The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 22, 1932, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
Nobody's Business
written tot The Chronicle by Get
McOce, Copyright, 1928.
smith-jonea wedding
the wedding of miss mamje sue
' .jth to mr. jhon Johnson jonea which
^. hen at rehober church last night
iust after dark brought to ? terminal
# happy coartahip which lasted over
10 y*ar8, "
the brid? is the last darter of mra.
imith by her secont husband and ttnjshed
th? seventh grade in the flat
rook hi last june with honors, she
is an accomplished musician and always
plays the organ at her church,
which is rehober,
mr. jones i? the **ly son at home
noW of mr, and mr*. jule jeties who
formerly was a state constable but
lost his job onner count of accepting
a bribe for letting a load of 75 gallons
get by. , his other 8 sons is in
'the bonus martch on Washington, <L C.
they fought in the world war at
camp >dk?b?.
the bride was led in *by her daddy
who seemed verry wefll satisfied to
jfive her away, the 3 little flower
girls were oallie green and Jodie
lT03ffii and mra. king's baby boy,
jerry, who was dreaned like a little
girl, they all carried roses and lilies
of the valley.
the groom was led in by his best
jnitfr, hale wiikins, who weight. 825
^pounds, both sides of the coaltract'
ing parties had attendants which wore
white funneral gloves. the brick's
corset was a bunch of large rmMer,dendron*.
from the mountains which
* was fetched jnstsd of a pressumt by
her undo jim.
..the wedding nmrtch was played by
miss zora perkins. she has splayed
for over 40 girls to get married, and
hopes some day to have one jplayed
for her. the cuBer scheme was green
and -brown, the bride wore a travelling
suit with hat and slippers to
match
..the groom allso wore a travelling
suit with a tie to match, he paid
the pasture a check for 1$ for informing
the cerrimony. ibey left
for a 3-days honney-moon in the
mountains, (p. s. as he has no job
he "will return back home and live
with the bride's father.)
.yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
corry sponden/t.
RACE HORSES
. .3 am -very isusceptible te nightmares.
1 have had as many as- 4 or
5 teams in a single night. Most of
my real downright suffering has come
to me during the (past few years thru
the night-mare medium. The daddy
of night-mares is always something
1 et for supper. ? -
..One night last week, I was invited
to a fish-stew down on the banks
df tmr nioest niwer. v If anybody eve?
makes a noise Tike a fish and I hear
it, I seek its whereabout*. IT there
is anything I am fonder of than fish
it is baked or broiled or stewed bluecats.
.. .or. ...treat... .or shad, if
possible. 1 accepted that invitation.
..The first course served was fried
fish plus onions, plus pickles, plus
bread and coffee. I ate all they
passed. Then they commenced to
deal out a combination fUfh, chicken
and pig stew. . .vand there,ain't ever
been better stuff eooked.than that
mess. I ate aTl they poured into my
bowl, including the fourth and fifth
helpings. - .
I got home that night at 11:30,
Perfectly sober....or atJeast nearly
so. Some fish are mighty strong,
don't-cher-see? After taking 8 doses
of soda, 2 doses of .pepsin and a bottle
of dry ale, I retired... .or rather,
went to bed. I guess I went to sleep
m a short while. The first thing I
knew, n ' erriblc cyclone ccmtc my
way.
1 never knew the wind could blow
T0 hard: trees, houses, scantlings,
fish and frying pans came hurtling
oveT mo. I crawled and squirmed,
lrying my best to dodge everything,
^her. I finally woke up, I - had my
r,ead hung betwixt the bed posts, my
;eft heel was behind my neck, my J
arm? vore bound up in the bed sheet
and I was crying. That was nightmare
N'o. 1.
T y 1
, 1 sient again real soon. I don't
oow what happened, but somebody
trying to steal my automobile,
ben I bumped my head on some
I was under the bed with my1
tangled up in the bed-springs
f my pajamas badly torn in an ef10
keep the self-starter from '
forking. I had 2 of the bed-rollers
ln m>' hands, but the thief was^one. 1
V* bad another drove of night-mares i
*t same night. Once, I fell out of i
y'nK machine, another time I 1
myaelf trying to load the bath- j
0010 * trade, hut my final great \
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.
dL; 4 , m-.yrn r ' ^
undertaking was....I had swallowed
& table-fork, and 8 or 10 doctors were
trying-, to retrieve it with hammers,
saws, pliers and shop tongs. I don't
like night-mares at all, but am very I
Pond of all kinds of food that causes
thaw.
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We Know Nothing
Of Hard Times Now
(Hy C, A, David in Greenville News)
The yea re that followed the Uncivil
war were fifty times wor&e than
now?they were dark and gloomy,
made up mostly of broken hearts, actual
want, privation, and all sorts of
make-shifts. . . .. . ~\.
