The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 17, 1931, Image 2
Nobody's Business
Written for The Chronicle by Gee
McGee. Copyright, 1928.
A Week'a Vacation .
(First I>ay)
...My doctor came to see me last
week. He told me to take a vacation:
he went so far as to say
that if 1 diddent take a vacation
that a vacation would take mo. My
blood pressure was down and my
dander was up and my digestive organs
refused to function. I decided
to listen to him, so borrowed 40
dollars and here I am at the beach.
(N. B. It looks kinder like 40 dollars
will last nearly 2 whole days?but
when it Kives out, I'm going to try
a few checks on 'ew.
1 spent my first 10 dollars deepsea
fishing and had the time of my
life. The friend who was going along
to teach me how to deep-sea'
fish got so sea-sick before our boat
scrambled over the horizon, he coulddent
tell whether the east was west
or the north was south. He fed the
fishes on victuals for a short while,
then he. tried them out on underwear,
and finally gave them dessert in the
form of his socks. He was the sickest
man I ever saw to survive.
....Believe it or not, I caught fish
till I got so I diddent mind if they
refused to bite. My equipment was
of the 2-hook, long-line, no^pole
type. I caught 6 large black bass
in only 2 jerks. L began to worry
once when 1 realized if I kept up
that fast schedule that it would bo
my bounding duty to ask my favorite
> senator or congressman to restock the
Atlantic ocean with block bass, but
I possibly left a few couples to go
forth and re-plenish the briny deep.
....I broke up one large school of
fish ? when I caught their teacher.
I think I got the superintendent and
possibly the principal near the boat
one time, but they got away. (They
weighed 14 pounds each?estimated).
I was terribly impressed with a certain
fish 1 hauled in just before quitting
time. He had a mouth like a
legislator, large and- noisy, and he
floundered around in the boat like
a bank president when he doesn't
want to make a loan to meet your
lust installment, but shortly thereafter
he became stiff in death and reminded
me of a poor patient who
could not pay the dcotor and decided
to die a r.atural death.
....The tide began to roll in about
noon and the captain hauled in trnr
anchor and we departed from thence.
I was afraid that the boat was overloaded
when we started and threw
several large fish overboard. And,
by the way, I diddent know until I
got ready to make this fishing excursion
that you have to slip up on
deep-sea fish "before day" if you
would ketch them. We were right
in their neighborhood when the eastern
sky started to turn red, having
left the- wharf just after midnight.
I prefer to catch fish that don't
have to be pulled out of bed, but
there's more sport in* deep-sea fishing
than any other kind?if you've
got the money to pay for the boat
and the bait and the other stuff that
is essential to the successful maritime
indulgence..
A Week's Vacation
(Second Day)
....Our "stopping place" is ideal
from every angle. Our Inn in only
500 yard* from the bent bathing
beach extant. Our room (an well ax
all room* in the building) U large
and airy. Our i>e*i? are comfortable
and our mattrexte* are minus cob*
and fthucktf. Our looking glaxx make*
ux look perfectly natural and not diatortod.
And a board walk lead* ux
to the waxh-hole.
. .. .And, folk*?let me tell you about
our Inn Keeper*. They are of the
semi-old-maid design, but are good
looking, petite, possessed of much domesticity,
kind and gentle, to their
guest*, know all that should be
known about "things to eat," and
they paint and powder just a tiny
bit, but when it comes to making
folks feel perfectly at home?and
even better than that, these two fine
ex-school teachers stand at the very
top of the qualification. (Vep, my
wife and daughter are ever and always
with me.)
....The principal garb at the beach
this season seems to lean heavily toward
beach pajamas, and I have not
yet seen a pair that the- wearer thereof
could not ciAwl through either
of the legs thereof and as some of
them are made of cotton, their use
ought to help the price (of cotton)
to some extent. 1 don't like these
garments a-taM. They don't show up
the fjgger* of a bathing beauty any
more than a shadow shows up the
rose. Ami the prettier the pajamas
the le.N.s she dons a bathing suit and
swims.
.... I hose 1-piece V-back suits are
without parallel for sun-burning purposes.
