The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 29, 1929, Image 8
IMPORTANCE OP NICKEL
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Five Ont Pieee Uoldu 1'late Penny
Did ia -Good Old Days."
li>?U the lowly nickel!
Curiously enough, in thi* day of
huge fortune#, many of them huv#
h*d no more wabstantlal foundation*
than that of Uncle Ham's coined livecent
piece*, relate* the Philadelphia
Inquirer,
Nearly two hundred year* ago,
when a nicltel wu?, indued u pieee of
money of no mean value, Benjamin
Franklin opined that if one would
lake care of one'* pennies, the pennies
would take care of one. And
now, two centuries later, in an era of
* prosperity never before even dreamed
about, thi* name bit of philosophical
advice, different only in the substitution
of the word "nickel" for the
"pennies,"" still is of value.
Today, the nickel stands preeminent
in the world of business. And,
too, in it* humble way, it is an important
f?hase;,in the reitlm of romance.
EJvery day in the year, from the
rising'tf the sun 'till the going down
thereof, in every nook and corner of
this vast expanse of 'the United
, States, thousands of nickels ehunge
hands for limitless quantities of merchandise,
trolley-fares, telephones and
countless other necessities and luxuries,
And as they pass from one to
another, they are, slowly hut Huroly
building other great fortunes of
which they aro the nucleus.
^ nickel is but one-twentieth part
of a doUar-rr-and yet Wall Street, the
very heart of the finuncMal world, respects
its value and its power.
In various sections of the city do
the "five and ten cent" stores, the
automats, "chain" cigar and candy
stores, and vending machines each
take their toll in dull-faced and shiny
nickels to pay dividends to the divers
"nickel" business organizations
which are among the largest corpor- !
at ions in existence.
Fifty years ago, when one could go
into a tobacco store and buy four cigarettes
fur a penny, or walk into o
grocery store and order a penny's;
worth of onions and similar commodities.
a child, if he was lucky enough
to have one. could take a nickel into
a corner candy store and buy enougn
"sweets" to last him for several days
-?and yet, the five and ten cent store
business was an unheard of thing.
Supplies were not available for such
a business, to begin with, in that day.
Old-fashioned jobbers , too, wore as
strongly steeped in the "dollar or no
account" traditions as Wall Street is
even today.
Profits, in the opinion of the oldtime
merchant, could cmno only from
the high-priced products. And to
hack up this opinion, they would explain
that the cheap products to be
had were handled not for the money
that was in them, but merely as a
convenience to the customers.
Yet the "five and ten-cent store"
of to4*y show* how fallacious that
old-time policy was.
Little need be said about the nickel
and the movies. The old "Nickelodeon"
was an institution. From it
grew the gigantic motion picture industry,
now the fifth .largest in the
United Btates. Today the "movies"
boast ;, of a capital investment of
about $1,750,000,000 and employ hundreds
of thousands of persons.
Camden Decisively
Defeats Summerville
Camden overcame jr/hard lighting
,Summerville team ah "Zemp Field"
yesterday afternoon by a decisive
score of 20 to 0, thus upholding a
record of an uncrossed goal line since
the first game of the scuson with
Chester. About one thousand peor
pie witnessed the game.
Camden received to open the game
with Chewning making a beautiful
return of the kickofT near midfield.
The local bpys with "bull dog" determination
then drove down the
held and crossed the goal line without
losing the ball.
Another touchdown was added in
the first quarter. A third touchdown,
came in the second quarter and the
last in the fourth quarter.
Near the end of the game, Chewning,
the game little quarter hack of
the local team, was injured. All the
fans will be delighted to know that
Sum is fast recovering.
To name the stars woul/l be to list
the whole Camden team. Chewning,
lluynes, Capt. VVooten, Clyburn, Kussell,
McCaskill, McLeod, Gujon, Boheler,
VVooten W., Guthrie, Hill,
Smith, Goodalc, and Jones. Haynes,
Clyburn, VVooten and Chewning all
made several long gains during the
game, but these were due to excellent
team wojk and interference by
the whole team. Captai'n VVooten was
a bulwark on defense and it always
took three or more tackles to down
Chewning.
Summerville fought hard at all
times, but particularly in the third
quarter when they halted Camden's
attack without a score Their most
effective attack was by the air route.
All Camden is rejoicing over the
good showing of our team, and join
together in congratulating John Villepigue
who has trained it so faitht
u!ly and successfully.
Camden will play llartsville next
Friday for the championship of the
lower half o.f the state. The place to
play the game has not' been decided
upon.
