Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Nobody's Business pi, i i immmmmm ' rltttt ! * Ofceoalcle by Gm iwn*? m TdrlCS OF THE POOR These time* are indeed peculiar times. The other day, I found that ^ther earth waa tickling my feet through my shoe-soles, so I betook wyj?If to a shoe store to be re-shod. 1 finally found a No. fl that suited my u#re foot: the price of that pair 0f oxfords was $9.88. These "dogcontained 15 cents worth of leather, 2 cents worth of eotton cloth, 10 cents worth of pasteboard, thread, eyelets and strings. All of the bal' jnce consisted of price. (Puzzle: How do they do it, and why? .Saw an nutom^ile yesterday that tfan dolled up en the government plan. It l'?d 6 horns, 4 spotlights, 4 tail lights, 8 windshield wipers, 6 ,pare tiros, 2 chauffeurs, 2 gas tanks, 2 clocks,5 cigar lighters, 2 speedometers, no brakes, 8 license plates, and 1 passenger. There are enough idle government employee^ plus enough useless government employees to re-populate 7 states... .if the folks already inhabiting them Were to jlarve which thin$ now looks possible and feasible. COTTON LETTER New York, August 18.?The department of agriculture made a report on the opening that 8 fruit flies and probable showers were anticipated in Texas by next week at 4 o'clock: this caused November hedges to straddle the market, but spots in sympathy with heavier rails and weaker Anaconda copper, broke to a new low for the week. Peru 5s and Iraq 7s were ruling factors on the board; (not the farm board; it's busted) wash rags and blue denims held firm under the board but the shorts covered while the longs forsook the nearby months on account of southern selling. " Raskob and Uushaw are 50 points down from the 1928 L high. ..Fortune has never smiled upon me, but she has frowned at me many a time. My Uncle Jobe Smith went to Texas with Berry Cowan's Uncle Jim Brown in 1867. Berry's uncle died in 1928 and left Berry nearly a million dollars, besides 2 oil wells and a bunch of catt-le, My-Uncle-Jobe fell in a well out there last fall and got killed and I find to send $87.50 to an undertaker before <he could be laid away: and now it looks like the 2 boys who pulled him out of the - well are going to sue me for actual and punitive damages, as well as for services rendered, for $26.00. I have always been that way. STOCKS AND BONDS ..Rails are strong, steel is stronger, but Alto common is selling at 2 dollars per bundle, while American forks changed hands near noon at 5 cents < per pound, Troy weight; the present holders are stuck. Brazil copper was bid up to 50 cents per square yard ...to be used as wrapping paper. Soft shell crabs were easy until near the close; Hudson Bay slumped 2 ! points to a new low. Germany 10s, j reparation specials, were a-begging at I 15 cents per ton at the close. All other stocks, such as tobacco, telePhone, and power were steady, hut gradually growing weaker, in sympathy with the B. E. F. MIKE WRITES HIS GARAGE MAN flat rock, s. G., aug. 24, 1982. the all-nite garrage, cedar lane, deer sir: plese send yore wrecker car down here and take up the wreck you made ?ut of my car last Streek when you fixed it for 19$. it is worser off now than it was befoar you hit the first lick with yore sledge-hammer, you left off the radium rods and i run over the Diy nr>n na \ jjrnvo Into my V&rd. _ you was supposed to put on a new carber rotter, but the only thing you done was to bore a hole in the bottom of my old one so's all 61 my gnss runs out while the car aint running. ' car? understand that all right: you my radiator diddent leak ^mueh be:oar yop repaired it, but i had 0 hi, it o times last night in 3 miles. to grinding the valves, you 7*t of ground something, but tev^r they was* they F*? -onoutside of the engine, you diddent unscrew a spark plug much less off the housing from over the ??tor. and furthermore you agreed 0 tighten the clutch in the back axle 4nd grease the universal joint in the case, but you ewidently didnt know i had them parts in my m*chine. onlY real jobs you done was p oil nil over 8eats tare a b'* hole in my ^ ? Wtfg <Jotn? and steal my tools from' T the back seat, it's a wonder pot ruy car back home at-iBeT Ming to tell you that the check rvc i* JusrTJke >ore wwr*, vizzIyT no good, you may keep iti and i will keep my car, but if you will u^wreck the said car, i will fix the cn^ck so that it will gll-so function. "* ^ you ought to take down yore sign Trbieh -says-: 'Ui&r* repaired at low prices," and put up one which, reads: "we garantee to ruin yore car on short notis for 19$." you and yore mechannick have missed yore calling, you don't know anny more about fixing up the ignition on a ford than george Washington did about repairing a 7-tube radio, i am sorry that you quit yore job on the railroad bridge gang and took up garrage work. ' ? k i will look for you and the wrecker at once, as i must have some way to ride, it will hafter be hauled off of my premises annyhow, so come on down, i still owe 6 more installments OA same, so if you will kindly leave it at the pay-while-you-ride" emporium i*and they both will no doubt thank you. rite or foam. V r?' yores trulie, ? r? mike Clark, rfd. Plant Cover Crops ] For State Orchards Clemton College, Aug. 20.-?"Again this year many pf the peach orchards 1 of South Carolina showed the great 11 importance of humus in the deveh } opment of vigorous trees and large c fruit," says K. H. Rawl, extension I horticulturist, who states that the humus content of orchard soils can- >: not be increased or even maintained unless cover crops are grown or c stable manure be applied and that 1 the most practicable method "of sup- J plying humus to orchard soils is by ^ the growing of cover crops. Though only a few peach orchards t had a full crop of fruit this year, { the size* of peaches were jgmalt" in j many orchards because of a lack o'^ j humus and moisture at the critical ^ time. To illustrate tho importance of J producing large peaches Mr. Rawl j cites the fact thatuthe prices on' ?outh , Carolina peaches in New York City j this year varied greatly by size. On July 27 Wileys were, large $8.76; medium $3.25; very email $2.26-$2.50. 1, On Augiffct II Elbertas were, large $1.00 to $1.25; medium 75 cents to $1.12 1-2; small 58 cents. * Humus "Ira? the following effect* * upon the soil, Mr. Rawl points out: Gives life to the soil, makes home for bacteria, keeps the soil loose, lets i air and water into the soil, prevents ' washing, baking and packing, adds nitrogen in the most valuable form (if leguminous cover crops are planted), helps make other plant food available and increases the water-holding capacity of the soil. While the trees are small and nonbearing, Mr. Rawl suggests, a summer and winter cover crop should be planted; when the trees reach bearing age only a winter cover crop should be grown. For summer cover crops he names crotalaria, Lareda soybeans, pure iron or pue Bi"abham peas, or velvet beans; for winter cover crops, rye, Austrian peas, vetch, ot a ^mixture of rye and Austrian peas or vetch. Mystery Surrounds Death Of Priest New Haven, Conn., , Aug* 20.?In- ( vestigators into the death of^ the Rev.. Joseph P. Cournoyer, 43-year-old-. Catholic priest, lean toward a theory | of suicide, it was learned on high; authority tonight, but they have not( reached a conclusion about the death of Miss Lavinia' Moran, a school teacher, whose partially clad body was found in a rectory bedroom. Coroner James J. Corrigan is ex-j pected to return a verdicts in the priest's death early next week. -Father Cournoyer was found slumped over the steering wheel of his automobile in a closed garage Friday evening, a few hours after-"Miss Moran's body was discovered, j Carbon monoxide poisoning was given as the cause of his death. A finding in the case of the 39year-old teacher, however, is being delayed pending completion of an analysis of her internal organs. Seven hundred and forty-eight passengers and a crew of 33 were safely taken off the Ohio river steamer, City of Memphis,_ten miles from Rose Hill, Ky., after the boat had struck a rock and was sinking. The boat was gotten to shore before it sank. Paul Johnson was shot to death and his brother, James, was severely beaten and wounded Wednesday morning near Milledgeville, Ga., when the pair attempted to rob a filling station. Both the men have been identified as North Carolinians and wanted in that e> state. The death of at least four persons and property losses totaiing about $1,000,000 was reported from End, OKia., Wednesday night, following the big cloudburst in nflfthwest Oklahoma on Tuesday night. j News of Interest in j w>d Near Bethune WJU6 cw?PfW meeting Monday, I h? k Wa# 5 * iK}he irrove opposite I indlruT6 N. McLaurin, The! ?H m flne ?nd icquitted themselves well. I Congressman Stevenson was\pbsent >Ut his opponent, Mr. Richards, Was M? J nm*Se * very *ood sPeech. iniftt'iii Hozier, who has been I ninuiK' iVMf ctarr ed t0 the Columbia lospital last Friday for treatment. lis many friends will be glad to know ecovery makin* Pr?