The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 14, 1933, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
Nobody's Business
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Written for The Chronicle by (lee
McCee, Copyright, 1028.
MY FIRST l-OVK AFFAIR
..I fell in love when I was about 18
years old and 1 fell hard, too. She
had brown eyes and brown hair and
sorter brown akin ami wore a brown
calico dress and her name was Sooky
Brown, but 1 think they called her
"Sooky" for short; her real name was
flue.
..I had been eye-ing Sooky for over
a year, but being of an efctremely
bashful temperament, 1 had never let
on to her that I thought she was
sweet and divine and beautiful and
pretty and all of them nice things;
in fact, 1 had never even touched her.
' . .That famous love-spell came over
mo one night when we were on a
straw^rido. There were 18 couples in
that 2-ihore? wagon body covered with
straw and naturally, we all had to
sit close. iSooky almost sat in my
lap, much to my chagrin and embarrassment
at first, but after we got
'way off in the dark, I kinder enjoyed
being a lap-lander. And I held
Sooky's hand for t'he first time.
. . I mustered up enough boldness and
courage to call on 'Sooky the following
Saturday night. I dolled myself
up in my new jeans suit, blacked my
shoes with grease from the dishwater,
smoothed down my hair with
hog lard, siij>j>e<l a fow drops of
sister Sal lie's Hoyt's cologne onto my
shirt bosom, I had washed myself real
good with sweet-smiel ling soap and
let the suds dry on me.
..About 3 hours by-sun, I set out
for Sooky'm house a-walking. It was
7 miles, but I trotted them off in less
than an hour. I was too early for
calling purposes, bo 1 hid in the railroad
cut till nearly dark, and as soon
as I thought it was expedient to do
so, 1 wobbled up to Sooky's front door
and knocked 3 nice, soft knocks that
denoted love and affection.
. . Sooky's daddy came to the door and
jerked it open ami said, "What-yer
want?" I said, "Please, ma'am, is
your Miss Sooky to the house?" He
said, "Yes, what you want with-er'?"
I almost fell dead, as I couldn't tell
him. Then I mumbled, "I have a
package for Sooky," and he said,
"Gimme the package, I'll givvit to
her." Hut I didn't have no package.
..About that time iSooky hove in
sight, thank the Lord. She saved my
life. She said, "Aw, paw, you go on
back to the kitchen and eat your supper.
Mo and Geo is going to study
our school lessons." Paw went back.
Sooky and I sat down on a bench in
the front pi-azza. I bragged on the
fine weather ami the moon and the
north star for about 30 minutes, then
got up and said, "Good bye, Sooky;
"" Tn i i
thiw ain't nic? lik? a straw rid?, is j
it?," ami ah? said, "No, it taii/t." I
got home about 7:50 but I n???r got
over that disappointment.
mike sfc^ks a beer privilege
seeker terry of war,
Washington, (L C.
deer air:
i hereby put in my applercation to
sell 3.02 beer in flat rook and v?cinavity
and hope you will ?ee At to appoint
me to that offia. i am a flu? b?ef
salesman and hav? sold soft drinks
at pick nicks ansoforth and fe?l sure
that I could sell beer right and left.
i will garrantee to plea? the publick
ami wrll not allow no drinking
in my .beer garden if the law forbids
same, i will keep both me and
my premises in a high state of saniterry
condition ami will wash the
beer mugs ever time annybody drinks
out of the same befloar ftlling it up.
for customers with whiskers, i will
install nice mushtanh cups for them,
and will also keep the foam swept
off the counters ami will have a prizefighter
on hand at all times to keep
would-Jbe drunks threwed out and i
will not throw them out, the-front
door, but out tfib back door insted,
go's not to hurt my trade.
i will how to the line and my pluce
of bizness will be open for inspection
at all times, but i wish to reserve the
right to make the said inspectors pay
for at least hafT the beer they drink
and all of the pretzels and stuff they
eat. in other words, i don't want
I them to board with mew
as to my h-onnesty and character
i refer you to seei~s and robuck and
the peoples cash stoar ami my wife's
brother, and don't pay no attention
to anny letters rote in by bub brown
and joe hicks and pete brim bell, they
owe me ami wont speak nicely about
me. i will not drink none on duty
and will pay cash for all the beer i
buy if you will lei the govvermcnt
ship me the firs-t 10 barrels on crcddick.
if i can get this beer agency, you
will .save mon-ney, as that will automatically
'Utop the r. f. c. and red
cross from feeding me. if i could
think of my congress-man's name, i
would refer him^ to you, but i don t
remember, however, he is 5 ft. 8 m.
high and has black hair. so you
might pick him out for yourself and
get him to recker-mend me. rite or
foam my appointment at once,
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
beer dealer.
