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Labels on Eggs Required by Law Ooknitoi*' April 25.?J. Roy Jones, sut? commissioner of agriculture today warned merchants that a new j,w requiring the labeling of eggs ami chicks will he enforced by his department after "a reasonable time" to alk'W its observance. Once merchants have had an opoortunity to acquaint themselves with the law, ^ recent 1933 act, it will be "strictly enforced," Jones said. The law requires every box of eggs displayed for sale to 'bear a placard eight by eleven inches with one-inch letters saying whether the contents are "cold storage eggs," "shipped egg> " or "S(>uth Carolina eggs." Cartons and small packages must carry similar legends. Coops of 'baby chicks offered foible m the state must bear labels with the name of the state in which thev were hatched, another clause of the law sets forth. Violations are punishable as - misdemeanors, Jones said. ^ News From Antioch Section Miss Evelyn Railey, of Lorip, S. C., visite<l her cousin and aunt, Mrs. Charles B. Blyther and Mrs. Luther Hill, last week. Mrs. Blyther returned homo with Miss Railey to spend a week or two. Miss Maggie Lou McCaskill has returned home after visiting relatives in Lee county. Theodore Pate, of Bishopville, visited L. T. Pato Sunday. On Saturday night, April 15, Miss Lima Shiver entertained the Young Peoples Class of Antioch Baptist church with a social party at her home in this section. Many games were played, after which refreshment.> were served by the hostess, \l:v. I. .). McKenzie assisting. About fiftv \vur.g people enjoyed the occasion. The Antioch home demonstration club will hold its April meeting at ;i,o huint^oi the president, Mrs. Luther Hill. The School Improvement Association of Antioch met Thursday night, April 20. The grammar school boys and girls gave the following program: Scripture, Carolyn Hill; Lord's Prayer; song, "The Bluebird," by six boys; reading, Winona Belik; iplay, "Spring Flowers," primary girls; song. "Apple Blossom Maicfen," girls. After this the president, Mr. Harvey Davis, took charge and asked Miss Lucille Sinclair, secretary, to read the minutes of the last meeting. A short business discussion Was engaged in, after which *Mr. I. J. McKenzie dismissed the meeting with a prayer. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Lee and small daughters, Esther and Sybil, of Spring Hill, visited Mrs. Lee's father, L. T. Pate, during the week end. Charleston Man Drowns Charleston, April 22.?Joseph B. Hyde. .Jr., 24, so-n of a well-known Charleston druggist, was drowned in the Cooper river yesterday wben he and Walter A. .Stafford, Jr., 18, attempted to swim to safety from an overturned canoe. Stafford said they hung on to the canoe a few minutes^ and tben de- < cided to try to swim to the Cooper . river bridge, some distance away. J Stafford, later found unconscious on j the shore, said the last thing he ro-1 membered was Hyde calling, "I don't: believe I can make it." Proposed drastic reductions in the navy'.s operating costs may cause dismissal of 20,000 of the 44,000 civilian employes of the navy yards of the country, suys a Washington authority After knocking down the wife of the sheriff of Jackson county, N. C., at Sylva, Tuesday afternoon, five prisoners made their escape. One of the escapees was captured within a few minutes. Busy-Ness Keynote in Spring Garden V ? Clemson "College, April 34,?Success/til planting*, proper cultivation, and protection against inaecta ere the three principal phases of spring business in the vegetable gardening, according to A. K. Schilletter, extension horticulturist. For a continuous supply of the main vegetables Mr, Schilletter suggests successive plantings at convenient intervals of the following varieties: Corn, Stowell'a Evergreen, Country Gentleman, Golden Bantam; bunch snap beans, Bountiful, Late Refugee, 'Stringless Green pod; pole snap beans, Kentucky Wonder, MeOaslan; (bunch Lima beans, Henderson's Bush or Wood's Prolific; pole Lima beans, Carolina or Seiva; cucumbers, Early White Spine. Ho suggests also the transplanting of tomato, sweet potato, pepper, and eggplants. / In preparation for still later things to be grown for fall use, Mr..'Schilletter advises sowing in late May or early June seed of Georgia or Georgia Southern collards, Succession and I^ate Flat I>utch cabbage, Greater Baltimore and Marglobe (wilt-resistant) tomatoes, Giant Pascal and Golden Self-blanching celery. As to cultivation, which is needed to keep weeds in check and to loosen the surface soil that becomes compact, the general precaution is given that care (be taken not to break the roots of shallow-rooted vegetables, and the special precaution not to cultivate beans while the foliage is wet. Guarding against insect enemies ] include the use of magesiUjm arsenate ' for Mexican bean beetles, lead arsei nate for potato beetles, Bordeaux mixture and lead arseriate or calcium I (arsenate for flea beetles, and sonp flake solution and hand-picking against harlequin cabbage bugs. A school for women automobile drivers in St. Louis, Mo., recently graduated 200 women after four ses1 sions of two hours each, during which the women were given lectures on car operation and passing a written examination. The Nebraska house of representatives has voted 58 to 34 to permit the sale of beer in that state, and the measure is now in the hands of the senate. The bill provides that saile of beer must not begin until 00 days after adjournment of the assembly. An 18-year-old girl of Doylestown, , Pa., defending her mother and a small brother from threats and attack by her father, shot him to death,, putting three bullets in hrm. The father had been off on an all-night drinking spree and started trouble when he got home. Beer brewing in the United States boosted employment ii> that' industry 17.5 per cent in March, but on the other hand industrial employment as a whole in the country dropped 4 per cent and payrolls decreased 8.2 per cent. "The