*?*S? towards Mrs. C. L. Mavs complimented her flu i!*?Wi er' Lane, with a I ooff TLPftrty ,ast Thursd?>' *'terJ Iu! i'.rJhe occasion was the eighth Jithday anniversary of the little I..L a{U . ,*&?1.umber of * little friends "fth h^t-? enjoy the a'ternoon I w,l,h her. Games were played and hI >eautifullyndcpd birthday cake hold-1 inri ^Mtrht ,tiny pink:Jjandles was cut S'' WKI' t0 Jh? little c.?,e'o>afiLiircG,:d cea"severance6 " "? W"h MisS Vl?"d"r-"?M,"' j- C. Foster end chilfives ?t pluliM.W6e Md W"h ^,a" Xarbeough, of "ClTuuVn ""*:# M'SS Mary Misses Quelle Blaekwell and M'ar-1 Itaret McDonald, pf Clyde, spent seJJ M c"ybSra.Uy " the h?me of M" | se^t"l?y;rginiau Car'er' of McBee, wmLls ' wc w,th Miss Kachel Farm Situation Better For July Clemson College, Aug. 22.?-"Farm prices stood at 57 per cent on July 15 as compared to 100 per cent during the five-year pre-war period," Rays D. W. Watkins, extension economist. This is a rise of five points above June 15 prices of farm products which then stood at 52 per cent of pre-war. Perhaps no one now living ever saw the time when farm products would buy as little of other things as was the case in June. Hence the improvement that has occurred comes like a? welcome shower after a long drought. The chief cause for elation, however, lies in the hope that the bottom has been reached and tjiat the future will see graduaT Improvement or at least a cessation of the sickening drop in buying power of farm products. It will be necessary for better farm prices to cofitinuel through a number of marketing sea-! sons before farm buying power will be back to normal. In the meantime city people who demand and buy local or state grown produce are doing themselves a favor, assuming quality and price are equal to that of outside commodities. Good increases have been experienced in hogs, eggs, cotton and cattle, due to smaller supplies in prospect and in storage. For example, eggs in storage on July 1 amounted to 6,340,000 cases as compared with 9,507,000 cases a year ago and a' five-year average of 9,865,000 cases. With low priced small grains it looks like a fairly good year ahead for experienced egg producers. Less beef and pork are also in storage than a year ago or than the five-year average. With prices declining the storing of foods has been unprofitable trat^f the trend now turns upward with prices improving between the time of storage and the time of marketing, profits in the business of storing will encourage buying for storage. This will tend to bring relief from extremely low prices during periods of seasonal surpluses. Cotton at about 69 per cent of prewar is by no means high enough to justify abandoning the program of self-sufficiency that has been gaining real headway in this state during recent years. Last year's crop at $30 per bale amounted to more than the csuniatc O* th.tr. crop St till nor bnlo by about six million dollars for South Carolina. It is hoped that one of the lessons that recent experiences have indelibly impressed upon South Carolina agriculture U the advantage of reasonable self-sufficiency in connection with the production of foods and feeds and the upbuilding of our soil fertility.- - * T}]f hulk of the German naval training ship Niobe, which sunk off the coast not far from Keil the latter part of July, was dragged into port at Keil on Wednesday and the bodies of 69 cadets who perished on her, were taken off: Wiley B. Noland, of Maywood county. N. C., has been indicted by a grand jury at Asheville, on a charge of attempting to bribe jurors hearing the case against Colonel Luke I^a of "Nashville, Tenn., on charges of violating the banking laws of the state. The tobacco market opened at Lumberton, N. C., on Tuesday with satei totalling 306,922 pounds at an average price of fl0;8e per 100 pounds. The price was 2 to 4 cents higheT than or opening day of last >ear. j**- -?-B .7?