The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 09, 1934, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
"IHck Davis and the Uevil"
This will be the theme of Dr.
Wimberly'a address next Sunday
morning before the Men's Hible Class
of the Methodist church., These Sunday
morning addresses are being
widely spoken of among the men who
hear them. We want to boost u big
class next Sunday to hear this true
story, from a life sketch of a charactor
who lived, ubd was known.
"Hick Davis and the Devil" will be a
gripping story and we urge our men
10 hear it. Ito'member the time:
Class assembled at 10:20.
Jack Mooro, Secretary.
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Judge Akerman, of the Federal district
court at Tampa, Fla., has ruled
that the federal agricultural adjustment
act is constitutional, lie made
his ruling orally in injunction proceedings
brought by Florida citrus
growers ami shippers against Secretary
Wallace and tho state citrus
control committee which functions
under tho farm recovery act.
Hurned bits of wreckage of a
sponge boat identified as thv Xios out
of Tarpon Springs, Fla., and missing
since November 17 with a crew of
five, have been picked up on Cedar
Key the past few days.
Penney's 98c Event
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Nobody's Business
Written for The Chronicle by Gee
MciJee, Copyright, 1928.
HOW I STARTED
. .1 was 18 years of ago when I landed
my first job. My duties were soft
but numerous. I was assistant postmaster,
assistant depot agent, assistant
cotton weigher, assistant b&ggage
master and,assistant truck hand, but
I did all of the work.
. . My salary for tho first 4 months
was $5.00 per month, but for the next
months, 1 received $5,00 per month,
and when I finally quit (by request),
1 was being paid $5.00 per month, but
I got my board free. (Since 1 have
been a grown man, 1 have always felt
that I was not entitled to all that
money and my board too.)
..Up to the time 1 began railroad
career, I had never seeTi a full
suit of underwear, but before I had
hold that job 8 months, I had 2 suits
of my own, flebce-lined and paid for.
Man, they were warm, too. Our total
stamp cancellations per month ran
around $5.25, freight receipts were
usually close to $80.00 per month,
while passenger tickets amounted to
nearly $8.00 every 80 days.
. . This was a nice job, in fact?the
nicest job I ever had. I enjoyed my
work and my fine board, and saved
half of what I oarnod every month
and kept that plan up until I began
to work for myself, and that is how
I got started to working for myself.
Our^railroad had 2 trains every day,
and occasionally an extra freight
train camo through which excited tho
natives no little bit. L)
..I developed into a dude within a
year and had commenced to wear a |
blue hat (30c); green specks (10c);
a red necktie (15c); patent leather I
shoes ($1.20); a brown fuzzy suit of}
clothes ($5.40); a starched collar,
(2c);-a pair of celluloid cuffs (5c); J
and myl how my cuiF buttons did ,
rattle when I shook hands with the j
girls. I also wore the stripedest,
loudest sox money could buy, up to
10c.
..In about 15 months, I began to
learn to telegraph. (My station was j
not a telegraph station). I resigned]
(?), and batched with a boy-friend,
whoe,lived only 4 miles from a small ]
telegraph office, did my own cooking, j
my own washing, my own walking, i
patched my own clothes, and before
anybody knew it, I was the best ham
on the road. After 7 years in that
line, I married, opened up a store,
and have been running one off and on,
mostly off, nearly ever since.
AN EXPERIENCE WITH A HANT
..When I was a boy, I was taught
to be afraid of "hanta." We had a
"hanted house" in our. community.
1 would hate to meet a "hant" even
now if the night was dark and the
soft, zepher-like wind was blowing
gently in my face. He'd have to be |
a mighty swift "hant" if he overtook
me and did me a hurt.
. .The "hanted house" in question was
the old Bender place down close to
the river. It was a 2 story house.
Old Man Bender choked his wife and
3 children to death in the kitchen.
You could stand off about 250 yards
and see the old fellow through the
window choking his folks and ever
now and then, a plank would fall out
of the loft You could hear it just
as plain.
. .A crowd of us boys got "'big and
bold" one Sunday and went right
close up to one of the windows in the
front room and we saw blood spattered
all over the walls and the floor.
It looked something terrible. I was
I trembling so, I couldn't tell how much
blood was still there, but it seemed
a-plenty to me. My brother, Bud,
saw a piece of his wife's thumb lying
I on the mantel board, so he said.
(Meaning Mr. Bender's wife's thumb,
not his'n: he wasn't married).
|j . .While, we were on pins spying into
1 that horrible old building, we heard
a noise in the room just over our
heads. It was a scrambling, scuffling,
stomping noise and I saw smoke and
dust oozing through the cracks right
in front of my eyes. Before I realized
what I was doing, 1 was 2 miles
up the road?making a bee-line for
home.
. . I had overtook and passed our 2
dogs. I went by my 5 brothers and
3 playmates bo fast that they evidently
thought I was a loose turklo
dove. I jumped a 10-mil fence 5 different
times and cleared it by at least
2 feet. A rabbit became frightened
at my hurrying, and thought I was
after him: I passed by him so quick,
he fainted. I was in a hurry and was
homeward bound.
