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k Ousts Tarkington For Political Work Washington, July 8.-?W. B. Tnrkimfton removed as postmaster ?t St. George, on the ground of undue' political activity, and an acting postmaster recommended by Congressman Thomas S. McMillan has been placed in charge of the office pending a permanent appointment. It was established to the satisfaction of the post office department that Tarkington had personally prepared and mulled thousands of lettetvs of a partisan nature in behalf of the Republican national ticket in the presidential campaign. ? The Sows and Courier. General News Notes * The federal government has issued orders in. an effort to throttle excess production of oil, that are intended to stop interstate shipments of petroleum products produced in dofinnce of orders of state authorities. Nina WUcqx Putnam, novelist and short story writer, will take her fourth husband this week at Hollywood, Gal. Her newest acquisition will be Christian Eliot. Mrs. Putnam was granted a Mexican divorce from her third husband, Arthur James Ogle, Saturday. " Martin O'Loary and Carl Fontana, ex-convieta, have been arrested in Chicago on suspicion of having had a part in the recent kidnaping of John factor, Chicago speculator, 0io was held by the kidnapers for 12 days and freed last week after the payment of $50,1)00 ransom money. The newly finished highway between Linyille and Blowing Rock, n part of the famous Yonah|pssee trail, was dedicated with appropriate exercises at Linville, N. C., Saturday. The new hard surfaced highway joins the two resorts and forms an important link in the park to park highway system of eastern America. \ The public works administration at Washington has given its approval to the spending of $75,000,000 on roads in ten states to carry out President Roosevelt's program of pouring the entire $3,300,000,000 construction i fund into the channels of trade as soon as possible. Rev. C. H. Witt, pastor of tohe Parkway Methodist church in Memphis, Tenn.. told.his congregation that if they v.ue for the repeal next Thurs! day he will resign his pulpit and go into the liquor business. | Postmaster General Farley has sent out a warning to all investors to beware of "tipster sheets" on the stock market. He explained that the ( post office department cannot stop circulation of these tipster sheets unless fraud is shown. Farley points out that with the rising markets for stocks it will be comparatively easy to separate people from their money. It i< altogether probable that Administrator Johnson will devise ways and means of controlling the planting of the cotton crop of next year, and thus eliminate at the beginning all chance of a crop that might promise to undo the gain made this year, if and when a large part of this year's crop is destroyed in the fields. President Roosevelt has started a campaign through diplomatic channels by which he hopes to break down a part of the walls set up by the Smoot-Hawley tariff laws enough to allow the importation of certain kinds of foreign goods in exchange for opening markets to Americanmade goods. Former Governor Robert Cooper of South Carolina is seeking appointment to a judgeship in Porto Rico under the Roosevelt administration. Postmaster General Farley, dispenser of patronage, is quoted as saying that he is ready to endorse Cooper at any t.rr.c. The salary is $10,000 a year '(' ten years tenure. W j. a.view to trying to put an .vc curb on racketeering and * Mipirrg in the country, Attorney < ummings and his aides are g a comprehensive legislative - a:it to put iq) to congress at its f'-.\ -< -si'-r,. In the meantime the! general is urging that facts ' kidnaping be communicated to, ? a - uf the department of justice A ' "ir. delay; keep out of the pic-1 a.l unauthorized officers and mak" known all facts to Federal of:h? i . ?(> that they will not be needles.-.y handicapped in their efforts. Renew Your Health By Purification ti Any physician will toll you that Forfeit Purification of the System ls Nature's Foundation of Perfect Health." Why not rid yourself of chronic ailments that are undermining your vitality? Purify your entire system by taking a thorough course of Cnlotnlm,-?onco or twico a work for several weeks?and see J10 w Nature rewards you with health. Calotabs purify the blood by activating tho liver, kidneys, stomach ftnd bowels. In 10 ets. and 35 cts. Images. All dealers. . (Adv.) j t r /,- * ' \ Nobody's Business i i iK. >, Written for Tho Chronicle by Gee McGee, Copyright, 1W8. WEEKEND NEW& FROM FLAT ROOK ....dick terrell who was rote up in this collum last week says it is not true that he is planning to run fcfr