MY FIRST VENTURE INTO POLITE
SOCIETY
..I had never been anywhere nor had
I seen very much until I was 18 years
of ago and then I did not do any
great big amount of traveling, but I
visited the county seat, 18 miles from
home, about that time, and, believe
me, that county sent was some big
town, possibly 100 houses in it.
..Along about that time, I was invited
out one night to supper with
a family that was considered well
off meaning that they were 25
times richer than we were, owned a
rubber-tired carriage, 2 match horses,
had a boy and a girl in college, and
the old lady chewed with a plate that
had gold betwixt the teeth.
. .1 dressed up as fine as my homade
jeans suit and brogan shoes and knit
shirt and straw hat would permit, and
be-took myself to the G-reenw with
a tinnd body, a fluttering heart, n
weak stummick and a bashful look.
I arrived in due course and was welcomed
by Bub and Susie. I knew
them very well, as we had been in
a-washing together many times in
years gone by.
We sat in the parlor for an hour
or so. but I couldn't think of anything
to say. The folks talked about
books and played the organ some,
and then we sang some songs, that
i is. they sar.g some s?>ngs and I
| worked my mouth like I was sing!
irg. I coutdn t sing at home, much
1 s at the home*of them fine Croons
'with a carpet on the floor and glass
: windows all about, and 3 clocks and
i lo"k11rg-glasses in one room.
Wo lir.a'.'.y went in to supper. I
nov, r w;h forget thai supper. They
had a white table cloth on the table
] and doil.es and patent fly-brush
that ran when it was wound up.
They aiso hail somebody to wait on
? - fir table, something I never beard
1 o? bef'.re. 1 had always reached for
my vltries or had 'em passed if I
could find anybody with time enough
to pass anything. All of thef%? fine
1 things bum-fuddled me powerful.
. 1 was afraid Mr. Creen was going
to call on me to ask the blessing;
if he had, I would of died. I was
sweating like a steer. I watched the
folks and got along very well till I
stuck my fork Into what I later
learned was a cream puff. It squirted
white stuff all over me. Then I
tried to cut a piece of butter from
a round ball ami it hopped o(T the
table.... and the last time I saw
'.he oat was chasing it through the
kitchen.
They passed the biscuit and I
jabbed the waitress's hand with my
fork. I ate my dessert before I got
my ham and eggs. This was the
first time I ever saw iced-tea. I got
strangled nearly to death on it. My
cra\at wiggled out from under my
vest ar.d got soaked in the gravy. I
knocked over Mr. Green's glasa of
buttermilk. I got pepper in my eyes.
I sneezed a plate of Lady-fingers ofT
the table, I lost my napkin and got
up and hunted for it. My coat s4eeve
raked through the aoft cake-icing, and
then I got up and went home.
News of Interest in
and Near Bethune
Bothuno, April 11.?The junior
dans of the high erhool entertained
the senior das* at the home of Mrs.
A. 11. McLaurkn last Friday evening.
The reception was held on the spacious
lawn whiob prevented a wbedland
scene "with decoration* of crab
apple blosaoms, dogwood and wild
azalia. (kames woto played ami a
playlet "The Beau of Bath" was presented
by some of the high school pupils.
Punch waa served throughout
the evening from rustic welT? on
either side of the lawn. The school
faculty waa included among the
guests.
A zone meeting of the W. M. U.
was held at the Methodist church
Thursday afternoon. Representatives
from Ave churchev were present.
