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I Nobody's Business ... BVritten for The Chronicle by Gtc MeGee, Copyright, 1928. I NOTHING to think about I. . .Anyway, Jfr. Hoover i? the bent Kfincvr we ever had for president. _ ** <r' ft.,The bonus money is not all spent I t 1 just sa-w one of the recipients I 2 dollars cash in his pocket-, I after he had paid for 4 new IntM tubes. . If it paly/s your .boy 10 hours |> do 2 hou/s' work, make a legis(ttor out pr him; he's got the stuff fi him for a gdod time, but 'be sure 0 touch hirp how to figger extra me. , COTTON LETTER '...New York, April lb.?Liverpool a me in lower than due and so did ie income tax. iSome hedging was peorded near the close When soulhrn selling forced 'Shanghai buyers > list Bombay short. Thunder showis are expected in Texas next month t .'5 o'clock, therefore we look for iwer prices. Bed .spreads and denns are strong, but some yarns ain't, urtaiIntent continues in all locality not engaged in government work. fe advise less cotton and more 3ugh, but by all means ? don't raddle till July, and then be very ireful. . .1 tf you want to see business pick a just let the installment houses II their stuff without a down payent. That's all that's wrong with lis old country anyhow: We blowed the down payment on something e diddent need, and now we've got 1 earn or steal another one. .. A goober parcher exploded at one t our southern state capitals last feek and 14 members of the general ssembly were badly damaged about ie coat, hat and pants. The others id not arrived from home?.where ^ V 5'pOnt Vl nirvinlr nn/ln Bow to write a business letter: Dear Sirs:?I am sorry that J* canBot I)by you anything on account Bow. -My son is in college, my aughter expects to get married and ^ftny car is in the garage, but don't Bvorry?we will continue to trade with B>OU." ...The cotton-seed oil companies Bare really and truly financial wizHards: they will buy a-ton?of your cotton seed for $22.00 and seW you Bi ton of cotton ^ed meal for $27.00, nil then ask only 1 cent a pound nore for compound lard and 4 dollars ton more for cotton seed hulls than ey asked when they paid an honest rice for cotton seed, viz: $35.00 per ^Bn. Yep, they got mine, too. ~ listening in i ^ft -1 had the pleasure of eavesdrop-j wK two ladies while they conversed | a department gtore the other day. ey were interesting as well as perBtent talkers, and they evidently ^ft<<w their slang. Their names were B>t Sudie and Judie, therefore, I will ]I fhem Sudie and Judie, and here's |p?~* nirjr noiu. SI DIE. "Personally and confiSntially, I detest this 'Wear Cotton'j fovement. Ootton is too scratchy to lit me. A5nlt the spring styles just onderful though?" JUDIE: "Speaking of 'them new I epe machine evening dresses, I ust say cheese cloth is mighty high: is 'scream" is $18.79." SU'DIE: "We are thinking of getig a new car. The o?ld boat is all ot. John says his bonus won't be ?ro'n half towards the one he's^B^ked out. The .man, has drove us Bt every day since he heard that ^ hn would get a bonus." ^BJUDIE: "Well, Bill had a set of B^'y falling arches, and he never l a chance to go to Eurup to fight. B cried like a baby' when they turnI him down. I only wish he had of B?- A bonus would come in mighty Bndy right now.'S^ SUDIE: "Ijookit old Mrs. Crab0Ver there trying on that pink [crie. If I had her figger, I'd to a cotton gin afid have them me up with bagging and ties, looks like a bungalow in tran uDIE: "I have been leaning a : ; <? towards overfreight, myself c of late, but yeast and leaving I Irish potatoes is holding me down. I the way, got a stick of gum:. I'm 1 ter Wrigley.",' ^BUDIE; "Aint ^ ZJOne Tpll I the R?dds Is about boated. The I "^n oouldnt meet his last Build *,Uan. and the man told John ,W they didn'* intend to let him IK more w du?- ***** BZ7 ?? up>bnt WvSl* ^J^finmnced bisself." 