the leggistlature next year, he says he has had the typhoid fever and that is why he looks that-a-way. ....miss Jennie veeye smith, our affluent acholl principle, has decided to vissit the county seat next month for the purpose of attending the summer scholl which will be hell there for scholl teechers and principles, she mought teeyh u few studdies in mather-matticks, so she says, she is tine in tiggers and pie baking. ....jerry Jones lost a nice polo and chinna hog by death last week when she fell in a well, he has had a great deal of trubble here of late, one of his darters ran off and got married to a fruit-tree agent in fabber-werry and now the nice hog coming on top of th^tjy his sperrit is almost broke. Ti'j.""*1 x ...,the vantriller-quist show which was advertised for satturday night did not come off: "tW man who could throw his voice all over the house did not show up. it was to of benn hell under the auspesees of the ladies aid who advanced him 3$, but it loked like him and tho 3$ left town about sun-up fridny morning, the poleesman has a reccord of the colldr of his haid and eyes, he will be ketched if ho comes back, his name was "jhon, the wizzard." ....dr. green says verry little sickness istfCbroad in the land at pressent as everboddy is bizzy at work and eating plenty blackberry pies and other veggertables which acts as a fine cordial to them, so he says, his collections continue poor to worse according to his, drug stbar clerk. ....the cedar lane mudcats crossed bats with the flat rock hornets in a close game one day last week and the box score wound up as followers: cedar lane, 43 runs; flat rock, 46 runs, they played only 5 endings and then the sun went down, but the game was not called till nearly 3 p. m. by the empire who useter play ball for flat rock and that is why the fight started in the third. ....a pistol was found on a strange man who recently passed thru town and was under the influence of something or nuther that made his car wobble so bad he was hell up on suspicion, he proved that he was a revvynue officer and was let go. to avoid a-rest in flat rock, don't let yore car wobble none. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. corry spondent. SATAN'S INSTRUMENT ... .1 spent last Sabbath at a hummer resort in the mountains, nice hotel, plenty good food, fine people and cool weather. I decided to take a nap after lunch and .went to my room, 'but a fly either beat me there, or crawled under the screcfri or spent th? night' in my quarters; anyway, he was very much present. I laid myself down on a clean bed, and proceeded to read a few spasms in order that I might thus hurry forward the Arms of Morpheus. In 10 minutes, I was almost asleep, but I discovered that Mr. Fly was crawling across my bald bead and I awoke and picked a fight with him, but he got away. As I was just on the verge of dreaming about 10-cent cotton, and 7-cent meat when that pesky fly had taken 2 steps into my left ear. , I began war again on that infprnal sleep obstructor, but when I located him, he was roosting on the chandi-) lier, 8 feet above my head, so I re- J sumed my efforts to take a nap. ... .1 suppose I had been asleep 4* seconds when I realized that tha^ confounded fly was halfway to m> ^ tonsils thru my left nostril and then I got mud sure enough and rang the ' bell boy for 25 fly-swatters. He j brought them in, but my enemy was walking about on the ceiling 11 feet, out of reach, so I put a newspaper ove rmy face, and undertook for the fourth time to doze off. I did not know that I ever slept with my mouth open till that fly began to tickle my tongue while walking around on same taking stock of my teeth. I was afraid to murder him by biting his head off and permitted him to exit unharmed. I chased him (or her) into the bath-room, back around the other room 16 times and then lost trace of the varmint. My sixth attempt to snatch a nap was a little bit more successful. I think I must of slept fully 2 minutes "before that fly was doing a mar '* :? . _ t - nthon acros my cheek toward my right eye. I was mad enough by that time to kill every insect in the world, including/honey bees, but Mr. Fly was resting quietly out of swatting distance oh the transom?when I got my 6 swatters ready to swat. ....My tenth attempt to snooze met with mishap: That fly crawled up my J pajamas and buzzed and whizzed I around for a few seconds and dodged my slaps and caresses, I finally gave up in despair, put my clothes on, and went out and cooled my dander off with a long walk. HudeS ain't going to be no fire and brimstone: It's only a sleepy place with plenty of flies to keep you awake. That single (or possibly married) tly