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I Nobody's Business Written ior The Chronicle by G?? McGee, Copyright, 1928. 1A>ST A FOUND ..*n?o dead body of It very fat man I found out in Colorado the othI er day by * hunter. This carI <* & was partially petrifted. Its head waa a solid bona. Guests it was the remain* of a congressman that met with an acci4?Ht on his way home. ^ I COUPON LETTER New York, July 2.?The spot market was ditftrlbuted near noon by the I receipt of several hundred private I estimates, all in English except 6, I which were iFrench. Not counting I round bales at all, ignoring hay, I hides and alfalfa, the estimators esI timate a crop of aibout 12,222,211 bales, but the boll weevils have not yet made their report. July broke I 12 points when it looked like rain in I Texas, but the nearby months held firm, at a new low. The straddlers Were short and the longs were etradI ling near the close. Raw cotton and I Jong-tailed rats were not taxed^in I the recent budget-balancing tax meaI sure: we therefore predict ice next winter, so hold, . I A BEAUTY HINT ..A close observer (male) told me today about a wonderful discovery. You remember the little seam that I runs up and down on the back-side I of ini-lady's stockings? "Well he I says if anybody is afflicted with bow legged moss . ..they can overcome most I of it if they will wear their hose in I such a manner that the seams will curve in rather than out as they folt low the calves northward. He did not mean that this was a cufe, but merely a favorable hallucination. BUY NOW: BE CLOSED OUT LATER ..All kinds of bonds, .except Uncle I Sam's favorites, are selling power ful low. Certain, city improvement bonds are being offered at 85.00 per I bundle, 'over-due waterworks bonds eah be had at $25.00 per batch, while miscellaneous municipal bonds are fetching 1-cent per pound; provided, of course, that no person ho allowed to buy less than a halo of 100 pounds. I advise investors to select green- ' and-gold-bordered bonds, as they are much prettier and will look better when used for wall paper. POLITICAL WKATHKK FOKKCAST ..for New York and the New England states, Maine excepted, very wet: for the Central States, much thunder and some moisture: for the Southern States, dryness* will prevail except near the swamps and in large towns: the Western area, storms are a-brewing and may reach light wines by the week-end.. General: many disturbances may be looked for throughout the country, much hot air, strong winds, and cyclone campaigns may be expected. flat rock news ..One of our local candy dates for ofris this year has a wet plank in his flatform and it now looks like nearly ?verboddy in our town will support him except the womans misslon-nerry . society of rehober church, there seems to be a big demand for light wines and heavy beers in our midst, he is self-made, so he says. i _?? ..jerry hooper who moved to the county seat last fall has returned back to flat rock with his family, it seems that the other loafers up there beat him to the benches at the coart house ever morning and he got plumb wore out standing up. he is not -numbered amongst thd' unemployed. .. ...as he has newer worked anny since he got married, but his wife do. . .our town counsel has received another batch of red cross flour from the farm bored and they have rote the head man to send them 100 more barrels of same so's they can pack it away and save it for hard winter which is sure to come, the aimernack in the post offis forecasts heavy sleets and snows from beginning to end, and we th'iifk best to prepare for the worst m sympathy with our congress. <.the cedar lane mud rata crossed batts on our local diamoi\t with the flat rock hornets last friday and the score in the third ending was 46 to 92 in flat rock's fgvvor, but onnet count of the pitcher throwing a wild ball which struck the empire on his head, the game was called, and a batt to batt and fiat to fist encounter ensued betwixt them, only 8 Clark players got hurt in the fracas. ; 1 -? ,.a resent drive for the community chest' amounted to nearly 12$, but it was put on at the wrong season of the year, ready cash is hard to raise excepp for actual necessities, such as inner tubes and gassoleen and pitcher show tickets, yore corry spondent gave the largest donation of all; it was in the form of a nice pig worth at least 6$ if her leg was not 'broke. . .well, mr. editor, i will close for this time, but if annything else happens, i will rite or foam it in at once to be added to this, the health of our little town is good at pressent excepp for several cases of sickness, and no deaths seem to be in sight unless someboddy gets run over by automobiles ansoforth. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. corry spondent. WANTED: FARM RELIEF . .'By reason of accident and investment (?), I am a farmer. Up to 1917, I bought land, as land was the thing. From 1917 to 1920, 1 loaned all my money on land, as 8 per cent interest was tbe thing. Nobody questioned the value of farm acreage . . . .and my banker said, "McGee is all right: he owns several hundred acres of good farm property." Friends who borrowed my cash paid me off in land with 6 years taxes due thereon. . .Times have changed. 1 never let my banker know that I own any land at all. I don't even let it leak out that 1 own 2 old automobiles. He never has found out that I still possess some (paid for) Wall street stocks. Jn fact, he finds out very little about things generally.... except my liquid assets, and that means that there ain't much to find out. . .. .But going back to "Gee MeGee, The Farmer": I appreciate my farm interests just,about ns much as the average guy loves his mother-in-law. If a man were to come to me and offer me my choice... .free of cost.. T.1000 acres of good farming land or the measles.... I'd take the meas- j les with a smile as my preference, ... .for there's a chance thdt I might ggt rid of them in time, but the only way to shuck loose from a farm is ....forget to pay your taxes....or skip the Federal land bank 2 times. .,,1 have about 75 tenants^ (younguns and all) to care for. Some of them are in good shape and don't ask me for much... .but there are others. I ought to love my helpers more than I do, but I hate farming so had, I have to take some of my gpite out on the tillers thereof. I just as soon see a cyclone coming toward me ?as a tenant: I can possibly dodge a cyclone, but a tenant ?never. . .The average tenants want flour, meat and tobacco especially tobacco. If there ain't any tobacco in heaven and some of my fellows go there, it's going to be Hades to them regardless. They will quit work at 10 o'clock in the morning and "walk a mile" for a chaw. Tobacco comes ahead of something to eat, wear, drink or ride in. If they don't keep a quid in their mouths all the time, they are liable to kill a mule, cow, another negro or f^ll dead. Some are almost as bad about tobacco as white folks. . .Here's how I feel about these earthly goods: If all my farms were to suddenly sink out of sight, I would not even go down to look at the hole they left. If my tenants all moved away and took my mules along, I don't think I'd ever ask where they went. If my neighbor were to deed me all of his land, I'd shoot him at first sight. I am possibly able to "owh Tab(Tr~T>uT"T ain't able Co paytaxes on it and farm it. I have had my fill. I am thru. Five-cent cotton and 75-cent chawing tobacco don't suit me. Two families lived on one of my farms 3 years and 1 never found it out till one of them died and they wanted me to bur.y her. Horace Batchelor, son of the Cherokee county coroner, missing for several weeks and actively searched for over two counties in two states for a week and more, is stated to be working in a garage at Asheville, by the sheriff of Cherokee county, based on a letter from the missing man's father to the _ sheriff of Cleveland cdunty, North Carolina. Members of his family hare asked delay in' serving a warrant for hi* arrest on the charge of Uonsupport of his wife and five children. - THE COMMUNITY MIRROR It Presents a Picture to the Outside World to Look At A town or community may bo able j to cover up evidence of its decay and j backwardness to ail local appearances, but there is one thing that will let the cat out of the baa in spite of everything that can be done about it. The newspaper Is the mirror of the community, and if the town is dead, its gaunt; grinning skeleton will stare out at you from every column from the banner headline on the front page to the last "filler," says the Texas Commercial News. That does not mean thut the newspaper is dead. Far from it. Some of tho liveliest newspapers in the country are published in towns that are not entitled to any kind otf news medium whatever. But that condition does not exist for long, because enterprise as well as anything else, and if it is run as a loss, in time it too, will of necessity fail. And a news-, paper cannot run without advertising patronage. . The cost of newspaper production I is probably Higher now than at any other time in the history of journalism, higher because more is demanded. Many people thirik if a newspaper has a large