^,' 4$ e.: - : J** V I*:<iTrA ~ zsZLC.Huh. ' Notice of Democratic Primary Election Notice id hereby given that a primary election for the nomination of the following State and County offleers: One United States Senator. One United States Congressman, Fifth District. One Clerk of Court. One Superintendent of Education. One Master in Equity. Two members House of Representatives. One Director DeKalb Township. One Director Wateree Townshio. One Director Flat Hock Township. One Director Buffalo Township. One Magistrate Lowor Wateree Townshio. One Magistrate Upper Wateree, Township. Two Magistrates in Flat Rock Township. One Magistrate at Kershaw. One Magistrate at Hethune. One Magistrate DeKalb Township. One Coroner. Will be held at the respective voting places in Kershaw county on Tuesday, August 80, 1082. The polls will be open from eight o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the afternoon. No person will be allowed to vote save those who are duly qualified, under the rules and regulations governing the 'Democratic primaries * and whose names appear upon club roll of the precinct at which they present themselves for voting. The polling places have been designated and the managers appointed by the County Executive Committee and they appear below; Abney?L. K. MoCaakill, Lewis Deas, <J. R. Crow. Vote at Kirkley's Mill. ~ Antioch ? J. D. Davis, D. K. Stokes, C. W. Shiver, secretary. Vote at Antioch school house. Bethune?J. N. McLaurin, James Copeland, Leonard Brannon. Vote at Town Hall. Blaney?J. G. Kelly, J. M. Porter, Mrs. A. T. Simpson. Vote at A. K. Rose'B store. Buffalo?C. W. Holly, W. P. Sowell, E. J. Catoe. Vote at Buffalo school house. Camden?John T. Nettles, G. T. Little, Jr., E. L. Moseley, Wiley Sheorn, I). V. Dixon, C. R. Villepigue. Vote at County Court House, Cassatt?T. A. Sears, C. L. McCaskijl, L. J. Walters. Vote at H. E! Gardner's store. Charlotte Thompson ? Eugene Pearce, E. M. Workman, Allen B. Murehison. Vote at Charlotte Thompson school house. DeKal'b?J. J. Owens, G. C. Rush, W. T. Young.' Vote at DeKalb school' house. Doby's Mills?J. V. Miles, Alfred McPherson, Douglas Arledi;e. Vote at Campbell's store. Enterprise?W. L. Stokes, William Brannon, Jesse ^Brannon. Vote at W. M. Brannon's filling station. Gates' Ford?A. B. Whitaker, tl. R. Horton, Nick Ray. Vote at School house. Harmony?John Paschal, J. M. Butler, Talmadge Branham. Vote at school house. Hermitage?J. L. DeBruhl, Hoyt, Knight, Joe Boyd. Vote at Harrison's store. Kershaw?J. A. Whitley, T. C. Jones, John iS. Truesdale. Vote at W. R. Taylor's store. - Liberty Hill?F. B. Floyd, W. . Wardlaw, N. S. Richards. Vote at Mackey-Jones store. Lugoff?Victor Ward, Luther Jones, A. V. iSmith. Vote at Rabon's store. Lockhart ? Will Owens, C. W. Jordan, Lee Horton. Vote at school house. Ned's Creek?V. A. Humphries, Paul Gregory, Amsey Gardner. Vote at school house. Oakland?J. H. Watkins, L. L. McLauchlin, Willie K. Price. Vote at Oakland school house. Pine Tree?W. W. Horton, W. N. West, W. A. Hyatt. Vote at Midway school house. Rabon's Cross Road?J. E. Jackson, secretary; J. L. Ford, Arthur Dowey. Vote at Rabon's store. Raley's Mill?D. A. Munn, P. C. Rodgers, W. C. Newman. Vote at Mill house. Roland?Lewis Spears, Lem Bowers, Otis West. Vote at West milL Salt Pond?A* D. Boykin, H. E. Moore, B. B. Moore. Vote at community house. Sandy Grove?W. H. Radcliffe, Jr.r H. R. Hall, Clemson Cobb. Vote at school house. Shamrock?J. F. Baker, C. P. Blackmon, I. B. Horton. Vote at Shamrock school house. Shepard?L. H. Catoe, F. J. Tidwell, W. C. West. Vote at Langley's store. Shaylor's?R. A. McDowell, R. M. Drakeford, C. E. Hornsby. Vote at school house. Swift Creek?B. C. Truesdale, J. W. C. Boykin, W. A. Boykin. Vote at Truesdale's store. | Three C's?T. H. Young, J. H. Bar field, J. M. Croxton.- Vote at Three C's school house. .... Twenty Creek?Frank J.. Rabon, J. G. Gardner, R. T. Jackson. Vote at Hinson's store. Wateree?J. C. Conyers, J. W. Boyce, B. F. Robinson, E. L. Moore, secretary. Vote at club house. L.~ Westville?R. ff. Young, T. F. McDowell, L. C. Clybum. Vote at R. L. Bell's store. At Clubs having more than Fifty names the Australian Ballot System will be observed. The especial at. tention of the Managers is called to the rules and regulations governing i the conduct of the primary which rules are sent to the managers along , with the ballots and boxes. P' At Precincts where voters from more than one Township cast their 1 ballot the voters will give the managers the name of the Township in . which they reside and the managers [ will write the name of such Township on the poll list next to the vot1 er's name. - t One of the Manager* or some i member of each club will call for the boxes, tickets, etc., which will be ready on Monday, August^9, at the office of The Camden Chronicle. iS. F. BRASINGTON, County Chairman. H. D. NILBS, s J Secretary. i A Los Angeles dispatch says that the recent Olympic games held there netted the promoters closeT to $1,000,000, The attendance on the games set a new world record. LOOKING BACKWARD TMra Vr+m th? Fthw ( Tk? Clttwkk Fifteen mn4 Thirty Yt?r< Af? I , , I riFTBSN YIAI8 A? September 14. 