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Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee McCJoe, Copyright, l'JL'8. \ Talkie Talk I went to a 20-cept tnIki?* tlflfrothcr night and they finally let i?ie in for A) ee/ita. .Some movie* remind me of iny old I X-am|-!)'.) hoarding house, fine day the old lady had chicken pie for dinner instead of cornbread and collnrds and she charged me 3.r> cents extra for that week's board, hut if she accidently left off the col tarda, she didn't knock off anything. (This show was not in my home-town it was in yours.) Well, I got a seat near enough to the acrecn to slobber on jf every time I sneezed. The usual number o! "ads" were run thru the machine and then the show folks told us in pictures what they would have at that theatre next week and week after next and the T> weeks following and the few other weeks that com" before duly 4th. When I woke un, the regular feature had started The female eharaeters were fairly well d re - - ml iri the sicinity of tlier waists and a!-<? h;.nl on ear-bob-. Most of them were high k < kei s and r, In at .ill they Old widen Me men to phase nearly all of tiernaidgietl men. So far none of the talking had been in Kngli-h' it seem id to be Yankee altogether. I r.iti-'h L: o' wo id- about lovely eye-, ar I'm lib . .The erike eater U jlo Sat light lie bind roe helped the leading lady with a!! In I -ollg-. He lifter < i: i '? ' tie' get one word ahead o I 11; r n 11 he liajrpt red not to know trie "skit." he whistled it aricl I?'t her -Mig it. Between I lie i lio| .|| -p|ee- hi il'e .'obi-! - and tr.'ew the hulls tlown mi tite 1 lour and stomped <in them eve . r,..w and the lie had about J good tl< . <>f hair tonic or hay rum <d due poll - h. lie he ked a full dime ..f having half -en-e. Idle . oil pa in front of me hugged -o ravenously I couldn't keep my mind on the picture. If that dame didn't -iiffer a lew broken ribs, I'm going to (put dodging automobiles from row on. She wa- chewing gum the i ate of III chew > per minute, aid -he s it it* 11 like talcum powders and i oiigh-on rats. She Used he> i'i inpai t every other hug. The male 111 e 1111 >e t of the couple had evident!', been away from borne lately i I?* had - < n m i y good p tiuc that had la . eeled up to t hat night. < He w . - a < a- grease! at .. '".liing statr ? r; \ .r'h < a"o|tria > i . ( hoy w a.. - at o>; my !? ft . in* r; - m n ; .a ! iMiiin : a: J :} , v i t lie lay r!|? * - i J i lie \\ .| ' . Ma* , ,, ,t , ,g !.t s liia I . . * id g g'.?a| and mumid. : tin l>alan. \ f t be i one d i.e o|.| i e y on tny lc! t , I a" bed, be r ?ie rev . me part of i t . ' ; III, and I'll; eo ! A 1. C, she I i a'. n. d iv. t |v a m ' aKe and <be . w.; -1 tat. h.ng in lota I sat down, so i Uoi.'t hlan.e la: ! : uilkle- ..r. me. The picture did > as. nably well except fo. t i.e few tittle- t tie flllum- broke. The 1 ouse was s,, hot < ]1t. gutta percha 'out'oils melted off tin flappers | !oi ties w tin sat scats back. The "r.eWs" 'eels We e all light, only they -oiimied very much like a threshing! machine. I lost that alt cents and 0 nl- the next day mi a turkey winch weighed "> pounds less than the irllow said. timely hints to tenant farmers 1. ?-don't cut anny sprouts or clean off anny terraces or fix anny fences, that is the landlord's hizness. it' you need some kindling so's the old woman can start fires every morning, pull some shingles off of the hack house or cow-shed. 'J. rlon t keep no wood cut abend their* ain't n.> telling when the federal land hank will sell inr. smith's larm and you will hafter move, look after yore dog house and keep out i old wind ansoforth as cold wind i atiM'.s black tung and mange, it* you have a good dog tuat her vigh". begin calling on yore landloi ! t'ten for meat and flout and lard and coffee and sug.u and salmon and salad dressing and bananas and montuy for ga.- and oil and tell htm I.e will h a \ e to get you a spare and possibly - m w front . u.-ings, as yea <ion't want ! * dliVe ins uilllr- when . fold i- eileaper on him. 1 ' you ha \ e r , >\v . mnki y ir mi id huy y "U tu i>y t he tun. e'a-- get b.g .'.lit: * o feral tie! i ' n't ' >?.. w it * pig. di mi "i. ... c ...tailor.:. t y r,d t.. do am:; . t . y P o\\ . g dot n i. ; -ay - w< w hav. a d* > ' g. - w ' y M:i y ! . d* (i .'. y w t k I'M* y . i.i! .i: a d : ' . t . ' : . . \v d. ' ' out f 'Mi ba ' :: a o.i t \ ! I i a* ' - '.p ' s-t It be eats > -.on. 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Is g . b a! v t -, -e'.I a i.it'e bit ,.f y lar.da.