The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 03, 1931, Image 7
Contest Plots Prove
Valuable To County
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The com? cotton and sweet potato
0Dte?t plots have proven to be of ,
joch value to farmers of the state
Airing the past six years. Through
contests our farmers have ,
jjirned many truths on their own ,
firms and under their own rpanagesent.
The record# kept in connec- (
hon with these contests are invalujhle
because they, show the farmer
Aether the crop in question made a
profit or a Iqes and why. For the
benefit of the farmers of Kershaw
(ounty a list is given below of the ,
fartners in the com, cotton and sweet
potato contests:
five-acre corn contestants: T. K. (
Trotter, W. C. Gandy, J. E. Braanon,
Aaron Adamson, C. W. Holley, L. B, 1
Uney. Virgil Htailey, Dr. W. D.
Grigsby, Scott Reed, G. Fj Watts,
Mrs. Lee West, W. P. McQuirt, Karby
Topper, Mrs. Bessie T. Boineau. '
One-acre sweet potato contestants:
c. Gandy, C. W. Holley, L. B.
Jjney, Virgil Halley, Dr. W, D.
Grigsby} Scott Reed, Robert Belton,
'Z. A- Gatoe, Mrs. Lee West, Alex
Johnson, B. Jv Reddish.
Five-ucre cotton contestants: J. E.
Brannon, T. K. Trotter, R. C. Jones,
Aaron Adamson, L. B. Laney, Virgil
Halley, J. M. Threatt, J. L. Gettys,
p. Gettys, Qy, W. D. Grigsby,
W. L. Miles, Mrs. Lee West, R. C.
McCoy, I-awrence McCormick, J. H.
Small, W. R. Outlaw, J. E. Rush.
The object is not to see how big
a yield can be made regardless of
cost but rather to see how mueh
profit can be made under good manigement,
states Henry D. Green, tho
eoraty agent.. 1
Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer,
officers of the busted Bank of the
United States of New York, convicted
last week on charges of- bank law violations,
have been sentenced to serve
three to six years in Sing-Sing prison.
A son of Singer, convicted at
the same time, was given an indeterminate
sentence, which means a
maximum of . three years.
William B. Harvey, executive vicepresident
and cashier of the closed
First National bank at Kinston, N.
C., has confessed to defalcations totaling
$53,800.
University, of South
Caroiiita
Columbia, S. C.
D. M. DOUGLAS, President
SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE
EXAMINATION
Examinations for the award of vacant
scholarships for teachers in the
University and for entrance will be
held at each county court house in
the state, Friday, July 10,?1991, at
Applicants must l>o sixteen
years of age. The normal scholarship,
intended for persons desiring
to be teachers, is vacant in Kershaw
county.
wr^pl.lcanf/s for scholarships should
wfio V Committee on Norma]
scholarships for application blanks,
u^ned bY July 9th- The
lT }]p 18 worth *100.00 plus tui.JbiLand
term fee. sion wjll
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ON DRIVING AfMOTOR HU?i
The Experience of Veteran Behind
the Steering Wheel
The^torkville record for miles covered
in a motor vehicle is held by :
Carl J, Seagle, who has driven a (
bus over a half million miles, be- <
sides other tens of thousands of miles '
driving an automobile. '
He' how'lives in the Cannon mill
community and helps to make a half 1
million towels every little while, but 1
he spent a few years driving a bus? '
and Yorkville people used to let other 1
buses go on while they waited for the 1
one driven by Mr. Seagle. -They had 1
a good reason. I
In all that over 500,000 -miles of
driving buses, he never had an acci- '
dent which injured any passenger nor '
any automobile on the road, nor his
own bus. But he admits he hud some
close shaves by the action Of fool
drivers he met, and the other day he 1
was drawn out to talk about the comparatively
new vocation 'of driving 1
buses between widely separated terminals.
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"The worst thing ,to meet on the
road," he said, "is a drunken driver.
You can't guess what he'lldo suddenly,
and you can't tell he's drunk until
he'e right on you. He's the most dangerous
thing there is at large, and he
Ought to be kept off the roads permanently.
The next worse is the one
who drives in the middle or on the
wrong side qf the road.
"The narrowest escape I ever had
was on account of a fool driver, and
I never knew whether he was drunk
or not. It was a little piece above
Clover. I was meeting a big red
truck, and a coupe started to pass
it from the rear, but dropped back
behind it when I blew my horn. Then
when the truck and I were almost
passing, it shot out squarely in front
of me. We were both going about
40.
"The hard road had just been opened,
and the ishoulders were not
done, so there was a drop off the concrete
into the dirt high enough to
let an axle down on the pavement, "
if a car "Iran off one side airid"I ft'ad 1
been watching that all along. When
that man jumped in front of me, I
had to hit him head on, or go off
that high drop at the side.'
"All I'm telling you now went
through my mind in a flash. If I
hit him, I'd be sure to kill somebody
in his car. In my bus 1 had a plan
and two children, with' some other
passengers. Xf I went off the side
by swerving to the right, the axle
would fall on the concrete and the
bus roll over and smash up.
