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Nobody's Business Written tot The Chronicle by Gm McGee, Copyright, 1028. H?ppy I>sys Ot Lone Ago .Twenty-five or thirty yearn ago H the custom for the preacher i riMt in the home of hie members A often as possible, it took a lot ( ^getting ready* for hrim ats our to#?. Kvery young7un in the famly had to wa^h unkl clean up, and bat meant real work. ...During the summer of 18 and 98 K had a protracted meeting at out torch, and danged if it didn't look jlce everybody in the neighborhood rts getting religion. Our preacher A* a long, lanky, wiggiy, squirming el low that rattled his celluloid cuffa uring his ramification* that sounded rorse than a dozen kettle drum? in ction. ...About the tenth day of this meetng we asked the preacher to take p lodging at our house, and he acepted. As soon as he started home n his buggy, 6 or 7 of my brothers nd I lit out on foot to heat him here and fix thing* for hia reception, ye took a near cut and when he $rvied, we had caught 7 chickens, 2 uineas, and crippled 8 old gobblers? esides sweeping the. front yard and emodeling'a stable for his old poor orse. '.'i. ,,.We unhitched for him, and he as escorted into vthe parlor-room, recall that we had $. rocking chair nd a rug in the parlor room and it m papered. Our house was a frame uilding and the parh)r-room was the ,nly room that was ceiled much less lapered. We had a swinging lamp nd an organ and as our bowl and litder was so pretty, We kept them a there on the wash-stand, and njuld always sHflff tfienf into the coin?ny room while the visitors Were sting supper?so's they could use hem at night to take a bath with f they wanted to. ... All of us younguna had to "wait" or our meals. That preacher always Isked very-very long blessings, and hanked the Lord for everything from I . " ?' the beasts of the fields to the fowl* of the air. Kach of us boy* and girls liad our own private knot-holes -to P??P thru and watch the divine and ma and pa eat. We knew exactly which piece of chicken he took every time, and just between us, he alwuys took a-plenty. And as soon aa "they" got thru, we made a dive for the table and devoured the balance. Due to this terrible punishment of "waiting" I wae taught never to make my children wait for the seicond table. The meeting finally closed. Prayer meetings were hdld for a few weeks thereafter. 'Sunday school started in August and went "kerflooey" in November. Moat of the boy-oonverta went back to dancing and drinking and the girla misplaced their piety gradually. And by the following summer, nearly every single one of us had to be converted all over again. The only trouble with protracted meetings i*?the folks who get saved simply won't stay saved, as a rule. It's AH Over Now ... .The "Wear Cotton" movement is still going strong in our community. I checked up on one of the promoters of this agitation the other day. She ^ad on a rayon-silk dress, silk hose, gold specks, sniake-hide shoes, arid as far. as I could see, the only cotton stuff she was 'wearing was a tiny wad in her left ear onner count of ear-ache, and a cotton string around her little finger to keep her from forgetting to buy a silk nifektie for her hubby while she was out Chopping. V Cotton Letter New York, June 16.?Due to the gipread of the "Wear Cotton" idea spots broke '20 points on the opening in sympathy with probable showers in Texas and other bonus troubles. The court house janitor in Nebraska has already come out with a private estimate, putting the 19 and 31 crop at 17,777,888 bales, counting round bales ansoforth, __This forced Liverpool to come in worse than due. Some hedging took place in the forertoon7T"TStffc much straddling was ilk evidence at the races. The boll weevil will no doubt prove a factor in this year's crop, as 2 or 3 have already been ketched rooming with lightning bugs, and that means night work as well as daylight saving time. We advise holding right on if you have been food enough to hold till now. t. Just Another Light Burden to Bear ... .The power companies object strenuously to being taxed. We don't see why. They read their own meters, don't they? And then they have plenty statisticians who knoyA how to pass this burden on to ybu. ai}d me?just like all other tax burdens are disposed of by big business. Notice, Taxpayers .... Well, folks?our legislature finally adjourned. Here is a complete record of what our "servants" did while they w^e law-making at the state capital: First week?/Convened. (Second week?Nothing. Third week?(Ditto. Fourth week?/Same as third. Fifth week?Talked. . Ciw+la rtm ?||{. Mn.+ktt>a. "Seventh week?Worse than nothing. Eighth week?.Sefe second week. Ninth week'?(Sec fifth week. Tenth week?Talked. Eleventh week?Unknown. Twelfth week?