The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 06, 1929, Image 3
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UwreocevUle, Ge., Aug 81, 11)29
Kit Gee MeGee: ;
je "mike Clerk, rfd" e reel or a flctious
character ? If lie ia a .human
eing, he ought to ttioot you, but if
e'g fictitious, your imagination cerlinly
does run rampant at times. I
ill appreciate your promptness in
nswering my question. I read NOODY'S
liU8lN'K3S every day and
njoy it. Your# truly,
Sam K. Knott
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at rock, s. C., sepp the 5, VJZ<J
eor mr. knott:?my
friend, gee mcgee, has just give
te the letter you rote him and he
gked me to ancer same, and i will
0 so.
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no man can stand ,up. to my face
nd call me a fictitious currackter. i
ave never been in jail but twi&te,
nd 1 of them times was when i took
miss ereant there for stealing a
iff out of my lot and the other time
as when my wife's cousin sum sent
>r me.
and i want you to understand that
think you are a little bit too fresh
-hqn you accuse me of being guilty
f fictitious or anny other offense
jrin the piece and dignity of the law,
nd if you ever come to anderson, s.
iirul ask who is the finest citison
1 the said county, nearly everyboddy
xcept a few fellers who owes me
or beef ansoforth will tell you that
like Clark, rfd, is the citison in quesion.
i am 4 feet and 14 inches tall and
i-eigh 115 lbs during watter million
eason. i own my own house except
?art of it which is being paid for by
he month and in 77 months, it will
)c mine, and i also own a nice beef
waggin and 8 dogs and a fine wife
and 2 yearlings and toaff intrust in) a
big hog and her increase, and i stand
well in the community and have been
called on to lead in prayer 2 or 3
times, but onner count of bad colds,
ii never hope them out at that time.
r i am the kurriner of my county
and beat 4 good men in the race for
same and my bizness has, picked up
a right smart since my first inquest
was hell and they all found out that
i no the law from crap shooting to
pand larceny after trust, i am dimurcrat
all over and belong to the
liodist church, after you read this
tb?r foam if you don't think i am
man. yours trulie,
mike Clark, rfd
Mr. H. I. Liwer is awfully'good to
to old mother. Nearly every Sabhth
afternoon, he drives up to the
poor-house and takeB her for a long
ride in his Packard 8.
They Are Toasted. ^
The average flapper who smoke3
cigarettes constantly will not make
ja very good mother as she might let
cigarette Jo ~ ^
?*yes an&oforth. I g-u?ss it j* o. K
though for our youn* tfrl, to
but it only add. onother burden to
" ?lr?iKly top-honvy budget.
The cigarette manufacturers are
a sHck set. They first got a bunch
of doctor# and beauty specialists to
condemn obesity in the most severe
terms, and preach a doctrine of thinness
amongst women from coast to
coast, claiming that fatness is a sin
and u shame, and that men admired
the slender types and none other.
ANIW^..
After about 98 per cent of the women
decided that they were overly
thick, the cigarette makers began to
tell the world thut nothing but cigarette
smoking would keep that
lightning-rod thinness and school-day
resilency in the modern girl, and then
she walked a mile and found that
there was not a cough in a carload
and that they satisfy, therefore?
when she craves a sweet, she reaches
for a lucky. Now she is so thin her
mammy uses her for a book-mark.
What will a girl not do if sihe thinks
her features and figger will be improved
by the undertaking? They
sleep with their faces covered with
dirt-dobber mud, they rub their
cheeks with rouge and complexion
crenm till they glow like unto a lizard's
stummick, and they polish their
finger-nails from the time they get
up till they get ready to go out. Xhey
blopdine and permanent wave "their
Hair till it looks like pin-cushion packing,
and so's your old woman.
It costs more now to doll up a set
of eyebrows than it did to dress a
lady 35 years ago, and it has become
an art to landscape a pair of lips in
such a manner that they do nothing
but invite kisses from mora till night
and oftentimes later. There are over
25,000 different kinds of so-called
beauty preparations on the market
today and a set of new ones is born
every minute.
Now, girls, not a word of this piece
is intended as a condemnation, except
according to -my way uf ?hinkmk,->oU
could leave off cigarette smoking and
still be thin enough to please all of
the men and some of the policemen.
But if you must smoke, please do so
after or before meals, and don't prop
your feet upon the mantel or the
dresser or the medicine chest in the
bath-room. There ain't no use scarring
up everything just to get a few
reducing puffs.
Unreasonable Rates on Peaches.
.Washington, August 28.?Freight
rates on carload lots of peaches from
Georgia, Nbrth Carolina and South
Carolina to Schenectady, N. Y., and a
number of other points in New York
state today were held to be unreasonable
by the interstate commerce commission.
