The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 27, 1931, Image 7
Mrs. Laura Bennett
299 East Bay Street,
Charleston.
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I had awful pains across mv (back
j.tid i!) my limbs from uric acid and
fia u.iuitisni and could hardly get
about to (io my house work, t>ay?
\| Bennett, "After eating even
vu lightest things 1 would have sour
- iianach and terrible gas pains, and
111 v kidneys had gotten in such a bad
t-million 1 would have to get up all
through the rtlght.
".My liver did not uCt properly and
1 was bilious and constipated and
nearly always had a bad taste in my
mouth, especially when getting up in
the morning. I didn't have a bit of
appetite, and had become so weak and
run down I was almost a nervous
\vv<4k.
"The druggist gave me a sample
hot tie of Masteral, and it helped me so
much 1 kept up the treatment, and
two bottles relieved mv troubles."
MASTBRAL, the new herb medicine,
contains no alcohol or harmful
drugs. It may be had at DeKALB
PHARMACY.?adv. 1
FREE SAMPLES GIVEN
IIamj Davidson, 50, of Albany, N. Y.,
ield in prison at Rome, Italy, on a
narge of swindling a British colonel
c>ut of $35,000, committed suicide
Monday by hangnig himself wtih a
tope made from a twisted union suit.
Although JMiss Mary L. Pacheco,
pmplove of a machine company at
Mew Bedford. Mass.. has just
I'd $38 ,.'103.66 in a ibank as her wintings
in a Canadian sweepstakes
torse race a month ago, she holds;
ight on to her job and keeps workng
Congressman James B. AsweM.
senior member of the Louisiana delegation
in the-national house of rep-1
-e<entatives, died MonduV from heart
disease.
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Gen. Pickett's Widow
Died in Baltimore
Washington, March 33.?'"Mother"
Pickett of the snow-white hair and
charming accent no more will tell of
"Confederate charge jij. Gettysburg
or draw word pictures of
interesting characters and incidents.
In u private hospital here yeater,
day Mrs. I^a Salle Corbell Pickett,
called "mother" even by presidents,
died of hardening of the arteries in
her eighty-third year. 'With her
passed the tingling tale she told of
how Con federates stormed up Cemetery
ridge at Gettytfburtf on July 3,
186,'i, only to be repulsed when they
found the Union forces had not exhausted
their ammunition.
She had reason to know that story
Well. She was lf> when she married
the officer who led the Southern forces?Ceneral
George Edward Pickett.
Before his death in 1875 she became
known as "the child bride of the
Confederacy," praised for her vivacity
and ;beauty. iShe was a native
of Virginia.
A favorite in society, she knew
every president beginning with Lincoln,
and met authors, actors and diplomats.
One of her most colorful
manuscripts entitled, "My "Memory
Chain," was left unfinished by her I
death.
She was an honorary president of
the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
New York police have another mysterious
case on their hands. This one
is that of Georgia Gray, 25, dancer
and a witness against members of
the police vice squad, who died in a
hospital (Saturday n'i^ht supposedly
from pneumonia. Circumstances of
her death were so suspicious that the
authorities ordered an autopsy and j
search for poison in her vital organs. |
The strangling of Vivian Gordon, another
vice squad witness, a few weeks
ago, has not been solved and it is
believed that, the of the two
women are linked in some way or
other.
A movement to seek repeal of Arkansas'
new 90-day divorce law was
launched Wednesday (by the Little
Rock Ministerial alliance. The ."ministers
called a state-wide mass meeting
to Joe held in Little Rock on
March 29th, when stops twilV (he t^ken
to initiate repeal of the act. *
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Murder and Suicide
Occurs at Gaffney
. Gaffney, March 23,?When Mary
Phillips, 22, refused to give him a
"date," George Self, 30, and married,
entered her bedroom late last
night, shot her and then turned the
gun on himself.
Both died almost instantly.
Douglas Phillips and his wife, at
' whose home the tragedy occurred,
I told a coroner's jury today that Self
insisted the girl should accompany
him to Gaffney at a late hour. When
[ she refused, he started firing, one
'bullet stinking her in the forehead.
I Their testimony was supported by
! Ethel Phillips ami Mux Biddix, also
; eye witnesses. '"Murder and suicide,"
' was the verdict.
All said Self, who leaves a \sido\s
! and four children, had gone to see
Miss Phillips frequently. The dead
I girl was not a relative of the Doug;
las Phillips family.
