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Nobody's Business ?itten for The Chronicle by Gee Wrlt%ct;ee, Copyright. 192B, uy first tonsokial advkn>n TURK wht>n i was bordering onto 18 " s <>f * suddenly discovered Was no longer a boy: I was a * While moddling around the old bureau - in the "company" room one , i peeped into the looking glass t my?elf for a moment and behold! f found whiskers in 4 or 5 spots ,bout my *ace- - I realized that I needed a shave 8nd needed it bad. The little white fun was thickest on my jaws and under my chin, and there was a nice bunch under my nose. It looked very much like mold on an old stump, but I made up my mind that thean whiskers had to be removed. The first niovo I made toward bartering my mug was.. . .1 slipped into ,he closet and gojk my daddy's razor 4nd shaving muf Then I scooped ? piece of sweet smelling soap from (he washstand in the "company" room, next I embezzled a tin custard pan from tho stove-room to be used as a mirror. After assembling all of this barber equipment, I made a beeline for a private spot behind the barn. I got some water at the well in an old turkle shell and sat it on a stump and proceeded to sever that beard from my countenance. 1 lathered my upper anatomy severely; I had soap suds an inch thick from my waist up. 1 jerked the razor across an old buggy trace and then the ordeal began. I did not cut my face in but two places with the first stroke, but I didn't mind that. ..You should of heard that old raior chewing off them hairs. It sounded something like this: "zeezzezzeeee-e." 1 wiped them off on my shirt tail, which, as usual was hanging out. It was very much like scraping the icing off a freshly iced cake. I broke 3 pretty good sized gaps in the raror. But if I had not of cut myself in so many places, I believe I could have laid them saw-teeth on one of my brothers... .who really had some whiskers. ..I think my father whipped me for 10 minutes^ with a dog-wood brush broom, but when that wore out, he reached down and got a white-oak withe from which hamper basket splits had been taken. It had 3 corners. It was the cuttingest piece of timber I ever saw. When he got thru, mv face was not the only thing about me that was -bleeding. I did not hankpr to shave again for 3 years. In fact, I didn't have anything to shave, and ain't got much yet. flat rock locals ..the health of our little town, or the hole, is verry good at this riting. dr. early rizer says he has not had but 2 rails in 10 days nnd he is 6orry he made them....as neither one of them is good pay. mrs. smith is up and about now and so is jerry simpkins. so he still has a chance to col led from them....as they diddent : di**#,. _ ..archie brown says. tho. blackberry crop is going- to be rail short this year, he based his inhumation on tho fact that peckerwood are all pecking ] their holes on the north side of the 1 telly gram posts and that means a ' long, wet, damp, mean spring..., 1 which is not good for the vine ?peeshees ansoforth. j i . a lawsuit will soon start at the 1 county seat against the sick & bene- 1 fitt society of n. y. old man hesay ' kiar green dide with an insurance in this company and his fee was clO a 1 week, the company says his policy lapped onner count of he would not pay for same, but his wife swears ' that she had his last clQ reddy for the agent und he failed to come for same, it loolks like the undertaker will lose out at pressent, as he counted soully on this. . .some fishing has benn in progress this week, a man from shady grove ketched 3s black and 2 white basses in our creek rtyar its mouth where it empties into chy river on friday and by sadday at oinner time there was 76 other fellers fishing in his hole, but it seems that he hooked the entire family, as they did not get a bite and went homo with much disappointment. . .the ladies aid of rohober are planning to give a chicken supper on tuesday befoar the fifth sunday in the sunday scholl room provided the membership will donate the said chickens free of charge, all will be served a nice plateful with gravvy and rice attached for c35 which will go to put a little boy thru college in chinner or afferca, as the case might be. come one, come all with yore c35 and wife. . . a right smart of house to house peddling is going on in our midst at pressent. we allso had a man from out in the country fetch a subscription blanks for his dwelling house which was burnt not long ago in which he lost all of his furniture, he forgot his insurance was allso out and it looks