The people of the South were naturally
saddened by the outcome of
the conflict?thousands of her young
men wera sleeping on the battlefields
of Virginia?in nearly every home
was a "vacant chair," a pathetic reminder
of seme unreturning loved
one.
The former slaves held the whiphand
in the state government, while
hordes of mercenaries swarmed down
from the North?and settled on the
"prostrate state," like buzzards on
a carcass. These things were enough
to throw a pall over the land and unfit
people for living a normal, everyday
We.
And to the amasement of every
'oito, common necessities suddenly became
priceless luxuries, not *>? bad
for love or money- It would have
been about as easy to have traded
for the evening star or to have bought
a slice of the moon, as to have puri
chased a pound of coffee, sugar or
salt?these thing? seemed tx> have disappeared
from the face of the earth
?as completely as if they had never
existed.
These old, never-to-be-forgotten
days might have appropriately gone
down in history as the "Age of Substitutes,"
as men and women were
working their hemds off to And something
that would take the place of
something else they couldn't get.
Bat it was ndt from the lack of
money, since money, such as it was
was abont the most plentiful article
in existence?*while dt'the same time,
it was the imodt useless, as its buying
power had pdtered out to less than
nothing.
Pockx&s might be bulging with
great wads off it, white stopwcbB Tere
getting flatter and ?atter. , People
used t? bite green -(persimmons, in
hopes of drawing UP their stomachs
to a size coram ensumte with that of
their rations. In many homes, wheat
bread appeared at ncare intervals?if
at aD?they called it "light bread."
Of course same farmers usually had
corn in the crib, which could be made
into meal baft corn thread without .salt
or "shortening" was about as tempting
as a pone off cooked saw dust
would haw* Jaeren. 'It was "filling
and that was' all. IBut corn dumplings,
swimming an pot-liquor, and
eaten with "blackstrap" molasses,
were not ta? be sneezed at. Would
like to have some right now.
ft does seem as if tthere -would have
been no ?kmrtih of '.bacon, as most
folks had1 their private "hog pen,"
but towards the latter part of the
war the Confederate government
found it impossible to feed the soldiers
in the field, Tbey sent officers
all over the' country, with authority
to open smoke houses, and take what
was needed. A*d wer? not al"
ways careful to leave enough for the
family. vSo meat of all kinds at last
became as scarce as anything else.
The very chickens in the yard seemed
to run to necks, legs and gizzard*?
at least the boys of the family seldom
saw the "second joint," or a
piece of breast.
Probably one of the hardest things;
to find a satisfactory substitute for
was the little brown berry called coffee,
that means so much in the life
of millions. Without it the word
"breakfast" would lose its significance
and would be but a delusion
and a snare. (Some things can be described,
while others cannot, and the
fragrance of hot coffee is one of the
can-note. The world was ransacked
for a satisfactory substitute?but all
in vain. They tried everything that
held the slightest promise of success
. hut none of them, even half-way,
filled the bill. And in the meanwhile
folks likely drank more different
kinds of slop than ever before.
Some of the decoctions might fool
the eye but they could not fool the
organs of taste or smell. ^
They experimented with parched
acorns, wheat, rye and many other
substance*, but all were dismal failures.
So most people fell back on
parched rye as being less of a dose,
and a little easier to swallow. While
all this commotion was going on over
the coffee itself, sugar took to its
heels and disappeared "over the hills
to the poorhouse."
Rye coffee was bad enough, without
sugar was the limit. Quinine
might have been a trifle more bitter,
but not much. Instead of sugar they
attempted to-sweeten it with black,
homemade molasses, but the two
would not mix and the molasses m
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aistcd on remaining in the bottom of
the cup, along with the dregs, forming
? sticky mesa that clung to the
spoon like a brother.
Some easily pleueed folks actually
pretended to like rye coffee and succeeding
in smacking their lips over
it, but anyone could see that it was
all "put on." (Next to the lack of
coffee and sugar was probably that
.of salt?one of civilised man'? prime
necessities. Those of us living in the
upper part of South Carolina were
too far from the ocean to get salt
from sea water, so there was nothing
to do but go without. Some few dug
up the earthen floors of smoke-houses
and boiled the dirt for the salt that
had accumulated from years of "drip|
plugs." Imagine what a dried codfish
or a hard boiled egg would taste
like without salt. Others tried
sprinkling gun powder over their
food and were then afraid to go near
* fire for fear of "going off1' half
cocked.
