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Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee McGee, Copyright, 192#. MIKK MARKS -A COMPLAINT Hat rodk, a. C., a pull 27, 1933. ecker terry of the troa?ure, Washington, d. C. deer air: plese <lon't cut off bud Olnrk'a gov* verment chock, he limp# now worser than ho did when ho got back from the war and wo simply can't live without it. lie newer done no actual fighting with the germans, but he stayed ready to do *o at the camp, j bud i> the onliest l?.?y we had in the war .in<i if it haddent of bcnn for him going away his ma would not of hroke down in the back and now bud helps us with his compensation check by buying the flour and meat and me and her buy the lard and sugar and gassoleen, and he buys the tires and tubes and radio plugs , antioforth. they put bud to (figging trenches ( at camp jackson and that is where I he ketchod the flat fcefc?jpnd falling ' archers and he allso got gassed in t he j mess hall one night when someboddy j turned over the gas stove and his lungs is weak ami we can't stand to j let him be cut off now as he can't i brcethe thru his nose to do no good, j one doctor thinks bud poss ibly , ketsdiecl the high blood pressure in j the camp as he was worried all the ^ * time while there onrier count of he ( though; the germans was likely to. drop bums on them at anny tTrVio ; from the air and it worried him so' niu.di. his bloo.i no dout began to get high while in war. i l?. - 'hat, hud will p>-?:h:y ! rw hi- a", whoh i- ln?ghl nigh paid 'or, it' ' ho*.",u- is rut df, and he -aytha' h> wa p'.,ii ,g . gt : another hi tn u : i;< ' '< yr. ago. and I ?w arid :n<"ead of r???rd:ng ha! to i.iir. the gov\eimen' 1- loin i.ug h.- .hi 1% :r, where : won't r.o more thai, pay hvvir.g expen-es niu :i ; -for need, e^?it .,f life. i be foar i u" ng bud loo much, pleie rite or foam dr. fixum quick and find <>ut that you are ruining a good man and making orfans out of me and his maw. why don't you cut off the army and navy instead of us? we aint at war now, so why keep soldiers and ships all the time? i don't like so much economy nohow unless it reaches higher up than it looks like , it is reaching, poor bud is hart-broke* aryl it looks like he might have to go bo work yet, Hat feet or no. yore suffering friend, mike Olark, rfd. lvu<fs pa. POLITICAL PROMGIBS .. I^-gidatures are funny things.1 Kvery state in the union has a leg-I islatuie. Our state owns a nice one. I It is supposed to be ill session 10 j days; they are paid for their 10-day s' -crvices and mnnv of the , leg"~fnfbjs clear enough money to. run their one-horse farms when they j gel home. (When they legislate over ... . t 1.1 -J?x- - 1 *' >iJU 40 days, why, sure they get extra pay: why not?) * . For the past few years, our legi?lature. and pqaeibVy y<?ura, ?p?nd? 40 days talking, and going down and coming back home. Ours got busy though thin year and (hiring the first 40 days, they enacted the following bills; Bill No. 507,432-?To make it against the law to hunt foxes in July. Bill No. 567,433?To permit t.iwn of Bunkvillc to sell vacant lota in its cemetery. Hill No. 507,343?'To regulate bull frogs. Bill No. 307,433 To investigate the office of chief janitor in Buck college. ,.\ly l.'ncle Joe thinks it would pay < a:' stole to send a covey of parrots to the legislature for the first 40 days to talk, and then send the duly elected legislators down or up and allow them to stay in session 10 days only. As the parrots will have done all of the talking, they won't have anything to do but legislate. ..Think of 200 fine, big. intelligent men.... spending 40 days doing what 3 of the same type of men could do just as well and possibly better in 4o hours. But that's politics. Most legislators are always trying to introduce fool bills that they think will help them to get re-electod. Why, even some of our congressmen are playing politics and don't seem to realize that <?ur country is facing an emergency. ..Running a legislature is (possibly) a big job. . . .if you let a small minority hook a hook Ir. the nose of the big majority. There is always a J sort of "ring" in the legislature.... meaning, a bunch that knows e\ei\ hing: how. why. when, and wherefore.... an-l is pretty liberal with criteria n incut to! various and sundi\ f.tcm-l that anp' H ^ to 'he Jel.o'A that can c a -1 y i ed. !. r.h>i-ts are gene: ally plentiful at !?