(See tenth week. Thirteenth week?Voted themselves extra pay. Fourteenth week?Adjourned. Fire destroyed f250,000 worth of property on the water front of *Seattfe, Washington. Acid ? stomach jXCESS acid is the common ceow el It ieoults in pein end Jovr? ibont two howeelUr eating. Tb? ick oorreeUyt is an^alhah wh?h will pkTuu!. TZS. ?Mm Phillipm Milk of Maenwle. If has ?poooiul of PhffliDeMttkof ManMutralises hirtienTlj many SoM Tchuos in MAlt k'toSSw end **??<? iUwUoo fapi*. Yo. irfU ? Si i ' I Educational Tour for teachers and students visiting WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, I ATLANTIC CITY and NEW YORK Special Pullman train with trained guides. All ' .'xpenpea paMf heat hotels, meals, sightsee- j I "m^rtehiTn^'ttips anda" other expenses. Wealth of I CERTIPtttofc RENEWALS I ttalilq* this trip will have their Certi; ftcatee renewed op the -basis of this trip. Educational Naders of South <C8ro4ina have endorsed this trip as one of ^nuwial .vah^ito &e teafchere. ^ , d MPs I VIA SOUTH^TrAUAVA SYSTEM I ee??ReB?T"WWn" *>? made promptly. For ex- ; I Stp"?I*"y low coot and complete - details, address y? Manager, HetSd-Jourtval, Spartan| P,Xay Sn, CofJh^l'' CA' G' P' A" 8<><>th6rn m - - - . m i Fight Weevils Early Advises Agent The only chance for the cotton farmer this year is for him to make his cotton at a low coat per pound. Every time a boll weevil destroys a square or a lock of ootton it increases the cost of producing the balance. The higher the yield per acre the lower the cost of production and the lower the cost the greater will be the profit. Therefore, it becomes the duty of cotton farmers to combat boll weevils. So far the best, cheapest and most efficient method of control is sweetened poison, usually called the 1-1-1 mixture, made by mixing together one gallon of black strap molasses, one gallon water itnid one pound of calcium arsenate. It wl^l cost you about twelve cents to aixteen cents to poison one acre one time with this poison. It, is best applied by use of a mop which is made by fastening a piece of crocus or guano sack to the end of a light board out in the shape of a paddle. , The .paddle should be thirty-six to forty inches long, Try to push the mop ahead as you walk which will cause the mop *o push the cotton plant over slightly and! mops the liquid poison on the under side of the leaves. " The County Agent will be assisted Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week hy Mr. J. H. Dean, who is especially trained in boll weevil control work and, sent by the Planter's Produce and Storage company of Florence. Farmers who desire the assistance 6f this specialist should apply to the county agent at once, make arrangements to convey him to their farms ami return hian to Camden that night. In this way the specialist will be working in one part of the county while your county agent works in another part. If the cottqn crop is to be saved from the boll weevil we must poison at once and repeat two or three times at about one week intervals. Last year our records through J une 2$th . showed that the average infestations were as foHows: "Where no prison was used the infestation averaged 42 per cent, where one ap-; plication of .poison had been a used the average infestation was 31.1 per cent; two applications 7.9 per cent infestation and where three applications were used the average infestation was only 4 1-6 per eent, is the information given by. Henry D. Greeh, the county Agent. Bishopville Has Bad Fire Thursday afternoon about 5:30 o'clock the fire alarm sounded and it was discovered that fire had broken out in the residence of Mr, Loraine Shaw, on Lee Street. T.he fire had made good headway before the fire truak reached the scene. !Due to defective hose it was gome little while before sufficient streams of water could be turned on the burning build^ ing. In the meantime the bouse next door occupied by the father of Mr. Morris Slesinger also caught on fire. Mr. Shaw's house was completely destroyed' and the iSfoesinger bouse was badly damaged before the fire could be put out. v 'Mr. iShaw and the childTen were had only shortly left for a place a block away. Very little furniture was saved'. Some insurance was carried on furniture and house. The other house was occupied by Mr. Meyer SlAAinger and was owned1 by 'Mr. Otto Slesinger. It was insured. Practically all the furniture was saved*? i o nopn i ic tifivBvcugvi * A very large Crowd was in attendance At the trial of Wilson -Autry, Union county negro who was sentenced to die in Monroe on Tuesday on a charge of rape. The condition of the negro was said to have gradually grown worse so that when he appeared in court for trial he could neither speak nor stand alone. The three day and three night man-hunt fdrlhe colored youth with posse close on his heefts a dozen times evidently unbalanced the young negro. When he was arrested he was scarcety 4H? to speak and since he has been In jail his condition has grown worse. The wretched negro boy was apparently unable to check for an instant the shaking of his body. Some am of the opinion that he warn suffering with palsy; others that he was still afraid of a mob and still others that he was merely pretending in order to sQpk tutovy of the coilrt.? Lancaster Nftri'; ' "** ?