Play Here Friday
The llartsville Chamber of Commerce
\\.!I put on their show, "Idyl
of the M il." in the school auditorium
on .Friday evening, December
0, at Due to several local conilictin?
events the showing was postponed
from November 22.
Mr. Chitty, secretary of the Chamber
of. Commerce of llartsville, says
that he is bringing a cast of about
GU persons and that previous showings
have been largely attended. The
proceids will be divided with the
Camden foot ball team. Tickets may
bo bought from high school students.
Tickets bought for the former date
are good for December G.
Mr. :md Mrs. (). A. Blnckmar. of
Columbus, (la., Monday celebrated
their 78th wedding anniversary. The
husband is UK) and his wife is PS,
and are believed to be the oldest married
couple in the world.
General News Notes
At leant ten of the cable* passing
under the sea along the north Atlan
tic and Canadian seat-oast* were bro
ken by the earthquake of Monday
and repair ships have aince been an
gaged in hunting the breaks and Impairing
the damage. One of the eerioua
break* was discovered at a point
about 250 miles south of New Found i
land.
Mrs. Eraa Shirk of Chicago, is I
seeking separate maintenance from
her husband. One of the charges shr
makes against her spouse Is that he
robbed their baby's bank to help
keep up his margins in the stock
market.
Thomas Willecombs, 80, and his
wife, Helen, 73, married 64 years,
committed, suicide in thejr Brooklyn.
N. Y? home Tuesday. It had beer
arranged to send the wife to a sanatorium
and the old couple, rather
than be separated turned on the gas.
Russian forces wrecked about 3b
miles of the Chinese Eastern railway
on Sunday last .
Twenty-one students were expelled
from the University of Illinois, at
Urban a, Tuesday last, as a result of
a liqifoV scandal tha' developed within
the past few days.
John W. Brady, Texas lawyer, in- .
dieted for the murder of Miss Lehlia
Highsmith at Austin, last week, will :
seek his liberty under bond. Hfs gt
torneys declare Brady "was crazed
with liquor" nt the time of the stabbing
of the gil l.
John Ramsay, cowboy of the Osage
Hills Country, was convicted nt
Pawhuska, Okla., Wednesday for the
second time for the murder of Henry i
Roan, Osage Indian, whom he is alleged
to have murdered at the instigation
of W. K. Hale, so that Hale i
might collect $26,000 insurance that
he held on Roan's life.
I hirty-six persons were drowned
on the south coast of Newfoundland
last Monday when a 15-foot (t'fflal:
wave swept over sections of the coast
following the earthquake of that date.
Sixteen buildings are reported to
have been destroyed at Burin. All
means of communication other than
the radio was cut off from the south
coast.
II congress adopts the recommend-^
ations of Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon for tax reductions next year,
the total of tax reductions since Mr.
Mellon went in office in ,1021 up to
the present, will have totaled tw '
billion dollars.
President Hoover has appointed |
Senator. Edge of New Jersey to repiesent
the United States as ambassador
to France-. Governor I/arson of
New Jersey, has appointed David
Baird.^Jj-., <>! Camden, to' succeed t<?
the Kenati?nal seat of Senator Edge.T?u_.wealthy
Russian peasants or
Kulaks have been condemned to death
at Moscow for offenses against the
( ommur <t regime. The .ten are ati
cused o! murder and arson.
| I he d.legation appointed by 1'res{
i<U'nt II ., represent the United
; States ;,t : i:\.v ,f r j)1)Wer
' v"'!d to meet' in London in
Jrruury will in.-ludy the following:)
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1 ' < >? >- n-.x.v.". i>w Alt
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' niT.-on, ambassador to' Bel >
' -nir' v-' I'.vM A. Reed of:
, iv ' v '' 1 Jo.-. T. Iloldn-oi
?'f A ha- -as.
1 ... ( --.swia b?i..i\ ,i. c 1 * * vf *f i
't" vir- on W cdnr--,: v of as,
wee. and its affairs arc in the
hands <>t state hank examiners. A
shortage of serious proportions, it
is alleged, ha? been found.
Uu. ing the lit st ten months of this
year 154 persons have been killed on
the highways of South Carolina in
automobile accidents. For the same
period < !' last year the total fatalities
on the highway was 63.
The newly constructed $45,000
county home of Anderson county,
was dedicated last Sunday afternoon"
with appropriate exercises. The
building-- and equipment are modern
in ever\ respect.
A monument was unveiled in t
leton county on Tuesday to Col? Ism '
Hayne. pioneer citizen and a mart;, r
toward- the close of the Revolut;.
ary war. when he was executed hv
the British. The chief speech of the
occasion was delivered by Col. Ft; >k
o. Hayne of New Orleans, gr.
grandson of the martyr. ?