drop is unexpected and unusual," says Labor Secretary Perkins. For the first time since the beginning of the present fiscal year, July 1, 1932, the United States treasury report showed that March had a balance of receipts over expenditures. The total fund expenditures for March were $382,367,864, while the receipts from all sources totaled $383,185,773. A deficit for the first nine months of the fiscal year of $1,361,225,708 was reported. Notice to Debtors and Creditors All parties inde/bted to the estate of James H. Burns, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, if any, having claims against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, within the time prescribed by law. HENRIETTA B. BURNS MOULTRIE B. BURNS Camden, S. C., April 17, 1933 ? . General News Notes Engineer* of Iowa have figured it out that the average cost per mile of operation of truck* in that state ia 8.06 cents, exclusive of cost of pay of the driver. i The administration farm relief program may be sidetracked by the senate until there is some definite disposition of the proposed plans for inflation of the currency. Police of Baltimore on Saturday captured two desperate bandits after a chase through the city, county and state, when the car of, the bandits struck a tree. /Statistics gathered by the national safety council show that only one woman out of 8(5 have automobile accidents, while on the other hand one out^-1 of every 21 men drivers have acoK" dents. The states of West VirginuyfCleorgia, Florida and^^NljffRTSSTppi have been granted loans by the R. F. C., totaling more than $2,000,000 the past week. _ Lieut. Norman-Bailie Stewart of the British army following u courtmartial triad has /been sentenced lor dishonorable discharge from the army and five years penal servitude, following his conviction of violation of the secret* act. . | As the la&t action of the convention of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement in Washington before adjournment on Friday, was the adoption of re-solutions and a petition sent to the White House and to congress asking for the revocation of the 3.2 per cent beer bill. More than 8,200 applications for patents were filed in Czecho-Slovakia last year. New Orleans people consumed 500,000 gallons of beer the first 2-1 hours after legalized sale of beer was allowed. . A 300-room throe-story frame ho-" tel building on the waterfront at ; I Moorehead City, N. ('., was destroyed jl| by fire Saturday. j I Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, farmer!! governor of Wyoming, is slated for a I posh on the civil service commission *8 says a Washington dispatch. 11 A family of five lost their lives and ( two firemen were overcome when tire | destroyed a general store at Buchanan, Va., Friday morning. High pressure salesmen in New York, offering stock in breweries, are not meeting with much success in getting rid of the shock for hard cash. Charles Well, 29, unemployed clerk, was arrested in Philadelphia on Saturday after he had made a threat of doing away with the family of Leasing J. Rosenwald, millionaire philanthropist and head of the Sekrs, Roebuck company, in a "cruel, ruthless and vicious" way unless he was given the sum of $10,000. It is unofficially reported that Premier Edourd Herriott of France, now in the United -States for conversations with President Roosevelt, regarding economic affairs and the coming world convention in London, has been | instructed to direct his efforts toward j a general world return to the gold standard. A Missouri Pacific passenger train hit a gasoline truck on a grade crossing near Popular Bluff, Mo. Blazing gasoline flew all over the engine cab. The engineer stuck to his seat until he stopped the train and then fell, unconscious and badly 'burned, to the cab floor. During the past year the game and fish department of Pennsylvania has stocked the streams of that state with 877,000 frogs from one to four inches in size. Fishermen are doing their best to deplete the streams of the "singers," because of the popularity of frog meat as a table delicacy. Eight convicts, some of them dangerous characters, made their escape from the North Carolina state prison at Raleigh, Saturday, getting away through a 60-foot tounneL, by cutting a lock on an iron door leading into the tunnel. After working until midnight, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister McDonald, went into another allday hud-dle yesterday over the gold ( standard in England and America,] revision of war debts, scaling down j tariffs and reducing armaments in Europe. Before nearly 2,500 city firemen of New York, Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit minister, declared that Amer-j ica is the "Greatest pagan nation the world has ever seen." He condemned1 adherence to the gold standard because, he said, nations through it j "steal" from those of the silver standard. ! President Roosevelt has given his approval to the establishment of 538 conservation corps work camps in national forests of 12 western states. The camps will hold 107,000 men. California will have 166 camps. C. 2i. Putnam, 66, farmer of Lincoln county, N. C., on Friday morning shot Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bellinger to death with a shot gun and then committed suicide. The cause ot the kill-1 ing was a loug*continued quarrel over a land line,Senator Couzens has put up $100,000 in cash toward the organization ! of a bank at Birmingham, Mich., now] without banking facilities. O - - - I ee a " a City Tax Notice Notice is hereby given that all City taxes for 1932 remaining unpaid ! by May 1st- will bear a penalty of 7 per cent. Pay your taxes now and avoid this penalty. By order of ft 0 CAMDEN CITY COUNCIL J. C. BOYKiN. Clerk and Treasurer. g~=:==7i n t II rli V v. i. 1 It's Always v Good Business ? To Use ? Good Printing r \ _ % ^ We do all kinds ? Every job guaranteed X? The Camden Chronicle PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS w Telephone 29 Camden, S. C.