The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 13, 1933, Image 2
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Nobody'a Business
Written fof Tho Chronicle by Gee
McGee, Copyright, 1338.
FOOLS WE BE .
..Before I was 36 yeara of age, I
thought all of tho fools were in the
atfyluw. 1 know bettor now.
..I saw a bare-headed cake eater
drive his daddy's car down a sleetcovered
street the other day at 60
miles per hour. It takes a dormant
brain to do that.
.. Laat year, a bunch of senators and
congressmen passed the Smoot-Hawley
tariff bill. Thinking minds would
not have done that. This smart trick
made slaves out of half the t^orld,
< Cuba especially, and paupers out of
us,
.. Edward Tulley went all over town
last week trying to borrow some
money on a third mortgage on jus
house. He should have been sent to
the "Rattle-brain home" years and
years ago. Only a fool would even
try out a second mortgage in that
manner.
' * ,
..Ouv public office-holders are loading
more taxes upon the backs of our
citizenship, knowing full well that
they have already over-burdened
them. Only idiotic people would attempt
to make a horso travel with a
heavier load than it could bear, lJig
brains would know that the animal
should be relieved of a portion of its
tonnage. ... rather than keep piling
on.
..Willie Green makes 10 dollars a
week and spends 14 dollars a week,
? including his own 10 dollars. Willie
is crazy, but he doesn't know it, and
he will soon find out that the place
where he is getting those extra 4
dollars will vamoose. The asylum is(
beckoning to Willie with extended,!
empty hands.
..Politicians still think that they can
^ pay debts with borrowed money.
They might not be as nutty as they
look and act, but they are goofy in
mind and crooked in principle. Only
crazy men believe that paying a debt
with the other fellow's cash solves a
debt problem.
..Hundreds of so-called business men
are waiting for times to get better.
Ninety-five percent of our college
graduates expect to teach school
somewhere, hut they don't know
wherer Millions of dollars are being
paid out by our government to folks
who don't deserve it but the government
doesn't know why. Wo are all
more or less crazy. Analyze yourself
and see if I ain't talking about you
while I am talking about me. Address
comment** in care of Asylum
No. 'J:M.')V,7S;tO.
FLAT ROCK NKWS ITEMS
..the lady who runs our red cross in
Hat rock says that she was Verry
much supposed when belgium failc^
to pay the intrest on the war deW"
she owes the u. s. for the monney
loant her after the armistis was
signed. she helped mr, hoover to
L'ive our food to the belgiums enduring
the war and newer thought
they would of done forgot us that
soon, "there's grattytude for you,"
she said.
. .the citty counsel is hawing a right
hard time collecting the license fees
from the merchants onner count of
them being too high, considering the
depression and the panick; but the
poleesman told the cumm & git cash
stoar that the citty had to raise some
monney to pay the help with and keep ;
him employed, and they had to get
it by the license route, as it is nginst
the law to use a pistol like jesse
jamcs done. the citty don't know
that the merchants is hard up allso.
. .the gray mule which was ketched in
yore corry spondent's back yard last
friday night has not benn identerfiecl
ns yet. she is getting hungry and the
owner will plose take notis that unless |
ho calls at once and pays for this i
advortis-ment, that she will Ix* drove
oflf to starve, as i will positively not
let her starve on my premmisses. |
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Carnival Derelict
Dies Philanthropist
Marion, J?n. IWUnd. Ch.rlie"
Hayes, who came to Marion several
yoara ago aa a derelict with a stranded
carnival, has died a philanthropist
who left $5,000 to a local Bible class.
When the carnival went broke and
disbanded here, its follower* scattered,
all except "Uncle Charlie."
The aged man, 77 when he died,
opened up a shooting gallery and began,
an almost hermit-like life. His
business wus rfever good and he was
always reticept. He lived alone in
one room, where he did his own, cooking.
On Sundays, he sat on a bench
in the public square. ? |
One Sunday a member of the men s (
Bible class of the local Methodist
chVch, on his way to Sunday school,
stopped ami asked "Uncle Charlie" to
accompany him. The invitation was
accepted and, in time, "Uncle Charlie
thawed out, made friends and became
a devoted member of tho class. Nothing,
however, was ever leaned of his
history. ^
Some months ago he became ill ami
was taken to a hospital. When he
paid his expenses, his friends bxpreosed
surprise. As his illness became
worse, he called for a lawyer
and made a will.
He died a few days ago and the
will, on file in the probate judge's
office today, revealed he had left $5,000,
his life's savings, to the Bible
class that had befriended him.
Midway High School Honor Holl
Grade 1.?Myrtle Corbitt, Sarah
I>avis, Betty Huckabee, Lillian Rodgers,
Lillie Rodgers, Perry I^ee McCoy,
Ralph Young. , \,
Grade 2.?Colene Hall.