Mrs. E. W. Dunbar, zone leader, was
in charge of the meeting. Miss Mary
Arthur of the Bethune church spoke
on "Children's Work" which was demonstrated
by a play given by the
children of the hostess church. Several
visiting speakers gave interesting
talks. v
The School Improvement AB?ocia-1
tion held its regular monthly meeting
at the high school auditorium Menday
evening. The following officers
were dlected to serve for 1933-1934:
President, J. H. iMcDaiViel; vice pres- i
kient, Mrs. D. M. Mays; secretary,
Miss Lucile Brown; treasurer, Mrs.
Hugh Oliver.
Torn Smith now has a position at a
tobacco experiment station in North
Carolina.
Kirk land Watts, of Monck's Corner,
ami Gordon Watts, of Clemson )
College, spent the week end with
their mother, Mrs. Maud Watts.
The many friends of Mr. G. B.
King, who has the distinction of be-I
imc the oldest citizen of Bethune, will
bo glad to learn that ho is convalescing
nicely after an operation at the
Columbia hospital Monday.
Miss Frances Chewning, of Camden
is the house guest of Miss Edith
Clyburn.
Mrs. A. K. McLaurin ami Miss
Edith Clyburn spent hist Friday and
Saturday ini C o 1 u m b i a. Miss I
Clybum's friends are congratulating i
her on tying for second place in the
delivery of an essay in a contest held
in Columbia Friday which entitles her
to a hundred dollar scholarship at
High Point College, N. C.
Misses Mamie and Katherine Douglas
and Norwood Thomas of Winnsboro,
were guests of Mrs. L. D. Robertson
during the week end.
Clyde Uorton who has been wintering
Ffbwtkr is spending a while
at home.
J. M. Clyburn is visiting P. H. Harris
in Spartanburg.
Mrs. Maud Watts has gone to Bamberg
to visit her daughter, Mrs. 11.
G. Hiers.
June Truesdale and J. M. Clyburn,
Jr. spent the week end in Columbia.
Miss Ethel KeQlly is spending some
time with Mrs. Lee Hilton.
The Epworth League gave a play
entitled "Hail to You" at the Methodist
church Sunday evening.
Circles one and two of the Baptist
W. M. U. met Monday afternoon with
Mrs. Robert Waters and Miss Rosa
Lee Fields respectively.
a MJ' ?I"} Mr8< W- W- Mungo, Mrs.
A. K. McLaurin and Miss Edith Clyburn
spent last Wednesday in Charlotte.
Gates Hill Club Met.
The Gates Hill Home Demonstration
Club held an all day meeting on I
Friday, April 7, at the home of Mrs.)
M. A. Hough. During the morning)
Miss Sndie Craig gave a demonstration
on rolls. At the noon hour a
table of delicious eats had been pre- j
pared and every one present enjoyed
the dinner. The evening was spent
in remodelling hats. * Fifteen hats
were made over. After a business
session of the meeting the members
were given an egg hunt in keeping
with the Easter season which proved
to be a very jolly occasion. The club
had fourteen members present and
fivp visitors. All went home hoping
to have another all day meeting soon.
Jake Click, 18 , of White Pine,
Tenn., thought he would have some
fun with a neighbor. He made noisea
in a pasture with a tin can and a
resmed string. Bud Denton, the
I neighbor, thinking it was a "varmint",
fired in the direction of the
noise. Jake is dead. It was an All
Fools' day joke, at first. Then a
t ragedy.
The .New York Tvmes says that
there is pospect of a railroad passenger
rate war in southern territory,
especially between the Southern and
Atlantic Coast Line system. It has
been disclosed that the Southern
loans to cut coach fares to or.e and
a half cents a n>ile.
Woman Is Shot;
Sheriff in Jail
Winiutboro, April 9.?-Mr?. Ida M.
I Broom, about 45, was shot and fatal'
\y wouruled in a struggle that resulted
wheal ^Sheriff R. A. Feaster went
to 'her home here last night to investigate
a report that her hurAarvd,
W. A. Broom, a taxi driver, was causmg
a disturbance.
A jury of inquest today found she
came to her death at the hands of the
sheriff. Sheriff Feaster said the fatal
shot was fired as he struggled te disengage
the woman's hold on his
nock-tie.
