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Nobody's Business WrtM** ?? t* (%??k!zJy ?*' Copyright. 1??. YOl C \N now bank OS THB BANKS TV bank* are alt' going to be run under tbe rode Ne .h r. Lntbe. Sin.* ^ ^ quit >endmg money, they gg *? depend on ih? ;nUr?*w*rt>mg future of Unking b*aift?* for revertue. but will poiaiWy ?**?? a few charge* for service, here and iher*. something like the followed . For accepting a depo.H ., For cashsng local eh?k -. 10 centa For casing 3 loca. checks -. 50 <**u For customer ^neeung in hank'.. ' 10cenU For customer u?irg blotter 50 cent* For customer using de*k .10 CtOt* Kor customer coughing in bank ' i . ' ** ***** A For issuing CasK^'* Check 1- cents For gun* telephone .. . .10 <enu For spitting in spittoon .. 10 cents For-;spitting over spittoon . 05 carta Fot uatr.g blank checks, each . Wc*nU For government tax per t ch?k " 02 ?r':* FOr looking thru pate ,. 12 centa glass ? -> ..; 7 For asking for loan ... - #o.c*nt* For being turned down : - 10 cents For counting your cash (deposit) .. .. ,,. }* For whistling in back . v ." SO cents For getting warm at radiator .. - * .* *"* ccn^? For usfr.g pencil sharpener 1 Oc-en** F?i turning down bad check .' - ? 3s! c#toU For answeririg phone call .. 05 cents For handing draft .. 75 c*nts F'or issuing certified check" 50 cents For talking to customer .-. 10 cents " For using front door . , < 05 cents For u??ng back door . . . 15-cents 'O.It is possible that Mr Hugh Johnson wpn't let the banks use quite all of those methods, that, is the or.es listed herein r.ot already :n use. but most of them seem to be :r. order* and for the banks' sake, 1 hope they triii be instituted m toto. (Old banking methods have vamoosed.) All deposit up to S2500 < ?1> art now insured. T at. w-.ll make me use at ;ea.-t 10 bank- to get fu?: protect:en. that ib?if I put all of my three (MWl dollar* in the bar.k?. but the same, this insurance feature is going to fetch m:!!irr..?- of dollars out of mattresses-, stoe kirg>. shoe.-. fru>? iars. chimney corners, corsets, coat lining#., coffee >pota ansoforth. I think the banks are entitled to a different kind of "break." to those enjoyed during the past 12 years. JX MIKE REPORTS SOME TROUBLE ..our little town was brought to her senses la*t sunday pm. when 2 cars tried to meet eacr. other -in the same tracks on ream street in the hart of the bimess district, (p. s. it was fiat rock's first excitement on sunday since the dog fight last summer). ..a lawsuit ensued 2 days after the wreck and it was beii in the otfis of -the nut ye r with all concerned (as weii as unconcerned) present to hear the trial. j'.rn bell was tr.e party of the first part and judd botts was the party >! the >vc :-r.t I art. ..the party of the rir-t .part, v.:'7.'y: j.m in. 11, - -n ' : t ' ar.e w or. v:r.g a.* r. g n.a ' # -a. ?*.>< .. ,- *? . r .. ill ! - " ? " i.t : art. r. wti- he tc al?.J g- - - f ' * ' ' */ a.'.u >. ,..r.t part, t . t .e s'ar. : U-\v fr ;,r:y ' t:.e fi.-t part was. totntr.g to Aar-- * ? ' * bunt; ? : a-, a aC a: * 2 fr'-r . A ' " w'nih U.? : -r-.. ' sued t" r - ' 1:5$ .r. ."'A- a v.-iat Mart w..7.? - U It.- : '" " ' ciifTe:e:t: ? P>- ' : .the ca.-? wvM ' t:.0 .u:y an : .. dead-'.o?.-keu t.l. 11 pM'.. a- : a..^.. inavt r -.vent " to ae.- -a .-.at world was to matter. 1 at cam were nearly <:rur.K, ar. . tr.e other -aaslee; , so r.u .:,t was reacr.e-i .... they woke up the next day. which varf- as fo.'.owwrs: "we find f' r the plair.titT >$. ar.d wv .'.r.u for tr.e defendant and retommend that they both fix up theur own cars and fissica; damages." . .both the party of the first and aecont part will take their cases to the high coart with lawyers and in the meantime, they will have to walk, as both of the said forda have benn | rt'-posise.-vacu oy tr.e "p4y-'*?i.c-yoa- . 11 r.joy iar company." it was a bad atTair and the pasture of rehober churth says it \s as rt,i caused by the | repeal of the 18 amendments in november. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd., corry apondent. To Erect A Municipal Building At Kershaw for ?oa?e Hint the dtjr uthoritiea have been engaged. in working out . plan* for the erection of a municipal | building upon city property mnd 4M vtlopmenf* have now reached the stage where definite information ran be given that Mich a building *? to be erected en the property at the p.y water station >u*t a abort distance south of the Era office. A? an evidence that work is to begin very j materia) in .already being placed . on the ground for the erection of a J one story brkk building to have a frontage of *' iM ft# *nd a depth ] <>f -td feet, which will contain a council ro^m, two office* four prison] cells and four rest rooms, for use of septate sexes of white and colored . prisoners. . ^ Such building has Afc-en long meded and it is indeed fortunate tnai the y\y authorities have .been able to negotiate a deal through the Civil Works Administration whereby ; { the task may be done V a minimum of cost *t * most favorable firoe,?- j | Kersha w Era. Walker D. Hines ] Is Dead In Italy !. N(* lotk, Jan. H--Wilk? B.j Hines, drrector general of American rereads from 1&1S* to 1S#20, had died, j :n Merino, Italy, relatives here were j . notified. ; Hrnest, who was S3.- went to Europe.. j last June as head of a mission to . study economic rehabilitation of Tur- f key. He had stopped in Italy for a I few months because of ill health. I>eath was caused by apoplexy, said a cablegram from Mrs. Hines. j who, with theii^. daughter, Mrs. Paul j ' Tison, I>arien. Conn., had accompan- f j ifcd the noted attorney ar.d adminis- , i trator. . Burial will be in Florence,! ! . I ; Italy, Know Any Bigger? E. J. Powell, of ^Slater, S. C., tells j us some of the things his grand- I mother told him. Back in the okl j days my grandmaw used one of those > old-time black iron fireplace stewing j pots to cook in. Thus particular put.; ! ?he sa.d, had been handed down to " ?;er by her grandmaw. W hen new it j held two gallons and had peg legs ; I three inches high, but she used it so hard and so long, th? legs became1 i worn down to the s.ze of carpet tacks ' and the pot would hold no more than i a cupful. When it bee&ne as small as this she poured kerosene in it ar.d f set it inside her shelf c.ock to keep the wheels froffi rusting. This clock was so old, s)pe said, the shadow from the pendulum had wom a hole in the ; back of the case. One day grandmaw was walking up in the mountains when she came upon j a man with a long gray beard. He ' rooked very old, and could walk only ; with extreme difficulty even with : crutches. He was crying. Grand- J maw questioned him, "Old man, what ! are you crying about?" He answerled through his tears: "Pappy slapped ' me for sassing his grandpaw." My i grandmaw askgd i^ the man s great i grandpa was really living, and cn be :r.g tola that he was, indicated her j ie>ire to see him. The old man mo- ' j tkor.ed her to follow him, and when, ] y wer.t into the house, he said: ] * i ,.:v.e or, upstair*. Just o'Ut^.de ?r.e r.e f the second tloor rooms , . . T.ar. tvj.-i g' an :maw the mar. a a:. .i . < -?* wa* :r. t !.v be-u. . A" g ar.'i'naw entered tr.e room Ked a" :r.e .> : tr.icc wu- r >'.- 1 *. . K :f ?I *.? ! v i'a-mir A: - v N KA <"ha-h r.. a a ; % ;; r.f-g'-es f .r tr.a. :r. . . O \ C ^*1 * ?? ' * ?... * r.:i\ ' g a ? ? r.e: a. d.sturPar.ce. I*, was a dance .-.ah w .'.h plenty of h ot, n ... .at:-.. Tr.e use o: tr.e NRA for up r.aa . j".a.? r?en. t*. j ->rte . to 'A a -..' g". n I-1.- It- : ra. c a '*..' r. agatr.e proprietor who was ser.m;, ... Vut.. year-- . : I?nr..r.g. . a 1 ; >ear-.u gr >>*. r. i r.* r y ?r.a, i * j .. .. r. ^ "a ? r. * . r. * o t :' - .*.\ ;to . vxit* 0ix. ri ar. . : . g.r i. The NPunr. boy: Mr.c? the .-*v*ra. : \*,r.Uf- our-au an: . . t-. .r. \S iu- r.. v. g*. *r. la -1 weVk, j that an :n*-.r.sive or.ve wcu. t r>e ma 'A- . 1 . or tn.e country t < ,< ar,.". uJt .r.comt it ax e a uer>. tr.e re r.a-? bet-r? received J bv *he bureau upwards of ?.>0.b00,0'c0 ] I .it pa*: ?:ue .r.c.-me rates. r , ? Mrs. Blease Is Taken By Death Columbia, rcTlw. 14,?Mr. Cole U Ble?%?. ***? 6f W governor and United Slate* aenator a^tvi at the BWaae home hero today^ after a long paw- f . Mr*. Bl**** had beer m !?<*>? with for nine y*?ra and had ,U<* aerWly iU for several months. Death came at 10 a. m. Funeral service* will be jtondueVM j at the home at 1 p. m. tomorww hy | H?v. W. L. Mullikitn and Rev. A* E. Holler, Methodist paators of Colnm-. bia and Newberry, respectively. Com mital jservice* will be be Id at 3 p. nr at Rosrment cemetery, Newberry, h?