Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i [socsty news I Telephone 29 - ?Birth Announcement Of interest to relatives and friends re is the following birth announcement i?kcn from the Home, Georgia, I H8WR ?Ml. and Mrs. -S. D. Jowers, of ' ('ambro apartments, arinouhco !he birth of a daughter, Carolyn. ' Monday, May, 9, Harbin hospital Mrs. Jowers was before her I marriage, Miss Loree Truesdale, of I Camden. S. C. Itook Club Met Thursday I Eleven members of the Kirkwood Book Club were at the meeting Thursday at the home of Mrs. Palmer C DuBose* There was an interest program. Mothers' Day and Memorial Day furnished subjects for reading and discussion. Refresh ments were served. Junior-Senior Banquet Given The Junior-Senior banquet given at the high school on Friday, May 13, was a great success. For entertainment "The Dark Town Mirfstrel" was.well presented in the I ayditorium. Charles Sahnond acted j aa interlocutor; end men were James, I DeLoache, Wilbur RedVes, Albert j Kelly and Eugene Dority. | The maids who had been elected to sarve dinner were: Dorothy Van Landingham, Ina DeLoache, Mary Flor nce Little, Ruth DeLoache, Charlotte, DuBose, RHon Sajlmond, Rosalie I Moore, Ruby Oliver and Frances McLeod. Other givls taking part in I the dances and singing were: Caroly# Kohn. Elizabeth Gaskin, Madeline AnI derson. Mary Lee Blakeney, Eva Traxler, Allie Belle Shedd, Lucia To- j I bin and Mary Ellen McCaskill. Mar-j shals were: Jack Haile, Sam Boykin, John Flowers, Bill Ithame and Doug Kennedy. The long hall on the second floor, | was beautifully decorated with bal * loons and lovely spring flowers. Here, j on long tables, the dinner was served, j The place cards, painted by members | I of the art class, were attractive and I appropriate. . t "i After the merry feast the yourig^ people enjoyed dancing at St. Mary's I Hall. Chaperones were:. Mr. and I Mrs. John M. ViHepigue, Mr. and I Mrs. J. B. Zemp, Mr. and Mrs. Dan j Murchison, Miss Etta Zemp and Miss I Hallie Carson. Rotarians Entertain Ladies "Ladies Night," given by the CamI den Rotary Club on Tuesday, May 17, was an unusually interesting oc casion. The ihembers and their guests met at the American Legion Hall. Singing and original stunts by Various clever Rotarians started the I evening's entertainment. Partners for dinner were chosen by drawing and matching. A delightful- dinner was served at the Camden Hotel. Here each lady was required to tell in a fyw words just how her husband spent his time. The information given in ghowed a depth of ""insight" ""arid ~ the answers were a surprise to the husbands as well as to others present. On entering the dining room each guest drew a number. Holders of lucky numbers drew beautiful and valuable prizes and caused these fortunate ones to forget the depression entirely for some time. Every lady present was given a "vanity" and a box of powder. At the conclusion of dinner all present were invited to- attend the Majestic Theatre. ClitW VUUed GsrHenfl The Garden Club visited several beautiful gardens on Friday. Afterward they enjoyed tea at Mrs. Sam RussellG. Mr*. Brasington Honored M?;-. <. \v. VnnLandinghani gave a' <ai'd : :y for Mrs. B. C. Brasington ' f'Jt -;;. night. High score prizes n by Mrs. Marvin M. Reas- j if.d Mr. Hubert O. Wilson.1 r'T- ; ,,r. prize went to Mr. James Gar.,; Club Hoateases | Mrs, W. 11. Harris delightfully entertained the Friday Afternoon Bridge Club on Tuesday. Mrs. 1). O. , Houser was invited as substitute. The Thursday Afternoon Bridge Club met with Mrs. J. B. Zemp. Substitutes were: Miss, Ethel Yates, Miss I Minette Boy kin, Mrs. 1). O. Hou.se r and Mrs. J. 0. Richards, Jr. I Mrs. T. J, Kirklaud entertained the Wednesday Morning Bridge (Hub on May 11. Mrs. H. (J. Marvin, Mrs. Geo. It. Cook, Mrs. Hutchinson and Mrs. W. 11. Harris were the substitutes. After cards luncheon was perved. Legion Auxiliary Held Meeting The April meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary was held on May 