The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 03, 1931, Image 8
Personal Mention
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Mia* Maxine Sterne i* vi*iting
friends in Bluefteld, W. V?.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Alexamler and
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Clark, leave tomorrow
on a week's trip to Washington,
Dr Cy, and other points of interest.
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Mr. and Mrs. K. G. Zetrouer, of
Gainesville, Florida, are here on a
Visit, coming to attend the funeral
of the latter** mother, Mrs. G. G.
Alexander.
Miss Tommie Guthrie, who has a
position in Kershaw and Miss Jean
Culvem, of Kershaw, attended the
t dance given at the Country Club on
Monday evening.
. Dr. J. Sumter lihamc and his neph'
ewe, Billy and M^/shall Thompson, of
' Charleston' were" ^li^stk the past:
' week at the (home of the forrnpr's j
mother, ' i
Friends of Miss Mary Jane Mackey *
will be gJad to /earp she is getting:
along nicely after' an operation Saturday
foryAPpnwdivHiw. She a P:l*
t.iont in the 'Camden hoapitul.
Dr. Cecil Wifctkowsky, who was a recent
graduate of the M4du-al (kdlegu
in Charleston, has returned to that
city where he will be an intern at Roper
Hospital for the next year,
Miss Mary Hoykin, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
B. O. Boykin, left on Thursday morning
for Philadelphia, Where she 'veiN
resume her ..WOrH- Presbyterian'
hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. N, C. Boykin left last
week for Charleston to sail for New
York and from there Mr. and Mrs.
Boykin will go to Camden, Maine, for*
a visit while their sons, Newton C.
Jr., and McKee Boykin, are in Camp
Kieve.
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Boyce Fibers, 28, ussistant superin-|
tendent of a cotton mill ut Spindale, I
N. C., was killed Wednesday when he
came in contact with a high voltage
wire above the roof of the mill.
The Alabama house of representatives
by a vote of 47 to 40 has pussed
a resolution providing for a constitutional
amendment to bo submitted
to the people, which would allow the
sale of near beer in that state.
Jim Emery anu nis sons, Bili and
Ben Emory, of Grvehvillo county, S.
C., are held under bail bonds for the
Federal coprt ut ^shevillo, N. ('., on
charges of shoOtirigFederal prohibition
officers <luring a raid in Polk
county on May 20.
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WEEVIL THREATENING CROP
Fight the IVot; Don't Truat thf
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1 i |? 1 Olemson
College, June B.?>The boll
weevil is quite prevalent over a large
portion of the etate and exceedingly
ho in several counties, an average, of
105 weevila per acre having been
found in all of the field* examined,
ranging from xero up to 020 per acre,]
according to information gathered
from an examination of 64 field* by
members of the South Carolina Experiment
Station wtaff during the
week ending June 6.
Florence aud Darlington counties,
according to the report have the
largest number of weevils per acre
and cotton in these counties is just
large enough to begin the applications
of sweetened poison, (^alhopn,
Orangeburg and Jtotmberg counties
are threatened almost as seriously as
Darlington and Florence', while Aiken
and Barnwell are not as badly infested
yet, and cotton is smaller than
in the other: counties mentioned.
Every effort should be made to
destroy these weevils, says Prof. H.
W. Bar re, director of the Experiment
Station, in commenting upon
the field report, especially in fields
where cotton is beginning to square.
Unless weather conditions should tye
very much in the grower's favor, the
^reevil is likely to get the cro-p-:and
one should never depend upon
the weather, advises Henry D. Green,
the couhty agent.
United States Senator Barkcley, of
Kentucky, suffered a broken right
knee and a fractured rib when his
automobile skidded off the road near
Rockland, Ohio, Monday.
Chalres Sattler, '2H, out of Sing
Sing prison les*. than a month, was
shot and killed on the streets of New
York Monday by four gunmen as he
stood on u street corner.
Up to the middle of this week there
have been 150 or more bodies recovered
from the wreck of the French excursion
boat St. Philibert, wrecked
ten days ago off the French coast.
The suit for $60,00(1 by a Miami,
Fla., lawyer against A1 Capone, for
alleged legal fees due, been settled
out of court.