"I yanked my wheel around as far
and as fast as I could and slammed
on the brake, to get all the force I
could in front and rear to turn that
bus to the right. It did and X went
off the pavement down into the dirt
at an angle that put both wheels
off so near together that my axle
[cleared the slab, and I ran right out
on the ground. It was muddy, and
my bus .was simply plastered with
mud, -but all right, and I drove a
little piece, until I found a place to
get back upon the road again.
"All the time I was working that
bus off the road without upsetting
it, and then stopping it in the mud,
I was as cool as I. am now. But
V* ? 7-? T. aur Witt,
[When I next realized anything, I was
running up on the road with a longbladed
pocket knife in my hand to
get to that coupe driver?but he was
gone before I got into the road.
J "A little later my wife, who was
on the front seat with me that trip,
paid I oughtn't to talk that way, especially
before ladies, but really not
at all. I asked her what I said, and
she told* me I had used simply awful
language, and she never heard
the like, after-1 jumped out and start-'
ed for that fool driver?but I didnt
know it, nor anything except I had
my knife out and wanted to get him.
"Down at Tirxah one time, a negro
trying to get into a cross road ran
right in front of me, and I had to
do some hard work to avoid hitting
him. He begged me not prosecute
him, promised he* never would
do it again in his life, and finally
knelt down in the road and prayed
to be forgiven that one time. His
eloquent prayer was granted.
"I had another experience up in the
edge of Gastonia. A kid would come
out every trip?he knew when I was
due there?and get set at the edge
of the read, and as I came up would
let me get close and the* run across
the road in front of me to see how
oleai' l 'mold be when he started
without his getting killed. I stopped
several times and toM him to stop
Rr hot that did no good, and I finally
told him if he didn't stop it, I'd give
him a good licking?but he kept on
and get more and more bold about ,
starting across When I was closer gd
closer. ^ t4a
men on?t day, although I was (
creeping by skrwty^on Ms account, he
*Btud sad r?? >*?? ? frof of m*'
sod I tad to J?? .? ?r,br.l?.,h?rd.
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Acquit Oklahoma
Officer in Death
Court House, Armore, Okie., June
i7.?William K. Guess, Oklahoma ex-li
ieputy sheriff, was acquitted late tolay
of slaying' Emilio Cortes Rubic, <
20-year-old kinsman of President
Ortit' ltubio of Mexico. '
Out almost 22 hours, twelve tired 1
iniddle-axed Carter county men wnoj1
had been deadlocked, 11 to 1, re-|1
turned the verdict 20 days after 11
Kmilio and his student chum, Man-T
iel Garcia Gomez, 22, were shot by 11
the deputy on a residential street
here. I
Pale and trembling with emotion, I1
Guess thanked the jurors und de- '
clared he still felt justified "in what '
1 did." He remains under $25,000 1
bond for the slaying of Gomez. His 11
fellow deputy, Cecil Crosby, still is
charged with the murders. Guess I.'
took sole responsibility for the actual!
slayings. , t \
Guess walked to the jury box when
Judge John B. Ogden had dismissed
court and thanked each man.
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"I want to say our county at-J
torney (Marvin Shilling) has been
my f/iend but he handled my prose-1
cution fair and square," said Guess. 1
"I am glad he didn't lean toward mel
any." 1
He kissed his 11 year old son, Ed-|
gar, and his young wife. !
"I was trying to discharge my duty I
to the best of my knowledge and feel
I was justified," said Guess. "I have I
never wanted to do anybody any
bodily harm." j
A 12-year-old boy was killed with a
shot in the back, and his companion,!
11, was wounded near Lakeland, Fla.,1
Tuesday night, by R. L. Smith, 50,
when he suspected the boys of trying
to steal watermelons from his field. I
Smith is in jail charged with murder.
The boys were en route home from a
meeting of Boy Scouts and passed
Smith's home. He followed them a
short distance and fired both . barrels
of his gun at them at short
t . > \v .v. J
(Spartanburg now has a mad dogl
threat, when a dog with rabies bit a
number of other dogs. 'Several dogs
were killed by police, and a watch is
being kept against any person being
bitten and infected.
iSam B. King, state insurance commissioner,
has sworn out warrants
against several men and ordered the
Columbia station to stop broadcasting
advertising one company, in his campaign
begun this week against unlicensed
insurance companies and
agents in this state.
The submarine Nautilus, to be used
by Sir Hubert Wilkins in polar explorations,
has reached the harbor
at Cork, Ireland. "The U. S. S. Wyoming
towed the submarine as far
as Queenstown from mid-Atlantic and
the boat was taken thence to Cork by
a tugboat.
I jumped out and right there was a
good sized brush of a tree. I grabbed
it and chased that kid. He ran into
his house right there, and as he slammed
the screen door behind him, I ran.
against it. He was yelling bloody
mprdef.