6th, at the Legion Hall, with Mrs. ! Henry Beard and Mrs. Hughey Tindal as joint hostesses. A large number was in attendance among them three gold star mothers, namely: Mrs. Bratton deLoach, Mrs. Joe MoKain and Mrs. James Belk. A tribute was paid them and a little gift presented to each by Mrs. Sidney ( Zemp. | The president, Mrs. Karesh, transacted her business in her usual business-like manner. A report was given by th^ chairman of each commlti tee. The secretary, Mrs. E. B. Bud| din, read an ii^eresting paper on j America, after which they were en! tertained pleasantly by a quartet j by Mesdames Salmond and Reasonj over, Dr. Humphries and Mr. E. C. i Zemp. J A nominating committee was appointed by the president as follows: Mesdames S. C. Zemp, Ilughey Tindal and M. M. Reasonover<^-, I The president also^equested the display of our flag from each home on Mother's Day. During the social hour which followed, delightful refreshments, consisting of cake and cream were |served. I Entertains at "The Sycamores" I On Friday afternoon Mr. H. P. Kendall invited some of his Camden I friends to inspect his maps of South Carolina at his home on Fair street. Tea was served out of doors on the terrace. ^^\^Rural Carriers To Meet The Kershaw and Lancaster county Rural Carriers and their auxiliaries will hold their annual meeting in Kershaw, at 5 o'clock on Friday, May 27th, announces the president of the Kershaw Association, Mr. Shelby Tfuesdale. , A full meeting is urged. Delegates to Missionary Meeting The following ladies of Lyttleton Street Methodist church attended the state meeting of missionaries held in Charleston on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last week: Mrs. B. G. Sanders, Mrs. B. W. Marshall and Mrs. Joe Moseley. T. W. Spears Died Tuesday T. W. Spears, about 56 years of age, died at the.home of his brother, J. A. Spears, on Monument Square, Tuesday afternoon around 4 o'clock. Mr. Spears had been sick for several weeks. Surviving are one brother, J. A. Spears, and the following sisters: Mrs. Rebecca Harding, Mrs. Mary Truesdale, Mrs. Bessie Watts, of Camden; and Mrs. Nannie Brown, of Wadesboro, N. C. Funeral services were held at DeKalb at 3:30 by Rev. S. B. Hatfield, of the Baptist church. Home Gardens Never before have we seen so many spring gardens planted. This is a very good sign, we believe. Fresh garden vegetables?fine for health and a great saving on the family ex-, pense.?Union Times.. Spring Is Here Springtime has arrived at last. The roads and highways are again lined with young hitch-hikers dressed, in summer clothing for light traveling. Many of them arc bareheaded, just rkiing from town to town. There is no surer sign of spring.?Greer Citizen. Personal Mention Mrs. Noppie S. Terry, Miss Lois Edwin Terry, Miss Mary OH ye McMillan, of Mullins, and Miss Leona Terry qf Columbia, were guests last ' week end of Rev. and Mrs. Warren [G. Ariail. 11. L. Thrower, of the Kedfearn Motor Company, of this oity, was in I Charlotte three days this week at the Ford assembling pliant, attending | mechanical classes in the construction of the new Ford car. Miss Bee McCarrell spent the week .end with her parents an Wash, ington. Mr. and Mrs. Louis SteLoach, of High Shoals, N. C., were in Camden Sunday. Mrs, T. J. Klrkland, Mrs. VV. Bratton deLoach and Miss Leila Shannon are visiting Mrs. W. B, Mpore in York. Miss Emma Villepigue is at her mother's home, on Chesnut street this week. Miss Lai Blakeney is at the home of Mrs. E. N. McDowell for a few days. (She plans to leave Saturday for Atlanta. .