-gi l.ituie-?. . . meaning, a bunch of g.n intei'e.-ted .u t hem.->e!ves and theii" corporation. or their t"iN\n. . ..or their favorite college or institution.... or possibly their proposed highway.... and niebbe their kinfolks . . . all pulling for a few and trying to oppress the many. Our legislature seems to be as good as any and better than some, but they don't work any on Saturdays and Sun<tays and Mondays very little on Tuesdays, not much more on Wednesdays, about the snme on Thursdays and very little, if any, on Fridays. In other words, they seem to have a 4-,day week and a 2-hour day. Good-night. A San Francisco doctor has invented a grapefruit spoon which automatically opens a shield when the spoon is pushed into the fruit and thus prevents squirting the juice into the face of the eater. Raw re nee K. Wilson, former lieutenant governor of Arkansas, has been arrested at < amdeti, charged with embezzlement in the liquidation of three closed hanks in ( oaehita county. "I think I'll be smart and replace this Jj old rubber There's no tloubt about i:? id tiros ami hot weather just d.?.."t together. Tin' first real hut spoil / nn i!I prove this fact. I ho r> ad ides will ho lino J with i.;r> tn..? t:'J il to squeeze t ho last nil koi's worth H of mileage out of thi;, oa I; ^ tires. You ran buy Good year All Weathers ? hotter now in quality ^ than over before? the w or'.il's fl best known and best-liked fit: ? ^ at prices which have nc i:, ' ...) as low as they arc to Jay.' Carolina Motor Co. ". Open Day and Night Goodyear All-Weathers ?5g 1 4.40-21 $5.65 4.50-21 6.30 i 4.75-19 . 6.85 j 5.00-19 . 7.35 : 5.25-18 . 8.25 5.50-19 . 9.50 6.00-20 10.80 6.50-19 13.00 Retired Capitalist Dies In New York * Now York, April 16.?Eli Baxter Springs, former mayor of Charlotte, N. C., retired cotton and stock broker and prominent railroad man, died today after an operation for trail atones. He was 81 years old. Mr. Spring*, a bachelor, wins a brother of the late Col. I^eroy Springs,, textile magnate, and an uncle of C'apt. Elliott White Sprirurs, of Fort Mill, Sr. C., war-time aviator and author. His sister, Mrs. John M. Scott; a brother, Richard A. Springs, j ami a nephew, Eli Spring's, 2nd, were at his bedside. He is survived by another brother, Brevard Springs. > Funeral services and interment , took place in Charlotte last .Satur- t day. | Mr. Springs came to New York from North Carolina in 11)02 ami en-j ! to rod the brokerage business. Up I to the time of his death he was a^ member of the New York Cotton Kx- j change and largely interested in various mills. He also was prominent in railroad circles and a director of the Southern Railway system, in which he held a large interest. Ho was an arderft art collector and a respected authority. I^he walls of his residence hero were covered with raro etchings, print?* and paintings. Louisiana Citizens Want Long Ousted Washington, April 15.?A petition^ filed by a score of citizens of his1 I I state, asking removal from the Sen- , ate of Huey P. Long, self-.-tyled i Louisiana "Kingtish". on charge- of {personal dishonesty and corrupt ion, | was before the elections committee i ! today. ! ( h.iirman Cleorgc. c/1 that, commit- , tee, said that if the petition on'an! e.l anything that "goes ft o the right 'of l.ong to hold his >eat a "prove:' :n' vestigati??n" would be made. Long -"iid: "1 don't know anything! about it and 1 don't care." The petitioners included mostly farmers from St. Francisville, Laurel HiLl, Bains, Wilson and Plettenborg. They said similar petitions would follow from other parishes, and asserted they could prove by witnesses that Ix>ng was "personally dishonest, corrupt and immoral." His continuance in office, they added, was "repulsive to the respectable and lawabiding citizens of Louisiana and to the nation." Pretzel Production | The return of legal beer has brought the pretzel back to its own. Pennsylvania leads all the states in I the production of pretzels and appears to have been the first 'North American home of the crooked cracker. Approximately 30,000,000 pounds of pretzels are manufactured each year. This year there will be many more