niggers and
scrapes and cement und lime and
sand, i will boss putting it down for
55$ a mile, i hare not had no experients
jn road bilding, but i can
stand around and hold my hands in
my pockets as good as any other
bosses you have on the job. and i
also no how to pick out rough detours
so's folks who hafter travel
same will be ruadashell all the time,
if i am successful in this bid, send
wfj 25$ on my first mile, as i need
a little money to fix mv beef wagon
which 1 of yore dern sand trucks run
over Just week and didont say nothing,
rite or foam yore anser.
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
Uncle Joe is getting ready to farm.
He 1m,ngh? a 10-cent curry comb yesterday.
All he needs now is guano
and -i,i ne mule feed and some
grocer a*.*, hut he's waiting on Farm
Relief which Mi Hoover promises to
fetch as soon < (ingress is convened.
And that means that Uncle
Joe s family will move back, to the
cotton mill about week after next.
It's a peculiar fact, but as had as
they are?there aint any detours on
the road to hell. And "they say" it
i* a one-way road too. So, my bebelovcd
sinners, even if it - is the
wrong place to go, ju>t think of the
pleasure you will have on-route, as
there won't l>e any trucks^ with 15foot-wide
loads to meet, and no big
busses wiilikeep you scared to death
all the time that you're to get run
over. Hut it is possible that after
you arrive, the "soul" punishment
that will he meted out it, you will
he negotiating detours that roadbuilders
have selected for you. And
that will be hell a-plenty.
A good friend has asked me t<
wnt,?,g about short dresses,
and 1 think 1 shall concede to her
wi.-hes but before 1 do so, I want
to explain that I did not invent or
d> -ign the garments that leave the
knees e\posed, but 1 am now making
this prophecy: within "10 years from
now. rery lew young g'.rl- including
t1np|? !>. will wear any skiit at all.
all, but w.il be content with a garment
which will l.?o a cross between a pa' r
of knti kers and a pair of teddies, an,!
after we get used to them. I'm -urc
they will be entirely satisfactory, hut
from now on?I'm oiT of short dre.sxu;
nnsofo-th. unless, of course news iscarce.
Cotton Letter
Now York. April 6.?The marke
declined 25 points on information tha
the Federal Reserve bank had reduce"
the discount rate to speculators t
K percent, and had called all loan
due by bulls who are losing. Spinner
takings for February were less tha
for January, due to the fact that th
former was shoxtcr than the latte
but this error was not discovered ui
till after the slump when some bei
got to fig go ring up his profits. TV
Intermediate Ciedif bank has loan*
farmers so far this year for agricu
tural purposes the sum of 11 dolla
and 2.1 cents, including the cost i
drawing the mortgage on 6 mules,
cows, 4 calves, 3 pigs, and the far
plus the documentary stamps, and '
cents for recording the debenture
credit. Therefore, we look for low
prices and more rain.
Our Fame Vegetables
To Be Spread Abroad
Columbia, April St.? The South
Carolina Natural Resources Comraf.
sion has well under way its program
for placing the merits of South
Carolina products before the consumer*
of the country. Work is be|
ing pushed as rapidly as possible on
j the lithographing of the copyrighted
I label which proclaims the natural
| iodine content of the State's fruits,
vegetables and milk, and these will
be ready for the producers of the
stale within the next few weeks.
All the departments of the state government
have united in the request
for the lithographed lubpl upon their
stationery; bankers, merchants,
manufacturers and those engaged in
every* kind of business, some of whom
are already using a legend on their
stationery, have signified their intention
of using the label as soon as
it is available; the newspapers of
this and other states arc broadcasting
South Carolina agriculture to the
world, and of wide significance, among
other things in connection with the
movement, is the visit of Doctor
John Harvey Kellogg, eminent
medical director and superintendent
of the Battle Creek sanitarium of
M ichigan to the state research laboratories
In Charleston.
This agricultural momentum wijl
naturally carry with it all other
phases of industrial activity^ and inquiries
are coming from canners and
others as to desirable locations for
manufacturing plant*.
At the meeting of the Natural Re
source* Couj mission on Thursday,
May 9. the presidents aryi chemists of j
all the colleges of the state?denominational
and other institutions of
higher learning?are expected to U.* i
present to gain at first hand an ipsight
into the work of the commis
sion, and the splendid opportunities
for the state which it seeks to take
advantage of.
With regard to South Carolina
fruits, vegetables and dairy product*,
something of the demand which t?
already being created for them in the
markets of the country, and which
must give them a commanding plac?
in those markets, may readily be
understood from a statement by Governor
Richards expressing his belief
thgt the discoyery of their high iodin.content
will be far-reaching in solving
the state's agricultural and
economic problems. He thus summarizes:
"For instance, South Carolina
shows only two or three per
cent, bf goiter, while In Michigan,
Minnesota and many of the other
states of the Great Lakes region und
the Northwest and Pacific Coast
States, the per centage, I am Informed
by our medical experts, runs
as high as forty to seventy-five per
cent. Doctor MoClendon, of the University
of Minnesota, has found that
the iodine content of the fruits,
vegetables and. drinking water of
these states exists in small proportion,
much too low to provide for
nutritional requirements, and*he and
other distinguished chemists have ex
; a mined our fruit*, vegetables and
milk, and all of tbein assert, as a result
of their examinations, that if
people regularly eat our fruits and
vegetables and drink our milk, they
could not have goiter and other cottditjon*
that are now commonly
recognized a.^due to a defleinecy of
! iodine." W
The Commission has outlined a
j broad scope for its work, under the
i A? t of the recent General Assembly.
