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I TT.?,WX*1 T'V.V- ; v ,: ' ;C.-v'* " :' T**7"n ?H To Larger Farmers Of Kershaw County This is an appeal to you larger farmers of Kershaw county who have 1 un hand large amounts of corn, surplus hogs and other foods and feeds to give your careful attention to the matter of employing the unfortunate people of your communities, paying them largely in corn and meat and other surplus foods and fsfcda. Of course this would apply only to those who are facing the need of providing food1 for their families. There are many jobs that could veil be done now that will have to be done later. Many valuable improvements could be made with this . present urienfpioyment condition. Some of these improvements are: square up and enlarge fields by clearing up a jagged projection of woods here and there, Work, down old gullies so they can be plowed over, repair fences, build new fences in cases where needed, repair buildings, jjlean out and deepen ditches, build terraces where needed, clear up new lwnd or dig stumps, haul rocks off land where needed (in Western part of county), improve farm roads and bridges, keep a 12-months garden up to date, build a new brooder house and brick brooder, make your garden bigger, build hog houses and farrowing houses out of materials that can be gotten large-, ly out of your woods, keep the lot and stables well littered with leaves and straw from your wood lot, consult your County Forester, then have your woods worked over faking out the undesirable trees or proper thinning, build fire breaks in woods in order to keep down fire hazards, cut or saw wood for farm use, get out hand-rived shingles for recovering or patching farm building roofs. Ask Mr. Nuite, County Forester, to show you how to properly select the trees to cut for wood or for thinning (not everybody knows about this^). While the farmers of Kershaw county as a whole have an unusually large crop of foods and feeds it must also be realized that there are hundreds of less fortunate souls in our county who haven't enough -food to last through the winter. These people are found in both races. Some folks may argue that their conditions are due to their own, lack of thrift or foresight,, etc. however, this is not the pressing question. The problem is that" we "have these people in our community and who is going to help feed them if we do not? It should also be remembered that each unemployed man probably represents some care-worn wife and maybe five or six innocent children. As Christian people it. is our duty to do what we can. I firmly believe that the farmers of Kershaw County who can help, as above suggested, will feel it a Christian privilege to do a good deed for an unfortunate soul. Let ds all remember that those who are down and out are possibly, victims of economic circumstances or maybe' are not endowed with as great business intelligence and ability as those who iire more prosperous. The leading farmers of Kershaw county are good men at heart as well as good in farming ability?and I am sure will welcome an opportunity to do gomethiftg to help relieve the depressed condition some people of our community and our nation are in. Let's everyone of us consider ourselves a committee of one to do all we can to relieve* suffering or hunger in our communities. Let's not hav? a single case in our county of a worthy case going neglected. With the coming of greater and greater use of two-horse machinery it is more essential than we prob-. ably now realize to get our cultivation fields into proper shape and fize. Instead of having six or eight :otton patches or corn patches, each :-,n off from the others by a gully ?r fence or patch df bushes or strip i>f woods it will 'be far better to work these over and consolidate them into > or 4 fields where the loss of turnng the teams and loss of the turn r>ws will be materially reduced. This > a major project we. can .use .s.Qhie >f the unemployed .labor cm. It will lelp your farm layout and operations, ncrease the value of looks of your arm. And at the Same time relieve Possible suffering by giving employnent to the man who really needs it ?thereby enabling him to feed his amily. , I do not want to be understood as idvocating that we put our unforunate laborers down on a strictly >read and meat basis for I am anxous for this class of our people to njoy as high a standard of living s is possible, but the actual condl>on must be squarely faced and dealt rith. Experience has shown that it ' far better for a man to work for ood for him and Ma-faasBy than #?? 1 to be given him without work. Also some of the workman's pay be made in wood to. keep hie df? and children warm. When poe'bl? or practical it would be well to - ii. *?* 11 " i i 1 use some Amount or money in- paying the worker, even though it be a small amount,* because he may need to btay medfcine orshoaa or clothes. " * wookl appreciate hearing from some of yon larger farmers as to reaction to this suggestion, everybody do what w? can, advises Henry D. Green, the county agent. ^ ^r.