The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 08, 1932, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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.
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..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.
MisaeB Kita and Jessie Haynesworth,
of Sumter, drown in Mul4row'a
mill near Florence. *
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