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" ?^^"SSSV Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee McGee. Copyright, 1929POT SHOTS ..Ripley, In his "Believe it or not," tolls us that an okl hen, native of Iowa, adopted 4 little biddy polecat# and has raised them, I imagine that this Rhode Island rod mother does not stand at the top-rung of the ladtier in polite poultry circle#... .after this act of charity. - ' COTTON LKTTKR ..Now York, July 9.?In sympathy with rails and Chile f>s, Liverpool came in > points lower than due,, but on receipt of advices from Kgypt that the Ghandi models of wearing apparel were falling olF in Mozambique, October rallied to a new low for tho month. Boll weevils and anti-prohibitionists are very active in the westedn belt and some hedging is prodieted amongst the straddlers and longs. Most of .the nearby months seem to bo further off In respect to coverings than the other months now listed. Wo advise a close stffdy of both platforms, thon 3 good drink? should bo taken. .. .after which, nothing matters. It might pay to hold. ..A glass of near-3>?er does a feller just about as good as ho derives from getting a kiss over the telephone. J,ight wines will please a few ?f tho folks, but what this old country needs is 25-horsepower booze with a Big Bertha kick to it. No-j body ever heard a man that was halfshot complain about hard-times. Our citizenship demands, however, that whisky should bo regulated.... which means.... that nobody ought to have the right to buy it except him. I am a tee-totaler, and so is my Uncle Bud. who got killed in tho war. , ..I am very' very, very fond of the late bathing suits.... for women. The recent designs carry the full sun back features, as well a,s the exposed sides; some have shouldei straps while others have pictures of little moons and stars in tho two or three places that are big enough tt? hold little moons and stars. A few of them are 2-piece garments, but the majority of them are ....nit. Ourj own sweetheart and the Other guy's % wife certainly do look stunning in those new swimming excuses. . . Uncle Sam has merged my busi ness with his business. I believe.... by eating 1???? drinking nothing at all, wearing my old clothes longer and working harder....! can possibly earn enough to pay the last bunch of taxes levied, but there won't be nothing left for ine and my folks. One of the senators suggested (in conference) that the government reduce operating expenses instead of raising more taxes, lie was promptly thrown out of the back door....and he is now an ostracised economist. MIKE IS WAVERING flat rock, s. C. julie 10, I03fc, mr. jhon d, rockyfoller, pr., new york City, deer sir: from what i have read in the papers, it looks like you have turned over from an aunty-wot to an auntydry, ami not- the ladies who have benn running the prohibition flatform will have to look* tffsewhere for monnoy ansofort'h tp fight booze. it is possibly cheaper to be for whiskey than it is against same, but i believe the wets will want you to hepp them get wetter than the law allows at pressent, and will call on you for subscriptions as big as the other side did. tho whiskey question is a big question, and so aro the bonus, .if strong drink could be leggislated so's the rieh man would pay 25$ a quart, for his whiskey and the poor man c.r>0 a quart for his whiskey, t'he difference to go into the scholl tax, i would be in fav\or of same. we have a-plenty whiskey alreddy, but it leaves a man and his wife unfit to enjoy life the next day after the night befoar. our bootleggers ought to be required to furnish better lieker or to be put under the fedderal j control!, like the farm bored and the j tariff, and let them appoint me a, taster for the enforcement officers, thereof. i don't blame you for sw itching. over:, i am straddling the fence my-1 self, we have so much crime now, a change might not be for the worst, j whiskey has saved a great manny j lives down south though: the men j who get drunk can not shoot verry straight and they often miss their targets. ... who dodge behind something. ? jny wife is a member of the w. c. t. u., so please don't print this-, if she gets holt to mo flopping over against the dry plank, i will bo thru flopping for a while, i don't suppose anny of yore filling stations will change their policies, will they? if i decide to make my mind up to become a wet with you, i will rite or j | foam you next week, if the brewers j will send me 15$ at once, it