Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

__ ' ? ? <1 To The Fa? People Of f?ershiv County Farming without utlook information is like an ai m inarching1 in the dark with no advai guard or lookouts. We have al keard of how a certain army went iits doom at Waterloo. , Outlook meetingnre the eye% of agriculture for our .mere. We can no longer afford toirm in the dark. We must think harand fast and far ahead. We must lake farming a business?put it o a business basis ?-look into the fi re* take advantage of every opi tunity to determine beforehand probable price for the products a propose to raise. Many a crop was *tined to sell for less than cost am he farmer could have known it bof i he planted had he but been in n outlook mooting conducted by gov* ment specialists. Years ago our g need was for greater ptoductu?to make ,two blades grow where ne grew before. Then camo the nd for marketing what we produce Now the big^ need is for outloo information. Production must be juged by the outlook. Marketing dependent upon the outlook. Ho do our farmers ? know whether to roduce at lot of hogs, cotton, corr poultry, potatoes unless they know ie future outlook on these cominodi >s. In these outlook meetings we vill And out how much of these thi:? are on hand in j the United Statei ind in the world, j This is called the rryover. We will find out how mucl s likely to be produced the comint season, determine the prdbaible demi d for these things by figuring' out tl purchasing power *nf the consuming ublic of the county. From these gures and charts the government't >nomists can ehowi us what price w will probably receive for hogs, tton, poultry, potatoes, cream a 1 other products, j Then it *fs up to i to produce accord- | ingly.. -?" & *" Some people n y ask why we do not just figure 1 of this out and then 'make defln J recommendations us to what to *oduce. There are good reasons w y this should not be dpne. Condi ons of farms and farmers vary so idely that it is bests to give the infor ation and help-eacpj farmer figure o hi9 plan work for 1932. '* The people of Kershaw county are fortunate in 1 ving the United senior economist Mr. D. W.-WatkinBi come fgrom Wi hington^ Mr. Watkins has just cmpleted a study of the United Stat* by going to the various states. H< is probably the best inforitfed man c--the farm situation ~~ TAX NOTICE State, County and School taxes year 1931, payale between September 15th and De im>b?r 31st, 1931, inclusive. Accordii? to law one per cent penalty wil be added to an taxes not paid I' January 1st, 19^Dog tax $1.25 ei:h, due January l*t, !?32. M. . ' .v. Any inf ormat on conceVning^this office will'be g'en by mail. Wh6n inquiring about taxes please -scat ? school district i which* you live or own property. Yours 'espectfully, S. wIhOGUIE, Treasurer, Klrshaw County, Camden, S. C. DeKAli COUNCIL No 88 Junioj Order U. A. 1L Regulal council seoond and fmirth ! MntidftvS of each month at 8 p.nj Visiting Brethren are welcomed. L W. HUMPltRIES, L. H. JONES, J Councillor. RecQrdkv Scty. * I ! M. M. REASONOVER ; | Legion Service Officer ! Kersh*v County j Assistance rencbred all Veterans in Securing Berefits, Hospital and Disabil^y Claims Located at Rhatie Brothers Store Camdm, S.^Ct in the United States, and can be of great help to us. Let's come out to hear him. We are to have other agricultural leaders to come and help us shortly after the holidays. These men are the head men in South Carolina in their lines of work. For instance. Mr. P. H. Gooding, extension specialist <fcf Ciemson ia coming to Kershaw couQt^. Also we will have Mr. A. K. Schiuetteqr, Ciemson extension horticulturist and garden specialist; Mr. C. G. Cushman, extension dairy specialist; Mr. J. R. Hawkins, extension livestock (hogs) specialist; Mr. R. W. Hamilton, chief cotton specialist. These men give their lives to study of their work. They know more about their subjects than anyojte^sc and they can help us?if we will come put to hear thom. Our farmers owe it to themselves and their families to take advantage of*this opportunity. Stop farming in the dark. With 37,000 people in Kershaw it is not possible for your county agent to make as many individual visits as he would like. Hut your closest cooperation is asked. Write or call whenever you need the assistance of the agent. One main general outlook meeting is to be held in Camden then others will be hekl all over the county. Watch for the dates. Let's study and look ahead this year more than ever. Come to your outlook meetings so you will not farm in the dark, advises Henry D. Green, the county agent. Midway Honor Rpll Fourth Month Grade 2.?Charlotte McCaskill, Annie 'Mae West, Johnnie Garrison. Grade 3.?Lewis Lee West. Grade 4.?Archie Cordon, ?Margaret West, Willien West. Grade 5.?