The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 18, 1929, Image 2
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Fee Dee Fair Content
Of the ten prize* awarded at the
I'ee Dee Fair at Florence Wednesday
last in the district contest of the
State Five Acre Corn Contest of the
Extension department, seven of these
prizcB were won by citizens of Humter
county, according to information
reaching this city.
One hundred and eighty-seven persons
competed in 'the district corn
show, and Sumter came off winner in
impressive fashion. Each contestant I
exhibited samples of at least 10 cars
of corn, and some had more than one '
display at the'contest.
This exhibit will la- shown at the
(.Jrenter Sumtet ( ounty Fair next
week, those in charge of the show
having decided to allow it t<? '?
shown at the Sumter County Fa:r
prior To being exhibited at the S .uth
Carolina ,Stnf" Fair at Columbia,
where winner- in all three d.-'riots
will compete lor state honor- The
exhibit will not be. .allowed to eompete,
how<'Vei'.
Winners of the 10 prizes were:
First, C. W. Josey, of St. Charles; I
second, .I. It. White of .Sumter county;
third, W. It, Wells of Sumter;
fourth, It. Floyd, of Florence; fifth,
J. It. White, of Sumter; sixth, Adam
Keames of Sumter; seventh, S. W. |
Allen, of Sumter; eighth, T. J. Low
dor of Sumter; ninth, Geltys & Son,
of Lugoff; 10th, T. M. Lowder, of
Sumter.?Sumter Herald.
LIGHTS GOLDEN J CHI I.EE
Fair Week to See. Unusual Celebration
in Columbia.
During the week of October 21st,
which is State Fair week in Columbia,
the Capital City will celebrate
what is known as Lights Golden Jubilee.
This celebration is in honor
of Thomas A. Edison, great benefactor
of mankind, who in 1K70 gave to
the world the incandescent lamp or
electric lights. Those who during the
lust few years have visited Columbia
and seen the great Christmas lighting
display, will have another opportunity
during Fair Week to see the
city beautifully lighted this time
with lights of golden glow. Electric
streamers will be stretched across
Main street and together with the
regular street lights, will give out a
golden glow in commemoration of
Golden Jubilee. Fiftieth anniversary
of the birth of the electric light.
The Electrical League of Columbia,
together with the merchants association
and the chamber of commerce,
are making special efforts to celebrate
this occasion which (by the way
is being celebrated over the entir
country) in such a way to reflect credit
in Columbia and South Carolina.
'The state house will be lighted to tit
the occasion and also the lights on
the beautiful Congaree rivet* bridge
will be lighted to carry out the Golden
light scheme. Mere-bants of Columbia
are also planning to light
their windows in golden colors and
make appropriate displays.
Break Up The Band.
A Southern storekeeper, who was
also justice of the peace, was sitting
in front of his store when a colored
man drove up.
"Say, squire," the latter announced,
"dat woman you married me to
las' week has ten chtllun, an' every
one of dem plays some kin' ob musical
inst'mcnt."
W hy, that's a regular band, Mose"
replied the justice. "I)o you want
me to send off and get vou a horn,
too?"
"No, sab," was the dismal response
"Ah wants to git disbanded."
Senator Cole L. Blease celebrated
his 61st birthday anniversary in
\\ ashington Tuesday of last week.
The senator says he is feeling great.
TAX EXECUTION SALE *
Under and by virtue of sundry tax
executions to mo directed by Treasurer
of Kershaw County, I have levied
upon and will sell in front of the
( ourt House door at Camden. S.C.,
between the legal hours of sale on
the first Monday in November. lt?2i?,
being the fourth day thereof, the following
described property, towit:
All the goods, merchandise and fixtures
in the store room in the town
( Bethui e, S. (*., belonging to H. E,
Hyatt. or a- much as necessary t>*
-atisfy the taxes of H. K. Hyatt fot
th? yeai - l'.rJT, 1P2S and l'.rj'd
J. H. Me 1 ,EOD.
sheriff of Kershaw County
OcteheTAX
NOTICE.