Daniel Carter Beard, "Uncle Dan"
to 800,000 Boy Scouts of America, celebrated
his Hist birthday anniversary
last Sunday at his home at.Suffern,
N. Y.
Writer Describes
Winter Visitors
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HoWns are highly prized and in-'
tereeting birds, though far from ai
useful as the bluebird, meadow)*rk,
moat aparrowa, the nighttiawk arid
many others which might ba mention '
ed. They usually leave the neighborhood
of Onatarka, Wisconsin, in November
and return the second week
in March. Sometimes, however, they
return as early as the latter part of
February or the first week in March.
But not always do they leave in November,
being governed somewhat in
their choice of a winter home by the
amount of food available and not entirely
by the amount of snow and cold
weather. There are large numbers
of hackberry trees to be found in
this vicinity, which often are loaded
with Jerries rill winter long. Arid
when the hackberry trees have or
bear many berries, robins are likely
t<o fsjtay in this region nil winter,
living on berries of these ,
mainly. One year I saw robins every
month in the year, usually in
flocks, thanks to the hackberry tree.
Though robjn,* either stay here all
winter or return eajjy in March, they
are in no hurry to begin nesting, hotfling
off the building of the first nest
until April or early May. About my
home these birds start a half-dozen
or more nests which they never use,
for one reason or another. I am sure
that the birds never use some of the
nests because they find after building
them that they do not like their
locations. Some of them also no
doubt are visited by the gray squirrels,
of which there are many in the
neighborhood, or are built in places
where they cannot be anchored properly
or are exposed to the full fury
of the Svind and rain and aire destroyed.
But by the latter part of
April the wind is not so strong and
the birds less fastidious and then they
complete nests which they use. For
several years now some of these
birds have nested each season in the
vines clinging to our west porch, often
rearing two broods there. Sometimes
now nests are built for the
second brood, but sometimes one nest
is made to do for both, the bird?
building a new one if they have the
time and inclination, otherwise only
renovating and repairing the old.
On three occasions these birds have
built nests on robin shelves I have
made and set out for them. One
of these shelves is fastened to the
burn and the other to the henhouse,
the former having been used and the
latter twice, and all three ventures
proved successful. The lone venture
on the shelf on the hen-house proved
very interesting. The nest was built
early in May two years ago, at a
time when the weather was both dry
and windy. The mother worked at
it for five days without getting as
much as n start. She carried load
after loud of grass, weeds, tiny twigs,
feathers, string and what not to the
shelf, only to have them carried off
again by the wind shortly after Rhff"
had it in place. Sbe worked mainly
during the morning hours, realizing
no doubt that the materials
were then damper than later in the
day and hence better suited to her
purpose. Nevertheless, the shelf was
as empty the evening of the fifth
day as it was the morning of the
.r.rvv. I .finnl'y a wav of
helping the bird, deciding to lean a
plank against the shelf in such a
way that the upper end projected
an inch above the floor. On the
morning of .May seventh, I noticed
that the harrassed bird had a better
start than usual, so tied the plank
in place. The iplank served the purpose
better lhan I thought it would,
and the bird in no way objected to
my interference, so the nest wag soon
ready, even lined with soft grass.
Four eggs were laid in it and as
many young robins successfully
reared.
I find that our robin neighbors differ
a great deal in disposition Some
of them are timid, while others are
confiding and brave. Some leave their
nests whenever we get anywhere near
them, so often that we sometimes
are sure the eggs never will hatch,
but they nearly always do. Others
pay but little attention to us. remaining
on their nests whether we come->
near them or not. One became s )
tame that I was able to touch her
when she came to her nest with focd
for the young.
Our robins feed their young mainly
on earthworms and insects, though
later in the season they also feed
them many berries. A pair that
nested in our grape-vine one yea?
tapered off the growth of their four
youngsters with a generous amount
of our strawberries. Not only did
they carry berries to the young robins
while they still were in the nest,
but later they took them to the patch
and taught them how to help themselves.
Invariably, too, our robin
neighbors keep their young in the
neighborhood throughout the raspberry
season. It is in their liking
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for b*rr\e? thai robin* differ most
from their cousins, the bluebirds, living
almost if not wholly on injects
while with u?.r -Alvin M. Petersen in
"Our Dumb Animals."
Congressman Wright Patman of
Texas, told the national convention of
Disabled War Veterans at WilkesJt?arre,
Pa., ?ue*d?y-ihat when congress
meets again js you id introduce
a resolution seeaTng removal of
Andrew Mellon, sec^ta^y of the
treasury, from office.
Preachers of Los Angeles, .0*1., are
trying to make records for lontf sermons.