-Roddy Rozier, Elizabeth McCoy, Dolly Stokes. Grade 6.?Horace Joyner, Alva Lee, Mary Laney, Emily McCoy, Milton MoGuirt, Dorothy West, Laurie West, Margareltd Anderson, Gene 'Cooper, Sadie Corbett, Willie Horton. Grade 7.?-Ethylene iCoiibett, Ruth Walters. Grade 8.?Oralie Brannon, Margaret Holland, Martha Moseley, Ruby Gay West, Thelma Stokes, Blanche Threatt. Grade 10.?Mary McCoy, Vivian Stokes. Grade 11.?Major Davis, Mattie West. Clarence A. Edwards, who died Christmas night in Columbia, was past grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of this state and wellknown. He had been a teacher in Columbia for a dozen years and for the last IB years an insurance man. ** NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given, that under and by virtue of the Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Kershaw County, South Carolina, 4*^ 9th flay of December, in thp cause of The Bank of Camden, plaintiff, against L. R. Jones, Judge of Prbbate of Kershaw County, administrator of the Eptate of W. E. Arledge, deceased, as successor of W. L. McDowell, Judge of Probate of Kershaw County, SallTe McDowell, et al., defendants, I will sell to the highest bidder or bidders before .the Court house door in the Town of Camden, State of South Carolina, 'during the legal hours of sale, on the first Monday in January, 1932, the same being the 14th day of said month, the following described property: , , . "All that piece, parcel or lot oL land, situate, Jying and being in the State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, and in the City of Camden, on the north side of King street oL said city, fronting south thereon onai hundred and thirty-three (133) feet and running back - with' a uniform width of one hundred and thirtythree (133) fe*t to a depth of two hundred and twenty-six (226) feet, bounded on thaNorth by lands of Baurn, south by King street, east by lands of W. E. Arledge, formerly of Mcintosh and Susan Arledge, west by lands of Kizzie Boykin, formerly of Lizzie Boykin." Terms of sale: Cash. W. L. DeJPASS, JR., ? Master for Kershaw County December 18, 1931. I NO T ICE J All 1930 City Taxes un- | paid by January 1, 1.932, -property will be advertised : for sale. --7: City Clerk and Treasurer. ? ' ? .'V 11 ." 11"" V " 3Browsing Around The State Capita ..i 1 ji ? By Eureka We have a marked tendency to go off half-cooked. We shoot a Jot of bird shot in -every direction, .instead of a few solid shot at a definite targets ,^ur;4g^mers need markets. It is psoless to urge them to break away from cotton so long as cotton is virtually the only Carolina.^crop that is sure of a market. We must establish markets, then, if we would encourage the production of other money crops. This is true for all products, grain, hay, cattle, hogs, garden ami orchard truck or canned fruits unci vegetables. The firrft essential is for us to adopt n definite standard of quality and appearance and put that on the market under our own brands. It i& not as simple as it sound*. Tf^y we have absolutely no standard for anything. Syrup is one thing in Calhoun and qime another thing in Colleton; even worse than that: syrup is one thing on. the farhi of John Doc and a less excellent article on the es'tate of Richard Roe, both living in the same school district. Every other article is equally diverse in quality, from peas to peaches, not to mention tho packing and preserving, "the labelling and price. To talk about a [Carolina product is a mere bit of imagination. We have [hogs?yes; are they of a common standard even for bacon? Are