Messrs. Charles O. Hearon of Spartanburg:
C. H. Moorefteld, chjef engineer
and Mr. Bourke, secretary .md
treasurer of the highway department,
Columbia, returned to their lonies
last week after attending the l.'th
annual session of the Association of
State Highway Officials lit Houston,
Texas.
Sarah Jane Haigler, industrious
negro woman of Orangeburg county,
has started growing bananas at her
home in Orangeburg. The fruit is
said to be excellent.
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Pete Manos, a Greek restaurant op.
i rator of Greenville, is b?-ing nurd
for 125,000 damages by Mrs. Jennlo
Martin Lawhorn of Greenville, who
claims she was hurt that much when
truck by the Manos automobile. The
. oman since the accident has been
a rod for at the Salvation Army ho*ial
i? Greenville.
.John T. Duncan, habitual candidate
for governor of South Carolina,
has brought suit for $55,OQO damages
against County Judge M. S. Whaley
of Richland county and attorneys
Tressie J. Pierce and Alfred Wallace
<jf Columbia, declaring that they have
conspired to ruin his business?the
practice of law?and his reputation
for fair dealing. -p
Moses Andrews, aged 19, negro, of
Greenwood, has signed a confession
that he set fire to a six room dwelling
and ?50,000 feet of lumber in
Greenwood. He has also confessed
that he also tried to set fire to the
house of his brother in a fit of madness.
Friday was the hottest November
15 on record in Charlotte since November
15, 1870, or 50 years ago, according
to S. ?>. Sehworm, director
of the Charlotte office of the United
States weather bureau. The temperature
mounted to 73 degrees about
I o'clock. The mercury rose to 76
degrees on the same day 50 years
ago.
Mrs. Edward Lavault, of North Tiv>-:ton,
L. I., last Friday gave birth
to her nineteenth child.
Silk stockings should be washed in
cold water and w\J,h white soap. Afterwards
lay them flat in a fine towel,,
roll it tightly, und let the stockings
remain until dry. Finally, rub with '
a piece of dry flannel to produce a (
gloss. e. -
Bethune News Notes
Told by Correspondent
Bethune, Nov. 27.?Mrs. J. D. Lafltt*
was hostess on last Friday afternoon
at a miscellaneous shower
which the women of the Methodist
churcfi gave complimenting Mrs. T.
E. Her rich, wife of the Rev. T. E.
Derrick, of the Bethune |?ethodi?t
church who with his family left this
week for his new, home at Nichols.
The women were entertained with
a bit of handwork which was present*
ed to Mrs. Derrick by the hostess, interesting
contests word also enjoyed.
During the afternoon little Betty
Best and Calvin Derrick surprised
the guest of honor by showering her
with many beautfiul and useful gifts.
A delicious sweet, course consiting
of charlotte russe and wafers was
served.
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Windham, of
Darlington county, have been visiting
Mrs. Nancy King. ' V<
Fred Brannon, who has been jvorking
in Florida is at home for some
time.
Mr, and Mrs. Hazel King, pf Spartanburg,
were the guests last week
of Mrs. Hattie Heustiss.
Mrs. W. A. Gaines, who has been
spending some time with her sister,
Mri. M. O. Ward, has returned to
Sarasota, Fla.
The faculty of the Bethune schools
attended the teachers association of
Kershaw county at Camden last Saturday.
,
Mrs. John McSween, of Darlington,
has been the guest of her daughter,
Mrs. W. E. Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lafitte has as
their guests last week Mrs. E. R,
Cleckley and Mr. J. D. Cleckley, of
Cope; Mrs. B. W. Brabham, Misses
Blanding and Silmore, of Orangeburg.
Miss Birdie Bell Smith, who, js in
training at the Columbia Hospital, is
at home recuperating after an operation.
.
The Bethune schools are having
holiday Thursday and Friday and the
teachers have left for their respective
homes.
Governor's Story fl
Routs Gee MeGj
Columbia, Nov. 20.?In a mom*M
of leisure at the governor's offi<?
yesterday, a group of men were
counting some queer customs of oth?j
er days in South Caroline. John K?1
Aull reminded the crowd that in o, I
nee county they once sold tombstone?
| by tty pound,
"They tell me," Governor UichaiJ
aid, "that long ago, in a coast?
I county, an odd custom prevailed, t,.?
hog's in the county were enormovA
but very lean apd their bacon wouA:
'dry out' sadly after the porkers hu A
I been killed.
