Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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B Nobody's Business Hj; flat toA news ^Bfehe oxUsion wt>rry society hell ^^ egiiLsr nfft^ing at the home of BhoflB w^W ** david street, end ^ xi dmrvy djrf Clothes wtu raked ?W Nut to mr. blolc hqHlfeo WJ* #Bem t41 ?u?J end ui about in dew jflJth? went n**d I ***** ?M >*1 ? ?/f the ritera ifl Imd ***^ riat'lotf his ?a?rt>;Mieht wi? UU#4 by B jonw who ?Vt Mm betwixt j|iHbao|fcy*Hi ri?td the crib, and they <B his hed to tye hehih offiser, but come b*efc that his hfcd wus / owed oM that he could n<*t tell, ^nvis getting reddy to kill the -;/ anyy how. ^Hmrs. katie reed hatched a freek ::|Ken Jast week about 4 o'clock^ r<i??while they "can't tell his peddjfcI I yet, everybotfdy thinks he's a er. he has 8 legs and 2 eyes j?;?4 wings, she has alreddy rote ?rmim and bailey, but she can't 'M his address, so the lefcter is ^Bir hell at the p. o. ehe wants >. Bkc^ Trim in the managerry. ^Bour little town was made sad n Bsadday night when word came ^ lda teliygram ipost, and when B>me to in the horse pittle, he >;(B> rubs broke as well as gevral <i iB bones scattered aJbout Tn his 'i winan and collar, he had alreddy ^ thc 1 h payment, but they x. Bgot the car just, the same and .< 'B it in to^the gar rage, the kurw< to the seen and says he - B linker pretty strong; he hop^s " ' Bquest won't be hell for 10 days, i verry bizzy with his sallet HB10'' James of the flat rock ni ill was getting reddy to celly I Washington's birthday on Ifch the 22, but the pasture of the lodist church here told him that ^ington had done had his birthon fdbrurwary the 22, and after b hot argyment betwrixt them, the . give in and sed he could be aken, so his progfam was called 1 for the present. some of--the ons tokl the prof, .to go "on with programmy, as rev. king might rrong his ?elf about the date he borned, ansofortfh. a good deq.1 of home gardening Dw going on. none of the folks j got help in the bred lines at city hall seems to be intrested ftem, but the folks who donate I Is bizness. the riter has alreddy |planted spinneck and arsh-taters Bettis and cabbages and a few ft vegertables of a like nature, nr. editor?if you want to eat good truck, just rite or foam Is soon as it comes in and i etch you a mess of s;tme. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. I 1 ^correspondent. ?-** tHiTVJ- 1 X iTXU AU X1Z1T ' "Bas this piece is being written, ;;Bmn in Shining at full speed, the Hperature is T2 in the shade, and adir^t any signs a-tall of any Bher for several days/ but* perliBce when this appears in the pa E~ it might be cold and wet and Anyway, -Spring is ihere. I know On the way to dinner today (at H .m.) I saw 2 little boys playing B^tJones. That's proof No. 1. On flapper with a low-cut sun-back Bb on. That's proof Nto. 2. Old ;B King land was sunning her ^Bier bed and bolster during the Bmoon, and that's proof No. 3. And here's all of the other proof, Bny be needed. 'My wife had 4 I I and 2 negroes working in her B and garden today. She has orB all krinds of plants and seeds. ^K> wagon and truck in our neigh'B,m1 is fetching load after load '' .yNmade fertilizer?common to Btalls ansoforth. She has 3 'B new boes, (they will last her ^ -v a week). The 2 new rakes Bpitchfork and garden plow will B>pe&r by next Tuesday night. BiShe intends to plant lilies of the valley and johnny quills in the western exposure of the yard. Her rose garden ,wfll remain where H is if ?iw? can get any rose* started tn it. 1 gueaa morning glories will be planted around the border of. the pi-axxa, and well aoon hnve strings running up to the guttering, and before anybody' knows it, morning glories 'wig be running up the strings. But inebbe not: that's the iway .we useter d#, r' ?.? ' | . 