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Ijjjbody's Business for The Chronicle by Qee I^lcGee, Copyright, 1928. I HY TIMES AJtB SO HARD K. wt? loafing around in the K?n the other night and I disj something that 1 had no BLsi of discovering. I picked up KTpaper poke that came from 1! grocer. It contained 2 little L of liquid chocolate (35c), 1 little K 0( Swiss cheeae (40#), 1 tiny crushed green peas (25c), and I?II containers of salad dressing BflR*" I ?n ciiarged to me. 1 j looked further into the presI'cosl of high living, and found Lt we were "eating breakfast ball 45 cents a pound, and drinking tw juice, 26 cents a jpint, feastI )(1 chipped beef, 30 cents for ILptti, topping maple syrup with Lcskts. $1.25 per quart, plus panl't. flour at $18.35 per barrel, and' r,, | ob.-ci^ed that one of the . ,i the electric range was CBj{ in high, ($3.75 per 100 I About that time, somebody | the hot water spigot in the Ih-ruoi" and immediately an au| hot-water gas heater in the Cement ^ot busy, $2.00 per 1000 Kjc foot, and then the phone rang, 40 per month in advance, and then Ihjssed over to the kitchen sink |d closed the faucet that was pourK. i nice sized stream of water |ough the waste pipe, 85 cent's per ?) gallons. ..Suddenly I realized that the trie light in the pantry was burn| 10 cents per k. w. h., and belt I knew it?the Ford rolled out I the front yard, gas and tax, 19 |t$ per gallon, and a few' minis later the theater collected $1.20 L 3 persons who wanted to see Three-fingered Pete bit the dust," n then 1 peeped into the larder? It is. the storage room. I.Kow our storage room is where I keep things to eat. I found a Ice of meat for boiling, 10 cents lound, 24 pounds of flour, 60 cents, a peck of corn meal, 17 cents? I we never eat much of that kind stuff. Evidently we don't like In (so-called) coarse food?as we Be raised on it., I saw that the Ik, 17.00 a week, and the nurse, I? a week, had been too busy to p things spick and span about I house. I.I never said nothing. I came I back and listened at the radio, O.OO, then pulled off my things I put ori my night shirt, 49 cents, I went to bed and covered up with lyon bed quilt, $5.99. In 2 hours Its dreaming about why times are Hard and what a task it is to It a living these days?apd old ^^Trouble slipped over and whisIriinto my ear?".Sonny, you ain't A in live within your means: I don't you watch your dimes and I your extravagance." Then I Be up and went to thinking, but In't make any changes, I'm mar 1TS THEIR TIME TO MOVE I.The wholesale firm with which In connected operates a 20 horse..A fe.w. days I .we discovered that the cost of ler was just about twice as much I we are able to pay, due to the I decline in the product we are luificturing, so we wrote the l&d man" a letter and begged for I There's one thing you can say 'I ~ *9STATEMENT the ownership, rfPfcimgement, etc., Bquired by the Act of Congress of Bugust 24, 1912, of The Camden Bhronicle, published weekly at B*mden. S. C., for October 2, 1931. He of South Carolina, I County of Kershaw. Before mo, a Notary Public in and the State and County aforesaid Bonally appeared H. D. Niles, whe Hng been duly sworn, according tt B. deposes and says that he is th< Blisher of The Camden Chronicle Bthat the following is, to the bes' Bh* knowledge and belief, a tru< |" >f the ownership, manage |t etc.. of the aforesaid publica B.for the date shown in the abovi B'on? required by the Act of Aug B*4, 1912, embodied in Section 443 Bhl Laws and Regulations. That the names and addresse R|he publishers, editors and busi B? managers are: Bjblishers?H. D. Niles, Camder Ht.', Bmtor and managing editor?H. E B^. Camden, iS. C. Bjwiness Manager?'H. D. Nilet Br* That the owners are H. I *. Cirmden, S. C. * |V That the known tondholderi B^^gces and other security h'6l<i B ?-None. H. Ek Niles, Publisher, i; to and subscribed before m | ** hay of October, 1931. John S. Lindsay, Nofitry Public. for the povyer trust: they don't keep a fellow waiting for service, nor will they let hipi wait when his oill is due. it's the easiest thing in the world to get cut off. They sent 3 men down Tuesday morning, 4 more came Wednesday and 6 came Thura* day. They had 84 different kinds of testing, proving and verifying rnstruments. ....The following Saturday morning, we received a report covering our complaint, and here it is: "Polyphase Watt Hour Meter Test; Volt, 220. Amp. 50. Ratio, 83. Type,I D-6. Constants, 4. Test, 12. Disk, 12. 1'. Trans. Ratio, 0. No. 2159. Loud amps, 50. Klemcnt, 5. Test Const., G. Rev. Test, 21, Rev? Ser= vice, 15, Top, 50. Cemb. Element*, top and bottom, 50 nad 5. Found, 100 par cent. Left, 100 per cent."? "Remarks, O. K." ....Now, folks, you really don't know just how much we appreciated that report. The first time we read it, our head turned around on our neck like a bed roller, but the second time we read it, we only fainted. No one in the office had ever heard of "Polyphase" before. We wanted to know "Watt Hour" bill ought to havet been and not how fast the jigger in the Amp. box was being propelled by the Element, or why the top Element was 50 and j the Rev. Test was 5. v J tt886855555ttS53Sifie5j**5S*BSiiL*8 ....They explained that it was aimply ridiculous for anybody to think that anybody /else could reduce u^\ power rate. Why, the idea-rl Who ever heard of such a prepoateruos gesture? They wanted to know if we diddent know that power rates are made by the tailroad commission, and validated by the 1. C. Commission, O. K.'d. by Congress, ratified by the Senate, countersigned by the President, and mortified by the Public. We told them no, that we were only consumers, ami were not supposed to' know about such things. . ...'tueie hiv some things we can't! understand, and that is why some things stay so high and other things go so low. We have war-time gas rates, war time power rates, wartime-plus telephone rates, war-time corn-flakes, war-time hospital rates, war-time railroad rates, aipl wartime politicians. <luess it's government control or somethin'. < oal is cheap and so is wood, and oil ain't very high, so we boys have a right to change our methods if the powers that be won't permit changes. But we can't change much: there ain't but one of these to a town. Rupert MeFall, u young fanner of Anderson county, fought u battle with a maddened bull for un hour and then oscaj>ed with hia life by jumping into Rocky River. He was badly cut and bruised, but not dangerously injured. Klisha Kent, III, professor of Ian- i guagos at the University of Tennessee, was indicted by the grand jury of Klixabeth City county, Va., at Hampton on Tuesday, on a charge of murdering his wife by drowning. Kent is at liberty under a bail bond of $lf>,000. Trial of the case will probably begin the latter part of this month. .. /J . a An airplane fell from u height of 100 feet and struck an automobile containing two men on the Mum street of Columbia ( it>, lnd., Tuesday. The two occupants of the au- * . ; tomobilc were killed, as was u passenger in the airplane. 'I he pilot of the plane was probably fatally injured. . " ;j, ?" j ' ;' ' 5 1 I ' \ I- I j ; ' j ^^^^B ^^^B ^^^^B ^^^B j \^ma :<-;. r^-J- I FOLKS ' FOR A GOOD TIME AT YOUR HOME FAIR ^^^B v ^B ^^B - ^B ^^B Run by American Legion and Camden Shrine Club Benefit Disabled Veterans and Crippled Children's Hospital _i ' ^^ I See the Tilting Tournament on Wednesday Night and Many Other Good Features! | SEE PROGRAM " MODERATE COST! | MANY GASH PRIZES ? |