"When, you would go In a store i?
buy bacon, the men would reach unA
der the counter, pull out ? sheaf A
bacon, wfet his thumb and count oA
theVslides-?then he would sell it bA
the qylre, just like you sell sheets < A
paper. The bacon would be about aA
thick 9# a knife blade."
After this Gee McGee, lectureA
and Mike Clark, coroner of Anderso?
county, both of whom spoke at th?
Qolumbia the n tr?. Friday night anA
called on the governor yesterday, ?A
lently took their departure. The reA
of the crowd agreed itT was the be A
story heard in m?nths. I
Dowey--Stockman
Mr. Samuel E. Stockman and MiA
Belle Dowey, both of Blaney, we A
married by'Trobate Judge W. L. Mcfl
Powell on the 22nd instant.
Cotton Ginhings
\l According to government report?
'cotton' ginned In' "Kershaw Count?
prior to November 14, 1929, amoun?
I ed to ll,136tfbales ah compared wit?
13,888 bales for,a like period in 192?
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Go whore the crowd goes; find out what it is all L
about. It is the prices and quality of merchandise E
that attracts their attention. Every day is bargain
I day at our stores. Below you will find a few of our j
many low prices on merchandise for this week end:
I Friday and Saturday, Nov. 29, 30 B
j' SUGAR, 10 pound limit, 5 pounds 27c if
li SWIFT'S JEWEL Compound, 8 pound bucket.. $1.05 R
SWIFT'S JEWEL Compound, 4 pound bucket 55c f
I COMPOUND, Bulk, per pound * 12c | J
i! FLOUR. True Love, 2 I pound sack 95c I
I FLOUR, True Love, 12 pound sack 50c I
j! FLOUR, Autumn, 21 pound sack 85c I
BLACKEYE PEAS, California, 3 pounds for 33c
COFFEE, Flome Run, per pound 27c
CAMAY TOILET SOAP. 2 cakes 15c
PIGS FEET. Council brand, Pickled, Boneless
9 ounce jar < 23c
SALMON, Raceland. No. 1 tall can. per can ....... 15c
SALMON. Argo Reds, Finest Alaska Reds
per No. 1 tall can 30c
TURNIP GREENS, Lord Fairfax Brand,
S. C. packed, 3 No. 2 cans 25c
j (Rich in Iodine)
BEANS, Stringless, Cut green, No. 2 cans, 3 cans 25c
| PORK & BEANS, Gibbs, with Tomato Sauce
3 cans 25c OCTAGON
SOAP, 5c size, per dozen 40c
SALT, Morton's Iodized, large 2 pound carton .... 10c
RIB MEAT, per pound 13c
I FAT BACKS, per pound 11c
BUTT MEAT, per pound 11c
Visit Our Two Big Stores
1028A BrStreet 549. DeKalb Street
W. L. Getty?, Manager T. C. Gladden, Manager
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WHERE ECONOMY RULES ,
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dinner i
That hundreds of Thanksgiving needs in oar stores j
' are, of .such superb quality and pricedso low that I
they offer unusual values. z7?
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I FLOOR S," a 49c *4 &9S? I ]
Cheese ?* ?. 27c ^?"EE II
m ZT . * Cut Fresh - ? " BOKSM?I
1 Butter F ?" 45c . or ?. 11
1 ,,?? Maxwell 11
I Wesson Oil ?2 *5? Hoim* / 11
I PURE LARP lb. 14c lb. 44c I I
I MINCE .MEAT ? IS lb. 19? I I
| CRANBERRY SAUCE wc?.?2 Z5? I
| Swansdown Cake Flour 140c I I
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* PECAN STUFFED - - I WHITE HOUSE j
DATES NUTS I I
lb. 29c oe 59c I I
| j yV MIXED NUTS A25 ft. - - TAX
FANCY DAY EH PECANS 43 lb. <:'iV,?V.<>T I I
B FIGS walnuts .......,33ft. SE fl I
I 'p.r 25c- brazil nuts .? 19ft. 3 hoffles 50c I I
I Grandmother's Fruit Cake 2 It $I.OO .'H
I BAKER'S COCOANUT ' "gjjy Cajl 15c |l
Grandmother's BJTTV *T EAGLE Larse "Tol ll I
B |_ , " - ?^ BRAND Can *
I bread PUMPKIN FAry i cms 2Sc 11
Full POUND Mm . Uffl.li iiilf' j
I W""-J W. 7C | Plum Pudding ?, 32c m I
I LARD !ST?mD 2 ?... 25c 11
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B All A&P Store, will be doled all day TTwok^ving Day. Thur?l?y, Nov. | I
| 28th, and will remain open until 9 p. m. Wednesday, Nov. 27th. | |
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