TREASURER'S OFFICE
CAMDEN. S. C.
August 11, 102U.
Notice is hereh\ given that al
. tale, ( our.ty ami School taxes fo:
year lbJP shall lx- due and pay&bh
between September 15th and Decern
her .list, iy2!?. Any information wit!
reference to taxes will be cheei/ulb
furnished upon application. Whei
making inquiry please state Schoo
District or Township.
Very respectfully,
S. W, HOGUE, Treasurer,
Kershaw County, S. C.
Nobody's Business
Written for The Chronicle by Geo
McGoe, Copyright, 191*8.
Fall Farm Ilintw
1. Have your radio gone over carefully
by the installment agent and
be ready to enjoy the fine Jazz programs
that will d>e offered in connection
wiwh new washing machines
and oil burners.
2. Clean up your old car and get
it in shape to trade.in for a longer
wheel base and 4-wheel brakes. Sell
a!! your mules but 1 and take money
and the old ear and make the down
payment on the new 1. You will .suvo
winter feed by selling your mules and
you will be able to buy back you25-<lollur
mules next spring-'for only
2 hundred dollars,
3. I,eave all your plows and plow
tools and mowers and binders out in
the fields. The chickens will roost
all over them in the shed-rooms, so
it is just as easy .(if you have the
money) to d)uy new implements as
it is to fix up your old ones, TTon't
do any fall plowing: the landbank
or insurance company might foreclose
on you before the new year, and all
that would be a total loss.
1. Turn your chickens and pigs
into cash for use in buying gasolin"
and oil and balloon tires through the
winter months. Sell your old cow,
if you have 1, and be prepared to
patronize all of the agents and pill
peddlers that infest your community
as soon as crops ure harvested. Many
bargains in lightning rods and liver
medicine and hair tonic and books
will be offered from day to day, so
load up on this stuff, and what you
can't pay cash for, why, give notes
and mortgages till it hurts. Fakirs
must be supported and you ought not
Ik* a slacker, but instead?do your
bit.
5. As you won't have any stock to
"winter," you need not fix up fences
and outhouses. See that your old
lady lays in a good supply of fire and
stovewood." The long-distance forecasters
predict a horrible amount of
cold weather during the next few
months. Don't waste any money on
clothes and blankets. It is going to
take a heap of gas and oil and tubes
betwixt now and April the 1. Beware
of preachers. They will ask you
for all you've got if you risk going
to church, and besides?it's going to
be powerful chilly in churches in a
few weeks, f>.
Write all the mail order houses
for catalogs and study them hard every
night till bed time. By all means
do your trading in Chicago and New
York and other far off cities. Don't
spend a cent where it will help educate
your own younguns and build
good roads for you to run your joy
buggy over every day. The mail order
houses will appreciate your business,
and in order to show that they
appreciate it. they will make you pay
cash for their goods before you see
anything hut the pictures. And furthermore,
the catalogs will come in
handy for starting fires ansoforth.
Additional Extravagance
When it comes to serving a good
purpose, an appendix has it on an investigating
committee, especially if
politics have anything to do with the
appointment of the committee that
is to do the investigating. Out of
15.456.HP7 investigating committeemen
who have been paid the sum of
$876,543,275, w regularities reported
in accounts of 'public office holders
have amounted to exactly 75 cents.
Only about 3 per cent of the investigating
committees ever make a
report. All the others are lost in the
shuffle or are forgotten as time rolls
along without information from them.
Probing for graft is like fishing for
whales in a stand-pipe. Really th?:
subject is so ludicrous, it is actually
very funny. Does a bootlegger enrr^
his booze around on his shoulder?
No? And neither does a man entet
in the general ledger or his petty casv
book how much his last rake-off wa:
on that purchase of machinery anso
forth.