^ 1? ' * Through an error in enrolling 4he section of the reremae bill which imposes a license tax on pop bottlefe in North (Carolina, the bottlers will not only eiscape the ssddkd luxury tax of 20 per cent en all bottled drinks which Was defeated by the senate, bat also escape the doubting of their lte?M ten* to1 whfch Owr Agreed. The saring.te the battlers will approximate 1100,000. 1 ri?.v. j.* . . v "i v' " V. " ^ * i | J i f* r, iy 11 Wife And Lover IT To Die In Chair Jefferson, O., Juw 10.-iMr?. Julia Maude Lowther, 23-year-old domestic ?WI Mother of a boy of seven, today ?vait*d tihe sentence that will order thd electrocution of u woman in Ohio for the first time, A jury of 12 men yesterday convicted her of /irat degree murder for the slaying of Mrs. Ofcra Smith, 28, of Ashtabula, wife of the man with whom she carried on u 10-day romance. By failing to recommend mercy, the jury made the death sentence mandatory under Ohio law. 'lilby Smith, 27, husband of the alain woman, also ia under a death sentence. Mrs. Lowther on the witness stand confessed lying in wait on a lonely road near Ashtabula the night of May 29, 1930. As Smith drove his wjfe to the appointed place in his truck, Mrs. Lowther stepped frpjn concealment and fired the fatal shot. Mrs. Smith died with one of her two small children in her a*ma. Attorneys for the defendvints pleaded for mercy on the ground that Mrs. Lowther was blinded by love of Smith. The woman had testified they wanted "to go uway together." Mrs. Lowther paled but heard the death verdict stoically. She had assorted she would prefer the electric chair to , life imprisonment. The defense announced a motion for a new trial would be filed today. Ropp Acquitted Laurens, June lO.-^John W. Ropp, traveling salesman of Cross Hill, was acquitted of a oharge of murder of Charlie Raeor, also of Cross Hill, Who had been his close friend, by a Laurens county jury here early today., iShortly before 1 a. m., after deliberating nearly three hour?, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Ropp contended when he shot Rasor to death while Rasor was sitting in Ropp's coupe in front of the letters' home he did it in self defense. The slaying occurred last December 13. Ropp testified that the shooting was the outgrowth of a drinking party at which his friend had become angry with him. Walter W. White, prominent marble and granite dealer of Anderson for twenty years, died at his home there Wednesday aged 65 years from heart disease. He was .bom .there and lived' in Anderson all his life. He was a member of the Presbyterian church during all his adult life. ! ' I _ Water Analysis The following is the sanitary water analysis of the City of Camden Water and Light plant submitted by r. L. Parker, iM. 'D., chemist and bacteriologist, State Board of Health, Charleston, iS. C, dated June 1, 1981: Part per million Color 26.00 Chlorine 6.00 Free Afoymonia 0.01 Albuminoid Ammonia . .... 0.02 Nitrogen as Nitrites 0.00 Nitrogen as Nitrates 0.10 ? Total iSolids 33.00 Bacterial Analysis: B. Ooli? Negative. Remarks: Analyses indicate Water. to.be of good quality and free from contamination. MASTER'S SALE ?* jhnrmn^ _ ? v.,. ?- . oxare or count t^Bronna r County of Kershaw (In the Court of Common Pleas) The First Carolinas Joint Stock* Land Bank of Columbia, Plaintiff, against __ Burwell Barfield, Defendant. i 4 Under and by virtue of an Order of Court Made in the above entitled case, the Master for Kershaw County win offer for sale at public auction, before the Kershaw County Court House door, Camden, South Carolina, during the legal hours of sale on the first Monday in July. 19?1, being the 6th day, the following described real estate: "All that piece, parcel or tract of land sit hate, lying and being in the State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, containing one hundred forty-nine and 20-100 (149.20) acres, said tract being known as Tract No. 7 of 'the subdivision of the Barfield lands: said tract of land is bounded as follows: On the north and northwest by other lands of the said Henry Batfield; on the northeast by roadway separating some from lands of Miss Sarah Mickle; on the east by lands of William Alexander; on the southeast by lands of Young and on the south by lands of Loriok, being the same tract of land conveyed by dead of (Henry Barfield to the said Burwell Barfield bearing date December 3rd, 1921, and of record in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County in Book B. CX at page 709. For a mo/re complete description of the above tract of land reference is' made to -plat of same made by Kt*fta* d*Lo ach, Surveyor, dated AttMtBt-9, 1921. and on record in the offtee of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County in Plat Book No. 6 at! page 122.? Terms of sale: Cash; the Master to require of the successful bidder a! deposit of 8100.00 before accepting I bit bid aa final, the same to be forfeKad and applied to cost* in the WBl of the purchaser's non-compliance within-thirty day* from date of tale. .