* former home. Mrs. Blease. *ho before her mar , rsai w%? Miss Ullie Summers,1 was born at Pendleton, Anderson county, the daughter of H. C? and |ier) , uggs Summers. In her early childhood, her parents moved to Helena. Newberry! county, and in lMM>;! sho and Mr. Blease were mar j^edt . . 1 A keen observer and judge of human nature, she gave her husband j invaluable aid and counsel in his legal and political affairs which included, four years in the governor's officej and six in Washington as senator. A friend said of her tonight: "I have known Mr. and Mrs. B.t-as*. for many years. I never knew a more devoted wife nor one more nelpr j ful to her husband. Going back to j their early married life "in Newberry I recall her as a beautiful woman, seemingly hardly more than a g?rl?j w*<th(>glorious red hair and buoyancy j of spirit which radiated cheer and happiness; - ? , "As the years passed ana the turmoil and passions of politics beat upon the path which she walked with, her husband, wherever it led, ahe j never lost that spirit which she had | inherited from a long line of distinguished ancestors, nor did her <5evotion to her home or his interests ever become wearied." "Can-a-Cow" Economy Slogan How many cans to a cow? Perhaps you have,pot been in the habit, of visualizing eVe>Tbovine you happen to see in terms df the number of cams of meat she would put on the storage shelves against a lean winter. This, however, is exactly what I Miss .Sadie Craig, home demonstra-., j tion agent, and Miss Mary Hayes, emergency worker, did when they j supervised the canning of parts of a ! cow and two hogs on the farm of J. i ; H. Walker on January 3. j The canning demonstrated hew, surplus and unprofitable rarm* animals may be turned into wholesome, economical and delicious food for the entire family. Slaughtering and dressing of the animals took place the day before. A crew of workers at the demonstration assisted in cutting find preparing the meat, sealing it in tin c^ns, and processing them in the steam pressure. Around sixty-eight cans of roasts, steaks, stew, sausage and the like were canned. There was a very large funeral for J. Lawrence McGee, a prominent farmer of Starr, in Anderson county, who died at his home aged G5 years. He was a large land owner in Ander- i .sor county where he was born, the sor. of Col. Jesse McGee and lived here all his life. He was a large factor in bu:ld;r.g up hi- community * and a iear.r.g ar.d useful member o. Mt.tr. -c.-t church. The State of South Carolina coltli mere ir;<iirex-V taxci t - an it .i:d ?n These are li.en-e. gr- hne. sof drink ar..i v^.tr, show adm:-sion ar.d s;m..a. ta\c>. ; . a the tax paid on electric urr-r.- u^-d and a few mo-e of that Ixird The new beer law and .ax v,_, i r,v r *1<?.S.2:20 to January 1. orcub.., a. e.. . ! >c-crt a-es were shown ir. l'Jd.'i. over he previous year, in taxes or. ir.r.eritar.ee-. ir. ernes and retail stores. Drayton M.il No. 2. at Spartanburg ,\a- iamag'.d by rare t > the amour; of a--i the .a-ge-t mill :r. mat .? ? *,?. jl* p*'T..c*d I*y a r.i"* ar'.eti r. :h* yarr. . 1 ,/-*r T r*t* s > ?* 0 vj v o T y -i?>. ar ar.d the rr;.. ag r ' - rat .or.. Jarr.t- Arde-wr.. formerly a state c"?*av>'e from Berkeley county. v as a .i ;r." - he r -ad by rr n.b.t. r. 7** ar.d cr.a-ge i *.v;tn P ?-M*->.r.ic .f gal. r5 c: ...juor err .\r. h .he t..terr.a. revenue tax nad not h-e-n He - *he hr.-t. ?u,h m.-.r. :< be arrested in thi- state since the prohi-. bit ion law was repealed. The J 1-:'.v * Id daugr.ter of Mr. ar.<: Mr- Edward Lu ar.o. of Brooklyn. "N V.. k:dr.aped la-t week from the;r r pome, was recovered a'ter a two-<tay search. Tne child was found in a basement apartment occupied by a wh.te woman arxl her ne" 1 gro husband, both of whom were ar rested. Chemical tests of the child's j blood proved that the claim of the woman that the child was her's by j her negro husband, was falae. Mountain Bad Man Is Killed By Sheriff N'orth Wilkt *boro, N. C., Jan 15.? Ed At wood, 52. widely known Wilkea county "had man" and eacapad con* vict, died last night in a Wait m gunfire brought on himself when h? rriWcd offieera after an escape f*?? the county j?iL Sheriff W. JL Somera, who fired tl? fatal shot in a running ?