* Mrs. Sumner Waite is at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Carrison, Sr. Mrs. B. G. Sanders, Mrs. B. W. Marshall, Mrs..A. A. Reasonover and Mrs. W. R. DeLoache attended the district meeting of the Woman's Missionary Society in Bishopville on Wednesday. Mrs. W. E. Jackson and Mrs. B. A. Hornsby spent the past week in Canton, N. C., with the former's daughter, Mrs. J. F. Moody. Mrs. Alan Fletcher and her two daughters, Miss Fannie Fletcher and Mrs. M. P. Charlton, left Saturday for their home in Vermont. Miss Susan Kennedy and Messrs. Thomas VVooten and Christopher Vnughan spent last week end in Charleston and at Folly Beach. Attended Funeral Directors' Meeting C. G. Kojpegny, local funeral director, spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Columbia, attending the South! Carolina funeral directors and em-1 balmers association convention. Mr. Kornegay says several of the mostj interesting educational lectures were, given by the country's best educatqrs. Two of the lectures, "The Chemistry ^ of 0mbalmy" and "What a Funeral Director Owes to His Community* I were the most outstanding talks-, it has been his pleasure to listen t*>i SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS - . f.'i - ' 1 It has developed by statements of solicitors, that under the South Carolina law on kidnaping, the child must be taken out of this state before the act becomes a crime, and the law is otherwise very weak. Sylvester Byrd, of the Hartsville negro school, gets a free trip to Washington this summer- as a price for winning the state contest in judging dairy cattle, swine, poultry, eggs, corn and potatoes. His score was I over 23 points over the second best, contestant. I The youngest soldier in the A. E. | P., F. L. Arnold, of Greenville,-whoi enlisted when 14 years old by fooling! about his age, has just joined the new chapter of Veterans of Foreign Wars in his home city.. -He was severely wounded at Brancourt, while in the 110th infantry in the 30th division. Three little boys, one 8, one 9 and one 11 years old, tore off a bosrrd and entered a store on a road out of Greenville in broad daylight, Sunday noon, and stole some things. They chose cakes, cigarettes and tobacco, and said they took them because they were hungry. One captured at once had most of the tobacco, and the other two had most of the cakes, he said between sobs. They will be turnedover to the juvenile court. They were undernourished and wore ragged clothes. When the Confederate veterans] have.their reunion in.Rock Hill.._June] y to 10. their hostesses, appointed by! the state commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, W. J. Cherry, will be: Matron of honor, Miss Win-, nie Davis Austin Carpenter, Colum-[ bia; chaperon, Mrs. John D. Good,! Rock Hill; sponsor, Miss Laura Nance j McCaughrin, Newberry; maids of honor, Miss Mary Page Newton, Charleston; Miss Edna Stone, Greenville, and Mrs. Julia Belle Foster Bowman, Marion. State highway patrolmen caused the collection of $9,500 in fines and $14,849 more license fees than otherwise would have been paid, during the month of April in .South Carolina. The total earnings of the force was $24,349, and their cost was an e*- 1 pense of $10,461, which leave* a nice < sum to the credit side o?f their ac- < jount as a reason for their existence, j During April the highway patrolmen :onvicted 141 persona of careless driving, 100 for driving while drunk, and 49 for being at the wheel without ' a driving license. Out of 65?2 persona arrested by them, 529 were convicted 1 in courts, in the month of April. PNAKI, BUTTONS Raw Material Cornea Largely From Mississippi Mud Banks Science i> "saving the mussel, or fresh water clam. Reports from the upper Mississippi Valley indicate that the placid mollusk, whose shell is the chief source of "pearl" buttons, has been propagating rapidly, thus checking fears that stream pollution had marked its doom. r "'Pearl' buttons bring to miS?d{ palm-fringed lagoons in the Tropics, with swarthy natives diving into shark-infested waters for precious 'mother-of-pearl' shells," But unromantic buyers of buttons look to the mud banks of American inland waters for three quarters of America's 'pearl' button needs," says u bulletin from the Washington, I). C., headquarters of the National Geographic Society. "Arkansas, Illinois, Tonnessee, Indiana, Michigan and Iowa, in the order named, are