number of subscribers it is a paying proposition. But such is not the case. Circulation is a costly featurp of the business. If an editor can secure enough out of his circulation to maintain the cost of keeping it, of clerical work and collections and securing and maintaining business, he is lucky. There's no profit in that branch of the business whatever. A merchant pays <his bills because he wants to stay in business and to do so he must maintain a good credit rating. He pays hi* rent so he will ! not be thrown out of his building. , He pays his light and water and telephone so his utilities service will not | be tut off. But he keeps up hi* advertising for the simple reason that it is good busj iness to do so. He knows that he ' murft have a constant turnover of merchandise, that styles are constantly changing, that new goods mttst come in, whether the old is sold or -not, that his profits will dwindle unless a constant volume Js maintained, and he knows that nothing but continual practical advertising will keep his business moving and enable him to s'h^w a profit at the end of' the year. So the local newspaper filled with ads of local business concerns reflects the image of a live and growing town.?Clearmont (Mo.)1 News. Senator George Norris of Nebraska, and a Republican, has announced that he will support Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency. Norris opposed Hoover four yeaVe ago. North Carolinn's revenue from its ?3 gasoline tax in 1931 totaled $14,024,303. The gaSbline on which taxes were paid during the year totaled , >^ 249,609,024 g*lRmrs. ~\ ^ The foot of Mrs. Q. C. Ringer of Atlanta, Ga., was partly destroyed by ' $ a bolt of lightning on Wednesday as she sat in a chair 011 her porch. She and her two children were stunned. o .'M LOOKING BACKWARD J Taken From the File* of The (Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yeara Ago THIRTY YBAKS AGO July 8, 1802 * ' . Firm of K, T. Kstridge & Co., at Bethune, dissolves copartnership. << Heavy wind and rainstorm does damage to plate glass windows of Hirsch Bros, and M. H. lleyman's jewelry store. Trees uprooted. Old Joy house near Jackson school grove destroyed by fire, property belonged to 1*. Tobias and was insured for $200. . Miss Muggie Sheorn dies at the home of her brother, Wiley Sheorn, and was buried in Camden cemetery. Thomas L. Mungo, dies at home at DeKalb cotton mill, o^typhoid fever, and body sent to Kershaw for buriul. Genie Rhodes, 7 year old colored lad, falls in 85 foot well in M. Baujn's yard, but is rescued unhurt. H. F. iSmith, flagman on Seaboard freight loses leg when he falls from train near Cassatt. Mr. and Mrs. David Wolfe and Miss Minnie Wolfe go to Charleston to board steamer for New York. Arthur Munn improving from attack of typhoid fever at DoKalb cotton mill village. Col. A. tR. Banks, of York, elected superintendent of the Kershaw graded schools. Two-year-old daughter of Raymond Funderburk, of Tradesville section of Lancaster county, hung herself, while playing in a swing. William J. Bryan makes emphatic statement that he is no lotiger seeking the presidency. Speaker John N. Gamer, late Friday nright sent the following wire to Franklin D. Roosevelt at Albany, N. Y.: "Heartiest congratulations. Your^ nomination means your election." FIFTEEN YEARS AGO July 23, 1917 The Chronicle gets out extra edition of the paper carrying the first 360 names of Kershaw county men drawn in the selective draft. Eugene ^ Joy, of Camden, was the first name drawn. John lvey Marcus, killed the week previous, was the second name called. Mrs. Louisa Wilson, aged 09, dies at home of her daughter, Mrs. Richard MoKuin in this city. George Wilson and Miss Leila Ray of Logoff married. Wade L. Holleman, of Bishopvilfe, married to Miss Thelma Smith, of Camden. English DesiOhnmps leaves Camden as manager of Kershaw Motor comp- , any, and is succeeded by Edwin .F. Miller, of Sumter. George C. Claussen, well-known horseman and printer viaitpr to Camden, dies at his borne in Port, Chester, New York. Mrs. Rena Mooney acquitted at San Francisco in bombing outrage. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, anarchists, released from jail on $25,000 bond. Sheriff Hough orders ban on-Sunday sale of soft drinks and cigars throughout the city and county. J. C. JonoiC of Route 5, Kershaw, had five sons drawn in the selective draft. , \ City council of passes ordinance abolishing segre&tttod' district in effort to wipe out immorality. Mrs. Jesse Galloway, dies in Galloway town section of Lee county. 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