our^ hams cured by any common standard? I Can you be sure of the same quality j of ham, bacon or even sausage, from the same man if you buy a second Itime? Absolutely not. What, then, have we to advertise? If much of our Carolina canned goods,. hams, |sausage,"etc., cannot be sold to our own people, in our townk, then by what magic are -we to prevail oveV the established brands in the national markets? The idea of using Carolina products is good as an idea; it should be a basic policy; but we should do the job in a common-sense, business-likoi manner. More talk is no good. Ad vertisement without follow-up f is wholly wasteful and worth less than nothing. Let us first have something to selL that we can guarantee in competition with like products of [all the world; let us rigorously and scrupulously maintain that standard; [then we can advertise Carolina products. ? Today one farmer offers legume hay for sale?full of sheep-burrs and bull grass; another offers good hay this year and next year no account. What is the standard? Let Carolina brush away some of the hi^h-presstlre publicity men'and .call in some merchandising experts; let her think well of her good name and lend it only for purposes that are well conceived and carried out. * Powerful Foggy * Uncle Jimmy Melton came into Millard Gose's'general store and took his accustomed place in the circle o the Ananias Club. He rubbed the moisture from bis spectacles with a red bandanna. _ ....... ,, "Powerful foggy," be remarked, and the boys, anticipating another, tall tale of the lumber camps, grew attentive. "Reminds me of the time over in Kaintucky when we was buildin' that loggu>^eiimp on Knox Creekj" he continued reminiscently. W "The boss was in a hurry to git H^at camp up, an' the carpenters an helpers was kept busy day an' night till the job was finished. We put up the store buildin' one day an' the boss ordered us to put the roof on that night. Talk about fogs. 1 thought I'd seen fogs afore that, bu I'm will in' to take oath that we had to saw out chunks of it so's we could have elbow room to nail on the boards. , ? ? "We wtsrked all night an long about daylight we finished an' went in to breakfast. After a little while the sun come out an' that fog began to drift up an' across the hills. In a few minutes we heard the boss cusstn1 a blue streak, an' we went out to see what, was wrong. An' what we saw bad us plumb pop-eyed?that roof was floatin' right up the hills as peaceful and graceful as ye please. Seems we had nailed it onto the fog. H. M. Sutherland, in Country Gentleman. - EdwaTd M. Miller, who committed suicide with an ramy rifle at his home in Columbia on Wednesday, was a prominent laundryman there for 15 years, after operating laundries in Charlotte, Gastonia, Savannah, Ga., and Lynchburg, Va. -Ill health caused the atrichia. H 'Yeggs took the aafe out of the office of the Ford .agency At Clinton Christinas morning, loaded it on the wrecker, hauled it 15 miles into another county, sledged it open and got $400. They left the ruins of the ml* and the wrecker in e country church^ ^^ ^ * Cotton Outlook Meeting To Be Heidi * * " ;r " - What is the outlook for cotton acreage, demand for cotton ttiwl cotton prices in 1932? Kershaw county fa* mux,* ami business men are deeply interested in these questions and Hhtilrjgnswers. They are of vital importance to the people of Kershaw county. Therefore, County Agent Green, has arranged for the man who is South Carolina's highest authority on cotton to come to Kershaw county shortly aft^r Christmas, This map is Mr, K. W. Hamilton, Extension Agronomist of Clemaon College, who has charge of the Extension Service Cotton development work in South Carolina. Mr. Green stated that from present outlook information the 1032 American cotton crop would probably be somewhere between 10 million and 13 million bales of cotton. This added to a 13-million-bale carryover from 193 J would put 23 million 'vo 20 million bales of American cotton on the market -in 1932. However, he stated that additional figures being gathered at the present * might vary these outlook ' figtfres considerably. The estimated 1932 crop is based on norhtail