because the. pretzel makers had to turn out about 10,000,000 pounds before April 7 in order to have a supply to meet the demand. Department of Agriculture grain 1 chemists have found that flours of high protein content have a tendency to produce pretzels of hard and flinty texture; that flours of low-protein content cause trouble in the rolling machines and produce a poorer shape ami size prodiuct; that the "clear" flours when used alone tend to proihice pretzels of poor outside and inside color, of inferior tastfe, and of uncertain keeping quality. They have also found that sound flours of both the straight and patent grades, containing eight to 10.6 per cent of protien and not over 0.50 per cent ash. like those milled from soft red winter wheat, are satisfactory for pretzel making and that a satisfactory pretzel flour can be made by blending hard wheat Hours and soft wheat flours of high and low protein crtntent.?'The Pathfinder. The embargo o:i gold exports by ITe-i'iion: Roose\elt cau-ed a trenior.t!??u ru-h ye-terday to buy ks in Now York, and prices > >-. ;r. ratio to the decline <>f the d'd'.ar mparativp Wrjp. Stocks charged hands at the rk'.oof 1 T.bUO.ixio shades for the day, an 1 the ticker g J7 minutes behind the market', the scene being a reminder of the days of 1929. Cotton, rubber, silk and silver futures markets in New York and the grain market in Chicago wore staging equally strong demonstrations. Several hundred issues made new highs for the year in the early dealings. The best performers were the socalled commodity stocks such as copers, steels, sugars and foodstuffs. Orders came from all parts of this country and from abroad. Sheriff (\ B. Winninsrham and his son. a deputy sheriff of Pickett county. Tenn . were shot to death Sunday as they approached a freight car to I arrest -ev.-ral men near the Kentucky line, rn charges of attempt.ng to attack ar. aged man. Monthly Report Of Associated Charities Report of the Associated Char it ie* of Camden and Kershaw county for the month of March, 1933, as rendered by Warren H. Harris, treasurer: Ha la nee from last month .. % 35.06 Receipts this month 992.46 $ 1,027.52 General C harity Norman Johnson 6 2-^ C. E. Iamo John Villopitfue Co., coal .. 1?.?0 Heard's Filling Station 3.34 Burns & Barrett . ?-30 Massebeau J. C. Penney 4.51 Wolfe-Eichel Hirach Brothers 503 City Filling Station 14-84 Stevenson & Whitaker 2-47 Newberry . Wateree Messenger 30-?J Thomas & Howard 44 98 L. A. Campbell 8,99 John Davidson ^ 2,0j| Mrs. Kate Gettys 20 09 Kloctrik Maid Hake Shop .. 46.05 Lang's Grocery 9*?? Mrs. Russell 3'7* C. 'E. Lamoy 0 Mrs. Gettys . .? 1960 $ 263.70 Children's Home C. E. Lamoy 6 700 A. C. Kreeps 3,99 Labor and servants 60.00 Plowing Mrs. Truesdale, milk , Rhnme Brothers 16.25 K. Lamoy ,0-60 Plowing Lamoy 6.6o Mrs. Kirkla ml, eggs and | butter 17?5! 1 i; l, , (),d0 v. atev and light. $ 1 13.20 I Total "... $ 4UO.OO Balance ' $ 920 92 ! Water-Tank Accommodation An American in England was giving some illustrations of the size of his country. "You can board a -train in the state of Texas at dawn," he said, mvpressively, "and twenty-four hours later you'll still be in Texas!" "Yes," said one of bis English listeners, with feeling, "we've got trains like that here, too."?London Tatler. FORECLOSURE SALE Notice is hereby given that in accordance with the terms ami provisions of the Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Kershaw County, South Carolina, in the case of the First Carolina's Joint Ntock Land Bank of Columbia, plaintiff, vs. C. C. Whitaker, defendant. I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, requiring of the successful bidder a deposit in the sum of one hundred twenty-five and nr>.100 ($125.00) dollars, before the C?,urt House door at Camden, South Carolina, during the legal hours of sale on the first Monday in May, 1;?33, being the 1st day thereof, the following described property: 1. All that piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, about six (6) miles northeast of Camden, on both sides of the Iyockhart Road, containing bne hundred two (102) acres, more or less, and being bounded on the north by lands of Mackey and Workman and Schenk and Company; on east by lands of Schenk and Company; south by lands of