% !+ DePASSJR., Master for'Kershaw Cobnty June 19th, 1991. ;* General News Notes The cool weather this week 1b not abnormal,. but on the contrary the routine thing! in the Piedmont a Greenville man with weather recorde for the last half century saya. During the last 95 yeans, twenty of them have bad very cool weather around June 10, he finds. Qnce .jLJarmer near Greenville harvested wheat in an overcoat all day about that date! The weather bureau station confirmed his temperature records since its establishment. Mrs. DeWitt Brandon, was burned to death in her home in a suburb of Greenville Wednesday afternoon, a coal oil stove at which she was cooking exploded. Her brother was forcibly prevented from rushing into the burning house, which would certainly have been fatal to him. Her husband a disabled veteran, fainted and was carried out through the flames by neighbors arriving in time to rescue him. Three children ran out to safety. The building and contents burned to ashes. Fifty-seven divorce suits were before the court at Reno, Nevada, Monday morning With more expected to be filed before noon. The court was considering plana for speeding up divorce action? to two, minutes each. Sixteen hundred employes of the Mansfield, 0., plant of the Empire Steele company voluntarily cut their wages five per cent, to help tide the A company through a receivership. Mrs. Pauline Bauer, 91, of New Hyde Park, Long Island, committed suicide because she was old and! lonely and thought she was imtpoeing on Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schultz, with whom a(he had been liyipg ainire close , relatives said they could no longer care for her. Workers over the Southern railway system are voting on a proposal ? to accept a five-days a week working schedule. Charlotte workers voted unanimously in fAvor of the proposal. All town officials of Dungannon, Va., positively refused to stand for re-election Tuesday and the town of 1,000 people with li&O of voting age, may have town official? drafted by state authorities. The effort of the Tennessee house of representatives to impeach Governor Horton, who has been under fire for sometime past, has failed. Fire broke out in a warehouse on v* the waterfront- of New Bern, N. C? early Wednesday morning and before it had been brought under con-trul?had dewtruyed tl?e iwarelwutw, two barges and a tugboat with a property ldss of $300,000. Origin of * the fii^e is unknown. * v , . #31. S V r > *? ? ? Need Old Ffiends w be Soon cy Forgotten I * < The low of old friendship* U probably moat often due to friends moving to other localities. Keeping up a correa- . pondence is bothersome and even irksome to many of us, o that these friendships once dear to us arc gradually lost. Hut this need not happen to you. Thousands of people now know from experience that their telephone is the tie that keeps friendships alive. Your friends, wherever they may be, are as close to you as your telephone. A call now and then to your out-of-town friends will keep these old &-/' > and dear friendships alive, affording much happiness to you and to them. The cost is negligible. You cap talk a distance of 150 miles for as little as fifty cents when using Night Station-to-Station service after 8:30 P. M. *' , *Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. (Incorporated) -THE COST IS SMALL WHEREVER YOU CALL" 1854 WOFFORD COLLEGE mi Spartanburg, 3. C. A" Christian CoHege for the Higher Education of Young Hi?n. offering Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, and Master of Arte Degrees, Pre-Medical and Pne^Law Courses, and Courses in Education and Religion. > long And Honorable ii story of education eery ice. Strong Faculty, large Library, Well Equipped Laboratories, Ample Dormitory Facilities, Voluntary R. 0. T. C. Unit, Athletic^ Grounds, Field House. All forms of Inter-Collegiate Athletics. / Write far 1931 Catalogue to Henry N. Snyder, President r EXCURSIONS to T "" ~ Savannah ?Brynswick ? Florida Cuba Thursday, July 2nd, 1931 From CAMDEN to: " > Savannah ; ^ $5.00 \ Brunswick 7.50 Jacksonville 10.50 Dayton, Ocala, Gainesville 18.25 West Paltn Beach 19.50 Miami 20.50 iTampa, St. Petersburg 18.00 Key West 27.75 " Havana , 45,25 Proportionate lares from other (points. Will also sell at proportionate fares to all South Florida Points. RETURN LIMITSt Savannah, July 9tb;?te|n?. wick, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Daytona, Ocala, Gainesville, July 10th; West Palm Beach, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Jfliaml, July 14th; ,R<jry Wedt, July 18th; * Havana, July 21st, 1981. \j*vi3P. - . For detailed information and Pullman reservations consult Ticket Agents. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM _____????