the most important breeding grounds of the mussel, or fresh water clam, The mussel alsOj Can be found in other regions, principally in Texas, but nowhere fs it as numerous as in the Mississippi and i its far-flung tributaries. "More tnan 15,433,000 pounds of 'pearl' buttons were made from fresh water mussels jn ^1930, whereas marine shells, practically all of which were imported from Australia and the Philippines, produced only 4,500,000 pounds of buttons. Fresh water shell buttons sold for $41*85,000, wheroua- a little dver a third their weight in imported shells were valued at $4,000,000 when made into buttons. "Saving the fresh water mussel required a round-about approach. The mussel has an unusual method of hatching its young, First the native fish of the Mississippi basin had to be saved, because, at one stage in its growth, the infant mussel must hitchhike to the gills of any fish that happens to swim by, attaching itself with tiny hooks. In this position it becomes overgrown by skin or mucous membrane of the fish, riding along for about ten weeks, and then dropping to the muddy bottom of tho river to begin its normal life as a mussel. "Fish rescue stations established by the Bureau of Fisheries along the Mississippi River send out men to scoop up fish stranded by receding flood waters in pools which would otherwise dry up. One fish may carry as many as 2,500 tiny mussels. In one year some 300,000,000 fresh water mussels were thus 'restored to circulation.' The mussel requires about five years to grow to a good commercial size. "Various gathering methods have; been tried by clamming crews, but the most simple and efficient is that using the so-called "crow-foot" equipment, which consists of a section of gas pipe about 14 feet long, dragged from a flat-bottomed rowboat. From the gas pipe trail short pieces of heavy string, to which are attached unbarbed hooks of four prongs. Fresh water mussels usually lie partly buried in the sandy bottom with their valves slightly open. But' the shells close with a vicelike grip when disturbed. When the strings or hooks pass over the mussels the shells snap shut on them, and remain fast until the gas pipe bar is drawn dp into the boat. "The most satisfactory motive power for the slow towing needed in the fresh water clamming is an appliance known as a 'mule.' This underwater ?ail, fastened by, hinges to the stern of the boat, is dropped overboard about two feet below the boat's bottom. It is made of canvfts nailed on a wooden frame. Catching the current, it pushes the craft along, preventing the crowfoot bars from anchoring the boat. "Mussels are valued at river-bank prices, which range from $20 to $130 per ton. But often there are 'extra dividends," in the form, of real pearls, which are found in mussels of inland waters as well as in the oyster shells of the ocean, One Illinois digger sold a pearl to a Mount Carmel jeweler for $5uu. The jeweler took it to New York, where \t brought $2,000. Then it returned to Illinois by way of Paris, and its price in the necklace of a Chicago bride was $25,000. "Although muiiMiU aru edible they art^not highly valued as food. The American Indians, however, apparently were fond of them, because great piles of unchipped mussel shells can be found around their encampments. "Before buttons can be cut, the shells must be soaked in huge vats of water for several days. Then Special tongs hold them while a cylindrical blue steel saw cuts out the button 'blanks.' These are sold to finishing plants, where the disks are turned and polished and holes are bored in them." After May 21 the distribution of supplies by the Red Cross and alHed organizations in Harlan county, Kf/$ 16 the 2,000 jobless families, will cease. Lack of funds makes it Impractical to continue the distribution. STRANGER THAN FICTION A motorcyclist, riding on a main road near Meymouth, hoard a voice calling from a ditch: "Can you oil my knee joints?" Investigation disclosed a former soldier who