weather conditions. Mr. Hamilton will have all of the latest outlook information when he comes foi^the county meeting. The date of this meeting will be announced shortly. Screen Notables Of Yesterday Hollywood, Cal., Dec. 27.?'They were the screen stars of yesterday, flaming brilliantly for a time, then fading beyond the horizon of popularity. Marguerite <Clark, the dainty heroinof who was ce itself; Ruth Roland, queen of the thrilling serials; Theda Bara, the vampire; Francis X. Bushman and J.?"Warren Kerrigan, handsome but two-fisted heroes. They &vere names spelled brightly in electric lights around the world. But whore are these stars today ? Many of them who have retired are living in Hollywood, not far from studios which brought them fame. Others have gone into business, turned to vaudeville, to roles on the legitimate stage, or are content to get occasional small parts in films. Ruth Roland is dealing .. in y Los Angeles real estate and has made a fortune at it. Marguerite Clark is happily married and living on a plantation in the iSouth. Theda Bara lives in Hollywood with her director husband, Charles Brabin. J. Warren Kerrigan, who made a brief return to the screen a few years ago in "The Cpy^red Wagon," also is living in Hollywood having retired. Francis X. Bushman is with a stock cofhpany in Chicago. Elaine Hammerstein, Ruth Stonehouse, May McAvoy and Florence Vidor are among those who have become "domesticated" and are living in or near Hollywood. Rosemary Theby is the wife of Harry Myers, film comic, and lives here, as does Katherine MacDonnld, "The American Beauty. Mae ' Marsh has made a comeback in the talkie version of "Over the Hill." Alice Joyce, who appeared in pictures a short time ago, recently has been in vaudeville with - her former husband, Tom Moore. Blanche Sweet was in vaudeville not long ago. Lillian and Dorothy Gish are seen frequently in Broadway shows. Alia Nazimova and Alice Brady, two former film scores, are now scoring on Broadway in "Mourning Becomes Rlectra." Dave Wuroham, the negro sentenced to death for the murder of another Chester county negro, is found to be an imbecile with the mentality of a six-year-old child (by Dr. Fred Williams, superintendent of the state hospital. He has confessed td killing two other persons. - --Senator Borah ha* proposed a reduction of 10 per cent in the salaries of all government officers , in excess of $2,000 per year. Such a cut would affect every salary except that of the judiciary. Police of Cincinnati, Ohio, for the las^ten days have been making aj* itdflftive search for the slayer of MmBn McLean, 6, whose little mutilated body was found in a cellar there. The search up to the present appears to be a hopeless one. , Bandits held up 100 employees of the Prudential Life Insurance company in New York Thursday after being chased by the police for twenty blocks through the city, made their escape with #6,000. ' Intensive searching has been made the past three or four days for Lieutenant E. H. Bobbitt, Jr., Bel fridge Field, Mich., pilot, lost somewhere Springs, V^0Bt0Wn' ' ' . " OTOMK flM lly ROMR C, sfRPHCNSON Former President American limbers Associativa. W10 hear much of future economic planning to save the nation from a repetition of tWvpnisslon and promote .i.UU lk..oi HUHtJ mctuil' uvivr IHtSS Activity. 1 know no hotter plan to suggest to Iukui'o future (totter times than that every wane earner, o v o r y family ami ovory bualnoss through. out the country lay down as soon as tboy are ah'o a program of proper hhvIukh ?a the* foundation of tholr flnaiiclftl policy. I Know of no better plan than this to build for the nation as a whole a stronger coon unlc situation,?that la, through a common structure of Individual working, earning and savins;. And I know of no hotter plan to revlvo activity In n depression than t.o spend a proper volume of past savings to keop tho momentum of business going. But unless there are savings <u prosperity there cannot be spending during depression/> Thofco who practiced this plan durlug tho past period'of prosperity have n socurlty and a prptoctlon against present adversity that could be provided In no other