#ua-batt!e, was exonerated by a coronerV jury. At wood was one of 4 prisoner* who broke out of the jail early Sunday morning. Last night officers were called to the Summit section by reaider.ts who reported At wood wpg:creating a disturbance. When the sheriff and deputies It. S. KiM>y and Jim Alexander made their appearance, Atwood ran. turning occasionally to fire at his pursuers with a 4f gauge shotgun. When Atwood ignored warnings to [desist .Sheriff Somera said he waited until the convict turned to fire again and then shot him through the chest. Atwood had just been re-arrested after escaping from a state prison farm eight months ago. He was serving sentences for several robberies and other crimes. Andrew Smoot, held as a suspect I in the recent death of Leota Childress, 18-year-old farm girl, was in the cell from which Atwood and his companions escaped, but made no mov^ to accompany them. The four men gain**! tb*ir liberty by br*akin* through a window with the aid of a plank left by CWA workers. Rev. Brayshaw Is In A Critical, Condition ft ?' , "V ' A news dispatch from Wilmington recently told of a paralytic stroke which was suffered by Rev. Ilbert deLacy Brayshaw, rector of the Christ church in New Bern, N. C., and who formerly served the local Episcopal church while stationed at Camden. The article from the Wilmington Star is as follows: . ?*The Rev. Ilbert deLacy Brayshaw, rector of Christ church in New Bern and formerly assistant rector at St. James Episcopal church here, is Jn critical condition, following a stroke of paralysis suffered Wednesday. "The Rev. Mr. Brayshaw is well known , in Wilmington, having been located Krre for several years prior to his transfer to the New Bern church about two years ago. He is chaplain of the 252nd Coast Artillery | regiment, with headquarters here. ! COLLEGE BOY GlNMAN SLAIN "Handsome Jack" Klutas, Desperado, Shot to Death by Chicago Police I' ' . Chicago, Jan. 6.?Jack Klutas, college boy gunman nicknamed "Handsome Jack" by his desperate confederates, was shot a fid killed today by police gun fire at a suburban cottage hideaway. . The killing added another triumph to police in their fight to rid the nation of a new crop of outlaws whose criminal exploits have made <bIoody history in recent months. KluL&s was shot down by a police squad which forced' its way into his Hideaway while he was absent. The officers opened fire on Klutas when he drewr his gun as he entered the house, suspicious that all was not well. . Two other men were .captured in the raid which tame as the result of ; a mysterious tip to (apt. Dan G:;bert of the states attorney's office. j Klutas was or.e of the most sought-1 Tor men in America. His name heau- j ed the list of notorious crimr.ials is- , sued by local police a fortnight ago for whom no quarter would be gi\en. He was under indictment in Chicago on a charge of kidnaping James, Hackett, Blue Island gambler, and j holding him for $50,00u ransom. Ai graduate of the University of Illinois, [ Klutas was reported to be the leader j cf or.e of the most desperate bands , of midwest abductors. Investigators credited the K.utas . gang with kidnaping a score of vie- ? tims in half a dozen state/ in the ( past two years. The ransom total , ran into hundreds of thousands o? < dollars. _ 1 David Lamar. 65. known for man^ j years as the "Wolf of Wall StTeet, j was four.u ck-ad in his New \ork ho-j tel room on Saturday, after supposed- , ly having been dead 24 hours from j .neart disonse. He was frequently ;n . the hands of the law on cha-ges of ; swindling and other crimes. During the World war he was charged with attempting to incite riots to impede the manufacture and shipment of arms. He served a year for that. An embarrassed young man of F>itt?burgh, Pa., explained to the pohce after he had been arrested, that the woman he "kidnaped" was "merely his wife," who had quarreled with him after they had left a beer-drinking luncheon. After he forced her Into a taxi she began screaming. . C. 11. Good News Items Of Better Fanning Clemson College, Jan. 13?'Progressive farming ideas and practices from a dozen farm agents and specialists are typical of recent reports from over the state * ^ Planting of all grain crops in the county has made progress much beyond the general average of the past few years and these crops are up to a good stand.?W. J. Tiller, Chesterfield. . # J. S. Stone, turned a crop of lespedeza on ten