The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 28, 1933, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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
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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.
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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
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(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
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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.
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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.
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