Some of them are cut so low
that the ?-un-tan extend- so far south
that frequently it is painful to sit
down after exposure '-to the sun, not
the son. But. I wonder why men
weren t modeled somewhat trimmer
and neater, nnd possibly less lanky
or vice versa? Some of them, including
your humble scribe, look so
pitilul to the audience for them to
drift by on their way to the water.
The first scare-crow was no doubt
hatched in the mind of its inventor
while he or she was gazing at Mr.
Swimmer in a bathing suit.
... .If 1 could float a mortj^B?j};o "{u
second one) on my farm. I'd try
to spend a whole month at this place.
It s such a pity to be poor. The girls
(meaning our hostesses) talk sorter
TTke they would "credit mr, but I
woulddent feel right in asking them
to take such risk^s. By the way, they
are celebrating-TKeTr twenty-fourtir
birthday for the fifth time tomorrow,
lit is singular, hut true?these ladies
are not twins, but they were born
on tlie same date. Kate evidently understood
that they would become
business partners sooner or later, and
thus saved them from the cost of
celebrating separate birthdays. Well,
the folks are already to get into the
swim, so?Good-day until tomorriw.
Charles Estrattn, notorious NewYork
racketeer and close pal of I>egs
Diamond, wus shot to death Monday
as he sat in the office of G. Winkenfield
Co., bottle manufacturers of
Brooklyn.
John Smith, 9, on Wednesday
jumped into the drainage canal at
New Orleans, La., and saved his little
'>n,,sin Marv Smith* 3. from drowning.
The children were playing on the
banks of the canal when the little
girl fell in.
( hartie Bryson, 45, a widower, the
father of five children, calle<i Edna
Ilinkle, 18, to the door of an inn at
Lake Toxaway, N. C., and shot six
bullets into her body, killing her instantly.
He then went to his home
and committed suicide. The girl had
rejected Bryson's plea that she marry
him.
Eorest fires swept over considerable
portions of California this week,
destroying mountain towns, ranch
houses, herds of cattle, timber, rip-1
oned grain and valuable pasture. A i
force of 7(H) men engaged in fighting]
the fire on a 25.000 acre tract which;
swept up three sides of Mount 1 >ia
bio, Contra county, where estimated
damn ire totaled over $100,000. The'
blaze at some places was along a
14-mile front.
Floyd Dies For
Brutal Killing
State Penitentiary, Columbia, July
10,?<Prote?ting that ha ahould not be
electrocuted, Albert Floyd, 36 year
old Greenville county farmer, was put
to death here for murder of llowurd
Bell, Clearwater, S. C\, mechanic.
"I don't feel I ought tof be electrocuted,"
he aaid, as he was placed in
the chair.,
He admitted slaying the Clearwater
mechanic, hie friend, when Bell
returned home unexpectedly to find
him with Mrs. Bell in the garage.
He contended in the triul the murder
was not premeditated.
He also made a plea of spectator*
who crowded the death house that
they help "my children and my little
| wife." *y
Even after the straps were adjusted
on his arms and legs and the
head straps covered his face, he continued
to pray, thc\ first shock stopping
him in the midst of a sentence.
He was brought in the death chamber
shortly after 10 o'clock, his face
white and his hands trembling.
As he sat in the chair, he asked
to be allowed to say a few words.
"All I have to say," he began, "is
that all of you live right, serve the
I^ord and be ready to die."
He then made his statement that
he did not think he should die, adding
that he prayed for the "good men
who dealt with me and against me,"
and said he had asked God to "save
them."
"I am weak and I am broke down
from my ^roubles," he said.
"It's an awful hour, it's a hard
hour."
He delivered a brief prayer, after
which the straps were adjusted.
With his hands extended as high
as possible, and trembling violently,
he repeated an almost incoherent
prayer in a rapid manner, which consisted
chiefly of the words "Blessed
God."
(apt. Olin Sanders, of the Penitentiary
Guard, whose duty it is to
tap the bell as a signal for throwing
the current, waited for him to finish.
The spectators were tense as Floyd
continued praying. Sam Cannon,
tijj,c_signaled_C'apt. Sar,-_
deCs .to tab the bell., When it became
tippairent that the man woul i
continue his prayer indefinitely, Cannon
turned on the electricity with
out waiting for the signal.