-.i - ...:n and fodder and gr : som? vat y -pi mg \ eget aides with v:t tnrns ;r. them fo- y.u, family's -.?kc. y re land'oid \\oT*', know :t. do: '. fix up any land f.o corn, ht yore landlord by male feed, plant plenty cotton the price will bo l**w ami y.rc family can buy dress glints .heap don't bother with a garden. yore landlord should furnish you numr.ey to buy green truck with when the weather gets fail and the ground is dry enuff to plow begin yore spring loafing, pick yoi (*ut a nice bench in town to set on .. don't curry yore landlord'; I inuI?*m left in yore cure und don't water them oftener ? tiiun once or twice a week: cold water unit good for mule#. throw the collar# und bridle# and goais down in the burn hall. yore landlord can buy new one# every few davs. take, the well rope und tie yore fenders on tighter, y ore landlord will net you a new rope. don't take army interest in the place you ure livin on, if the house leaks, call on yore landlord, if yore family gets sick, call on yore landlord. if yore mother-in-law dies, notify yore landlord. if you need overalls, workshirts, silk stockings and celery, get 'em all from v ore landlord. he enjoys owning land and feeding folks, rile or foam if you like this, j yore ttulie, nuke ( lark, rfd. Home Newspaper offers a prijee for thi best definition of "home." Home isn't that the place that has the mortgage on it??Macon Telegraph. I'nusual Case iii Lancaster ! At tin- present time there is but j thirteen prisoners at the county jail, j a lesser number than last month and the same as have been in the local bustile for the past week or two. .A number of prisoners managed to secure bail last month including ('hum Graham, accused of murder, Among the prisoners which'include eight negroes and five white people and Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Goodmau who are accused <>f poisoning their young son, "Jimmie." Mr, and Mrs, Goodman live in the Tradesville section of the county and according to authorities at Monroe, an examination of the nine year old boy showed that he had be?*n poisoned. It is also said that his mother and father are accused of breaking their hoy's ,a rm. The case is a rather unusual one as the Goodman's are said to be very religious. Kach night they now lead in prayer meeting and song service at. the local jail?Lancaster News. Some Large Hoga Killed Messrs. J. I), and Hump Sense, on Newberry JCoute 5, last night and week before killed some big hogs. Friday of last week Mr, J, D. Sease killed a hog that weighed 731 pounds from which he mude* without trim* ming close, 32 gallons of lard. A few days before, he killed one that weighed <>50 nounds. Mr. Hamp Sease has killed two, one weighing 700 and the other 730 pounds. He says he has another to kill, but it is too small and he will wait awhile, it will weigh now only about 300 pounds. When asked how much sausage he made, he replied he didn't know, he just made sagsuge.?Newberry Observer. Politician* The most suece?iful South Carolina poL^tcian i* he who shakes hands, kisses babies and flatters people of both sexes from primary to primary?in other words, the perpetual vote seeker.?Marion Star. Cheraw Banker Gets Year and a Day Charleston, Jan. 22? William Godfrey, president of the defunct First National Bank of Cheraw and former treasurer of the Episcopal diocese of South Carolina, pleaded guilty this afternoon in the United States court here to charges of making false entries in the books of the bank ?nd to obtaining money / by the use of fraudulent no?'<s and- drafts in violation of the Federal Reserve act. Judge J. Byles Glenn sentenced the defendant to serve one year and a <lay in the United States penitentiary in Atlanta and to pay a fine of $10. In imposing sentence Judge Glenn said he was taking into consideration that Mr. Godfrey was in extremely bad health and had suffered considerably. He promised the co-operation of the court in having the sentence reducer!. -s????> ' Aged Georgia (onpiJB Murdered by RobbX Poweravilie, Ga., Jan. 23.~-dy?J Gartley, 86, and his wife, 80, found clubbed to death (in their |Hi eluded farm home neur here victims, officer* believed, of a r?kfl ber, who sought a reported cache gfl money. A negro living near the lUrtk^H house was arrested but SheriU George Anderson of Peach couquj I said ne did not have "n very :-.ir0h'^H case" against him. Foi yea I there hud been 11111,^^^1 that Gartley, a Confederate vet?9 hud hoarded a quantity of monej^H his home but the sheriff sHid gfl 1 doubted there was moft than in the house. 1 '1" j Ohio eupreme court has Kraril.^P ed a sjuy of one month iu the of Dr. James H. Snook, under sea^l tence of death for the murder | Theora Hix, Ohio University co-ed. H1 * New Beauty for tlse New Ford 1 I !4^H THE NEW FORD TOWN SEDAN * - i. In the Totcn Sedan you tee a distinguished example of the | unbroken sweep of line which adds so much charm to all the new, roomy Ford bodies. 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