1 Draft U'gins and ends in the bad
' r?n.m or in a hotel suite. Mr. E. Z
Mark gets elected to office and h'
I immediately becomes a power in th
_ | world of finaruc and begins to bu;
! stuff for his county or town or state
; Mr. (). I'. Bird meets him by ap
pointment where no dictaphones o
ear-drums are in evidence. They tak
a drink or two. Then Mr. Bird pass
1 es a few hundred or a few thouaan
r in beautiful greenbacks under the ta
?
_ ble to Mr. Mark and Mr. Mark sign
i on the dotted line and within a fe>
IT days a nice bunch of machinery roll
J into the freight yard and the count
or the town or the state forthwit
sends its check for about 15 thousan
. dollars in settlement of the^jiccounl
Oh, no, my dear Mr. Taxpayer, th
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8KI.K<JI SKKl) CORN NOW
Fyr Nqxt Yearn* Planting Advim-*
Clemaou College.
Clems?n College, (Jet. 12,?One of j
the out-standing nusons for the low
average yield of corn in South Care ;
Una i? the haphazard method usual 1
ly employed iri selecting or Mteurin
Heed for planting, the common practice
being to g<? to the crib just before
planting time and shuok a sufficient
amount to secure enough well
developed cars to plant the desired
acreage. This practice, ?ayn I)r, TS.
Bull*, cider agronomist here, pi. *
vents one from knowing anything '
concerning the conditions under whit h
the car.1- selected were produced, T" ;
may have been produced on undesna
bio more or leas diseased plants.
A much better method suggested I
by Dr. Iiuie Is to go into the field j
prior to harvest and with a* defii
ideal in mind select from pljr '
which most nearly approach t
ideal, with careful attention to t
following ppinta:
Do not take ears from plants wine', I
show evidcacdvpf disease or which for
any other icason are undesirable.
Do not gather until fully mature
Seeure at least twice as much !
will be needed for planting.
See that all ears are well .covered I
at the tip.
Select from plants which approach i
one's ideal as to height, appearance, i
etc. ,
In the case of prolific varieties j
select only from plants which bear a*. '
least two ears.
Store seed corn carefully to prevent
damage from heating, insects
or rats. *
Oldest (Graduate of Wofford
The oldest living graduate of Wofford
College is Cieorge W. Sullivan
of W'illiamstoji, S. C., who graduate-!
with the class of 1870. He is now!
82 years old. In the class of 1870
there were six, J. W. Gray, J. R. Ab-1
ney, L. D. Hnmer, S. N. Holland^ the
Rev W\ D. Kirkland and George W.
Sullivan.
Samuel Dibble of Orangeburg wa<
the first graduate, receiving the bacheloV
of arts degree from the college
in 1856. He came from the College
of Charleston anil took senoir work
at Wofford. He was a member of
Congress also. Since that time l.J'47
students have completed their studies
to receive the same degree from Wof
ford College.?Spartanburg Herald." j
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Senator Broussard of Louisiana,
proposes an amendment to the tariff
bill, so as to provide a tariff on Thi'lippine
sugar and other goods import '
ed into the United States, as a protection
to Louisiana sugar.
Mayor John C. Lodge, of Detroit,
Mich., uncle of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh,
was defeated for renomination
in the municipal primaries held
last Tuesday.
Columbia Physician Suicides
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 11.?Dr Meigs
C-. Stannard, 25, committed suicide
this afternoon at his home here by
shooting hipiself in the forehead with
a 45 service automatic pistol. His
body, eiad in undergarments, was dis,
covered by his father, who had just
returned .to the home from the station
where the dead man's mother
had boarded the train for Charleston.
No one was at home at the time
of the suicide but neighbors reported
to the coroner that they had heard
the shot. The coroner after an investigation
decided that an inquest was
not necessary.
Dr. Stannard had been in bad
health and despondent for some time.
He was indisposed yesterday and his
father had gone to his room on his
return home to inquire as to his condition
when he found the body.
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cost of the equipment and not th?
soft money is entered on the books.