Grade 3.?Johnnie Garrison, Troy
West, Charlotte McCaskill.
Grade 4.?Lunnel Elliott, Myrtle.
Horton, Freddie West, Lewis Lee
West. ?
Grade 5.?Archie Gordon, Ferrff
Joyner, * Margaret West, Willien
West.
Grade 6.?Thelma Brannon, Elizabeth
McCoy, Roddy Rozier, Dolly
Stokes.
Grade 7.?Margaret Anderson,
Gene Cooper, Sadie- Corbitt, Sidney
Gardner, Willie Horton, Horace Joyner.
William McCoy, Thomas Tidwell,
Laurie West.
Grade 8.?Ethelyn Corbett, Ruth
Walters.
Grade 0.?Oralie Brannon, Thelma
Stokes, Blanche Threatt, Ruby Gay
West, Martha Moseley.
Grade 11.?Robert Leo, Mary McCoy,
Vivian Stokes.
Two Chosnee young men stopped in
front of a Gaffney restaurant at 5:30
o'clock in the morning and persistently
blew the automobile horn for curb
service, although the restaurant was
not open. They were lined $51 and
$23 respectively in the police court.
Policemen coming up to stop the
noise found three pints of hootch in
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their car.
she is, 15 hands high and has 2 ears,
4 legs and 4 feet, rite or foam quick,
whoever owns her. i am seeing that
she gets plenty watter.
. ,mr. editor, kindly run a parrigraph
in yore wanted department that all
pedlers and hitch-hikers are warned
not to come to our town looking for
relief, as there is none left for the
regular residents as pressent. they
will all arrive and depart at their
own risks, as the citizons can not
raise nothing for them, it is about
all we can do now to pay for our gas
and oil and toba'cker, much less help
the outside world.
our pasture at rehober has notified
the deacons that unless something is
paid on his September and july sallery
that he will have to commence to
board around with his congregation,
as his creddiek has benn exhausted at
all of the stoars. he can skip a few
of the other months betwixt then and
januwary, but he needs some sucker
right now to get along on. he wants
to stay in the ministrey. if possible,
hut wants to be strong enough to
stand up in the pullpit so's he can
preach, it takes food for that, so he
-ay>.
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No Former President
Living At This Time
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Washington, Jan. 6.?Although the
death of Calvin Coolldge romovod tho
last former president, six widows of
chief executives are living.
They are the widows of Presidents
Harrison, Cleveland, Roosevelt, Tuft,
Wilson and Coolidge.
Of them all, Mr^, Wilaon and Mrs.'
Rooseyelt huve remained, perhaps,
most in the public eye.
Mrs. Roosevelt attended the Hoover
notification ceremonies- in Washington
last August and later introduced the
president to a vast campaign audience
in Madison Square Garden. Mrs.
Wilson puts in an appearance at most
Democratic party occasions of importance.
Mrs. Taft remained active in the
capital's social life until the death of
the late chief justice in 1930. Mrs,
Harrison lives quietly in Now York
City.
Only one former first lady, the
widpw of President Cleveland, remarried.
In 1013 she became Mrs.
Thomas Jex Preston, Jr. iShe lives
with her husband, Professor of Archaeology
at Princeton Uifftersity, in
Princeton, N. J. 4 ,,
This is only 4}ie second time since
tho death of George Washington that
the United States has been without a
living ex-president. For a few
months between the death of Grover
Cleveland and the retirement of
Theodore Roosevelt, there was no
former president?a situation comparable
to the present since Herbert
Hoover retires March 4.
EARLY DAY WESTERN JUSTICE
Whipping Post, Pillory and Hanging
o Figured Extensively
Macon, Mo.?From a worn old volume,
"Digest of the Laws of Missouri
Territory," Waldo Edwards, a
citizen here interested in history, has
revealed the stern justice meted out
to criminals in pioneer Missouri.
Whipping posts, the pillory and
hanging "without benefit of clergy"
played their part in the criminal code
of the early settlers.
The volume was published in 1848
by Henry S. Geyer of St. Louis.
For murder the penalty was death
and there was a clause which said
"the benefit of clergy shall not be
used or allowed upon conviction of
any crime which by statute of the
territory shall be declared to ,i>o
death."
The law provided that the death
penalty was to be inflicted not more
than 200 nor less than 30 days from
the date of the sentence.
Burglary, horse stealing, counterfeiting
and bigamy were punishable
at the whipping post. A man convicted
of burglary could be sentenced
to a stiff fine, depending upon the
value.of the stolen property, and "200
stripes were laid on the bare back
of the defendant."
For horse stealing the fine was not
to exceed $500 and 200 stripes on the
bare back.
The penalty for hog stealing was
not more than 30 lashes and not less
than 25.