like a total lose, as he took in only 1$ here and that wassent anny more than enuff to pay for the gass to take him back home, he should of walked while begging and he might of got more help, i, will rite or foam in a short peace about a wedding some time enduring thursday if he comes for her as promised. i yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. c.orry spondent. Mayor Charles H. Kline, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Bertram L. Succop, former supplies director of that city, were on Saturday convicted of malfeasance in office. The pair were indicted following an investigation of l city buying methods. Declaring that they would demand I a dole unless economic conditions are r improved, leaders of seven railway ! labor brotherhoods on Friday urged > upon President Hoover a 25-year mor atorium on war debts as a relief measure. No Depression Felt In Lady's Kitchen The depression hasn't reached the kitchen of Mrs, Samuel J. Summers, Sr., of Calhoun county. "Hood times m bad times," she says, "1 can feed my family." She can feed more than her family. The demand for her fruit cakes and relish, made of home-grown products, is ever increasing. These have jold not only in South Carolina but in other states. Mrs, Summers has learned the tricks that make for successful farm living since she wus married thirtynine years ago, fresh from the city and a college course in expression. Until she came as a bride to her husband's home in Calhoun county, she had never lived a day on a farm. About the first question she put to her mother-in-law was, "How long will it take that little chicken to grow into a turkey?" She had never seen a pig on foot and she became alarmed when she did, thinking so formidable looking an animal as that must be a wildcat! "Today," she declares with a twinkle in her eye, "no pig alarms me; I can butcher a hog from his snout to his tail. I can cure the meat so that it will stay cured pnd feed my family in good times or bad. 1 am going into the poultry business on a commercial scale. I go into my kitchen and help fight 'depression' by means of the culinary art I have acquired since I became a farm wife." "The farmer's wife eats no idle bread," she says. In addition to her household tasks, gardening, pqultryraising, the upbringing of her large family, for she has been the mother of eleven children, the care of an aged and almost helpless mother-in-law who for the last two years 'has been blind, she find# time to sew for her family and friends, to take her place in community affairs, and to coach the young people in her neighborhood who enter the various contests in declamation. Mrs. Summers has trained twentysix young men and women for contests in declamation and expression for county, state and national educational affairs. Many of these have carried off first places, three of these being national. She spent her girlhood in the city of Baltimore and took special courses in expression at Goucher college, and with this talent she is liberal in her community. The Summers children have beer equipped with an education. The youngest is receiving her diploma next month from Columbia college. Mrs. Summers is president of her home demonstration club, vice-president of the county clubs, and secretary of the South Carolina Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodisl Church. She has served as a director of the state council of Farm Women as superintendent of the Young Peo pie's Local Missionary society, super intendent of the Epworth League chairman of the Red Cross Christmas seal sale in her community, leader oi the Orangeburg district Woman*! Missionary Society, and as teacher o a class in her Sunday school. The busiest life is the happies life, she contends. She has lived t< see all of her children except tw< applying the truths she has taugh them in making homes of their own and contributing to their eommunitj interests. So, for all these things, Mrs. Sum mers is called a Master Farm Homemaker. She is one' of twenty choser for this honor in South Carolina in the last four years.?