Itoddey Home Destroyed
Early Friday morning the residence
Jof E. B. Itoddey was completely
destroyed by fire and the family
; narrowly escaped serious injuries in
| the burning building as the flames
which broke out in the roof had made
! great headway before they were discovered.
It was about 3:15 a. m. that
Mr. Roddey awoke to find the roof
on fire and the flames spreading
rapidly. He immediately awakened
members of the family and called the
fire department. He then attempted
to get some of the articles of value
| out of the burning home but the fire
i had spread all through the house and
[ he was unable to get but a few personal
belongings that were behind a
door.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
Mr. Roddey said that he could not
account for the cause of the fire.?
Lancaster News.
Four of the five officers who were
I - l-aii. nr:i
vii^a^cu iii a -&uii uctcbic iie*w ttumington,
N. C., Sunday night of last
week, in which the driver of a mail
truck and an officer was killed, are
to be given a hearing tomorrow by a
New Hanover county grand jury. The
officers were looking for liquor runners,
and it is thought that the mail
truck dri ve r_.be 1 reved that bandits
were trying to hold him up when he
fired on the officers.
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757vw. Assessments of ate asscsjmentj of Cotton Mills
V An Interesting Tax Study
While Total Assessments of the State Decline?
Assessments of Cotton Mills Increase Rapidly.
The two charts above, based on figures from the S. C. Tax Commission,
covering a period ten years, sfhow very convincingly the steady rate i
of decline of general tax assessments of the state as a whole; and the
even more steady increase of the assessments of the cotton mill?. When i
you consider that the total assessments of the state, in slpdte of their
steady decrease, actually include the assessments'of cotton mill*, on
which there has 'been an increase, it is easy to see that cotton mills are
each year carrying an increasing tax load, taken off of the shoulders
of someone else.
The figures upon which the above charts were based are as follows:
Total Assessments of State
1921 $452,490,600
1922 435,999,839
1923 424,015,714
1924 428,601,274
1925 430,082,366
1926 424,863,722
1927 422,169,895
1928 425,543,764
1929 426,359,133
1930 415,000,000
O0I Decrease
O |0 In 10 Years
In total Assessments of State
Assessments Cot.tnn Mill* - ?
$54,722,435
55,424,250
56,004,345
60,768,155
63,819,950
64,861,370
65,861,400
66,619,885
69,387,430
70,915,815
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OA I Increase
|0 'Tn" 10 Years
In Assessments of Cotton Mills
[Of course a portion of the increase is represented by new cotton mills,
new spindle* added to the state. The spindle increase, however, has
only been fpom 5,034,861 to 5,689,642?an increase of 13 per cent.
During the past nine years the increase in taxes paid by the mills has
been 90 per cent, and the increase in taxes paid per spindle has been
40 tper-cent.
- With such an alarming rate of tax increase in the t
state for cotton mills, it is not likely0that the next ,
10 years will show much increase in spindles. *'*
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SINKS IN COLLETON COl'NTY
Sorte Have <"old Running Water and
May Be llsed an Refrigerator*
In the upper part \ft Colleton county,
alMiut eight miles from the county
line on the ol<l Augusta road, situnted
in a beautiful high strip of forest
and partly in the farm lands,
there is a line of holes commonly
called iby the negroes "sink holes,"
writes Kdna Bteland, of.Oottageville,
in the Waltei1>oro Press and Stand-1
ard.
Few of these holt's h'ive been there
us far ibaelf as the oldest inhabitants
of the community can remember,
while most of them ktlnk during the
earthquake of 188a.
, The most interesting of these holes
is the "Crescent" or "Half Moon." deriving
its name from its shape. Down
| in this hole the water tinkles as it
runs over rocks, and is very cool,
clear and pure. My great-greatgrandfather
used this as a refrigerator
during the summer time.
Next, in a part of the sa.me choiring,
is the "Roaring Hole." A ditch
worn deej) by t me empties into this
holy in high water, "the water rushing
into the hole and making a roaring
noise which can be heard a half mile
from its location, hence the name'
"Roaring Hole." This Sink hole dur- r
ing high water, is a small Niagara ,
Falls.
The water flows into and out of this |
hole. On one occasion a negro j
drpwned three little puppies in ii;j
two days later he found the puppies
in the Bdisto river, which proves
that there 'must be an underground
stream in this section.