The commission ruled that
the rates on peaches from the three
states to the points in New York and J
also the Pittsburgh-Buffalo zone
"were and for the future would be unreasonable
to the extent that they exceeded
or might exceed the rates as
formulated by the commission in previous
rulings-i The commission held,
however, that the rates on past shipments
'had not been unreasonable,
and declared that complaints filed by
shippers in the case would be dismiss-'
ed. The commission in the same ruling
also found carload rates on potatoes
from points in Virginia and
North Carolina to New York state
points unreasonable for the future,
"but not otherwise unreasonable." t
Seventy People Drown.
San Francisco, Aug. 30? Seventy
persons, passengers and members of
the crew of the coastwise steamer San
Juan, were missing today and were
believed to have drowned when the
vessel collided with the Standard Oil
tanker S. C. T. Dodd and sank in a
heavy fog off Pigeon Point, south of
here at midnight last night.
Forty-two passengers and members
of the San Juan's crew were' rescued.
The tanker stood by and saved 29
persons and transferred them to the
coast guard cutter Shawnee.
'Hie San Juan, a vessel 47 years
old, sank within five minutes after
the two vessels came together with
terrific impact; a huge hole being
stove in the.San Juan's port side.
Rapidly filling with water, the San
Juan plunged downward carrying to
their deaths the majority-oMhe passengers
and crew.
A new and very rich mineral field
has been discovered in northern Saskatchewan,
Canada, and a miner's
rush Is on to the new field. The strike
Includes deposit*-of copper, fold, silver,
sine, nickel, platinum and lead.
' S m1 flam
D. Burchell, fifi, the father
of fourteen children, committed suicide
at his home at Spray, N. C.,
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No Letts Than 300,000 Negroes Live
In New York City.
i '
Long after the bright lights of
Broadway grow dim and flicker out
those in HurlemVi "Little Africa"
blase 011 unblushingly until the pale
flush of dawn, for negro Harlem
hover really goes to bed, says a news
article in the New York Times. From
midnight to sunrise there is plenty of
life on the Great Black Ways of Lenox
and Seventh avenues and 135th
street.
Here is n city within u city, composed
of colored people from all parts
of the world. Alderman Fred R.
Moore, negro editor and publisher,
estimates its population as 800,000.
Other well informed negroes in the
district place the population at the
same figure. Since there is much congestion
and over-crowding- in this
northeast section of the city and.
there is a large population of negroes
who live in furnished rooms and move
frequently, census enumerators have
found difficulty in accurately tabulating
the residents. .
Ever since the World war the negro
population of the district has been increasing
by leaps and bounds. A large
majority of these new arrivals have
come to New York from the South.
Today, besides this large influx of
Southern negroes, there are West Indians,
Africans from both British and
French colonies, Cuban and Porto Rican
negroes, Spanish and Portuguese,
South American, and other representatives
from far fkway cornet's of the
old world. Hence it is a polyglot, heterogeneous
population thrown together
in a great melting pot.
One may readily recognize the West
Indian negro jjy his English accent.
Usually he is educated and industrious
and confident of making headway
in the world. On the whole he is a
good business man. Many West Indians
own prosperous stores in the
district. In recent years many young
negroes from Southern colleges and
universities have been settling in
New York to carve out careers as
physicians, lawyers and teachers. In
the district there are also many
i Northern und -Ner.v York negroes.
They were among the early settlers
of the colony.
It is surprising how soon the newcomers,
especially those from small,
primitive towns and hamlets of the
South, adapt themselves to new conditions.
One may readily recognize
these new arrivals. At first they are
greatly bewildered. They saunter
along the avenues, gazing big-eyed
at everything they see; the tall buildings,
rows of barrack-like flat houses
and th$ hurrying throngs.^ Some of
them are as simple-minded as small
children and believe everything they
are told. And they are too ready to
accept strangers at their face value.
Consequently it is not surprising that
they fall easy prey to rogues and
sharpers who rob them of the little
money which they have.
In recent years the district has been
swelling and expanding. Rents in
"Little Africa" are not cheap. Many
of the old brick tenements in *the
heart of the quarter are veritable
beehives. Although apartments .may
be had in the newer houses for $75,
$85, or $100 a month, it is not, such
an easy matter to find a suitableflat
at a reasonable- rental. Consequently
two or three families are living in
flats and apartments that were originally
designed for a single family. In
this manner negroes are able" to pay
high rents. There are many prosperous
negroes in Harlem and these live
in private houses or in new model
apartments with push-button elevators,
decorated courts and luxurious
apartments. These negroes own
expensive motor cars and keep servants.
It was estimated recently that
there were several millionaires in the
district. Some of them accumulated
fortunes in the real estate business.