When a case has gotten so 1 ad thai
the legislature or congress appoints
a!-, investigating committee, 'hen 1
hn w the ijjjatter is settled for al
' t ' m . . The usual work of sin a com
5 is to white-wash the . iy ant
h - friends who did the stea -g. Fre
tly that requires the ... of i
' political white-wash bra- es thn
!>e bought for a sonir. rid an
<ong or two will pay r hav
, the stuff plastered on. \ inve3
o
' ".' ting committee never g- beyoni
il y - loaf with its fa.' .. ,d fig
All defalcations w arn u]
' me if hooks show then . graf
- ;i> liard to trace as a o tail.
v.'
! am not in favor of -! eatini
< -mm it tees. When any ^ i00fc;
ie it ought to be in\-*- . ated,
" Hay forget it, and st.nt .,11 ove
v again. If your political f- ? nds ar
s not honest, you are simply out o
y j luck. I do not believe h,.\\, ver th
^ j statement that over 25 p, r cent o
d | the taxpayers money is i *hi-r stole'
L ! or wasted or squandered: 1 think It i
0 | nearer 24 per cent.
Old Macon Woman
To Get Death Sentence
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Macon, Ga., Oct. 11.?Mr*. Sarah
Powers, 71 year old rooming house
proprietress, today was found guilty
without recommendation of mercy as
f
an accessory before the fact in the
claying of James Parks, youthful Atlanta
printer. The verdict carries the
death sentence,
The case was given to the jury late
last night after a trial lasting four
days. The jury deliberated for an
hour, and was locked up to resume
deliberations this morning.
Mrs, Powers went on trial Monday.
The state held that she plotted the
i. a:h of the youth after luring him"
o her rooming house with a newspaper
"ad." which specified "a young
man wh-? wants home-like surrounding-.."
Situ then obtained a $7,000
double indemnity policy on the young
man's life, the charge said, and plani
ed his death in order to (collect $14,000.
Karl Manchester, 10-year-old Rochester,
Michigan, youth, wus convicted
as the slayer at u trial several
months ago and is under a death sentence
pending an outcome of his appeal
for a new trial. Manchester was
called by the state, to testify against
Mr-, Powers but when told he was
not forced to testify, asked that he be
excused and that the court be merciful
to her."
He had previously confessed that
Mrs. Powers promised him $1,000 to
kill Parks.
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Experience!
"Now," said the college man to hi3
dad at the football game, "You'll see
more excitement for two dollars than
vou ever saw before."
* ' c?
"I- don't know," replied the old
gent, "that's what my marriegc license
cost me."?Southern California
Hanker.
Crooked Banker Dies in Prison.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 12.?James kae
(,'larke, who entered the United States
prison here August 21 to serve eight
years for using the mails to defraud
in connection with the failure of the
Clark# Brothers private bank in New
York $5,000,000, died in his cell at
7:20 a. m. today after being stricken
by a chill. He was 71 years of age.
NAVY TO TEST NEW PLANE
A new type of Naval speed fighting
plane which was constructed at
Philadelphia, has been delivered to
the navy for tests.
Although the building of the new
plane has been shrouded in secrecy, it
is understood the engine employs the
new radial cooling system evolved by
the Navy some time ago. Officials
believe that the ship will prove the
fastest military plane yet developed.
The ship is a development of the Curtis
Hawk. It retains no resemblance
to that type, however. The new radial
cooling system which uses Pre3tone
instead of water, permits a
greatly reduced rpdiator frdm that in
the orignial Curtis Hawk The ?t J
lining has also been changed toj
form to the new radiator.
Announcement has been maijfl
Spartanburg that beginning Ocfl
15, airplanes carrying the maikS
tween New York and Atlanty fl
Spartanburg, will be increasdjB
four planes, two traveling eacklfl
each night. |
Henry Mason Day, associattB
Harry F. Sinclair, released from
Washington jail last week, ifl
serving a term for contempt of aafl
ate committee, was married Fridayl
Ballstonr Va., to Miss Dorothy Hail
Ridenour. .4
Miss Bettic Edwards, popular leading lady with Milt Tolbert Playerg J
pearing in Camden all next week. [
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