The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 19, 1931, Image 7
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.
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,,.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
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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.
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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
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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
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I ttalilq* this trip will have their Certi;
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I ee??ReB?T"WWn" *>? made promptly. For ex- ;
I Stp"?I*"y low coot and complete - details, address
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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
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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'; ' "** ?^
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* 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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#31.
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Need Old Ffiends
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be Soon cy
Forgotten I
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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"
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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.
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