way.' Those who did not nro tho ones who are now most dependent upon others. If there had beon more preaching of this doctrine^ when Ijt, was more feasible to put It Into effoct than It la now, thore would bo less depression and less financial Insecurity today. However, while there should have been more emphasis on savings during prosperity, a measure of the emphasis today might properly be the other way,?at least to tho extent that those who can safely do so'may well Incroase tholr spending Instead of overdoing their saving. While many have seen their earnings fall, thore are millions who have pot suffered so seriously in respoct to the real purchasing power of tholr Incomes. If we listened to all the scare stpries of the dayj one might get the lmpros* sion that everybody was out of a job and nobody's business was earning anything. Many of our people who ' are able to continue a normal program of prudent buying are curtailing their < expenditures beyond reason. A Business Stimulus T" The sum total of-this unreasonable curtailment of spondlng is an economic Influence contributing to. the stagnation of trade. By the opposite token, I believe the resumption of normal spending on the part of those who are able to do so would be an important tonic toward the stimulation of trade. 1 do not mean by tbls that we should have Indiscriminate spending merely for the sake of spending, but the very motive power of our economic life is the interchange of goodB, and unless we have that we cannot have prosperity. I. strongly believe that we are at that point in the depression stage' of the business cycle that any sound stimulating Influence will start a real movement In the direction of a return toward prosperity. So much of the weakness of the old state of affairs has been liquidated, so many maladjustments corrected and such large volumes of our consumers' goods have been used up or worn out that the pressure of necessitous purchases must sooner or later be felt. When that time definitely comes we may consider It the first impulse of a new era of normal business. When Government Aids Agriculture Demand S6r relief, agricultural or oth erwlse, comes naturally from those who feel most keenly the Impact of economic pressure. Those most affected fly quickly to government for aid. But too frequently agencies set In operation by governments simply postpone Inevitable readjustments. The basic laws of supply and demand have never been - pernnrnently "ffnd ' auccessruTljr set aside. So In general governmental intervention that artificially stimulates prices or even maintains tbem when the prevailing economic situation obviously shows that readjustments are inevitable are expedients that yield ...only temporary relief gather than permanent cure. Porous plastprs may relieve pain for the''moment but they rarely got at the seat of the real trouble.~H. L. Russell. * When army worms threatened tbe< crops of Marshall County, Tennessee, information concerning the pasts was made available by the College of Agriculture, and bankers Immediately took; steps to organise a war against the common enemy, calling mass meetings in their communities wbere complete facts and helpful recommendations for eradication oould \>6 pat before then greatest number of people possible. Tbls timely action saved the destruction or many fields of crops. ^ It. C. ?T?rttBNjON Large numbers of coal miners i* the Henr/fetta district of Oklahoma, >4riavt} returned to work after being on a strike for six weeks in protest of a cut In Wages from $5 to $3<450 per day. . .. 