West of this hole is a strip of woodland,
where we find 25 or 30 more
sink holes; one is called the "Milk
Hole" 'because the water has a milky
look, this is about 20 feet deep. Just
a little farther on comes the "Well
Hole," which is a large cavity in the
ground and just in the center of this
cavity is a well-shaped opening, sup-1
posed to be bottomless.
An effort was once made by a nearby
resident to reach the bottom, using
a ball of twine with a weight tied to
the end; all the twine was unwound
and still the Ibottom had not been
peached.
Farther west in a line for a distance
of about two miles we find the
"Black Hole," because the water is so
dark. The most?attractive of these,
sink holes is the "Clinking Hole," it is
very deep and its water falls and
drips with a clinking noise.
'Many of these holes are still unnamed.
Some of them are dry and
the soil is beautiful, white sand. It
is Said that this line of holes extends
through sections of South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida, and trie
supposition is that they are caused by
an underground channel.
? The Baby Opossum.^
| Carl G. Hartman, in Nature Maga|
zine.
In some respects the opossum is
the most remarkable animal in America.
Lt is the only marsupial or pouch*uL
ani'ntcwl ^^
Kangaroo and other near relatives all
live in Australia. The pouoh of the
female is a fold of skin stretched
around 11 to 15 milk glands on the
lower abdomen in a region corresponding
to the cow's udder. The
pouch may be closed by ring muscles
much as a tobacco sack may be closed
by pulling the string; in this way the
tiny babies may be guarded against
cold and other dangers. Shelter,
warmth, and food the opossum babies
find in this admirable contrivance of
Nature- deaignod for the eare- of her children
that are born younger and in
most respects less developed than any
other mammal babies in the world.
From the egg an opossum ready
for birth develops in 12 1-2 days. So
small are the babies at birth that a
litter of 18 may rest in a teaspoon.
Such a whole litter weighs one-fifteenth
of an ounce?270 opossums,
living, breathing, digesting animab
would weigh one ounce. They are less
developed than mouse babies, which
themselves, as every boy knows, ara
blind, helpless bits of pink flesh. They
do not have their eyes open for the
seven or eight weeks that they are in
the pouch attached to the teats.
How does so poorly developed a I
baby reach the pouch and find the
teat, for this it must do or die? It
was formerly supposed that the
mother every skilfully and delicately
caught, the young in her lips and
placed them in the pouch and on the
nipples. That's the story one fipds in
many Nature books still. The facts
are that when the baby oposeum is
born it crawls into the pouch by itself
and it is for the first journey that it
has well developed front feet. At two
months the young scamper about on
the old one, holding on to the mother's
rich fur. In another month they
hunt food for themeehres, bat dilk
#or some thpe, like to have their
mother flfcout for protection.
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Girl Jumped Into
Congaree River
Columbia, March 21.?Gaynell Dunlap,
16, pupil at the New Brookland
school across the river from Columbia,
wns recovering today from nervousness
following her atterhipt at
suicide yesterday afternoon iby drowning.
The girl, uptoet because she had
failed to make as high mark as aha .
expected in a mathematics examination,
jumped 55 feet from the highway
bridge to the shallow waters of
the Congaree river.
She had picked one of the few spots
not covered with large boulders and
was uninjured.
She told her father, George Dunlap,
that she was worried and nervous
and did ltot remember anything
about it until she hit the water.
"Everything came back to me then,"
she said, ''and I waded to a shallow
or place and called for help."
Governor Fuller of ^Massachusetts,
on Stuurday issued a warning against
continued extravagant spending and
said that rigid economy in governmental
finance, ribt increased spending,
is the need in the face of business
depression. He said that "Towns
cities, states and the Union are
traveling at a rate, which if kept up,
will bring us into national bankAptcy."
He pointed that the appropriations
of the last congress
would mean a tax of $81 on every
inhabitant or $40& per family of the
United States.
Three national scientific societies
of ^he United States, under the lead
of H. E. Anthony, will soon begin explorations
of an area of 40,000 square
miles in southern Venejjjiela. Planes
will be used in the explorations and
special attention will be given to the
geologic and physiographic data of
the area. ^
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This shatter-proof gluss windshield is just one of
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INSURANCE I
I have associated with me Miss Lai
K. Blakeney in the writing of-all forms I
of Insurance. Located in Camden Build- j
ing & Loan office, Broad street entrance '
to?firocker Building. Willi# pieasedtft^ ;
handle a share of your insurance.
John S. Lindsay i
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