acres, planted Coker's 5 strain 5, used two early applications of sweetened poison, and by August 1 he had made a bale per acre.?R. H. Lemmon, Fairfield. J. W. Sowell says that by the use of good seed corn secured through the county agent he has'fiacre com in Ihe barns on Clifford Plantation than ^ O has been there for many years.?H. D. Green, Kershaw. Considering low prices for eggs and chickens, our poultry demonstrators realized a neat profit. Six flocks averaging 489.7 hens showed an average net profit of $1.06 per hen.?E. L. Rogers, McCormick. Eleven farmers have disposed of $841.94 worth of poultry during the months through this office. Turkeys were sold at an average price of 15 cents per pound.?W. H. Pressly, Allendale. ? w Much of the land that will be left out of cotton has already been planted in grain, which will be used for mule an ddairy feed on the farm.? David R. Hopkins, Richland. At a meeting of farmers December 22 steps were taken for setting up a county-wide cooperative marketing association, not limited in membership to truck farmers only?T.H. Seabrook, Beaufort. ~~'V The last car ?f bogs for the fall, shipped the last week in December, ,1 makes a total cf 106 cars from Berk- , ley in the past seven years; not counting many .shipments by truck.? v J. H. Harvey. Berkeley. Sixteen tobacco records completed on 76' acres abow 1.138 pounds per acre average, the average net returns per acr^varying from $17.84 to $180.23 pe?, acre and averaging $88.85.?Rv A. Jackson, Dorchester. I assisted in marketing approrj- \ mately 50,000 pounds of live hogs for farmers of the county during the month.?J. C. Anthony, Hampton. A bid of 13 cente on turkeys was . secured on eastern markets but grow- v ers would not accept this price, and most of the stock was moved to local markets at 15 cents delivered.?Geo. E. Prince, Marketing- Division* Although handicapped because of seed loan and cotton and tobacco reduction work, most far magenta show a higher percentage of 4-H club records this year than last.?I. D. Lew- - h is, 4-ltfClub Work. " j The PWA at Washington hasoapproved an allocation of $760,000 to Georgeto\yn county in this state to build a bridge over the Pee Dee and Waccamaw rivers, where there are now ferries operated by the county. Work will begin at once on a toll bridge. When the tolls pay off the loan, the bridge will be free, and the county must make up any deficit of tolls under loan payments in any year. The bridge building will employ 350 men for a year and a half. The body of a white man about 70 years old, was found in the highway nine miles north of Chester, on the road to Charlotte, apparency the victim of a hit and run driver. Residents of the vicinity were told by the man before his death that he lived in ' Columbia. He had $2.66 in his pocket. - via Spot cotton reached a price level of T1 cents at NV& Orleans on Saturday, p" the highest price since July. A Oh! I Wish We Had ' Our Telephone Back ^ ? . Irs a lonesome* Isolated kind of life trying to get along , without a telephone. Out of tooch with friends?seldom invited & out, and unable to call frieods to invite them over for an i evening. ^ * "It just doesn't pay," said a customer recently. "I want my telephone back. The happiness and comfort we've misted was worth far more than the small amount we aaved by trying to do without it." r Whon you compere the numerous advantages that a telephone in your home affords idfch the small coat you will probably agree, too, that it really doesn't pay to try to do without it. You can afford the few pennies a day that a telephone costs. Order yours put back now. Just call t^a s telephona. business office or give your order to any-telephone employe. Southern Bjell Xelephone.and Telegraph gjATft Co, v - 1 t I n r 8 NON-SKID LIFE AT 1? 31 PRICKS on most siiw O Althobgh the latest Goodyear All-Weathers average 35% more non-skid mileage, most sizes are priced as low or lower than the 1932 tires! All the Heavy Duty sizes are lower?they cost 80c to $2.70 less . . . Corra in, we'll show you the new flatter, also thicker tread, and closer-together diamond non-skid blocks that make the world's largestselling tire a still greater value today!-' % -:k Carolina Motor Co. Open Day and Night Good Used Tirat $1 and Up?Road Service?ExjSert Tire Yules"***"* C' " - - :jl * I