Another serious privation was th^j
lack of matches and lights. Aa little |
I thing as a match is, it had gotten
1 to be a very important cog in the j
machinery of life. Think of iM&fbeI
ing able to start a fire on a cold
I morning, or even to be able to light
I your pipe. A Back full of tobacco or
a' package of cigarettes, would only
I be tantalizing?if you had used the
last match. If it happened to be
winter, with a fire blazing on the
hearth, the lack of a match would
I amount to nothing, but if the fire
had gone outr?you would bo ia a
I fix. Matches were so scarce and expensive
that people thought twice
j before striking one.
! To save matches people used what
|w?a*> called lamp-lighters, which were
I narrow strips of paper, twisted into
I long spills, which oeuld be ignited
d fecnm a live coal or by holding over
I a Damp chimney.
I (Supplies el these were kept In little
i cornucopias bung Irem the mantdl.
i liadies used to ?iv? "lamplighter
j parties" instead of bridge parties,
I-when enough would be made to 'last
long time. A bundle off these was
J always an acceiptable present. <Ghar1
red logs were covered with ashes on
J the hearth to h<M fire until morning.
4?ut if hy-chance the last Kpark went
out, you had to slosh around through
rain or snow and "borrow a chunk"
from some of the neighbors, when
(Lone little match would have tmrned
the trick. - On-ncBes were the best
lights they had, nnd some of them
I were so dim, a second had to be lightI
ed to see the firat.
I The first "kerosene lamps were not
I much better as the wicks required
]-constant trimming and turning up or
{ else the chimney would become so
Ibadly smoked that no light could come
I through. The most satisfactory light
I was a blaaing fire of fat pine but it
I flickered so badly that reading by it
I was injurious to the eyes.
One who has never triedr to clean
a smoked lamp chimney without getI
ting smut behind his ears or the
smell of kerosene in every room in
J the house, tried to light a pip? without
a match; drink coffee made of
acorns; eat a boiled dinner without
a grain of salt or tried to dissolve
mollasses in a cup of rye coffee?
doesn't know what "hard times" are.
But the people who went through
[all this suffered untold privations;
(did without things that they were obliged
to have; did not fuss and fume
I as much as we do now?and the word
"depression" was never heard?in
fact, they did not know there was
such a word.
They held up their heads, gritted
their teeth; puffed out their cheats
and faced the inevitable with a smile,
that as they grew older, broadened
into, a grin.
They finally learned that the awtai\
depression was more a state of
mind than anything else, and that by
the same token it could be overcome.
" Talk "hard times" less?think about
pleasant things more, quit gong
around with a face that looks as if
it might have been cut out of frozen
vinegar, and you will be surprised
how rosy this old world looks. It
matters not how hard you fall but
if you lie there, that's what counts.
A Six-Foot Snake
Mr. George E. Cauthen of the Dry
Creek section was called home from
'the field early Monday morning on
July 11, 1932, by his little son who
said ho had found a large snake.
Upon investigation the father found
a huge chicken snake which measured
73 inches in length and 15 inches
in curcuinference. It was found that
this snake had swallowed a two
pound Barred Rock chick.
Mr. Cauthen has been missing a
number of chickens lately, and a
number of eggs were also found missing
during the spring and summer.
With the killing of this huge snake
he believes that the thief has been
disposed of..
Thi*.is the largest snake that has
been killed in this section for some
time.?Lancaster News.
Rear Admiral Albent Sidffey Snow,
U; navy,'retired, dted at Brookhne,
Mass., aged 06 years. ~; .
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MUCH CANNING GOKS ON
Production and (Vmervition of Vegetables
Noteworthy Over State
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Clemson College, July 1ft.?An important
phase of the live-at-home
moveauent reported by A,. K. Sehilletter,
extension horticulturist, who is
giving special attention to homo garj
dening, is the canning of vegetables
ami fruit in mill communities, the
mill authorities cooperating * with '
their operatives to can products at
minimum cost by using equipment
that can be adapted at little or no
coat.
In Anderson, for example, the Gossett
Mills are using dye vata for
pressure canning; ami the Orr Mills
have rigged up a discarded vat for
the same purpose. Canning is done
only for the mill people, who have
been encouraged and aided by the mill
officials in the production of good
homo gardens on mill land. No
charge is made except for cans
bought at wholesale and for special
labor required. The county farm and
hpme agents have been active in this
production and conservation work.
Mr. Schilletter reports that other
mills are also operating improvised
canneries and that in Greenville and
other places community canneries
are being operated for the public, an
important feature of the movement
being the use of equipment already at
hand. Not only cotton mills but bottling
plants and other concerns, he j
says, have vats or boilers that can |
be thus adapted to save food for winter
use.