will hepp mr to make up my mind. yores trulic, mike Clark, rfd. Rector and Moore Go To Prison Columbia, July fi.?Carlos A. Rector, former Greenville county sheriff,, land J. Harmon Moore, former deputy,) I w ho entered the penitentiary yester- j day to begin serving ton year sen-1 tences, today were assigned jobs in i the prison hospital. The two were sentenced to the pen- J itcatiary after they had ttten con- j victed of being accessories in the j slaying of Sheriff Sam D. Willis, at. Greenville, in 1927. Rector, appoint-j ed by Gov. John G. Richards to sueceed Willis as sheriff, made Moore. one of his deputies. M. C. Turbeville, relief corporal, went from the penitentiary to bring them from Greenville to the prison. A. N. Eatman, former bookkeeper of a Memphis, Tenn., drug company, Tuesday shot and killed W. L. CTifton, president of the company, and then killed kimself. Eatman blamed his discharge on Clifton and following a quarrel in a doctor's office killed him with four *.hots, aiul himself with. two. This Man Huu Faith; j Lost 24 Pounds "Last November 1 weighed 192 lbs. . I'oday, February 5th, IJU2) I am. | clow n to 1 tin H>s. and full of pep all da\ long?since using Kruschcn I have not had to use the laxative that w ;is customary."?I'heo. A. i . La-, l-'leur. Providence. R. I. What do you think of this?you : men who doubt?you stay fat?be-? cause you w ant to think nature made , you that way. You're all wrong?most fat men; were made fat because of their abil-j ity to handle a knife and fork in a j business like manner. Be frank with yourself. Are you ' too timid to take a safe, harmless (conditioner that not only takes off; surplus fat but is so helpful that it i makes you feel years younger? To reduce safely take one-half tee-' spoonful of Kruschen in a glass of j hot water before breakfast every' morning?cut down on fatty meats, potatoes and sweets. Kruschen is sold by DeKalb Pharmacy ar.d druggists the world over. A jar that costs but a trifle will last four weeks ?but be sure you get Kruschen? your health comes first. Capudine 1 because-\ It Rives relief by soothing I I nerves ? not deadening I I - them. Contains no opiates. I Won't upset stomach. \\ : 2 BcinRliquid.it acts quicker 1 than pills or powders. - Sold at drug stores in single dose, or 10c; 30c. 60c sizcs.^ ?1 NO-MO-KORN FOR CORNS AND CALLOUJ9B8 Made in Camden And For Sal* By DeKalb Pharmacy?Phooa 91 ROUT. W.MITCH AM A rchitect Crocker Building, j Camden, S. C. ft KKRSHAW LODGE No. 29 \^V\ A. F. M. , /fH io Regular communication ot / ' v v this lodge is held on the first Tuesday in each montb at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. W. R. < LYBURN, J. K. ROSS, Worshipful Master SerretarT. 1-14'27-tf DeKALB COUNCIL No 88 ' Junior Order U. A. M. jhfMr Regular council seoond and \ fourth Mondays of each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. J- W. THOMPSON, L. H. JONES, CouuciUor. Recordk* Secty. EYES EXAMINED . and Gtatses Fitted THE HOFFER COMPANY Jewelers and Optometrists fe" 4 i nf.iT MB <- - Burned To Death In Conway Theatre v>''v? '?s ; Columbia, July lh?The Columbia Record in a dispatch from Conway oays Leo Seller?, IH, was burned to death and two other youths were injured last night when Are broke out in the projection room and the Pastime Theatre at Conway while a film was being shown. Approximately 100 persons were in the theatre at the time of the fire, but they vacated the building without injury or disorder, authorities said. Woodrow Williams, 10, was seriously burned about the cheat and arms but hope is held for his recovery at the Conway hospital, the dispatch said. 4 ' Grady McCoy, proprietorNof the theatre, was slightly burned about his hands and arms. The fire broke out at 0 o'clock. The three youths were*' believed to have been working near or in' the projection room when the film burst into, flame. \Yhei\ the theatre was vacated, others believed Sellers had left too. His charred body wa? found an hour later, shortly after the Are was brought under control, in the treatre. Authorities are investigating the blaze, the Record says. Damage to the building was estimated at $2,500. Death of Mrs. Smith On July 3 God called from our midst our friend and loved one, Mrs. Susan Annie Smith. She was the daughter of the late Newton and Abbie Baker, of Mayesville', and the widow of W. M. Smith, who preceded her to the grave thirty years ago. She was a beloved Christian wQman and all of her seventy-two years of life were