1917 C. S, Foster, of Atlanta, arrives here to take charge of work for Austin Brothers, building Wateree 1 river bridge. The breaking of an axle on a freight engine caused a bad wreck near Seaboard trestle. Traffic over 1 the road was tied up for about seven hours. No one was hurt. The Clover .Messenger makes its first appearance in York county. Charles A. Stricklin, of Lugotf, married to Miss Rebecca Simpson, of Fort Lawn. Miss Rebecca Jones,- of Kershaw, while visiting her brother in Green-_ ville, was painfully injured about the head and face in auto wreck. Rev. J. B. Caston, of Kershaw, goes with his family to Columbia to com-J plete his theological course in the Presbyterian seminary. Ho is to preach at King Grove Baptist church in Lexington county during his qtay in Columbia. Preston Knight married to Miss Gale Hinson by Notary Public W. F. Estridge. Dr. William Jacobs, known as "The Father of Clinton," dies suddenly in his home town at age of 75. James Pi^rdy, father of Judge R. O'. Purdy, dies at age of years. Colonel Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire soldier at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, in change of 22nd regiment of engineers. The old Mel^eod residence, hear Dalzell, destroyed by fire. Harry L. Bradford married to Miss Mary McDowell,% both of Camden, Rev. F. H. Harding officiating. E. D. MeCutcheon, superintendent of water and Rght plant putting in 4,500 feet additional water mains on Campbell, Rutledge and York streets. A second son was born to Colonel and Mrs. 'Charles A. Lindbergh at Englpwood, N. J., Tuesday morning. ' THIRTY YKARS AGO Auguat 26, 1902 Capt. John R. Barxtel, popular Southern conductor, moves to Camiten to reside In l)r. Brasington's now residence on Fair street, Old town clock ugnin striking after being repaired by Jeweler Muncoster, qf Charleston, Captain James I. Villepiguo says the clock has been in use si pee 1829. New postotfiuo to be located on Capers lot which is in about the middle of the burned district on Main street. George T. Little sells two Oar loads of horses. Fine saddle horsy, sold to sheriff of Lnhcaator county. Richard Young, of Lancaster, father of Mrs. W, A. iSchrock, died in Lancaster. He. was born in Kershaw county. J. E. Creed advertises cotton gin-' ned at 50c per bale?furnishing bagging and ties for $1.00. Charles Salmond leaves to attend Porter Military Academy at Charleston. C. J. Shannon, Jr., makes business trip to Washington, D. C. Mr, and Mrs. K. G. Whistle* return to Camden. W. E. DeLoache recovering from attack of fever. Rev. W. M. Duncan and family on visit to Camden at residence of Major E. E. Sill. Rev. J. W. Boykin was in attendance at convention at Birmingham wherb-panic occurred, killing many, but he escaped unhurt. Mrs. George W. Moore, mother of Mrs. A. E. Kennedy, dies at Ridgeway. Lord Henry,, imported race stallion, valued at $5,000 and owned by J. K. Garnett and Jarqes Cantey, near Camden, dies of colic. Seventy-eight killed in panic at close of negro convention at Birmingham church. 0OUR OWN BI^END India-Ceylon-Java TFA h 1Ra .... I Lifl pkg. I |# || SPECIAL THIS WEEK-ENI) GRANDMOTHER'S BREAD - WHOLE CA WHEAT *)C' I Pan Loaf' , RAISIN 2 ISc (Fresh Friday) H.B.c. LQRHA DOONE gg. m. 19c FLOUR or Salfriting bag 52? | EAGLE BRAND CONDENSED MILK ? Cm ? 18c Your Choic* MACARONI SPAGHETTI ?i/\/\v\f no l^lUUULCJ Per Pkg. 5c Soaps Specially Priced CAMAY or IVORY- "SmB* 4 Cakes 19c | STAR POWDER 2 Pkgs. 5c ENCORE CANNED SPAGHETTI 4 cans 25c CIGARETTES -Zt 27c 1 4 tins of 50?$1.08 (cqtinl to 1 carton 200 cigarettes) TAX EXTRA _ Bananas, 5 lbs 25c Carrots, 3 for 25c Green Pepper, lb 10c Veal Roast, lb 17c Pork Roast, lb 15c Lamb Stew, lb 12V?c Green Bean*, 3 lba 25c Ripe Tomatoes, 4 lbs. 25c Large Lemons, dozen 35c Hamburger, lb 15c Neck Bones, 3 lbs. for 25c Pork Liver, 3 lbs. for 25c ??-?? ..... . i , _ ttUCAT Atlantic & Pacihc g j