Lewis, formerly of Belton; on the west by lands of I^e^vis, formcly of Helton nnd by lands of Mrller, formerly of Savage and Little. The said tract of land was acquired by the .said C. C. Whftaker in two parcels, one by deed of W. R. Hough and J. L. Guy dated January 23, 1912, and of record in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County in Book "A.F", at pace 53, and the other'Jby deed of G. H. I^enoir dated July 31, 1912, recorded in said office in Book "AF", at page 58. The sa;d parcels of land are more fxii 1 y shown on plat by R. W. Mitcham. Survevor. of date February 25, I It'll, and ALSO 2. A!', that piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying ar.d bcir.g in the State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, ;n DeKaib Township, about ,-.x i?'l m.'es north of Camden on the I Liberty Hill road and containing j eighty-eight and sixty-six one hundredths <*8.66) acres, more or less, shown by plat of A. B. Boykin, Surveyor, dated November 23, 1925. The said tract of land is bounded on the north by John T. Nettles and of Boykin Rhame, on the east by Liberty Hrll road and lands of Charles Holland of by lands of Sander* Oree-k Baptist Church; on the south by lands of Charlotte Hollas, by lands of .Sanders Creek Baptist Church, ox T. B. Bruce, of the estate of Mark Anthony arid of John T. Nettles, and on the west by lands of John T. Nettles. The said tract of land was acquired hy C, C. Whitaker in two parcels. one hy deed of Charles Perkins of date January 29, 1919, of record in the office of the Olerk of Court for Kershaw Coamty in Book "AZ", page 516, the other by deed of Peter Baskins of date January 3<- 1925, recorded in >aid Office in Book "BM", at page 631. W. L. DePASS, JR.. Master for Ker<haw County. a LOOKING Ttfc? Kr?? U. rtle* ml Tk* Ckr*>kJ. r??^i, TWf^ ? I . II FIFTEEN YEARS AGO April 24, 1903 Easter election for officers in Grace church names the following: E. B. Cantey, A. 1). Kennedy, P. T. Villepigue, W. A. Ancrum, E. M. Boykin, B. H. Boykin, W. M. 'Shannon, C. J. Shannon, Jr., C. H. Yates. Chicago Stare, champion ladies' base ball club, come to Camden for a game with Camden team. J. M. Carson married to Miss Cora Lee Welsh, of Lancaster county. _ J. B. Steedman, Jr., dies after long illness. Mayor K. 0. McCreight moves into his new house on north Lyttleton street. Employes of Jillico coal company in Tennessee get a voluntary raise in wages amounting to 10 per cent. | Three negro employes of the Catawba Power Company near Rock Hill get right arms shattered by dynamite explosion. Tornado in Alabama kills 10 people. John Harless, a strike leader at Charleston, W. Va., shot and killed by citizens and deputies. i Greenwood votes for the fifth time on question of a dispensary for that town and the measure again meets defeat by a vote of 313 to 176. Bud Lee Clink-scales, negro convict, drowns in Little River, near Abbeville, when he went in swimming with shackles on. THIRTY YEARS AGoJ April U. 1918 I C. 1m Baker and Mis? ^ 1 ,u?lia Bradley, of Camden, nurrsrH Robert Stovor contract? from fall- into Wateree rivt^J^B Power Dam while walking on in# bridge ami die*, ^^B William H. Maefeat, wel^^B court stenographer, dies his home in Columbia. *^B Joseph .Scott McOutcheon, 17 suddenly at home of his parenu 3 Wlsaoky. Bva Lee, 13-year-old aiUiKllttt Mrs. A. K Lee, dies at liKh,,,,^' Freshet in the Wateree river raA^B es the 28-foot stage. Dog belonging to (I. A. Uham,.>^B mad and has to rbo shot. -^B Statistics show that France Kekl 1,300,000 men killed in action aa<^H like number wounded and made ptj|H oners. Purdy Ray ami Miss Bessie BtJ ham ,of Lugoff, married. I CoUrt Inn and Kirk wood Hotel after most successful winter Columbia reports serious s<JH shortage throughout state. Caleb Powers, central figure in til assassination of Governor (loebel^B Kentucky, retires from (politics. I Durham AV.atson, last sunri^fl rluId of Thomas E. Watson, of G{*M gia, dies at his winter homo at Hdfl Sound, Florida. Sunday Night ("rash Claims Lives of Two Miss Klizabeth Kennedy, of Williston, a student at Coker College, and; Joseph 1), 1 il lot son, of 1 lartsv il*o, | \Svere almost instantly killed shortly; after l?:o0 o'clock last night when the automobile in which they Were riding' with three