"His mother came from the back of
the house crying what was the matter
1 t .?! ? . 1X-.J ? J T. hor oil
about it. Then she lit into me and
cursed me like a pirate for trying
t<^ whip her dear little boy. I got
off the lot on the sidewalk and then
told her if that boy ever ran across
in front of me again, I'd whip him
within an inch of his life, and if
she interfered, I'd whip her too and
pay for it. I went on, and the boy
never came out again when I passed
his home.
"Mhybe the queerest thing I ever
saw on the road was a little bit of a
kid. He had a tin can bottom he was
pretending was a steering wheel, and
he was backing his car. He backed
out into the street of his home town
moving the wheel right and left and
watching the reflection of the sun
in it.
"As I came up from one direction,
there came from the other direction
and on the same side as the kid a
big' truck loaded with cotton. We
both slowed down to under control,
hut thinking that kid would see us
and run off the road at once. But
he kept right on, slowly backing acroea
the street and working his tin
wheel. The truck stopped so close
to him that its bumper touched his
clothee, but he never paid it the least
attention end went on, sliding his
side along that bumper,, across the
street. By that time I had stopped,
so close that he wasnt six inches in
front of my bumper, but nothing
changed him from the straight line
he ores 'backing bis imaginary car
across the irtreet. '
-;aAa he cleared my bumper on the
other side, he looked up at me an^
grinned, partly dim grin and partly
friendliness. Tfc* track driver and I
Mi laughed?we eouldnt help, H, he
wy to cute.'*?Yorkvill# Enquirer. .
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Accident Fatal.
* To John Knight
John Knight wan instantly killed
Saturday night about #:80 o'clock
when the automobile which he was
driving left the road near Caskey's
Station and his head was pinned between
the embankment and the machine.
"Itaid" Kingstaff, the owner
of the car was with Mr. Knight at
the time of the accident and he was
thrown through the top of the machine
but escaped without any serious
injuries. x
Blinded by the lights of another car j
the Plymouth coupe which Knight |
was driving left the road and went
down a V shaped ditch which was
about five feet deep. After going in-1
to the ditch the cur travelled for 1
about thirty feet before it turned I
turtle. Mr. Ringstaff was stunned I
when he struck the earth but he suk
fered only a bruise on the head and
minor bruises about the body. |
The two men were travelling in I
the direction of Riverside when the |
accident occurred. , The road is very I
narrow with a rather steep embank-!
ment on both sides. Mr. Knight had!
turned to the side of the road and!
the automobile slipped into the ditch I
as he was unable to see on account of I
the lights of the car approaching!
from the opposite direction.
It was thought at first that Mr. 1
Knight was alive when picked up but I
his head was badly mangled and an I
examination showed that he was dea.ll
and that he had died almost inatam- J
On Sunday afternoon he was bur-1
ied from the Second Baptist church
with an immense crowd in attend- J
ance. The National Guard Company J
turned out in a body and military fu-1
neral rites were observed. The in -1
terment was made in the West Side I
cemetery where a great congregation
gathered to witness the burial. Many 1
floral tributes showed the esteem in I
which he was held by his many j
friends in this vicinity. j
Deceased was a foreman at the I
Lancaster Cotton Mills. He is survived
by his wife, Mrs. Mazie Knight 1
and three small children.?Lancaster
News. j
John Y. Jackson, formerly of Elloree,
S. C., has been ordered transferred
from the Federal prison in Atlanta
to the penitentiary in Columbia,
where he will face additional charges
of' using the mails to defraud.
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1854 WOFFORD COLLEGE 1931
Spartanburg, S. C.
A Christian College for the Higher Education of Young Men.
offering Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, und
Master of Arts Degrees, Prc-Medical and I're-Law Courses, and
Courses in Education and Religion.
Long aiv?l honorable history of education service.
{Strong Faculty, large Library, Well Equipped Laboratories,
Anvple Dormitory Facilities, Voluntary R. (). T. C. Unitj Athletic
Grounds, Field House. All forms of Inter-Collegiate Athletics.
Write for 19.31 Catalogue to Henry N. Snyder, President
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DRAYAGE STORAGE
Local and long distance moving with liability and
fire insurance on all shipments. Brick storage warehouse
for furniture, etc. Brick, sand, crushed stone,
Vigoro kept in stock at all times.
J. B. ZEMP
Telephones 216 and 100 Camden, S. C.
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picnic lunch this hot weather? We
can prepare it for you at small cost.
Try some of our xesh, crisp
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INDEPENDENCE
Aim To Achieve It! - _
I Personal Freedom ik yours, to be true. In'your daily routine,
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you're free to come juid go and do ju*t as, you please. And there's
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no nation on earth that offers you creator Liberty; BUT?there'*
I < another kind of Freedom to which every man should aspire. That's ~
FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE! i !
Thrift points the way. SAVE every dollar you can?not only I
for your future welfare but for Life's many frequent Opportunities. j
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