spent in the service of her Master. "Grandmaina," as she was known to all, numbered her) friends by those who knew her. She' was a good mother and wife, u faith-1 ful friend and a soul who carried the! love of God always in her heart. For some time past she had been j making her home with her daughter, Mrs. J. I'. Lewis, on Haile street, and! was visiting her son, Henry Smith, j at the time of her death. He lived I on the old home place, which she left j about twenty-five years ago and had returned for a visit only a few days before her death. She died very suddenly, being seriously ill only about an hour, although her death was not entirely a surprise as she had been in failing health for a number of years. All of her brothers and sisters preceded her to the grave several years ago. She is survived by the following children: Mrs. H. L. Atkinson, of Bishapville; Mrs. W. T. English, of Cassatt; Henry Smith, of Lucknou; Mrs. J. P. Lewis, Mrs. G. W. Outlaw, Arthur Smith. Walter Smith ar.d Charlie Smith, of Camden; and Leo Smith of Rock Hill. She is also survived by thirty-eight grand children and thirteen great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at Cedar Creek Baptist church near Bishopville on Tuesday morning. FuneraJ services were conducted by Rev. J. 13. Caston, of the First Baptist church of Camden, of which she was a member, assisted by Rev. T. P. Christmas, Rev. W. G. Ariail and Rev. H. T. Morrison. Pall bearers were J. P. Lewis, G. W. Outlaw, Arthur Smith, Walter Smith, Ivee Smith and Hon-y Smith, sons and sons-in-law.?Contributed. R, A. Eden, Under-Secretary of foreign affairs, told the British house of commons Wednesday, that investigation by the British consul general at New York, showed that the recent suicide of Violet Sharpe at the Mor-. row home in New Jersey, was not caused by police violence or thirddegree methods in investigations of the Lindbergh baby kidnaping. Four children were fatally burned Tuesday while playing in a shed on a farm near Wheelock. Yt.. when a quantit.\ of black powder stored in the -ted for blasting purposes exploded. The ua- depai tment has appr ed plans of the South Carolina high.way commission for the building f a bridge across the Waccamaw r:\t r at Conway, Horry county. * A man of Greenshurg, Pa., believed that his $2,300 would Ik* safer in his trunk than in the bank. It wasn't. Now .the police have arrested the man's brother-in-law and three negroes, charging them with the theft. Norman Whitaker. alleged accomplice of Gaston Means in the swind1 it g of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean of $ 0-1,000, arrested in Brooklyn, N. Y., this week, has waived examination and agreed to go to Washington for t rial. Elijah G. Baker, farmer of Bishops, Md., Tuesday killed his wife, attempted to kill a married daughter and then committed suicide. Mississippi's revamped tobacco tax law has brought revenues to the state treasury from June 1st to June 28 totaling $133,284. Sees Big Saving In Fewer Counties South Carolina could aava ? * ''*} hundred thouaand dollar* annuallyIf tho number of couotlee in the atjte were reduced by two.third?, in the ZZon of Herbert M. GrubU. a representatlve of the Un.ted 3Ut? Chamber of Commerce, who la no in Greenville. Mr. Grubba said necessity for a larKe number of counties has passed ones transportation facilities h?v? been improved to such an extent that residents of Wlyin* diatricts can reach a county scat M miles auay easily under an hour, Consolidation of present counties would result in a Urge Mr salaries and other expenses, Mr, CJrubb pointed out. ? Saturday Greenville News. General News Notes Capt. Hans Bertram andAis mechanic, Adolf Flaussmann, German aviators, have been found in the Australian bush by friendly aborigines, after being lost for seven weeks of wandering and five days drifting at sea, during which time they jived on snails, gum, leaves and wild life. The French Academy of Medicine is experimenting in the treatment of cancer by injecting the venom of bees into rabbits suffering from cancer. The inflamation set up by tft? 00$ venom is said to show wonderful results in retarding the growth of the cancers. "Red" Hendricks, 24, one of the seven alleged Communists, convicted in ll>29 for the slaying of Chief Aderholt at Gastonia, three years ago, was placed in the state prison at Raleigh, N. C? on Wednesday. He was arrested in New York the previous week. He faces a term of five to seven years in prison. The chairman of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific railroad is paid a salary of $135,000, while the president of the system gets $90,000 #s his stipend. Mr. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania railroad system, draws a salary of $121,500 per-year, while the president of the Baltimore & Ohio system is paid a salary of $121,000 per year. I Edwin Carter, 22, son of E. F. Carter, vice president of the American Telephone & Telegraph company, was killed Wednesday when the automobile he was in left the road and crashed through a fence near Brookings, S. D. Walter S. Giflford, 14, son of the president of the company, at the same time sustained a crushed leg. Deputy Sheriff Percifield of Brown county, i nd., hadn't * made an arrest in a year, but he still packed his gun in a holster for emergencies. At a party he was called on to dancev a jig. He did. His pistol was jarred from its holster, discharged and a bullet lodged in the knee of Elsie Brown, 32, a guest at the party. The charred bodies of Mrs. Fred Newton, 25, and her son, Fred, 4, worn found in the ashes of their home four miles from Kings Mountain, N. Monday night. It is be-1 lieved that the mofher rushed into the house from the barnyard where she was milking in an effort to rescue her son and was overcome by smoke and both died. Mr. Newton was away at the time. A boy fishing from a boat in the White river in Indiana, hooked a fish and started reeling it in. The fish etarted pulling and the boait began moving, as the boy hadn't the strength to pull the fish m. After going down stream some distance the fish tired out and was landed. It was a 41pound sturgeon. Senator Hiram Johnson, of California, set his Republican colleagues in Washington by the ears Monday, when he issued a statement praising the conduct of Franklin D. Roosevelt :n accepting the Democratic nomination. Political loader* are wondering if Johnson will join Senator Norris. Republican, in bolting the Republican ranks. Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney, 26, daughter of a wealthy baronet, was found not guilty in the Old Bailey court. London. Wednesday, after a trial on a charge of having murdered Thomas William Scott Stephen, her lover, wh<f was shot to death in her bizarre fiat after a smart cocktail party on May 31. This was England's most sensational murder trial in many years. With returns in from all but nine precincts Will Rogers, 33-year-old school teacher of Cleveland county, not the cowboy philosopher of Claremore, was leading a field of 25 candidates for the Democratic nomination for congressman at large for Oklahoma. Lady Louis Mountblatten has won a libel suit against a London publishing company issuing a Sunday paper, which accused her inferentially of scandalous association with a negro. The defendant's apologized and paid all costs. Georgia County Says Depression Is Over Blokely, G?., July 6.?<??* ?-! sion "ain't whut she used to be in Early county and eight thousand per-. sons told the world about it today. | Celebrating the raiaing of bumper crop?, the crowd enjoyed a barbecue, j a singing convention, a doubleheader j baseball game, a balloon ascension, greased pig and tomato races and a parade. ^ All the while John Undorwpod, j master of ceremonies, mounted on a Shetland pony, rode among the people shouting "the depression is over in Early county and happy days are here j again." A 36-piec? J>rass band played "Goodbye King Cotton, Hello Corn, Hogs and Cattle." ? Six boys, miners' sons, carried a case of dynamite .caps to a baseball park at Mcadorville, Mont., Monday, morning to celebrate the Fourth. I^hey attempted to break the box to get the. caps to make bombs. The^ caps exploded and six boys were blown to bits. A junior high school boy at Pulton, N. Y., lacked one point of making 100; in a spelling test. He missed "pros-1 perity," and then explained that he had heard so much about depression j and so little about prosperity that he forgot how to spell the word. J Mistaking the plank for repeal for( prohibition in the Democratic plat- j form as being repeal of the law at an early date, British brewer's applied for , space to show their beer at the Chicago world's fair next year. Continuing its policy of destroying coffee in the hope of boosting the mark<$, the government of Brazil last week destroyed an additional 263,000 I sacks of coffee. The total destroyed | since this policy was adopted is reported as being 7,978,386 sacks. j Charley Greene, a negro, was