The sheriff was arrested by Coroner
Gibson immediately after the
shooting. Upon advice of Governor
Blackwood, he was taken to the state
penitentiary in Columbia early today
but was returned this afternoon to
the Fairfield county jaih
The sheriff's brother, J. Melvin
Feaster, who accompanied him to the
Broom home, and R. G. Robinson, a
mill operative, who was nearby, testified
at the inquest that the officer
found Broom making a disturbance
in front of bis home.
Sheriff Feaster, they said, attempted
to arrest Broom, and the latter
remonstrated. Broom and his wife,
they said, began struggling with the
officer, and he hit Broom on the head
with the butt of his pistol.
Mrs. Broom, the witnesses said,
then caught hold of the sheriff's
neck-tie as he sought to disengage
her hold.
Mrs. Broom died two hours later,
she was buried at the Methodist cemetery
here today. Her husband and
two married daughters survive.
' >
The inquest was held by Magistrate
T. M. Cathcart for Coroner Gibson.
Grazing Tests Prove
Value of Soybeans
Clemson College, April 10.?Grazing
tests conducted by the South Carj
olina Experiment Station show that
green soybean forage decreases the
cost and increases the gains made by
hogs permitting them to be put on
the market earlier and at a better
price, says E. G. Godbey, associate
animal husbandman of the Station.
This green soybean grazing with a
ration of corn and fismeal is the^hosb
profitable wny to fatten hogs xn
South Carolina, be states.
A larger percentage of satisfactory
carcasses from the use of green
grazing along with a corn and fishmeal
ration is another important result
as shown by the tests, states Mr.
Godbey. Hard and medium hard carcasses,
he explains, are satisfactory
to the market; while the soft and
oily carcasses resulting from rations
of corn or corn and fish meal are unsatisfactory
and bring less than top
market prices.
The results of the tests, conducted
jointly at the Olemson Station by E.
G. Godbey and at the Coast Station
at Summerville by E. D. Kyzer and
T. M. Clyburn, are reported in Bulletin
289 entitled Green Soybeans,
Alfalfa and Permanent Pasture as
Forages for Fattening Hogs, which
may be had free from the Division of
Publications at Clemson College or
from county farm agents.
The political fight to replace Judge
J. Lyles Glenn on the federal bench
by somebody more acceptable to some
professional politicians is waxing in
Washington just now. Congressman
Taylor, of Anderson, has a bill to
abolish the third judge in this state.
Congressman Gasque has another
biW, however, to keep the three
judges and make three district courts
in South Carolina, the central district
! having seats of court at Rock Hill,
| Columbia and Aiken. Then Con.
gre&sman Richards, of this district,
j proposes to keep Judge Glerjn on the
bench by letting tho arrangement of
courts and judges remain as now.
The purely political move against
, Judge Glerm is camouflaged as econo,
my, but the real objective is to re-,
store the third judge not too h-r.g af- j
tor Judge Glenn is pushed out. the
replacement to be by a political
henchmen of some of the politicians.!
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| P-ive out the impurities and ex- 1
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i on the bowels. Get a 25c box from I
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| back and get your money. If you are ;
bothered with backache or leg pains
I caused from bladder disorders you I
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"JUST BOMB OLD MAN"
j **; "
Possibly That Haa Been Your Remark
av the Church Bell lolled
Who is dead ?
lhd you ever hear that question
when you heard the tolling of the
church bell?
And if you did, did you receive the
answer: ^"Oh,
it's some old man."
Kven his face is no longer remembered.
*
His face may or may not have been
familiar upon the streets of the town
he inhabited.
He was just an old man.
Ah, the irony of fate.
It is not long since the old man you
bury today was young, ambitious, an<j
"just as liandsome as you are.
He, too, then replying, "Oh, sonu
old man."
The same ql<|, qpery sam<
old answer.
Generation after generation it i?
"just some old man."
Some day you too will be "some old
man."
Just some old man,
It does not seem possible, does it?
It -certainly can't be that you, the
handsome, well dressed, perfectly
groomed, smart, clever, cunning cockof-the-walk
will be "just some ol<i
man."
Well, we'll admit that it does not
seem probable and that Providence
should make an exception in your
case.