1UDIE: "TMwgt is nWitr high 1"sHth sverythfag the a^f j Jfot ? pair of 'em last week and 1 had. to leave Mrs. Smith'# before the panty was half over. They start!#d a run at my ankle and the last time 1 looked down, they was still running and they ran all the way up, and 1 say# to myself-^f 1.9# gone; and in a minute 1 was gone too. Couldn't possibly stay on half undressed." ..SjVME: "Cot a servant now?" JUDIE; "Nope. Yoo?" | &UDIE: "A girl comes every Tuesday and stays till Wednesday. Hafter give her a dollar just for that. John has to go to work at 7 every morning; too early for me1?no use for me to "bother cooking u little something to eat fqr just one person, so he either does without, or gets something at the coffing shop." JUDIE: "You shopping this morn-, ing too?" SU1>IE: "Yes. looking 'for a spring coat. Been doing ?o every day for three yfreeks. Nothling in this punk tWirlhat suits me. Think I'll order off for one, or run over to llickaburg some Sadday after John gets out of the barber shop." JUDIE: "Bill's been laid off., Things mighty dull in the poolroom business right now. He's thinking of trying a drug store if he can find: anybody to back him. He worked in one once. Notice they never go' broke?" ! SUDIE: "Yes, them's all right,' but so was barbering till the women | quit bobbing their gourds. Now it takes a jane to fix their hair, and that has cut John's business down considerable. Let's go: Two or three more stores to shop up before I go home." CURTAIN. Did You Know? That one of the r last acts of the Seventy-first Congress was to designated the Star-?Spangled Banner as I the National Anthem of the United States? That Congress, in 1775, voted $100,000 to establish our Navy? At. that time an enlisted man received $80 per year for his services. That Commanders in the Jananese navy receive less pay than the Chief Petty Officers in the U. S. Navy? That the U. S. Navy has a twentyyear retirement plan with liberal pay, the most generous in existence ? That every man in the Navy, serving within the continental limits of the United States, gets 30 days leave per year with pay? That _ the above information was furnished by the Navy Recruiting Station, Florence, South Carolina? Arthur T. Miller, son of the chief of ploiee of Hamilet, N. C., was convicted at Rockingham, Friday on a charge of murdering Jimrnie iSpence, a friend, on February 8, and was sentenced to state prison for not less than six years and, not more than ten years. Returning to Washington from the Longrworth funeral at Cincinnati, President Hoover broke his precedent of not signing autograph albums, by signing his name in a book presented by A little girl at Ohillicothe, Ohio/ and then signed others until the ink * 4 ? ? - ? . _ avuavaiu vrn? ??AflttUSXe<I. | NationVJTypicai Boy Sought typicu| buy anU I J^ord 'hH,T'1 Ke"nt'' tVi ' I,1,noi8' '? its search for canin" Ml" uy"i<al y?u"?t?r and r,. i appealed to the Chronicle for aid in finding them (] UoZ <" this s?c-! cash"" .huW<imi a"d "fly dollars in ' ?sh and immortality by having their I v? h "Pr0duc<!d in ?il? on r??J by f" ous artist await the chosen pair, which the Inundation is ti< n"J,7 rU', l>re80rw foe the inspire-1 on of futurt. generations tts u 8ym. sh in W<rh iWe of companion- I Sh^p represented by the :boy-d?g eon,.! bi nation of our own day. The win-; ning team will also be presented to many notables, will probably be .starmi on the radio and in the movies rjVT 1 enj?y thu Audits o* an admiring multitude. Scdectum of the winning pair i? to left ,n the hands of a jury of prominent men and women which is low being completed. .The choice is O be made from nominations which he public is invited to submit to he foundation prior to September ant a PhotoKr?Pl'" of contesjmatSi?rryi i SUl"nitt0d w'th the nomf s, but a final decision will not bo made by the judges until th y have seen and investigated the leadmg candidates. thJ?hnbe elJVhh i0r nom'nation to the boy-and-dog contest, a youngster must not be under four or over ?o? ChJTs of T' The do* must be his own 0r that of a member of his immediate family. The age size color or breed of the dog are of sec' ondary importance. In inaugurating the boy-dog search, U J. Brosemer, director of the Foundation, stated: "Character building in the young one of the great problems of the tlmf8 Poundation is convinced that a dog makes a boy a better with an?JS enoouraIPng every home . " boy t0 ccp a pure-bred dog. stitm?"4 StU<ly * " ,ar?