-News and Courier. Application of the Carolina and North-Western railway to discontinue its trains No. 1 and No. 2 between YThester and the North Carolina state line will be heard May' 24 at 11 o clock in the morning by the South Carolina railroad commission. Officials of three mills at Ciovei, and z number of other citizens throughout Chester and York counties registered objections to removal of the trains. The railway company states in its petition that the cost of operating the two trams during 1931 exceeded revenue from their operation by $16,1 OoO. Mrs. G. C. Mills, wife of the jailer at Benncttsville, courageously held , back a jail full of prisoners with a shotgun, after they had captured her husband and his keys and locked him in a cell. When she heard a commotion in the jail, she ran to the front door with the gun and threatened tc shoot. Then she telephoned the sheriff's office, and deputies and rural police rescued the- jailer and locked up the 19 prisoners again. Chancellor Bruening told the German reichstag Wednesday that while some nations still adhere to a demand that Germany rescue reparations payments "it is inconceivable that Germany ever will be able to resume those payments." An American appeal is being mads for tha relief of the Jews of Poland, whoa# want is described as "so acute as to to seemingly hopeless. w 4*. ^ Noted Lutheran To Deliver Sermon Newberry, S. C., May 17.?The Kev. F. 11, Knubel, who will preach the baccalaureate scumon at Newberry College on Sunday, June flth, is the tlrst and only president of the largest Lutheran general body in America. He is a native of New York City, where he was in business before educating himself for the ministry. Dr. Knu'bel graduated from Gettysburg College as a first honor student. He studied two years in the University of Leipzig, Germany, returning to this country to found t>ho Church of the Atonement in New York City, which congregation he served until 1918. In 1911 his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, in 1919 Thiel College gave him the degree of tor of Iaiws, and in 1930 Syracuso University honored him with the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology. Organized by merger amidst the clamor of Armistice Week in 1918 in Now York City as the first reunion of Protestant bodies which split at the time of the War Between tho States, the United Lutheran Church inherited problems of adjustment of internal and external relationships which required concentrated attention in establishing an orderly and harmonious whole. Dr. Knubel has been re-elected president of tho new body at successive conventions overy two years, entering upon his seventh term at the convention in Milwaukee, Wis., in October, 1930. . Under his leadership constructive progress has been made toward welding together divergent elements and building a strong, unified church fitted to approach the problems of modern life in an efficient way. Following his re-election in 1930 the magazine, Time, had this to say of him: "Probably because he is a personification of thijir. ^mixture of mysticism 'practicality, the United Lutherans elected for his seventh term as president Frederick Hermann Knubel, 60, of Manhattan. He is a tall, wiry, active man who does not require his Van Dyke beard to point up his distinguished bearing. He ' hates procrastination or inactivity, ' despises.every form of cant." Poultry Outlook Fair For Fall And Winter 1 ~ Clemson College, May 14.?The ! supply of hens and pullets for egg 1 production next winter will likely be no greater than the past winter's supply and considerably less than ' that of the year before, according to ' O. M. Clark, extension economist. > "The incubation of salable chicks in ^ commercial hatcheries," he explains, " "was for the first three months of the ? year approximately the same as for " the corresponding period of last year. " The bookings for later delivery were ? about five per cent less than last year. J I^ast year the hatchings were about ^ a third less than the year before." 5 The receipts of eggs at the prin^ cipal markets up to May 1 were about ' 24 per cent less than for the same ^ period last year. The cold storage 3 holdings of eggs May 1 were approx3 imately one-half those of May 1, 1931. The supply of frozen eggs was less than that of last year but greater ' than the five-year average. The "combined holdings, of frozen and cold " storage eggs were approximately two" thirds those of the five-year average. 1 So Mr., Clark thinks that from the 1 standpoint of the supply side of the ' market the outlook for next fall and winter is more favorable than that of last year; and although egg prices are low, the egg-feed price relationship is somewhat more favorable than 1 a year ago, with no indication of higher feed prices for this year. In view of the present low prices 1 of eggs Mr. Clark suggests that it may be advisable for the farmers 'lwho have surplus eg?