apologetically explained: "I've got artificial legs, and they've got so stiff through being in the rain they won't work." Anyhow, the pen proved itself mightier than the bullet when a fountain ,pen carried by a New York lawyer recently deflected a shot fired' at him. T " 1 It was only when ho had giveii h customer a close shave that a Boston barber discovered that the stranger he was working on was a long lost brother. , Though legally dead, Joe Lecl^ir, 08, of Charleroi, Pa., will have a good' (time in Belgium. Leclair wanted to1 return to hiB native land but lacked the youknowhat. So his fraternal1 lodge kindly pronounced him dead so that he could obtain the $200 death j benefit. I Awakened in the middle of the , night by a roaring and crackling sound in the dining room of his home,1 A- J- Arnold, of Battle Creek, Mich., summoned the fire department. When the firemen arrived they found that Arnold had forgotten to turn off his radio set. , " >? When Wayne Todd, serving a life term for murder, escaped from the Texas state prison farm his first thought was of home. But his father, like a Spartan of old, urged on his son the duty of discharging his debt to society. So together they journeyed to the prison where the old man sorrowfully announced, "I have brought him back!"?'The Pathfinder. The American Medical association, in session at New Orleans, has refused to sponsor legislation for birth control. The District of Columbia grand jury on Tuesday returned two indictments against Gaston B. Means, notorious crook of Washington und I Concord, N. C. He is charged with embezzling $100,000 from Mrs. Edward B, McLean on the promise that he could find the Lindbergh child. Majeatic Program ' Friday, May 20 She had to take the worst of life to get the best of it! "PLAY GIRL." She wanted love the worst Way?and -she got it! She,'tried anything once ?even murriagc! Also "Her Wedding Night," Cbmedy. Saturday, May 21 ) Even greater than "The Champ" is "WHEN A FELLOW NEEDS A FRIEND," with, CMck Sale and Jackie Cooper. You'll laugh; you'll sigh; you'll cry, at this the greatest humnn interest story ever told on screen or stage. You owe it to yourself and child to see it.' Also Laurel-iHardy Comedy, "The Chimp," and Buffalo Bill. Monday and Tuesday May 23-24 A new and sensational idea in screen entertainment! The most eagerly awaited of all picture hits? "TARZAN THE APE MAN." Topping "Trader Horn" for thrills. You will enjoy your mos^,amazing screen adventure. The biggest screen thrill of all time! ~ You'll hold your breath ? as thrill follows thrill. Wednesday, tMay 25 Illegal to save the life of this woman! For years he had defied the law of others. Now with the fate of his loved one at stake, he was caught! And then.. .a blinding flash of drama ...a terrific test of your nerves and courage! See Richard Barthelmess in "ALIAS THE DOCTOR," with Marian Marsh?at her loveliest and best. Thursday, [May 26 An intensively gripping story is "THE SKY BRIDE." Wonderfully portrayed by Rfclpard Arlen, Jack Oakie, Virginia Bruce, Tom Douglas and Robert Coogah. COMING:?(Barbara Stanwyck' in "80 BIG," and 'THE MIRACLE MAN." Graduation Gifts Candies Stationery Fountain Pens aipd Many Other Items W. R. ZEMFS DRUG STORE Broad Street v Phone 30 CITY DRUG COMPANY DeKalb Street Phone 130 Prescriptions Called For and Delirered Promptly PENNEY'S - -i- ' ?' ' (v , i i i i in To the Ladiesl Two Groat Groups! Strikingly NEW Styles $3.98 and $5*85 Without a doubt these are the smartest fashions ? the richest fabrics that have ever been presented at this price! Smart ankle length Sunday-nite types! - Frocks for street and sport! Sheers! Washable Crepes! Chiffons! Prints and NEW Colors! I\J isses' and Women's Sixes/ What to Get for the Graduate Send your congratulations in the form of a gift from HOFFER'S. What have they to offer in the way of ideas? Many of them. For instance: Wrist Watches, Fountain Pen Sets, Necklaces, Vanities, Bracelets. GIFTS THAT LAST ?THE HOFFER CO.