~ Timber Grown As Money Crop banners who have been far-sighted .and have been growing timber crops are in m?ny cases reaping rewards, according to the U., S. Forest Service, U. S. Department of AgricuL ture. Most farms in the northern states have small woodlands on hillsides, along streams, or on the rougher and poorer areas. On some farm* these areas are kept in a productive condition; on others, wood production has been reduced to practically nothing because of neglect. Every dollar of loss throtigh holding idle woodlands is a direct drain on the farmer's yearly income and a factor which retards better living standards. Mr. W. K. Williams, Extension* Forester, saysj "It is good business to* make sure that these loafing acres are turned into money makers. Although profits may not be large, he says, the increased ,(return in wood products for farm use' or a greater cash return from the said of products will add a degree ofc stability to the farm balance sheet and perhaps transfer a farm liability into an asset," With the aid of State Extension foresters in several northern states, Mr. Williams has collected a dumber of practical examples of farm timber growing. A farmer near Montpelier, Ind., reported that he sold about $700.00 worth of products, built five farm buildings and supplied posts and cordwood from a 20-acre tract he acquired for $570.00 in 1900 just after it Jvad been cut over. By "farming" the woods, he had a good stand of timber left for which he was offered $3,000.00. In Boone county, Iowa, a farmer reported that his 2 1-2 acre woodland had supplied fuelwood for the farm for 17 years and also 16,000 board feet of construction timber. The trabt still supports a stand of trees nearing maturity. A New York farmer figured the average annual profit from his woodland for the last 33 years at $43.83 per acre. "Farm your woods as you do a crop of corn," is a Pennsylvania farmer's pdvice. "Take out the weed trees and the unhealthy and crippled ones and give the best trees a chance to develop and ripen. Cut the good trees only when they are ripe." L ^Numerous examples of success in growing trees, compiled by Mr. Williams, are recounted in Farmers' ! Bulletin 1680-F, just recently pub[ lished by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Copies of this bulletin | may be secured without charge by writing to the Office of Information, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., or from the County Forester, Chamber of Commerce, Camden, S. C.?(By Charles W.v&Juite, County Forester, Kershaw Courfttv Forestry Association.) Believe It or Not Robert Ripley with all his bag of tricks has very little on a certain woman in this section who on December 30, paid taxes to Mr. B. C. Wallace, county treasurer, with the same money that he had paid her for teaching school in this county ten years ago. Thereby hangs the tale. T$n. years ago a teacher in Sumter county was paid two twenty dollar bills and a ten spot for her services in a certain school in this county. Ten years passed and on yesterday a lady came into the treasurer's office to pay taxes of $49 and odd cents on some property in this coundy, although it was thought she did not live here. iShe tendered Treasurer Wallace the two twenties and the ten and remarked r .."I don't know whether you recall it or not*b\it you paid me this money ten years ago for teaching school in this county and I've kept it ever since for a rainy daintact, . just as you gave it to me, two twenties and a ten." The story is indeed remarkable, due to the fact that tho same bills were returned to Mr. Wallace that he paid out a decade before.?Sumter 'Herald. * Last week Judge Grimball sen-, tenced three men to death at Spartanburg after their conviction of murder. Les Irby was einyicted of killing Ralph Kitchen, Millard Clippard was found guilty of killing his wife and Roy Jones was convicted of killing Annie Mae Young. When Irby was sentenced last Friday, bailiffs had to close and guard the doors of the too crowded court room. Tne jury was out less than an hour. AMERICA'S WORLD RESPONSIBILITIES '" a r-'^y H. Jf. HAAS ? ? j PrtiiJtmt Am trie am Bankers Atsocittio* WW are in a changing world, with many new financial problem* fc>r which we have no precedent*, and mmaK. lUUIiy UIU JIIVIT Ioihh which have so changed hs to be unrecognisable. American bankers liavo been called Into world affairs to blaze pew trails ot u n K i^o w n finance. We may expect these Calls to be more numerous in tho future than they have iu the past. We are the world's flnauciul leader and wo must accept the responsibility which goes with it. Let us look to the future with coni fidence. Every one has experienced a great sorrow sonae time, perhaps ro great we felt we could never overcoma it, but time Is the groat kcalor r,?J eventually we have come out of It. Aa It Is with individuals, so it is With nations. Our nation has had mr.ch sorrow in the 155 years of its o::l3tence. In that time we have paasod through the major depression* cf 1S37-1857-1873 to 1879-1884-1893-18961937-1914-1921 and the present. 