1 First outlining its policy with regard
to Intensive study of agricultural
> problems and the development of the
stale's basic industry of agriculture
as primarily important, its announcement
says that " it shall further be
the policy of this commission to encourage
the development of *all the
natural resources' of the state, and,
among other things, "to encourage
the establishment of manufacturing
' enterprises in the various lines, and
j to protect their operation, insofar as j
possible, against unwise interference I
j or improper legislative enactment." j
j Exhibits under the/ direction of!
i Doctor William Weston, for years j
i prophet of the vast wealth wrapped
up in the iodine and other minera4!
j contents of South Carolina fruits,
! vegetables and milk; and managing
director of the Natural Resources
Commission, will be placed at various
chemical and medical meetings
throughout the country, especially in
j the fifteen States having forty per
I cent, or more of goiter, and the
{ message will be carried by the Com
mission directly to the people of
j South Carolina, through the county
organization committee, of which W,
W. Smoak of Walterboro is chairroaa.
The Commiaaion is composed of
Governor Richards, chairman, T? C.
Wiiiiama of Columbia, secretary,
Doctor Wiljiam Weaton of Columbia,
managing director, George D.
Sandera, Fairfax, B. H. Peace, Greenville,
W. J. Hoddey, Sr., Hock Hill,
W. A. Coleman Jlyinan, John T.
Stevcna, ^Cerahaw, H, A. Eaaterling,
Denmark, Robert Small, Charleston,
Holmes Ii. Springs, Myrtle Beach and
Greenville, T. W. Bennett, Meggetts,
W. \V. Sn^pak, Walterboro?all men
well know/it throughout tho state.
The office of the Commiaaion la in
the State Hour.e in Columbia, and
Jchn K. Aull is full-time assistant
secretary.
Held For Killing Woman
Geneva, 111., April 4:?A coroner's
jury Tuesday recommended that a
deputy sheriff who shot and killed an
Aurora woman during a liqpor raid
[ be held for the county grand jury for
j prosecution on a charge of man|
slaughter. The jury reached its verdict
after spending the day hearing
witnesses tell of a raid on the night
of March 25 on the home of Joseph
De King, of Aurora, during which Do
King was beaten into unconsciousness
by Deputy Hoy Smith, who also shot
Mrs. Lillian De King, Gerald De King,
12 years old, then shot and wounded
the deputy who killed his mother.
A house in California which is
spread out tike a whole village has
114 rooms.
Roar of Mountain*
The "m.ui of tha moon tain'* UH
garded ? an indication of appr J
iug storm and it i* often th* |jj9
of superstitions. It is u very
ing phenomenon, aaya the
Bureau, to anyone not aceustoi*j]^B
Meteorologists say the pheno^^l
commonly oeeurs in response to^H
strong and persistant wind# on 9
forward side of a cyclonic stora J
proaching a hilly region. Many ^9
storms in wintertime are likely
heralded by gales and aocoinpsjB
by thickening clouds and rain
may last for several hour# or *9
a day or two. The aeolian io9
produced hy these winds n^r (9
crest "i the mountain before 9
storm breaks ure due in part to I'
fact that the trees are ^'iiiped^fl
bare mj that small branchee ^B
twigs often Vibrate as musical str9j>
<1<> when wind-rushes over them. ^B
forested growth on the mountain ^B
produces a low sighing or moi9
sound. This "mm rout of tho fotti9
as the poet puts it> grows in i (9
hours to the cataract "roar of
mountain."?The Pathfinder. ffl
i'*"' - /-'^B
Mrs. Annie W. S, Lowe, Hi,
of Seth Lowe, former mayor of
York, and former president offjH
lumbia university, died MondtjB
her home in New York city. j j
On sale at Drug Stores,
Soda Fountains, Grocery
Stores,Delicatessens,Tea
Rooms, Restaurants, LinucJt
Counters, Drinfc Stands ^
all
tOWn
Yo\t can now buy the best ginger ale
for a nickel a bottle.
You can buy it in the handy 'liospitality"
carton (6 bottles) for thirty cents*
From practically every store where
carbonated beverages are sold at all, you
can now obtain Cascade at the popular
price of 5 cents.
There is no finer blend of ginger ale
than Cascade. The materials used cost
just as much as those employed in the
manufacture of any or the higher priced
brands.
The Cascade formula*- composed of
Jamaica ginger, blended with the flavoring
properties of citrus fruits, iuid made
with club soda of the required standard
for perfect carbonization, has stood the
quality test for more than thirty years*
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Social Qesture
Wh?n friends drop in for *
octal chet, or a bridge party
la being entertained in your
home, no more delightful
compliment can be paid your
guests than to aerve Cascade
Ginger Ale.
b u, 30*.
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The increasing popularity of ginger
ale for home use presents an
economic factor which must be adjusted
to meet the widespread demand
for this favorite beverage on
a fair-price basis, more in keeping
with the production cost than is
the general practice now.
There is no sane reason why
the very best grade of ginger ale
should not be sold profitably for
a nickel a bottle (7 ounces), provided
the bottles are used over
In the drawing room of your home, in
your office* at your club, or wherever men H
are brought together in social or business
conference, you can serve Cascade (finger JH
Ale with complete confidence that it If
equal In quality and flavor with die most
expensive shipped-in brand*' w
and over again, as is the custom
with other carbonated beverages* I
The method now employed in
distributing Cascade ginger ale is H
the same economical practice in H
general use by most all bottling I
plants?including the dairiet^of I
returning the empties for refund or - ^
exchange. It is the sensible wnjri. H
and the economical way to pui^ H
chdf| all sorts of beverages* H
For convenience of handling, Cascade ,
is supplied in the attractive 6-bottle I
"hospitality** carton, which can be had
everywhere for 30c, or, if preferred, CtOi I
be bought by the sihgle bottle at drink I
stands, or served from bottles over the I
counter at soda fountains, for 5 cents.. B
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