The latest aspirant claims a
continuous sermon of !?1 hours alul 5
minutes. One aspirant charges the
newest champeen with violation of
the rules in that he "drank egg'nogs"
between bursts of pulpit oratory.
Removal from the bench of New
York is being asked for Mrs. Jean
Norris, ,only woman magistrate, by
Samuel Seabury, court referee dnd
prosecutor, who accuses the woman
magistrate of improper, court praetices.v
1 ltuth Nichols, New York society
woman, who will attempt a solo flight
across the Atlantic, was more or less
seriously injured when she landed her
plane at Bt. Johns, New Brunswick,
Monday afternoon. The accident was
caused by the rays of the sun blinding
the flier as she was landing at the
end of the first leg of the flight, She
will continue the flight.
Police and Catholics clashed at
Huatuseo, Mexico, Wednesday at the
funeral of a priest. Three policemen
and two civilians were killed.
Mrs. Bessie Mowers and lister
Underwood have been condemned to
death at Toms River, N. J., for the
murder of the woman's husband. '
New trials have been denied the
eight negroes sentenced to death in
Alabama, following conviction on
charges of attacking two white girls
on a railroad trai.* several months
ago.
HOLIDAY SPECIALS
Rosq Mary GRAPE JUICE, qt 31c
pt 17c
Echo Dry GINGER ALE .. 10c
rnDwcn uwr nan 9t,?
V-' Hi 1 UA/ JL* y ?my x/X?T? rn I . . . V . . , I _ .
Temple Garden TEA, ^4 lb. 25c
lb 13c
Kraft SALAD DRESSING, qt jar ?. 33c
M . . II ?
Spring Brook BUTTER, lb 25c
Campbell's PORK & BEANS, 2 cans 15c
POTTED MEAT, 3 cans for 10c
VIENNA SAUSAGE, Libbys, 3 for .. 25c
CHEESE, American Full Cream, lb. 17c
SALT, 3 packages for 10c
LEMONS, dozen 27c
BANANAS, 5 pounds for 25c
Home-Grown Watermelons
Cantaloupes Tomatoes
IN OUR FANCY MARKET
STEAKS, lb. .'. : 25c LAMB ROAST, lb. .... 20c
STEW BEEF, lb 10c LAMB STEW, lb 20c
VEAL CHOPS, ib 25c DRESSED HENS, lb. 22c
VEAJU&Q&T, lb. .... 20c PORK CHOPS, lb. ....' 20c
' HAMBURGER, lb. .... 15c
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Eat Where It's Cool
Where tasty Home-Cooked Foods tempt the appetite
under cooling breezes <# electric fans. Visit our Cafe
recently remodeled inside and out. Our meals will
please you and the prices have beepreduced.
TRY OUR CLUB BREAKFAST AND SPECIAL DINNERS
AT THE NEW PRICES.
THE NEW YORK CAFE
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East DeKalb Street Camden, S. C.
Do you knock on wood every time you set
out for an airing in the car?
Is your heart in your mouth when you
swing into a curve at a little more speed
than the law allows?
There's nothing like a set of junky old tires
to take the joy out of driving.
Why worry about blowouts when you can
buy sturdy Goodyear Pathfinders at present
levels?
Never in the history of the automobile has
tire mileage been priced so low.
Super twist cord, Goodyear craftsmanship,
long life, safe riding. *
For your information and your peace of
mind, run your eye over these prices:
Size Price
Each Pakr
29x4.40 (4.40-21) $4.98 % 9.60
29x4.50 ( 4.50-20) 5.60 10.90
30x4.50 (4.50-21) .... 5.69 11.10
2C:.4.75 (4.75-19) .... 6.65 12.90
29x4.75 (4.75-20) 6.75 13.10
29x5.00 (5.00-19. 6.98 13.60
3C:;5.00 (5.00-20) 7.10 13.80
28x5.25 (525-18) 7.90 1530
Site Price
Eack Pato
29x5.25 (5-25-19) $8.15 $15.80
31x5.25 (5.25.21) 837 16.70
28x5.50 (5.50-18) 8.75 17.00
$9x5.50 ( 5.50-19) .. 8.90 17 30
32x6.00 ( 6.00-20 ) 6 ply 1130 2230
33x6.00 (6.00-21) 6 ply J135 2230
30x3'/j Reg. cl. High
Pressure 439 834
Wa will deliver and apply these tires free
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29x4.40 (4.40-21) Balloons for j
1925-27 Fords, Chevrolet*; also
Whippets and Stars. -
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