* to preserve ' some of them in waterglass or otherwise to provide a supply for home ' use when production is low or to re' lease more fresh eggs for market I when the price is higher. Albert B. Fall was released from ' thr New Mrx:cr> ate rA Fe, on Monday and returned to his 1 home at El Paso, Texas. He served 1 nine months and 19 days of a year and a day sentence. ' The grand jury of Dade county, ' FTa., has indicted Captain W. N. Lan' caster, British flyer, charging him * with the murder of Haden Clarke, ' author, and fiance of Lancaster's flying partner, Mrs. J. M.^ Keith-Miller. ' The great Masonic memorial erected to the memory of George Wash" ington with contributions by the ! Masonic fraternity from all over the ' country, was unveiled at Alexandria, ' Va. "Thursday. The execution of Mrs. Winnie Ruth 1 Judd, slayer of two women, set for _ Thursday at the Arizona state prison 1 at Florence, was automatically stayed | by notice of appeal by her attorneys for a new trial. Hunting I/Ot?t Relatives Jewell Mayes, Jefferson City, Missouri, (stuto agricultural secretary and newspaper owner,) asks South Carolina newspapers to co-operate in his hunting for Ihe local relatives of his mother, whose ancestors were James and Mary (Young) Stephenson. Mr. Mayes is a personal friend of Commissioner of Agriculture J. W. Shealy. James Stephenson was born in South Carolina, April 14, 1744, (name of parents or county not known to Mr. Mayes), but he was the only son yet had several sisters who married and brought up families in South Carolina. James married Miss Mary Young (1747-1828) in South Carolina, April 28, 1768, and with his entire household in 1794 emigrated to Kentucky by way of Tennessee. He had one son, John, and several daughters, all of whom settled in Simpson County, Ky. Mr. Mayes anxiously seeks correspondence from relatives of Mary Young -Stephenson, and the descendants of the sisters of James Stephenson, (who died in South Carolina in 1821 while visiting his sisters), and will . also welcome any information concerning the. coming of the Scotch Stephensons into the Palmetto State prior to 1744. Congressional leaders have practically agreed to make a real effort to adjourn congress not later than June 10th in time for the national party conventions. Bitten By Rattlesnake Columbia, May 11.?A negro farmer of Congaree^ Henry Goodwin, was bitten by a rattlespfdto yesterday and tlien spent two hours hunting aid. He was expected to recover. After ho was bitten, ho killed tho snake and then walked to the home of Dr. James A. Hayne, state health officer. I Governor Pollard, of Virginia, has commuted to life-imprisonment tho death of sentence of Lawrence Fleet, Baltimore youth, sentenced to the electric chair for committing murder during a holdup to secure money to finance his wedding. Richard Whitney has been re-elected president of tho New York Stock Exchange for his third term. Have You Athlete's Foot? White blisters on the i feet; cracks between the toes with severe itching is a sure symptom. Get a bottle of REESE'S ZYMATOL, a guaranteed preparation that has brought relief "to hundreds. " Aslt 1 your druggist. 35 cents per bottle. For sale at DeKalb Pharmacy Camden, S. C. r ?l I Telephone ...Mrs. Green ? .. "Mother says to hurry as it *ouuuo !!Lc is import*"* call." "Tell her that I'll be over as soon as I can take the dinner out of the stove." Do you use your neighbor's telephone? Think how much better it would ' he to have one of your ow n. Then you need not bother < anyone, and your friends can call you without embarrassment. The entire family will find many tuea for the telepbonc, with the abided comfort ?f knowing that in emergencies the telephone is always ready to ranmon aid. Yon, too, can hare a telephone of your own for only Wot# day. In fact, the sendee Is so low in cost fc really doesn't pay to try to do without it. ~ Southern Bell rSicleDtCil... And M the weevil WORRY IOOKS like a mighty bad weevil year, Wc had Jl two bone-dry summers in 1930 and 1931 and arc about due for a,wet one now. Owing to mild weather, weevils had a picnic all winter and they are just waiting for the squares to form. It is going to be a race between the cotton and the weevils. Cotton sure is going t"? have a job keeping ahead of the weevils without a little help from you. Not much, if any, fertilizer under it, the crop is almost sure to be slow and sickly by June. Just theAvay the weevils want it. What they do to your ttop depends largely on what you dd for your crop! ^ Sidc-dreso! 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