He was pronounced dead at 10:30.
The body is to be taken to Greenville.
Penitentiary officials said he had
spent moat of the night praying and
crying. He ate little breakfast this
morning.
Floyd's expressed wish yesterday
that his family visit him was granted
last night. His fattier, mother,
wife and two children all were allowed
to talk to him.
Floyd admitt^l striking Bel) in the
head with an iron pipe and then
driving his automobile into a bank
to make jt appear there had been
an accident.
Mrs. Bell, whose testimony was
largely responsible for Floyd's conviction,
was sentenced to serve five
years.
Floyd's father and brother made
last minute appeals in the Governor's
office and the Supreme Court
office this morning in an effort to
i save his life. The Governor, who is
sick, could not be reached, and none j
of the higher court justices was in
Columbia today.
At tho request of Sheriff Cliff
Bramlett of Greenville Floyd was
questioned fast night about the murder
of J. Ed. Thackston in Montague
ten years ago. His uncle, with whoni(
Floyd was seen on the day of the
murder, was later convicted and sentenced
to serve 20 years and Jerry
Hester was given life sentence.
Floyd denied he knew anything of
the crime.
Mrs. Bell Not in Jail
Columbia, July 10.?The State says
that Mrs. Mamie Bell, lover of Albert
Floyd, who was electrocuted at
the state penitentiary here today, for
slaying her husband, Howard Bell,
has not begun her five year sentence
in the case and is living near Gastonia,
N. C\, with a brother who is
a Baptist minister, pending an appeal
to the Supreme Court.
After her conviction as an accessory
after the fact of the murder of
her husband and her sentence Mrs.
Bell was released under ?2,000 bond
in January when she appealed.
La nee y Sterling, negro, 30, who six
times has faced the electric chair
.at..the sUte. ^prison .at Rajeigh, N. C.,
has had His sentence" comrnutM" by
Governor Gardner to life imprisonment
because of "grave doubt of his
guilt."
W. C. Harllee Dead at Itembert |
Sumter, July 15.?W. C. Harllee,
81, of Rembert, died in the Tourney
j hospital shortly before midnight on
Tuesday night, following a brief illness.
Mr. Harllee is survived by his widow,
who before marriage was Miss
j Mamie Young of Rembert, and two
'children, Mrs. C. R. Freeman, of Raejford,
N. C., and H. T. Harllee, member
of the United States coast guard,
stationed at Templeton, Staten Island,
N. Y. A sister, Mrs. J. C.
Pearce, of Atlanta, Ga? an
grandchildren, Mary Raye and
lene Harllee Freeman, also sun
The funeral party will lew
Hurst funeral home at 1:301V
afternoon for Hopewell cea
near Florence, where final a
will be conducted by Mr. Hi
pastor, the Rev. E. S. Duribi
Rembert.
J. J. Hood, negro doctor, isi
at Rocky Mount, N. C., on^
of performing an illegal operiti
a white woman,' from the i
of which she later died.
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LOOKING BACKWARl
T,tr. From ih. File* of Th? Chronicle Fifteen out Thirtjr Yew, .
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THIRTY YBARS AGO
July 17, 1901.
Hal Kelly, son of 6. H. Kelly, dies
at his home near .Southern depot and i
body carried to Darlington for burial. I
Khody I*wson, negro Woman, ia i
found dead in bed at her home on '
lower Main street, :
J. W. Gardner, of Tiller's Ferry, i
sends a report to the weather bureau
in Columbia that a shower of small
fish accompanied a heuvy rain. They
were seen floating between the cotton
rows after the rain ceased,
Gaskin White, old negro died in
Pisgah section, lie is said to have
been an oarsman on the ill-fated flat
which sank in Boykin pond when so
many were drowned.
George T. Little (buys a lot'in Bishlopville
preparatory to opening livery
feed and sale stable.
W. H. Owens, of Westville, married
to Miss Ix)ttie Peach, of Bethune.
Announcement of engagement of
Gus Hirsch, of Camden, to Miss Dinah
Kohn, of Orangeburg, received in
Camden.