In this connection, Mr. Schilletter
states, there is growing interest in
toll and winter gardens. At a recent
meeting called by the superintendent
of the miSl at La Prance to
offer land and assistance in preparing
home gardens, 90 men were present
and eager to grow vegetables for
home ase. In Greenville county over
1,000 people have attended gardening
meetings being held by the farm
and bome agents. Thousands of bulletins
on gardening have been distributed
from CQemson College on requests
from every corner of the state.
Prank B. Kellog, former secretary
. of state and now a Justice of the
world court, in New York on' a vacation,
describes the present economic
situation as the hangover from a "financial
dpank."
(Clarence Kuester, Charlotte chamber
of commerce executive foe the
past twelve years, 'has voluntarily
S cat his salary ~df $17,500 a year by
20 per cent.
Sheriff Transou Scott of Forsythe
wasmty, TiL C., expresses the opinion
that Smith Reynolds did not kill himedlf.
Further than that the sheriff
3ms not pet gone into details as to
wijjr he of that opinion.
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Special to The; Chronicle.
Detroit, Mich., July 21.?While
thousands of Detrcwters looked on and
applauded, Amelia Earhart, first woman
to fly the Atlantic alone, today
christened a new kind and typo of
automobile, the first to incorporate
principles , of airplano construction.
The new car was an Essex Terraplane,
announced today by the Hudson
Motor Car Coanpany to sell in
the very lowest price class. ,
Named the Terraplane because of
its airplane engineering features, the
new car is a six cylinder automobile,
said by its sponsors to be the achievement
of a goal long sought by automobile
engineers in the power to
weight ratio.
William J. McAneeny, president of
Hudson Motor Car Company, in announcing
his company's entrance into
the very loweat price field, stated
that prices of the eleven models now
being manufactured will be announced
within a few days. v ,
Governor Wilbur M. Brucker of
Michigan, Mayor Frank Murphy of
Detroit and leading manufacturers in
the automobile industry watched Miss
Earhart smash a bottle of airplane
gasoline over the radiator of the new
quantity production car and heard
her say, "I christen thee Terraplane."
> Immediately following the christening
Hudson-Essex distributors and
dealers from all sections of the
United States started the biggest
1 drive-away parade of new automobiles
ever staged. More than two
thousand drivers and cars participated.
If (placed end to end these cars
wouldi have1 formed a single line more
than six miles long. Dealers drove
the demonstration cars to their home
cities, 8opi? of them driving in caravans
hundreds of miles to such dis- "^2
tant points as Salt Lako City, San *
Antonio, Boston and Ndw York.
Tlhe Terraplane christened at today's
ceremonies was car No. 1, ofT
the production line and in a few days
it will be formally presented to Orviile
Wright of Dayton, Ohio, inventor
of the airplane. Mr. Wright previously
previewed the new car two
weeks ago in Detroit.
Dealers and distributors from every 4
nook and cranny of the United States
and Canada began arriving here yesterday
in more than 800 special Pullman
cars. They were met at the railroad
station by bands playing their |
homo state music and this morning1
they were taken in big buses to Hu&?
son-iEssex field, near the company's
factories, where the christening cere*monies
took place early this afternoon.
Captive balloons and huge
banners marked the location on the
drive-away field of cars to be driven
to the various sta!tes and large cities.
Hundreds of city police and banners
and placards pointed the route of the
parade through the city.
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The United States senate has approved
an investigation by its for- J
eign relations committee of the St.
Lawrence waterways treaty between
the United States and Canada.
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Airplane Inventor Given New Type Car >|
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' Amelia Earhart, (inset) first woman to fly the Atlantic alone, chrletene
with gaaollne the new Essex Terraplane automobile announoed today by
the Hudson (Motor Car Company at Detroit. The car christened by Mlea
Earhart wae presented to Orvllte Wright of Dayton, Ohio, Inventor of the
airplane, who le shown with the car. The new carwes named the Terra*
plane, because for the first time It Incorporates principles of airplane
construction In automobile manufacture. T3
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HAVE YOU TRIED
Terraplaning
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No use pretending you know wLuat the new-type automobile
will be like, unless you have! It's "power set frpe"-7the
newest physical sensation in motoring?and you get
it first, months in advance, at a price that nq4ges down
among and UNDER the former lowest-priced Three, in thai
i> amazing performer, the new
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% 9 IlkHSI *8 f
Terr/plane -'-j
What a Carl?and tha lowe^priced
Six in Americal
'425
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and up, f. o. b. Dotroit >
Come on, visit your Hudson-Essex dealer. Be a modern,
take a TERRAPLANE ride today!
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DeLoache Motor Company
. West DeKalb Street __ "" Cameled; S, C.
On Display at Our Show Rooms Saturday j|