1 venture to, state that in each of thr3a periods there were those who hr.U doubts of the future Just as we havo them today, but what happened after each depression? Our couutry recovered, to be better and stronger than ever. Its people were introduced tc modes of living they never drenmed of, until today, notwithstanding our depression, we live on t.J*e highest plane of any nation in the world. Should we not judgo the future by past experience? \ Surely our peoplo are better prepared, financially and Intellectually, to cope with even, greater problems than they have been in the pnst, so why not lebk to the future confident that fundamental social and economic problems will be adjusted satisfactorily? Confidence is not established by any one thing but by an accumulation of things. If we can get confidence started on its way, gathering a little here and there, it will accelerate Its speed as it goes along. This Is not the work ' f any one man to perform but Is the cumulative effort of each and every one of us. What we are in the future Is no\ the rosult of what we have done on any one day but the result of all that we have done for alLtlme. The American Bankers Association Is endeavoring to do its part. Individually our effort's may not count for much, but they are part of the Whole plan and taken In the aggregate they amount to the sum total of all our efforts. H. J. HAAS PUBLIC INJURED BY BANK GOSSIP 1 National Association Declares Community Interests Demand Protection Against Idle Rumors F>OTH In their advertising and in flleir direct contacts with customers and others, bankers should "consciously and persistently devote more time and thought to keeping people mindful of the fact that while the bank has many ahitgs-tkjns toward its customers, equally is it true that tho depositor also has certain obligations to the bank to enable it to properly maintain-its position in the community," a recent statement of the American Bankers Association^ declares. , "A bank admittedly Is a semi-public institution and.there is s mutuality of obligation resting upon both the banker and his customers to maintain the effective functioning of that institution that is superior to the personal interests of either,** It says. Bankers might well consciously de vote greater effort to building up tho public viewpoint in their communitlos that due to' their public obligations r.nd burden of public interest, the banks are entitled to protection j against ill-informed or malicious gos- ; sip and rumors, the statement says. "As to banks in some states, bank slander laws afford tills protectloh," It points out. "We recommend that this protection be availed of by definite action wherever practical both as a matter of immediate, expediency and also to awaken; public Opinion as' to the dangers of idle gossip about a community's banking institutions." What Can Ba Done ~ Farmers should rid themselves of any false hope of outside aid from legislation. The only recourae left for the producer o&g reduced price level is to produce hie goods at reduced costs, and nearly every farmer can likely put into force a few economies In produc tlon. Farmers must produce as largcb as possible the materials'they use, and get' away from cosh purchases until prj^fes come down proportionately on the things they buy. The cheapest - way in the farming business is to raise your own feed and not Igrflf* anUif ' - g? t your dot tars irr - j - *- U - 7 , . vt ^trr iy t* jLflPBft.g..IX' r.T ; IT . x~?- * Firit Road Locomotive Got Hostile Reception Karly experiments with road motor traction without rails were made with team as the propelling power, the first practicable machine being that of Cugnot in 1770, followed by Trovlthtck'a steam car In 1803, says an article In the Montreal Family Herald. From 1834 onward several large steam cars, built on .a model of the stage coach, were built In England and SMCcesafully operated, notably by tlurncy and Hancock. Services were run between London and Hath, and later between Cheltenham and Gloucester, but were abandoned on account of popular prejudice a ltd opposition. The crushing blow which retarded development in Britain fell In 1803, when an act was passed requiring each car to carry three drivers, to bo preceded by n man carrying* a rod ting, and imt to exceed four miles an hour, while blowing otT steam was prohibited. Development in England was then limited to heavy road locomotives, with a few <fxceptlou8. Lit 1885 Gottlieb Daimler, of Austria, fitted a gasoline engine to a motor bicycle. In the snine year Butler constructed his motorcycle, Panhartl and Lecassor adopted tho Daimler engine in 1887, ami constructed a car In which sliding gears were used for changing speed. This car is generally ' accepted as the pareut of the modern automobile. Few "Servant Problem*" in Orient Household# Countries with servant problems would do well to adopt a Siamese custom. A splendid labor-saving device It Is, for the mother of the family. Each person washes up his own eating bowl as soon as he finishes his meal, and, placing it In a basket, lets it dry for the next meal. Or they might copy the