The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 15, 1932, Image 3
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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
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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
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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.
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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 '
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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.
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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 .