"Little Africa" now has every conceivable
kind of store, most of which
are owned and operated by negroes.
There are innumerable beauty shops
scattered throughout the district, apprising
pasersby that they use this or
that system for beautifying both the
h^ir and complexion. There are restaurants
of all kinds from cafeterias
to homelike little basement- places
with clean lines and shining dishes,
where real Southern dishes are served.
In season these restaurants, presided
over by Southern mammies,
specialize in yams and chicken cooked
"from forgotten old Southern recipes,
k- There Are shops, not of them
eating places, which remain opsn all
night These are generally tobacconists,
barbers, bakeriea and sundry
other shops. There are a gftat many
night workers in the district and men
and women who are In the theatrical
business. Hence owners find It profitable
to keep their shops . open both
day and night Scattered here end
there are night chibe and cabarets.
Host of them pet on prstentious re
I views with negro entertainers. How*
I ever, the negroes who enter to ploai*
I ure seekers ere really much in the
I minority. The district Abounds in
I churches. There ere little ami big
I temples of worship and on Sunday
morning church belle everywhere
I summon the faithful and the avenues
are thronged with soberly clad wor|
shippers.
Monster Rattler Given To Zoo.
j Asheville, Aug. 546.?A rattlesnake
I Ave feet long with nine rattles is
I some snake and takes considerable
I strategy to capture. When P. S. BagI
well and A. P. Swink c?me upon such
I a monster in Hickory Nut Gap re*
I cently, the snake was coiled, ready to
strike.
While Mr. Swink teased the snake
I with a stick to keep him from gliding
I away into the buehes, Mr. liagwell
I cut a pole about eight feet in length
I with ^ forked end. Not being able to
I |?iii the snake while he was in a coil,
J they poked at him with the stick until
J the big reptile jumped at them, and
I then pinned him to the earth just be1
hind the head with the forked stick.
A slip noose in a rope was then
1 slipped over the tail of the infuriated
I snake, and tied just behind his head,
I and in that way his two captors were i
| a bit to introduce him into a covered
I basket. The rattler was given to the
I 7.00 by Mr. Bagwell and Mr. Swink.
The planking of a boat used by a
1 fisherman off the coast of California,
was on Tuesday punctured by an inI
furiated swordfish after it had been
J hooked. The big fish was gaffed, and
J its sword-like nose broke off. It
weighed .'126 pounds.
I . .
Coffins and
j ^
Caskets
When in need of a neat, j
I cheap Coffin or Casket,
call on us. We keep a
I complete stock on hand at
all times.
Tke Camden Furniture Co.
j Day Phone 156 Night 116
Newberry Magistrate a Suicide
Newberry, Sept. 1.?C. IIamp Alewine,
67, magistrate from No. 2
township in Newberry county for the
past several years, uppurently committed
suicide this afternoon at his
home several miles northeast of Newberry.
Mr. Alcwine 'has been in bad
health for some time. He was found
about 5 o'clock in an upstairs room
at his home with a bullet from his
pistol through his temple, death resulting
three hours later. He is survived
by his widow, four sons and
four daughters.
Joseph E. Harlow, 67, American resident
of Havana, with claims against
the Cuban government totaling $9,000,000,
has been lodged in prison in
Cuba, the nature of the charges
against him not being made known.
Mrs. Charles A. Linbergh (has been
granted a flying license by the aeronautics
branch of the department of
commerce at Washington.
Five Fife port, 111., women en route
home front a vueution in Wisconsin,
were killed near Bancroft, Wis., Tuesday
when their car Was struck by u
train on a grade crossing.
Your tongue
tells when you
need
@>s
Coated tongue, dry mouth,
bad breath, muddy akin,
groggy nerves and sour
stomach suggest its use.
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- PAINFUL
INDIGESTION
*1 SUFFERED ftvwn liwH.
sfestion ? everything I
ite gave me heartburn,"
jays Mrs. Mattie Medina,
of Pound, Va.
*Tor months, I did not
?ee a well day. I won
Kfl tied along, bat never felt well.
M *1 got e package of Thed|U
ford's Black-Draught at the
store fnd began taking H?a
f -J I dose every night before going
m to bed. I had been having an
j II awful pain. After I had taken
21 Black-Draught, this pain enHi
tirely stopped. I began to gain
nl in weight, and rested well at
night. In a few months I waa
MJ fooling fine. My health waa better
than it had been in years.
|U "I keep Black-Draught in
Bj| our home, and we all take it
: Q for constipation and upeet
IwB stomach."
Insist on Thsdford's
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Pril m indebted to the eefcete of
t deceased, ere hereby
nifn^ m*k* P*y?eat to the tmtfTa!1And
iwrtte^ if eny,
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