The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 16, 1929, Image 2
Third Annual Radio
Contest? Start Soon
The Atwater Kent Foundation announcew
its third anual radio audition
for the development and rewurd of
young singers throughout the nation.
This year the lists of awards have
been so revised that each of the tan
finalists who win the local, state or
district elimination contests will have
the opportunity for further vocal Instruction
ut the "expense of the foundation,
as well as receiving increased
financial rewards.
The dates for the contests are as
follows: Local contests, on or before
September 16th; state finals,
October 1st to 31st; district finals,
November 1st to 80th; national finals,
in December. Ten scholarships and
$25,000 in cash will go tO" the winners.
These will be given in duplicate,
one each for every girl winner
and for every boy winner.
Elephants' Tusks For Billiard Balls.
The tusks of 4,000 elephants- are
needed each year to supply the world
with billiard balls, which cannot be
made from any substance except
ivory. Most of the material, gathered
from dead elephants found in jungles
and on feeding grounds, is sent to
lvondon, whence it is reshipped to
Hamburg, Germany, the world's chief
ivory market.
The Egyptian cotton acreage this
year is estimated ut 1,341,478 acres.
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ADDRESS INQUIRIES
P.O. Box 164, Camden, S. C.
a KERSHAW LODGE No. 29
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Regular communication oi
this l?dj?e i? held on the
first Tuesday in each month
at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed.
T. V. WALSH,
J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master.
Secretary. 1-14-27-tf
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I Veterinarian
Day Phone 30?Night Phono 114
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Some persons see clearly
at distant and near
ranges, but it is always
with a tax placed on muscles
and nerves. The
slight effort, though often
unconscious, causes headadhes,
indigestion, incarnation,
nausea, etc.
Our ophthalmoscope
and retinoscope is one of
the most scientific eyetesting
instruments In the
world. With it we can
detect error of vision instantly.
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TAKING THE NEXT CENSUS. C
Uncls Sam'* Count To Be Completed hi
Within One Month. ' C(
William M. Stewart, director of the
United States Census, will soon have
.to face the terrific task of equmerat- l,
|ing 120,000,000 people and getting '
jfrom them much of their history, all
I within the short space of one month, _?
(Thus has census taking kept up with J
.the fast modem pace.
Back in the time of King David, of *
Judea, it took nine months and twen- y
ty days to count 1,300,000 "valiant .
men that drew the swordh" .The first |
United States census, made in 1790, T
took thirteen months, and returned a
total population of less than 4,000,000.
I Our census takers will not, how,ever,
have to resort to the methods
I used by the Turkish government in *
IJ 927. So loath were the people to be ^
(counted that the entire population had j*
to be imprisoned on census day, and |
any one found at large was arrested
by an armed guard.
The census must show th<5 populajtion
of every political subdivision in d
the United States. There are about w
.1,100 counties and 17,000 incorporated ^
cities, boroughs and villages, ranging e'
(in size from Dering Harbor, N. Y.,
I which at the last census had three -inI
habitants, to New York, which has a
j population of over 6,000,000. There
are also about 45,000 townships or
similar political units.
Before the census can be taken the
entire area of the United States must
be laid off into enumeration districts
to be canvassed by a single enumerator.
There will be about 100,000 districts
in all.
I The first stage is to transfer the information
reported for each person to
a punched card on which the position
:of the holes in each section of the
card indicates the characteristics reported.
The 120,000,000 cards required
(for this purpose, stacked in racks
seven feet high, will occupy a quarter
of an acre of floor space.
After the cards are punched they
are taken to the electric sorting machines
and sorted by sex, color and
nativity. Then they are run through
tabulating machines, which count
other items, such as age, place of
birth, illiteracy, or occupation. These
machines count sixty combinations at
the same time and print the results
on large sheets, from which they are
re-arranged for publication in the
i census reports.
The population of continental United
States is now increasing at the
| rate of 1.400,000 persons per year, or
approximately one person every
twenty-three seconds. The total is
made up of the annual excess of
births over deaths, which amounts to
I 1,150,000 and the excess of immigration
over emigration, which amounts
1 to an additional 240,000 per year. By
i 1930 the population will be thirty
times as great as it was in 1790, and
nearly twice what it was in 1890, or
only forty years ago.
1 The 4,000,000 people who lived in
jthe United States in 1790 occupied
1868,000 square miles, there being 4.5
{persons for each square mile of territory.
The present area of continental
i United States is 2,974,000 square
miles and the average population per
'square mile in 1930 will be more than
forty.
j In 1790 there were only six cities
' i having as many as 8,000 inhabitants.
; The population of these cities formed
; Hrtlc more than 3 per cent, of the total,
In 1920 there were 924 such cities
j and their population was nearly 44
j per eent of the total.
| Peach Crop Suffers Severe Damage
; The peach crop of Chesterfield
: county was disappointing this year.
A complete report cannot bo given
yet but. to date it seems that only
about two growers seem to have
made money, notably Mr. Eugene
( Teal of the Zoar section, and Mr.
: Harmon, of McBee. Dr. A. A. Mc'
Manus, of McBee, and a few others
I seem to have broken even on expenses,
while quite a number suffered
a loss.