companions overturned on the Columbia highway, 11 miles from; here. j Henry McKinnon, of Hartsville, Miss Catherine Gaston, of Aiken, a student at Coker College, and Milton (McNair, of Hartsville, escaped with minor cuts and bruises. McKinnon and McNair were 'brought to the Tuomey hospital and treated for their injuries. McNair was dismissed last night, but McKinnon was still in the hospital this morning. His injuries, however, were not serious and he was expected to leave for his home sometime during the day. iMiss Gaston was taken to the Columbia hospital. The party of -five -were en route from Columbia to Hartsville when the accident occurred. They had been away from Hartsville for the we^k end. Miss Kennedy was said to have been riding in the rumble seat of the Ford sport roadster, while Ti 1 lotson was in the front seat. Both were thrown clear of the car, the bodies being found about 30 feet apart. Tillotson sustained a fractured skull,: while Miss Kennedy died from a. crushed chest. The other three members of the party remained in *the| car and escaped serious injuries. The accident is believed to have been caused by the blowout of a j front tire, although this could not be, determined with certainty. The caj I went into the ditch and is believed to have turned over several times before | landing back in the road on all four wheels. The bodies were brought to the | Shelley-Brunson Funeral Home here soon after the accident. This morning the 'body of Miss Kennedy was taken to Williston and the 'body of Tillotson to* Hartsville.?Monday's Sumter Item. In N ew York Monday, one man | was killed and 10 injured when a group of about fifteen persons armed with revolvers, pieces of gas pipe and sawed off tubes raided the Needle i Trade Workers Industrial Union. The | second floor of the building was crowded when the gr>iup opened fire without warning. Three of the wounded may die. The union is a Co m m u n i s t organization. Horace Bag^-s. is dead at Ful| ton, N. Y. At one time he was voted I | the most popular and highest paid ' clown in America. He originated the' |one?nan clown act. | News ot" Interest? and Near Bothnia Bethune, S. (\, April 25.^0#JH nun- class will present a plav aK^| Old-Fashioned :her" at thernfl school auditorium Friday evtqfl Miss Mildred Billings, of ter. visited Miss Stella BethunHH past week end. The grammar school pupils, uajjfl the direction of Miss Stella BettaS assited by others of the gm?|^l school teachers, gave an operettatS titled "The Inn of the GoldenChttjH last Friday evening. The children presented a chunniaH picture in their Puritanical costumoH The operetta was enjoyed by large audience. i Miss Carrie Yarbrough, of Biral DeKalb school spent the weelt endlH A number of ladies from the M<W odist church attended a district nsH sionary meeting at Camden 7\iesdafl Mrs. Pet Burley, of Winnaboro,^H visiting her son and dautrhter-in-luB Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Burley. j Miss Kathryn Truesdale vhibfl ieiefrds?at?-Columbia cohegntatj^B the week end. j The women of the Baptist W. ll U_ held a mission study course tkiH week. Miss Eloise Miller led dfl study course the text took used hi ing "The People of the Jesus WiyM Norwood Thomas, of WinndMjH spent the week end with his motkfH M rs. L, D. 'Robertson. i Miss Mamie Coker, of the Mktafl school was the week end guest iH Miss Louise Tiller. Mr. Finley F. Yarbrdugh's cbito? gave him a delightful birthdiyijH ner last Sunday celebrating his|I^B birthday anniversary. An elibonlM menu was served picnic style otH shade trees in the yard. sons, three daughters and ten |WS children were ipresent, also a luflH number of relatives and friends<* joyed this pleasant occasion. Gen. N. G. Ostein, Command* the South Carolina division <t United Confederate veterans, *1 nounced Tuesday that the aniuulfrl union of South Carolina would not be held Miay 24 and 2S^B had been planned. The reunion scheduled to be held in SurdUffB these dates. No la tea* date for the reunion, and it ia P051*! that the event will be abandon I together this year. t '^B Renew Your Healw By Purification J Any physician will tell yojjA^B "Perfect Purification of the 8, is Nature's Foundation of "f Health." 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