* institution revealed the fact that less than one per cent of its inmates had a pet to play with in their formative th^F u U*h the ^y-doK contest, the Foundation hopes to catch the spirit of this comradeship and per-' petuate it in some tangible form for this and future generations." * - ??notice of sale EWut1onndf by virtVf of sundry City rJLta Js or unpaid paving assess ments, directed to me bv I r u tbrmglL'^th 'day- ?d;,T jis fMayJ of the rvtnvt it "'ereoi, in front Caiiiliint J House, Oirniflnn Srmth Williams nnX eaat 'ty Annette O. iir ' the s?uth by D Tavlnr 7d 'u^nTnVt S^d ~ M iss?Tnif?t rsf ments due city ^ P"Vln? a3sessw n UTTfTVAXta-^ .... ChSef of Police, Oamden,' S. C. Whites Gain In Census Showing i Atlanta, Ga., April 16.?During the 1 last thirty years .South Carolina's white population has increased thirty times as much as its Negro population, according to an analysis of the' census reports made .by the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. From '567,867 in 1600 the. (white population of the state increased to .the 1630 total of 944,040, a gain of 386,233 or 69.4 per cent. Meantime the Negro population showed a net increase of only 11,360 from 782,321 in 1600 to 793,681 in 1930, or M per cent. The smaller net ^ain has beer due both to a higher mortality rate and to the .migration of Negroes to other sections of the country-? In vthe. la^t J decade the migration appears to have ?MM???? been especially heavy, since there was! an actual decrease of 71,038 in the) state's Negro population between 1020 and 1030. Taking into account the normal excess of births over deaths, this net loss would indicate that over 100,000 Neg*roes left the state within the decade. In consequence, the proportion of Negroes in the total population has decreased thirteen per cent in the thirty years, from 58.4 per cent in 1000 to 45.6 per cent in $930. On the basis of this decided trend it is believed that the race problem in" South Carolina may be expected to show steady improvement, since the relative proportion of the racial groups involved is always an important factor in such problems. On April 16 the United States treasury will sell $27i5,000,000 of h#- "O * expenses. 1 Buffalo Gnats Cause Death to Live Stock Oar<kRdale, Miss., April 10.?A baffling infestation of Buffalo jovats in lowlands fringing the Mississippi river in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana today had brought a scourge of death to live stock in the area. More than 1,000 head, principally mules, were reported dead in the area, either bitten to death or victims of ?i mwhAntral pnpum/mifl, itl rWrfui hy inhaling the swarming pests. Experts from the live etook sanitary boards of the states affected, admittedly at a loss to explain the mass appearance of the pests, were at work in the section attempting to check the swarms. , i - i " Wallace, Mich., village of 15Q poiipmtion, was destroyed by ft forest fire Sunday. "J ---- - - ^ ^ Grandmother's CAKES Layer, Rwiin or Pound cL 25 c BREAD FULL POUND "csr1 5? PEAS 3 c.?.' 2Sc STRING BEANS .a 3 S' age EVAP. BULK Z; 4 "19c MEAL or GRITS 10 lbs. 25c Quaker Maid COCOA IOC pink salmon s tsCl ioc ??? CORN Cru l??vl Omi IOC I Mello Wheat 2 pkgs. 25c Bokar Coffee lb. 29c RICE n.?"r,^ lb. 5c I LARD Compound Bucket 91c I California i Yellow Cling PEACHES I 3 49c A&P Fancy APPLE SAUCE an IOC Iona Brand FLOUR 14 ?. 65C I I SUGAR ? cSsl, ? ib. 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