Japanese. Domestics, are highly respected arid easy to get In Japan. There are ^various good reasons for this. As the wife waits upon her husband, her children and her parents-inlaw, It is Inevitable that she be In close contact with the servants. And upper servants must have very good manners. For If the host Is out and a visitor drops In, it Is tlr^e upper servant's place to chat and finve t^n with him until tho host returns. And servants?, at any time, are allowed to join In the conversation and laugh at the jokes.?London Mall. Odd Cure for Bleeding In a volume entitled "A Itlch Closet of Physical Secrets Collected by the Elaborate Palnes of Four Several Students in Physicks" which was "presented to Queen Elizabeth's Own Hands" the following cure /er-TftwtP" Ing is given. "Take a toad and kill him. Take three bricks, put them In the Are and take out one of them and put the toad upon It. Then take out another and put him again on that. When he is almost cold take off the toad and put the brick Into the fire . . . Uo so until the toad be consumed to ashes, then put the ashes into a talTeta bag and when one bleedeth apply the bag upon the heart and it will Instantly' stay bleeding either of the nose or any wound." Braxilian "Snake Farm" . At the Institute Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil, popularly known as "The Snake Farm," there are snakes from all sections of tjiat country. A national .law requires anyone to ship to fhe farm from the place of capture all venomous snakes and new species of nonvenomous ones. *The deadly poisonous snakes will not eat In capUvlty and soon die. To replenish the supply for serum, 20 snakes arrive dally, transported free by the railroads. The farm was first started as a hobby by Dr. Vital Braza, who lives near Itlo de Janeiro. Beside* manufacturing serum, the Institute breeds the mussuv rama, the enemy of the deadly snake, the jararaca. Its bite Is not deadly to man, and It lives on other snakes, preferring poisonous ones. Earliest Form of Spoons The first form of spoon of which we find American examples was the socalled Puritan spoon that appeared In England about the middle of the Seventeenth century and became very popular with the Itoundhends. This represented the change from the pear shaped to the round bowl. But It was not until the middle of the Eighteenth century that the handles of spoons began to bend toward the back Instead of the front and the bowls assumed the egg-shaped form common today. The firsf spoon having Jhej&e.features "was known as the oid English pattern. Wiadom A most unusual case came up recently In a Detroit court. A woman was sued for dapiages because, after having weighed herself on some penny-lnthe slot scales, she picked up a chair and smashed the dial all to pieces. "Those scales said that I weighed 210 pounds and I weigh only 198," declared the .woman Indignantly. "They were both robbers and liars. They got my penny and then gave the wrong weight" , "Sort of penny wise and pound foolish," remarked the Judge as he arranged for a settlement. ?i? ^\ With Good Company Anyone who chides one's self for being An easy mark when a book sgent comes around can *et a grain of comfort from the fact that Abe Lincoln need ?Mmy the wares of every book agent who came v around--?-Florida Times Union. " f 'T~~ CJreenvill?*county is having ? crime wave of robberies of stores. notice of sale . ] hereby given that under Cn L //' of the D*-' ? of the Sm>tv0f^r^n i>,ea2 for Kwlnw bounty, State of South Carolina in of claZJ?'lv' Kh,t N?Uo?.l Bank Henry Bracey, ustee, Henry Bracev et ?l ,iu fondants. 1 wfil JlTo' & highest" bidder or bidders before the Court louse door in the town of Camden uJLr u houth Carolina, during the legal hours of sale on th#? \i day in Februavy Hkt2, tho *amo lowing i y.>' . 8?i<l month, tho "ah .1^'^' property: All that piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying ami being in tho kmlh-l 5?2l* Caro,ina' County of in W f Sn<5? SoU^ bT laigotr, in Wateree Townshin eon-r less "as ,THhlrt^?> acr?* nvo.-o ' or Lit c shown by plat of A. B. BovV 25 hOSf* ^ Scoter M. ?L?i b(2u"?o? on the North by pref?T k CamPbe11 ?nd Henry Braoy; ?f*t b>" Property of Henry BracVKidney Public Road' and on i?S^X, fttaby !"mls of Campbell. Bong the tract of land conveyed to I alo aynd ?Cy' Trcustee- by Heflen SavXc^bnrfT^"8*' 0,6 8001 da" .iler?u 0f f*}9\ ft*h- Anyone besides the plaintiff bidding herein shall first deposit with the Master tho sum of One Hundred ($ 100.00) Dollars cash or certified check on *ome responsible Bank for said amount; that upon default of the purchaser to comply with the terms of sale, gaid property to be resold on the same or some subsequent salesday thereafter at the risk of the for-1 mer purchaser; that all checks from unsuccessful bidder* be at once returned to them. ! , W- L. DeP^VISlS, JR., Master for Kershaw County Camden, S. C., January 14, 1932 notice ' r , . I State of South Carolina ! County of Kershaw Court of Common Pleas j Sulie L. Becton, Plaintiff, against Minerva V. Bennett, RebeCca Bennett, Rosanna 1>avis, Louella Bennett, J. N. Bennett, Leroy Bennett, Market * isher, Fredi? Bennett, Claudie Bennett, Beatrice Lowry, Willie May Lowry, and The EnterSef6 ^nt ^ k?an Association, I T(ii*TH,E ABSENT DBFBNTANTsJ 'Margaret Fisher, Rosanna Davis, Minerva V Bennett, Rebecca Bennett, Louella Bennett, J. N. Ben-' ? v^r tf^^y Bennefct: ? TinP iV ? E TAKE NOii'UE, That on January 9fch, 1932, the of the defendant, The Enterpnse Balding and Loan AssociaCl?Hr 'nJhe office of the v u ? 