caused me to cuss more and get madder than I have ?been since the farm board was created in 1928. M-U-R-D-E-R ! ....I have never :been very deep into high society. A year or so ago, I was invited to a swell wedding and and a sweller reception. Everybody had to be dressed up, It was one of these here 10 per cent formal festivities. Her daddy was supposed to be. worth several eceedingly cool mil-j lions and the bridegroom was openly) accused of having descended from' the George Washington family, and he was likewise reputed to be rich.; (8 months later: both busted). ....My wife explained that every-, thing had to be "evening." She got her "evening" for about $84.00, the value of 4 bales of cotton right at I that time, and 1 rented a nice jiniswinger, swallow-tail dress suit, the. Ritz waiter model, for $3.00, cash in advance, for my personal use. I had never been afflicted with one of these garments before, but this particular occasion demanded this affliction. ....We finally got all of our clothes on about 7.45 that memorable evening. The program was to begin at 8.30, same night. We hired a chauffeur for 3 hours at 25 cents per hour and that's the first time I had ridden in the backseat since I was fetched home from the hospital. We rented a suit for him also. Of course everybody knew we didn't have no regular chauffeur, nor did I own a dinner suit, or even a coffee coat. _ ....I never felt so much like a fool in all my life when I waded into the spacious sitting room. That suit was about 3 sizes too large for me. The coat collar had a protruding horse A hair or bristle that was working on the back of my neck, my standing collar had gnawed 2 holes under my chin, the britches felt like they were falling off all the time, and that shirt front I had stuck thru my vest was bucking up and bucking out every thirty seconds. . . . . Something got to biting me in different places, but _1 couldn't .scratch for 2l req^ons: The first reason was, I had on gloves and the second reason was, it ain't nice to scratch'- one's self in polite society, and everybody there was horribly polite, and I wasn't the only one that<? was suffering. Something popped in my rear and I couldn't imagine what it was, but it proved to be a britches button. I was sweating great gomms of perspiration and my pretty collar bad gone to sleep on my shoulder. ....Such misery as I suffered was never known befoar. I am sure I looked more like a scare-crow than any scare-crow ever looked like itself in his life. I tried to eat some refreshments, but I couldn't get my hand within 40 inches of my mouth. Every time I turned around th6m 2 tails were in my way. The collar but-ton slipped out of the back and the collar crawled up 4 inches. I resembled a lattice gate trimmed in black. It finally broke up and we went home. It took me 'i weeks to get over that terrible strain and disgrace, and I ain't never had on one of them things since and expect to die without wearing one till I am in a coffin. Sneeze Restores Sight to Blind Man. Dallas, Texas, July 17.?E. A. Griswold, 84, sneezed and looked about at a vastly different world than he remembered fifty years ago before he went blind from typhoid fever. The aged pencil seller had a pain in his head. He took snuff for the pain. The snuff brought on the sneeze, and he saw an electric fan in his room. .Startled at the device, he tumbled back in his bed and called the landlord. "I can see," he shouted, "and look, the flowers on the wall paper." The new world on which he gazed is not without its complications, Griswold soon learned, for no longer blind he faces revocation of his city license permitting him to sell pencils on the streets. * * % * ? * 1 " *"" 'w ^ " " ' -S'.j-T Billroy's Comedians, August 5th. Keeping only the favorites and principle players, Billroy'sComedians, "The Greatest 'Show on Earth for the Money," which plays Jiere Saturday, August 5th, bring to Camden th,e greatest array of musical comedy talent that this wonderful show has ever carried. Instead of playing a week's engagement they will ploy for one night only and have combined a full week's entertainment into one night of grand, glorious fun and beautiful gir.ls, girls! The play itself is a brand new one, never offered here before and all the vaudeville acts are new. Bob Fisher and his Palais Royale Band, "The Hottest Music since Nero Fiddled," has been enlarged and will play a thirty minute concert before the regular show. The Billroy management states they are carrying so many girls you 'can't count 'em all" and fifteen vaudeville acts, including "Rusty" Scott, one of . America's greatest blackface comedians and late A1 G. Field minstrel star. Another