slain by a mob near Opelika, Ala., Wednes-^ day an hour after the negro had kill-j ed 'Sheriff W. S. Jones, who was at-, i tempting to arrest him on charges of ^ I murdering his wife and shooting two other negroes. J | Judge Rufus E. Foster, of the fifth United States circuit court of appeals [ at New Orleans, expresses the opinion that "a good, first-class saloon is an asset to a.community and far better than a speakeasy." He says that the Volsead law is a joke. Reduced to the point where their food supplies have practically reached the end leaders of the -bonus "armies" in Washington began Tuesday night holding pep meetings for the purpose of holding the bonus seekers in line to the end that they carry out their announced plan of staying in the capital until they receive the bonus payment. Following his resignation last week as commander-in-chief of the bonus marchers in Washington, Walter W. Waters, o( Oregon, is again at the head of the soldiers seeking payment of the bonus, having been re-elected to the position Tuesday night when 10,000 veterans voted for him. Because of lack of food the ex-soldiers in Washington are in desperate straits. Floods Raging In Several States Kansas City, July 6.?Hou^hold*. fled today before floods which vUiS widely separated parte of the nation on the heele of tornadlc winds wKi-I kilted four person* in Kan#** and Nebraska. , p , Wooda (Partly inundated s towm u Texae, Oklahoma,1 Kftiuma, Ohio West Virginia. Most of the exteneive damage was Buffered by crops. , ! Tornadoes killed three petaoiw Monday at Washington, Kas., \^ a fourth near HuibbeU, Neb. o Another trick of the weather brought a killing frost to Star Kiver valley near Guoyer, Wyo. Groweri said the 25 degree temperature damaged virtually all potato plants anil other vegetables and ruined an alfalfa crop. The Frio, Neucea, Guadalupe and Colorado rivers spread fear in parti \ of Texas. The 800 residents of Tilden, in McMullen county, evacuated their homes ahead of flood waters, A sudden surge of water chased 1 400 persons from their home? in Oklahoma City last night. No loss of life was reported. Refugees were quartered in churches and schools, Heavy , rains In Ohio threatened farm crops near Cincinnati. Glendenin, near Charleston, W. Va., was isolated by streams in the Southern part of the state which left their banks. Highways, farm lands and homes were damaged. Hold Aged Man In Son's Death j iSaluda, July 8.?Ben Smith, 60- I year-old farmer of the Chappell's section, remained in jail here tonight awaiting the verdiot of a coroner's"*] jury following the shooting Thursday ofyhis son, Ray, 18. Reports said the boy was shot by his father when the son took the 1 side of his mother in a family argument. In ja\l jhere, the aged farmer re- ! fused to make a statement. The farmer was said to have trailed his son several hundred yards along a highway from their homo and ihothim in the abdomen with a shotgun. The boy died half an hour later, a Following the shooting the elder, Smith went to the home of his wife's brother, M. A. Griffin, about two miles from the shooting, where he was arrested. Frank McDowell was fined $25 il l Centralis, Wash., for violating a city J ordinance that forbade aJl male citizens to shave until after the pioneer celebration there in August. mfri Dowell put up the excuse that hill lady friend doesn't like whiskers. The body of Jesse K. Keavis, 48,| night watchman at one of the R. h Reynolds Tobacco Company's factor-^ ies in Winston-Salem, N. C., wui found shot to death early yesterday morning in one of the company'* ; sheds. A white man and two ne- i groes are held (by the police fdr in* ^ vestigation. ???? bhbT Though vacations scatter the family the Telephone keeps them together Vacation time is here and soon thousands of families will If? . -he scattering to various places to spend their vacation* Some will go to the seashore, others to the mountains or on week-end motor trips; yet large numbers of these vacationists will keep in close touch with relatives and friends back home by telephone. People are fast learning that it adds much to the pleasure of their vacations and the happiness of those left at home when they call back at regular intervals. The cost is small. To most placea 25 miles away, the day station-to-station rate is about 25 cents; 75 mil?*i 60 cents; 100 miles, 65 cents; 150 miles, 91.00. During the evening and night periods, rates are much lower. t south 0?n bjell Telephone and Telegraph Co. <