4. .She's not planting any bermudal and tWl-gr?f>*, hut I* am aureTthat she will have a good "stand" of those ? beaUtiful lawn grasses within ii day or 90, Wf fi^Nt nutar**? \2 months in the year a raj cultivate other grass u? Xfy but we I 1 never 'have ahy at the Wtter because i of the former. . country is Waiting and longing fpr a Burtfsnk, The who will cross Kjeptucky Blue Grass with Soufch Carolina nut-grass and then our gYass-growlng trouble s wiM bo over. v ? ?/ ? ' ... .1 am very fond at spring. ^Spring I means birds and flowers and pokeealtet ahd thinner dresses and fresh eschalots (called shellots by the ignorant) and B, V. D.'s and fried chicken and no coal bills and fishing worms and possibly some English peas A la Home-Garden. And 'furthermore, I like spring-time because ft i8 (possible that a guy can borrow a little bit of -money about then. "A** I J. A- White hyi, "U You Have Am Automobile, _ . Keep Rat-Snap." N f I knew about RAT-SNAP lasf ter, would have saved $120. My was in the garage for a fow Ics during the bad weather; whan mt to take It out, found that rats eaten groat holes in two new i? Got tbom later with RATIP." Three sizes, Mc, 65c, $1.25. 1 *2? ^^ntetdLhy. Zsmj^A i, Druggists, Camden, S. C., and (tune Hardware Co., Camden, S. ? Anderson Holds Fir at Place at Pie'Counter Columbia, FVb. 24.-'Spattaiiburg county's laurels for nabbing high officon id new beirw challenged by AndTestn. Spartanburg has pointed with pride to the fact that Governor Blackwood, Senator-clwl liyined, C. 0. lleai on, chairman of the highway comom*dort, and W. G. Query, chairman of the thx commission, are all from within ita borders. Anderson none counters with the following list; Two of South Carolina's three federal judges, Krnerft F. Cochran and H. H. Watkiiwi, Who before their elevation to the bench, lived across the street from each other; Associate Justice M. L. Bonhaiu, recently elected to the supreme court. B, G. Green, senator, circuit judgeelect. 4 James N. Pearman, superintendent of thb state penitentiary. Albert S. Kant, state (bank examiner. 4 B. J. Pearman, merriber-elect of the railroad commission. H." C. Summers, member of the highway commission. A two-headed pig was embalmed by a Spartanburg mortician Sunday. " >r J'l I.' JLY jaLX-jjMi9 V?*Y~t' Freak Airplane ' Kills Designer Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Feb. ID.? Enry Davis, owner end inventor of a mystery plane took hie ship into the air today for the first time and was* killed when it craahed. >'* Carl Nelson, his copilot, was sdightly injured. The ship, a tandem monoplane, < with an odd square-ahrtped fusefcffe and front and rear wings of effuhl length waa being towed by an automobile when it nose-dived. Davis was instantly killed. He had been carrying on hia experimental work in a hangar, the doors to whteh were always kept locked. Field officials estimated that during the last two. years the inventor expended about on hia ship. Little wa* known about him except that he lived at a hotel near tlje field and had no intimates. . A report of murder was mado Saturday night, following the find* ing Saturday niter noon of the, nude body of a/ young white woman in the woods about six miles from Doswell, Va. Willie Tripps, a negro, farmer, reported the finding of the body. Doctors stated after examina-1 tjon that the girl appeared to have been dead three -or four days. Her age was estimated at 19 years. I * I , ? 