big feature is Norman Hinkle, "The Whispering Troubadour," known to practically all radio fans. Johnny Finch, buck and wing dancer, a girl harmony singing act, musical acts, novelty acts, dancing acts and the famous Billroy Beauty Chorus are all with the show this year, also the two leading favorites, Miss Marion Roberts and handsome' Wayne Bartlett. A valuable new ad-! dition to the show this season is Jimmy Stone, Broadway musical, comedy star. Miss Patsy Lyons, "The Queen of Blues Singers," is also with the show, as is Kitty Wat-| kins, last year's favorite toe dancer. All in all. there are sixty-five people) with the show and whereas space does not permit us to list all the attractions with the show, we are sincere in our belief that those who atend Billroy's Comedians in their big tent theatre here next Saturday, \ugust 5th, night, will be delightful y surprised and royally entertained., Furthermore, all ladies accompanied )y one paid adult ticket will be admitted absolutely free. The big tent ivill be pitched on Broad street show Charles'King, 32, is dead from selfnflicted wounds at Pontiac, Mich., ,, ifter having forced his attentions on VIrs. Rose Gaylock, 22. iShe repulsed lim with a pistol and he killed her ivtth a shot and then killed her 4^ear-old child. He committed ^suicide vhen tHa police were about to arrest ,? Unless some of the local candidates M.s -unning for office in Louisville and Jefferson county, Ky., withdraw, the >allot will be five feet and two inches / tH ong, and-three feet and four inches wide when the election comes next month. * || | Can't Eat 1 Can't Sleep J Can't Work f A Sign You*r? Rundown! When your appetite has fled arid you're so tired and nervous you can't even work, much less sleep, it's a sign you're run-' 1 down. It may he due to overwork, worry or sickness, but whatever it is, your condition calls for a good tonic. There is nothing better than Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic, for it is iron and tasteless quinine combined. Iron, as you know, is a noted blood builder, while quinine tends to purify the blood. Thus you get two effects of vital importance in any rundown condition. Old and young find new appetite, new strength and energy in G rove's /Tasteless Chill Tonic. Try it for just three days and see the difference it makes in you. You feel like a new person. Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic is pleasant to take and contains absolutely nothing harmful. Get a bottle today at any store. IN ANSWER TO A LADY'S LETTER A lady writer to say that, she does not understand why an 8-cylinder oar does not cost more to run than a "car with fewer cylinders. She refers to my statement t,hat our Ford*V-8 develops more power on a gallon of gas than any car we have made. The use of 8-cylinders does not moan tho addition of two or four extra fuel consumers. It is not, for example,, a 4-cylindor engine multiplied by two.' Our 8-cylinder engine takes the fuel supply of an ordinary 4-cylinder engine and divides it eight ways. And why? By reducing four larger explosions into eight smaller ones, we get engine smoothness and quietness. Eight-cylinders indicate the way the gas is used, not the amount. It is just the difference between^going upstairs in four long-jumps or in eight ordinary steps. Two things use up gas?bad engine design and useless oar weight. Besides having an engine that gets a high percentage of power out of the fuel, the Ford V-8 has a light, strong body and chassis so that no power is wasted in moving excess weight. The only extravaganoe about the new Ford V-8 engine is in the building of it. The extravagance is ours?the economy is yours. The whole question of car economy needs clearing up. An economical car gives economy all round. Price, operation, upkeep, all play their part. If what you save on gas you lose elsewhere, that is not economy. As to upkeep, our dealers say that in recent years the improved quality of Ford cars has cut down their repair business 50 per cent. . As to price with quality,?judgo for yourself. As to economy, here is the recqrd'of a stock car throe weeks out of shop in Oklahoma: On a run of 10,054 miles at the rate of 1,000 miles a day?the Ford V-8 gave 18.8 miles per gallon of gas. Not a drop of water was added to the radiator.. The Oil was changed once in 1,000 miles. That should answer a lot of questions. * o July 24th, 1933 ? NOTICE TO TEACHERS 1 We are accepting State Tefccher's Notes, maturing in 1934, at face value, f6r merchandise and payments of accounts.. We reserve the right to accept them only directfrom the teachers to whom they were issued. STEVENS - SPRINGS CO. | KERSHAW, S. C. r.n!jg|||