The penalty for perjury was an
hour on the pillory, a maximum fine
of $800 and the loss of a number of
free citizens' privileges.
The American Tobacco company
and tho Reynolds tobacco company
have cut the prices on cigaretts by
85 cents per thousand.
SLEEP ALL NIGHT!
? Make This 25c Test ?
Don't wake up for bladder relief.
Physic the bladder as you would the
bowels. Drive out impurities and excessive
acids which cause the irritation
resulting in wakeful nights, leg
pains, backache, burning and frequent
desire. BURETS, the bladder physic
made from buchu, .juniper oil, etc.,
works effectively on the bladder as
castor oil on the bowels. Get a regular
25c box and after four days if
not relieved of getting up nights your
druggist will return your money.
Make this test. You are bound to
feel better after this cleansing and
you get your regular sleep. DeKalb
Pharmacy and DePass' Drug Store
says BURETS is a best seller.
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An Old Farmer Gives His Views.
Yorkville Enqufrer. ??
Speaking of Beatrice.
"I glory in that jury. Its verdict
was exactly right, and I know it, because
I heard all the trial." D. M.
Barfield, hard-boiled York County
farmer was talking in the courthouse
the other day about the fate of Beatrice.
He talked on:
"We've had too much mercy and
not enough justice. She didn't show
any mercy, and she had plenty of
time to deliberate after the first
time she tried to shoot, him and fail
? V
ed.
"If this keeps on?-this talk about
not punishing people for murder because
of sympathy and mercy?we'll
have to go back to lynching."
He K Regusted.
He is a farmer and when asked
what he thought of iSenator (Smith's
plan for the government to buy ten
million bales of cotton to boost the
price of the staple, he replied in tones
of the utmost disgust:
"The cotton would still be here,
wouldn't it? It wouldn't raise the
price a cent. But then the farmers all
?* over
the South will fall tor it* and
fall hard and in the end And that they
were right where they started,
I have been hearing that sort of thing
ever since I have been so high (indicating)
and neVer yet have I seen
any benefits come from such damphule
schemes. It is my idea that
every farmer has got to work out his
own salvation." ?
Freight car loadings over the country
for the week ending December 24
totaled 494.580 cars, an increase of
53,081 cars over the same week of
,1931. ' .
II STATEMENT
j OF THE CONDITION OF
BANK OF CAMDEN
I LOCATED AT CAMDEN, 3. C., ATTHE CLOSE OF BUSINESS, DEC. 31, 1932.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $521,634.60
| Overdrafts . ? 429.45
Bonds and Stocks Owned 119,976.75
Furniture and Fixtures .... 15,692.21
Banking House 64,000.00
Other Real Estate Owned.. 37,440.48 .
Cash on Hand and Due
| From Banks 43,182.04
TOTAL $792,860.48
LIABILITIES
Capita) Stock Paid In .... $100,000.00
Surplus Fund 26,000.00 <
Undivided profits lees current
exp. and taxes pd. .. .5,952.36
Due Banks and Bankers NONE
Dividends Uripaid ...v..... 68,00
Individual Deposits
.... $221,290.77
Time Dep. 367,469.88 478,769.10
Notes, Bills re-discounted NONE
Bills Payable 182,671.08
Other Liabilities .' NONE ,
TOTAL ......... $792,360.48
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Kershaw
Before me came H. G. Garrison, Jr., Cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn,
says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books
of said bank. H. G. OARJRiHSON, JR.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Oth day of January, 1038.
C. H. YATES, Notary Public for.S. C.
Correct Attest: DAVID WOLFE, W. R. ZEMP, W. W. WDDLSON, Directors.
DIRECTORS: H. G. CARRISON, C. H. YATES, H. G. GARRISON, JR., JNO. W.
] OORRETT, W. G. WILSON, DAVID WOLFE, R. B. PITTS, L. I. GUION, W. J.
MAYFIELD, W. R.ZEMP. .? ^
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STATEMENT
The First National Bank
OF CAMDEN, SOUfH CAROLINA
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AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS DECEMBER 31, 1932 ^
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RESOURCES
I | Loans and Discounts $206,647.23
.
Overdrafts 429.73
i Banking House and Furniture
and Fixtures ........ 33,807.78
Real Estate other than
Banking House 21,339.22
! Bonds 135,840.83
Cash in vault and due by
Banks and U. S. Treas. 98,392.25
j | Other Assets 2,126.00
| TOTAL ......v* $498,583.04
II
LIABILITIES^ II
Capital Stock Paid In .... $ 75,000.00 j
Surplus and undivided !
profits 9,130.11 jijfc j
Circulating Notes '50,000.00 c ||j
.. jJUL 1
Deposits 334,361.85.
Bills Payable NONE ; jj
Rediscount NONE j j
United States Tax Account .... 91.08
W-mr.
TOTAL $498,583.04 : Jff
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