'T?? | i- v Negro Bricklayer Leaves Large Sum Spat tanburg, Feb. 18.?Mark Hoicomb, negro bricklayer who was ttlain in his horne here some weeks ago, left $'i0,630,70 on deposit in twol Spartanburg banks. He also left two lots. o Hohomb's son, Hugh, has been indicted ,for .the slaying. Hok-omb's wtdotf, an adopted son and a daughter were named heirs to his estate. J * W. II. Terkington, new postmaster at Si. George, .went there in HMM>, and kept Dorchester well agftated against another faction in "politics until he sold his newspaper ami went to Coluu^biu to Ibe part of a state paper there last year. His appointment as postmaster was a suuprise to St. George people, and he succeeds a man who has been acting for the last year since the commission of the last appointee expired. He has been a member of the artti-Totbert Republican organization since it wus formed In this state.- Right hanks in Western North (3&roliua, which closed during the! financial disturbance last November and December, have re-opened under' ^-organization plans approved by the state banking department at Ru? leigh. 4 mil.1!..? muawy- "" 1 i New Washington 25-Cent Piece Next year the Treasury Deimrtment will isaue a new 26-cent piece or a quarter of a dollar in honor of The PVther of Ifw (Country, George Washington. The following bill wax passed by the Senate the pant week, authoririuy the coinaga of thU piece of money and is now in the l{oy*e where it will paas: 8ft i| emurted, etc.. That noblfitbaUivding the provisions' li rotations of (Section 3510 of tbe fcoyjaed Statutes, u amended, the Secretary of the Treasury is author iced and directed, for the purpose of commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Wiurh-w ington, to change the design of the 25-cent piece so that the portrait of George Washington shall appear on the obverse, with appropriate devices on the reverse, of said piece. The new doins shall be issued for general circulation beginning in iy<i2, the year of the said bicentennial anniversary. Should the veterans' loan bill become law either by presidential approval or by the passage by congress over his veto, veterans will be able to borrow half the value of their compensation certificates' value the day after the law becomes effective. The Camels [ are co t}., ' THU Camel package in 1 n tehieh m n? *^s!| Change hoe reoentfy bfak maje w 0 > ' ^ ^H. v REWARD ' " ' ~-,/" ' . ^3? ;/ /?r l^e beat answers to this. question: ' Whey significant change has recently been rood* in the wrapping of the Camel packago containing 30 cigarettes and ? JJ. " ;.' * 1 *i -trt ?rffSf ???- r ju .. ? .Ijli ...;y; IT |ni.?!^i ^MR tPT" 1 ??? what aro, its advantages to the smoker? Wednesday Night I Tune in the Catnei Hour I en N.thC.Netu>orh | 9.30 to 10.30 .... Eastern Tlqae 8.30 to 9.30 .... Central Time 7.30 to 8.90 . . . Mountain Time 6.90 to 7.30 .... Pacific Time I I ; VjZ, WBZA, VIZ, WHAM, IDEA, YJK, I WCAft. KYW, WLV, WMVA. W9JS.KWK, WJAX, WFLA, WIOD. WB8N. | 11.15 to 12.15 . . ? Eastern Time I 10.15 to 11.18 . , . Central Time 9.15 to 19.15 . . Mountain Time J 8.15 to 9.15 .... Pacific Time ^ v.First Prize, $239000 Second Prize, $10,000 Third Prize, $5,OQO For the five next best answers $1,000 each f Of (he five next best answers $500 each For the 25 next best answers $100eaeh Conditions Governing Contents 1 Answers limited to 200 words. 2 Write on one side of the paper only. 3 No entries accepted that bear a postmark later than midnight, March 4,1931* 4 Contest open to everybody except employes and executives of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and 5 In case of ties, die full amount of award will be paid to each of the tying p^rUe*. O It is nectary to buy a package of Camel cigarcttes in order to compete. Any store U^at sells cigarettes wilt permit you to examine tb fliWS package containing 20 cigarettes. a. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Winaton-Salem, N. C. J ^ ?: 8 | Judges: Charles Dana Gibson Famous Illustrator and Publisher of "Life" Roy W. Howard Chairman of the Board, Scripps Howard Newspaper* Ray Long President 9 International Magazine Company9 ^ and Editor ef "Cosmopolitan" lv n 7 ; " v . ' ' * \ And Staff Contestopenonly until MIDNIGHT,MARCH 4,1931 .... ( A. ^ . .. ' -. V> ^ I ; "i^r?