'vg| NOTICE OF SALE ?. w.n I1 i i i ll? < N ' Notice is hereby given, That under and by virtue of tna Decree of the Court of Common l'Jeus for Kershaw County, State of South Carolina, dated the 14th day of December, ,1931, in the cause of ,The Federal Land Hank of Columbia, plaintiff, against C. A. Johnson, et al, defendants, I will soil to the highest bidder or bidders before the Court House door in the Town of Camden, State of South Carolina, during tho legal hours of sale, on the first Monday in January, 1932, thexsamo being the 4th day of suid month, tho following described property: "All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land containing cloven hundred and sixty-one (1101) acres, more or loss, situated, lying and being ahout ei?ht miles from the town of Kershaw, in Buffalo Township, Count'v of Kershaw, and State of South Carolina, bounded on the North by lands of Hen Seegara, lands of W. A. Shaw and lands pf Sowell; on tho Hast by lands of J. M. Sowell, lands , of J. O, Williams and lajuia of the estate of J. M. Carson; on the South by lands, of the estate of J. Carson, lands of Truesdalo And lands of H. L. Sowell, and on the West by lands of Robertson and Oauthen, lands of Gus Watson, h\nds of Krasmus Watson, lands of the estate of J, M. Carson and South by Buffalo Crock, and being the same tract of land in which R. L. Sowell conveyed to the said C. A. Johnson an undivided one-half interest by his deed dated Decembor 5th, 11)17, and filed for record in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County on December 0th, 1017, and being made up of three tracts (1) tract or 8b0 acres, which has such shape, metes, courses and distances as will more fully appear by reference to a plat thereof made by Will A. Clark, Surveyor, in February, 11)15, which was conveyed by W. R. Hough to L. J. Jordan, R. L. Sowell and C. A. Johnson by deed dated December 23rd, 1911, and ? recorded in tho office of said! Clerk of Court in Deed Book "YYY" at pago 197, the said L. J, Jordan havjng thereafter on the 16th of Septem- 7 oer, 1910, conveyed all his interest therein tojsaid R. L: Sowell and C. A. Johnson which deed 1s recorded in office of said Clerk of Court in Deed > Book "AiC" at page 68; (2) tract of 92 acres, which has such shapes, J * metes, courses, and distances as"will e. t more fully appear by reference to a plat thereof made oy Will Clark, Surveyor, April 25th, 1917, and which was conveyed to R. L. Sowell and C. A. Johnson by Ireno Bateman by her deed dated. 1st October, 1917, and recorded in the office of the said ' ; i Clerk of Court in Book of Deeds "AR" at page 432 and (3) tract of 189 acres, which has such.. shapes^?~r. metes, courses and distances as will , more fully, appear by reference to a plat thereof, made, .by Will Clark. ?? Surveyor, April 25th, 1917, and which was conveyed to R. L. Sowell . \ and C. A. Johnson by L. A. Witt- ? kowsky, Master for Kershaw ^County, by his deed dated 11th September. 1916, and -recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kertfhaw County in Deed Book "AdP" page 60.'* - Terms: One-fifth (1-5) of the ac- r .r) cepted bid to be paid in cash, and the balance on credit, payable In: WJ seven (7) equal annual installments, with interest thereon from date of V sale at the rate of seven . (7%) per centum per. annum, the successful bidder to deposit at once with him' the sum of three hundred ($800.00) Dollars, either % in cash, Cashier's < Check or Certified Check, as earnest money or evidence of good faith, tne r same to be applied on the bid should there be a compliance with the same: but should the successful bidder fail to make such deposit immediately at the time of the aocevtance of his bid. then the said prerinies shall be at once resold, at such bidders risk, onthe same galesday or upon some j&ubsequent salesday^ at the option of the plaintiff or its attorney. W. L. DePAiSS, JR., Master for Kershaw County, December 18th, 1931. Syiii HEADACHES "If I have the headache or fool the need of a purgative, I Black-Draught," says Mr. Edgar Gamble, of 114 Fowler Ave., Hofc>fcinavillc, Ky. "It la easy to take and quick to relieve. I used to have .dull haadachea. My eyes would hum and when I would stoop ovor I seemed ," to turn blind. This Isn't much of g __. good feeling when one haa to work, and I have had to work hard im i ~?; time, being a timber man. This #0fk 7. takes me from home a good deal and ; one never likes to get sick, especially away from home. I found-tna-hoot way to avoid this was to t&ko an occasional dose of It lack-Draught, and keep the system clcauapd." BLACK-DRAUQHT For <X)N8TTPATW?f, INDIGESTION, BILIOUSNESS ' ROBT. W.MITCH AM Architect "it ,~T ; " * Jj7-. Crocker Building, r?- Camden, 8. C* me L^L??i i i it"^ ? - ~t . K8B8H1JE&ODGB N*. ? KFSr4