But the exception won't be made.
Nature is as exact as the multiplication
table.
And Providence has pretty much
gone out of the exception business.
So you better make up your mind
that some day you will be just some
old man.
"Oh, it's so disagreeable."
Yes, we know but we can't change
it.
So when you hear the church bells
tolling and you a^k: "Who is it?"
and the answer corses back "some old
man" just say to yourself: "There's
my funeral if I live a few years
more."
Yes, there it goes!
See how they hurry!
They want to got the old man
stored away as quickly as possible,
that they may go back to their business
and their pleasure.
The casket is lowered. The minister
says "Dust to dust."
It's all over and the crowd scrambles
home again.
"Whom were they burying today?"
you ask, as you see the empty hearse
return.
"Oh, some old man."
When you hear that just say to
yourself, "some day I'll be that 'Some
old man.' "
Yes, in spite of all the fuss and all
the feathers, you will be just some
old man.?Gunnar Bjornson in Minnesota,
Minnesota, Mascot.
Mrs. Henrietta Wurtz, formerly of
Philadelphia, but for 20 years residing
in Rome, died there Monday
hist, and left her estate totaling hundreds
of thousands of dollars to Premier
Mussoknd.
The home loan bank of district No.
4, located at Winston-Salem, N. C.,
has made total loans since it was set
up in October last of $3,141,336.
MM??^? ?H?
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bowel!
' need watching i
Or- Caldwell Ulp *hc.ntv.,
child is feverish or upset; or L
caught cold. ^*5
! *1'? ?!,nl>le prescription will mjk|
I thai bilious, headachy, cross bov m 1
girl comfortable, happy, welj in
a few hours. It soon r<-lores &
bowels to healthy reghlantv. it M'nl
"break-up" a cold by kccjiijt2 i
i bowels free from all that sickt.iw mucus
waste.
You have a famous dorter'* ?*rj
1 for lh,ix laxative. Dr. CaldwcliVrw&iii '
of having attended over itoui tyrtta
I without loss of one mother or Uv
is believed uuique in Araeritiin
medical history.
(let u bottle of Dr. CaldweHV
1 i Syrup Pepsin from your drugstore J
: and have it ready. Then vou won't I
have to worry when nnv member oil
rj your family is headaehv, bilious, I
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i A negro minister, 89 years old j
pastor of a McCormick Baptat
Church for the Hast 46 years, and inother
church at Epworth for 52 ye?^
was injured in an automobile colliskt
in the main street of Troy, this wdt
In his clerical life he has baptised
over 7,000, married over 800 coupia
and held over 70 funerals. He ?
plained hia methods in the pulpit, jf.
ter the accident. 4<I preach from 31
minutes to an hour," says Rev. Mir*
! shall, "all depending on how mod
1 interest I notice in the congregate*
If a brother or sister gets to short
ing and I know they are doing 8
just to make a fuss and attract rt
tention, I tell1 them to sit down irt
keep quiet, but when I know the nd
spirit has moved them, then I U
! them about." He says he has til
texts which he usually uses for ka
I funeral oration?. "If a brother <
' sister hasn't lived circumspect^
i "Whatsoever a man soweth, M
j shall he also reap" is the them* art
if the church life has .been consiitort
"Blessed are the dead which die?
' the Lord" is the text.
A. J. Spark?, cashier of the boili
of public works of Gaffney, has a*
fessed to the embezzlement of
| during the last three yeaTs, by *
nipudation of the banik statement!
He had been employed by the boirt
for the last ten years and spent frj
money casually he says. The rtWI
age was discovered when his sup**!
! officer got the bank balance from tfcj
bank in the middle of the month, |*?|
! tinetnt to making a new bond for tow
self. Sparks is a former com?w|
of the American Legion post ?t G*|
ney.
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City Drug Company
Camden, S. C.
How Doctors Treat
Golds and Coughs
T<> ' 0 ft r-OI oterni^lit nnd re'
< -.erst ion that makeg juy
? ^ : .-a..!'. <>f physicians kt? now
i > ..a the nauseAiraa
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<~>ne or two CV.otaba a: bedtime wi''-.
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