The new battleship Maine launched
at Philadelphia navy yard with interesting
ceremonies. <She takes the
place of the ill-fated Maine lying ?n
Havana harbor whose sii\king causer!
the Spanish-American war.
Three men killed when boiler exploded
at plant of Winyah lumber
company at Georgetown.
Fire in the heart of the business
section of Atlantic City, New Jersey
resort, did property damage to the
extent of $5<X),000 Monday.
FIFTBBN YEAKsTgq
July 21, 191? j
Floods in Wateree river
sway Wataret river bridge uj
board Air line trestle. No trai
snd out of Camden for severs!
The bridge was built by the J
in 1910 and cost *42,000. That,
no insurance and the loss wt|
plete.
Windstorm does heavy 4.
throughout county.
Armon cotton mill at Mounts
land swept awsy by floods
thousand bales of cotton reporg
be floating down Wateree river.
Mass meeting tof citizens he)
discuss rebuilding of W uteres 1
bridge.
Enterprise Mercantile Compaq
move from old Villepigue
Savage store formerly oecupj|
Loan & Savings bank.
Scipio Timbers, old time Cs
negro, dies. He was a well fa
trimmer of hedges.
Engagement Announced of
Everet Birchrnore to Normn
Head of' Aiken.
Southern states hard hit by
causing thirteen deaths, manyi
ing and property damage tm
at $16,000,000.
V - |
Village of Chimney RockfN,<
ported destroyed by flood. j
Both state farms near Hag<n
ported under water from floodj
ing heavy loss to the state.
Large number of auto partie
nearby towns come to Cam
view flood waters in river.
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BAIN
Comes
WHAT many people call indigestion
very often means excess acid in
the stomach. The stomach nerves have
been over-atimulated, and food sours.
The corrective is an alkali, which quickly
neutralizes acids. And the best alkali
known to medical science is Phillips
Milk of Magnesia.
One spoonful of this harmless, tasteless
alkali neutralizes instantly many
times as much harmful acid, and then
the symptoms disappear at once. You
will never use crude methods when once
you learn the efficiency of this. Go get
a small bottle to try.
Gel the genuine Phillips Milk of
Magnesia, the kitid physicians have
prescribed for 50 years in correcting
excess acids. 25c and 50c a hot tie?any
drugstore.
SLUGGISH FEELING j
"I hare used Thedford's BlackDrauftht
off and oil for twenty-five
year*," writes Mr. Dave 8tewart,
Of 1912 K. 2nd St,, Austin Texa.a.
"They used it In my father'?
home for many years and It was our
ffenerAl family medicine.
"My health waa food, and that la
about all I ever took. I vised It for
oonstlpAtlon and bilious sick headaches.
It Is a fine medicine to take
when a man Rets up In the morning
feeling dull and sluggish. After a
course of It I feel fine. It rids the system
of poison which comes from con- ;
tlpatlon " :
BlackDraught
Sold br drurs1?t*. 26# pack*ff*. nuu
I The Wateree Building and Loan Association
Camden, South Carolina -4
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Shareholders in Our Eighth Series May Now Present
Their Certificate of Stock and Receive
$106.00 PER SHARE
Seventh Statement of Series No. 8 for 78 Months Ending June 30, 1931:
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ASSETS
Loans, Mortgages and Bonds $ 96,035.00
Oash in First National Bank 5,059.86
Accounts Receivable 5,050.01
$106,144.87
LIABILITIES
978 Shares at $78.00 $ 76,284.00
Bills Payable 2,350.00
Reserve for Liquidation 100.00
Profits:
Interest and fines $ 31.349.60
Less Expenses 3,938.73
Net Undivided Profits 27,410.87
$106,144.87-'? .
Payments per Share $ 78.00
Earnings per Share 28.00
Liquidating at $106.00
Average earnings 11.05 per cent, per annum.
Attest Correct: <39
JOHN T. NETTLES
N. C. ARNETT
U A. WITTKOWSKY
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I Series Number Eleven will Open July 20, 1931. We are Now I
I Taking Subscriptions for Stock. See us at once. ?1
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