The principal trouble came from
excessive infestation of worms. The
market 'had been depressed in price
by peaches from Georgia in bad con*
dition, so that those from this scetion
who had fine fruit were not able to
secure best prices.
The causes back of this severe Infestation
are now under investigation
and doubtless facts will be learned
that will prove of value in the future.
?Chesterfield Advertiser.
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Negro Claims He Waa Beaten.
Columbia, August 8.?C. T. Oraydon,
Columbia attorney, who visited
Edgar Roof, 18 yea* old negro bold in
jail charged with driving Hha automobile
that crashed into that of Dr.
W. T. Marsh, Jr., Columbia druggist,
ebrly yesterday, killing him, said today
the negro told him hi# confession
that, he drove the ear was *tta1*ed af_
tor officers beat him. Officers deny
^ the acgrc maa honton. " ~~
hoice of European Grapes Narrow*
A representative of The Advertiser
ftd en interesting and illuminating
mversation with Mr. Jf. K. MoCoy
t Me Bee this week about the expernental
grape vineyard.
This vineyard, started and operated
y the Seaboard Air Line railway in
M>peration with the late lamented
f. L. McCoy and the county farm
emonstration agent still seems to
eld wonderful possibilities for the
ind hill section. p
Over a hundred varieties of fancy
luropean and American grapes have
een tested and studied with refernce
to their cultivation in t&ia teritory.
During these years of study and inestigation
Mr. J. K. McCoy has been
i very close touch with the situation
nd is well qualified to speak for the
xperiment and its possibilities. He
\ very conservative in his attitude
ut is nevertheless convinced of wonerfui
possibilities just ahead.
The problem to be solved he stated
i very simple and frankly is now to
ecide on the variety or varieties that
-ill prove to be the surest cropper
'ith the least susceptubility to disa.sc
and insect pests; that will be
attractive in appearance on display
in fruit stands and poaseas a delightful
flavor. The fruit, he is convinced
further, to be a profitable one, must
be ready for market before the California
grapes, which means they
should be moved to market between
the middle of July and early August.
With these qualifications in view
he is inclined to narrow the choicft to
about four varieties?the Ribier, a
very large black grape aud a heavy
fruiter; the Hunisa, a medium-sized
oblong, light purple grape; the
Chasales-Fontainebleuu, white; and
the Bela, a white heavy fruiter whose
bunches weigh three pounds and'
| more.
These varieties at this time seem
well adapted to this soil and climate
and they come on the market in time
to catch the fancy prices. There
still seem to be more problems of
cultivation to be worked out, butHhe
outlook is decidedly rosy.
When the natural iodine content of
South Carolina fruits and vegetables
is also taken into account there,
would seem to be the best reason in
the world to believe that a fancy
European table grape shipped from
; this section would be in great demand.?Chesterfield
Advertiser.
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a Million
SIX CYLINDER CHEVROLITS
on the road in less than elqht months f
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Less than eight months have
"elapsed since the first Chevrolet
Six was delivered into the hands
of an owner?and already there
are more than a million sixcylinder
Chevrolets on the
road! And the reasons for this
overwhelming success are easy to
understand.
Into a price field that had hitherto
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Deen occupied exclusively
by four-cylinder cars?
Chevrolet has introduced
a six-cylinder car of amazing
quality and value. Not
only does it offer the
smooth, quiet, velvety
performance of a great
six-cylinder valve-in-head
motor?but, from every
standpoint, it is a finer
automobile than was ever
before thought possible at
such low prices! Its
beautiful new bodies?which are |
available in a variety of colors? ;
represent one of Fisher's great- m
est style triumphs. And its j(
safety and handling ease are so r?
outstanding that it's a sheer Jj
delight to sit at the wheel and :M
drive. In fact, the new Chevrolet
Six has completely changed every J
previous idea as to what the buyer
of a low-priced car now
has a right to expect for
his money. ___
You owe it to yourself, as
a careful buyer, to see
and dr ive this car. For m
it gives you every advan- M
tage of a fine six-cylinder
automobile?in the price '
range of the Jour and j
with economy of better S
than 20 miles to the ?
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The COACH
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ROADSTER.. , ...'525
PHAETON.. .....*525
COUPE... ......'595
SPORT COUPB. .645
SEDAN... .'675
IMPERIAL SEDAn'695
The leAe
fit'dan Delivery ..
The Light |.AA
Delivery Chassis . . 4UU
The % .
IToo Chassis . . 545
The ITon $. eA
Chassis with Cat*. 650
Aii prices /. o b. /uc/ory
Eiinr, Mich.
COMPARE the delivered
- price as well as the list price
In considering automobile
values. Chrvro^wed
pticce Inc'u<1*
n?y reasonable
charges for delivery and
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8PRC1AI RADIO PROGRAM K
The Chevrolet Motor Company will present a special radio pr?^n*m Wsdnrsdny, ; J|A
Aofust 14, over theColumbia network, 8?8:A0, Eastern Standard Time, c*t?b?-atlad
the aOUoath Six-Cylinder Chevrolet delivered la Uh than H Uiouih*' time.
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