9?urt of Common Pleas for Kershaw County. The said Answer alleges matters of affirmative devo?ehlv? determination of which ani ir*teresrt, and you are te&L r3ulre<i to niajce answer thereto and serve a copy* of your Answer upon the subscriber at his *? the City of Camden, S. C., withinvtwenty day? after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of aI\? if you fail t? make answer within the time aforesaid, the defendant, The Enterprise Building nH Association, will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the said Answer. * 0 LAURiBNS T. MILLS, Attorney for defendant, The Enterprise Building and Loan Association. ?>ated January 11, 1932. ? ^???> Mrs. Kt-hol May McDonald, a young matron of Orangeburg, fell 85 foot froui a back balcony from which her husband was throwing1 scraps after supper, and was killed. He caught her ankle, but could not hold her. The South Carolina penitentiary made a new population record this week, when the roster of inhabitant* there reuchod 1,055, the largest in Its history, It has 267 more prisoners than were there at this time last year. NOflCE OF SALE ~ Notice is hereby given that uuder and by virtue of the l>ecreo of the Court of Common Pleas for Kershaw County, State of South Carolina, dated the 18th day of December, 1930, in the cause of The Federal Land Hank of Columbia, against John T. Maokey, et al? defendants, I will sell to t.he 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 February, 1032, the same being the 1st day of said month,* the following ' described property: "All that piece, parcel or tract of land situated in the County of KershAw, State of South Carolina, about eight (8) miles North of the City of Camden, situated on Lockhart Public Highway, and containing seven hundred1 and fifty-rslx <?f>0) acres, more 'or less, said tract of land being bounded on the north by landa of Jordan; Hast by lands of Gardner; South by land? fo.rmorly known as "Witte Lands," now lands of John T. Mackey; west by lands of N. B.Workman. For a fuller description, reference is had to plat of J. C. Hicklin, Surveyor, of date November 2oth, v 1807, and being part of the lands conveyed to N. B. Workman and John T. Mackey by deed of date 12th day of December, 1900, recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County in Book RRR page 90. "Also all that piece, parcel or tract of land situated-, in the County^ of Kershaw, Stute of South Carolina, about eight (8) miles North of the City of Camden, situated on Lockhart Public Highway, containing fourteen hundred and eleven (1411) acres, more or lesra, bounded North by lands of Gardner, Northeast by * lands of Tid/well, Lands of N. B. Workman; South by lands qf W. lT. 7~T Smith and lands of Tidwell, west by lands of Smith arul Miller. Being part of land conveyed to John T. Mackey by Alice Witte Sloan and others by deed of date 5th of December, 1910, recorded in, the office of Cleric of Court ^or Kershaw County in Hook A. G., page 699, the one-half interest in said property having been conveyed by John T. Mackey to N. B. Workman by deed, of date 13th day of De- ....... .L? cember, 1912,. recorded in office of Clerk of Court for Kershaw County, in Book A..G.,'page 14." * " Terms of Sale: One-fifth (14>) of ......J I the accepted bid to be paid in cash, and the balance on credit, payable 111 nine equal annual installments, with ! interest thereon from date of sale at seven per centum per annum. The? Master will require the successful bidder to deposit at once wdth him the sum of $600.00, either in cash or by certified check, the same to be applied on the bid should there be a compliance with the same; but should there be a failure to do so, then it ? > shall be forfeited to the plaintiff and the premises resold on the same, or the next convenient sales day thereafter upon the same terms and at such bidder's risk. W. L. DeFAiSS, JiR.j Master for Kershaw County Camden, S. C., January 14, 1932 THI COST I &" SMALL WHEKIVI* YOU C A L"L L<et the Telephone ?Keep Your Circle Together t. . '1 ?rS When friends have moved to other cities, children are away at school or you are many miles from the folks back home . . . remember you can bring them to you easily and quickly by telephone. v" Next best to seeing friends and relatives is talking with them. Even when they are miles away you cap telephone them at small cost. . Out-of-town telephoning com less than most people imagine. For e*ample, the station-to-scatkm day .; J rate to a poiurj25jmpMJiway is about 7f cents. If you od)7hs0x)g~ti?e night period, the rata is much lower.Southern Bkll TiirtFHONE ^'vFTSS : Te 1 e g r a p h C b m p a n y .