..I didn't find out till the following
Friday that my oldest brother had
carried n billy goat into ^n upstairs
room in the "hanted house" and had
arranged for a nigger man to turn ii
loos? and push it through the ceiling '
about the time I saw all of that blood.
I wish there had been some way to
have measured my speed during the
mamthon. Nur-mi could have learned
something about running from me.
For the first three miles, only the tip
ends of my big toes touched the
ground. I can still see "hants" when
I am out at night alone, and them's
one thing that I ain't got any more
use for than a politician has for a
truth. Hants used to be something
terrible.
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Increase In Gasoline
Tax Hits The Autoist
For tho greater part of twenty
years gasoline has l>een relatively the
lowest priced of all the articles generally
classed as necessities, according
to Mr. 11. 10. Heard, local repre- .
.tentative of the Standard Oil Company
of New Jersey, who pointed out. <
that the average price of gasoline
would he more than 20 eejits per gallon
today if the industry had maintained
service station prices at the
1020 level. Actually, however, the'
average price taken from fit) representative
eitios on October 1st was
21 cents, including tax, ,
"The motorist may not stop to
realize it, but he is getting his gasoline
at a much lower price than he
pays' relatively fpr any other necessary
commodity, Mr, Heard explained.
"The figures of the United States Department
of Labor prove this. Using
11)20 prices as a standard and?
giving them an arbitrary index number
of 100, we find that gasoline
prices, exclusive of taxes, were below
40 in August this year. That
means that for 40 cents the motorist
could obtain us much gasoline as ho
could for $lvin 1020, exclusive
taxes. On the other hand, farm products
were just below GO and the
average priue of all commodities was
at 70.
"In the slow climb of prices out of
the rut toward 1020 levels, gasoline
starts from a lower base than any
other necessity. YVt its recovery thus
far has not been at a faster rate than
that of other commodities.
"In the. face of these facts it may
still seem to the motorist that the
price he pays for gasoline is not much
lower than it was several years ago.
However, that is due to the increase
of gasoline taxes which have gone
up as the price of gasoline has gone
down. This is a factor beyond the
control of the petroleum industry, but
one which gives many motorists an
erroneous impression of the price of
gasoline.
Mr. Heard pointed out that increasing
taxation had escaped the notice
of the motoring public because
the increase was over-balanced by the
lowering of the refiner's prlbe. The
latter was brought about both by savings
in gasoline manufacture and the
general decline, according to Mr.
Beard. The extent of this lowering
is shown by comparison "of the average
price of 20.9 cents in 1020, exclusive
of tax, with the present aver;
age of 14.4 cents, exclusive of tax.
"But despite this decline," Mr.'|
Beard continued, "the increase in
taxes has been such that a rise of a
few cents, in keeping with increased
costs and general trend, appears to
bring gasoline back to the 1026 level,
whereas the amount which the refiner
receives still is far below the 1026
level.
"It is our hope that the public will
bear in mind that taxes alone may
be held responsible for gasoline
prices hitting the 1926 level."
Antioch Club Met
The Antioch home demonstration
club met with Mrs. F. A. Atkinson
on Tuesday of last week for an allday
meat canning. The demonstration
was in charge of Miss Craig and
Miss Hayes. During the day there
wer e seventeen large cans of hog
meat canned. At noon the hostess
served a delightful dinner in the dining
room. In the afternoon Miss
Ornig gave a talk on "How to Live
at Home," and "The Part Women
Must Have in the Cotton Reduction
Campaign." During the social hour
delightful refreshments were served
to twelve ladies by the hostess.
~ The entire Illinois Civil Works commission
has resigned. They didn't
like it because Administrator Hopkins
appointed an army officer to
take charge of the OWA work in Cook
county. The resignations were accepted
promptly.
When the thermometer dropped to
zero in New York, the welfare commissioner
at once ordered fifteen army
field kitchens into service to be
scattered over the city to provide
coffee, doughnuts and soup Monday
night for the unemployed and homeless.
"The* devil with the cost," declared
the commissioner. "We'll do
the work now and worry with the
cost later."
The estate of James J. Corbett, once
heavyweight pugilistic champion, has
been appraised at $4J>34.43. Ho was
once a wealthy man.
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Radiators Boiled Out and Repaired
General Auto Repairs. Get our price on your
next job.? AH work guaranteed. Prices reasonable.
NIGHT SERVICE TELEPHONE 138
Service Man Rooms Over Garage >
L. A. Campbell & Co. (larage
South Main Street Camden, S. C.
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j LOOKING HACKWAll 1) |
Taken From the Files of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Ago
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FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
February 17, 1919
S. J. T. Young, a largo planter of
I tho Dalzell section, dies in his 74th
year. J
Joe Strak suffers painful accident
when he has three ribs broken in fall
from freight car.
Mrs. Daisy Ann Wilson, of the Antioch
section, dies.
Charles E. Davis dies at home in
, Antloch section.
i Belated announcement reaches Camden
of the death of Lieutenant LeRoy
Belk, 26, who was killed in action in
France.
R. Kennedy, and W. L. Wooten
form the "Bonded Warehouse Company,"
using the old Southern freight
depot.
Mr. and Mrs. James A. McDowell,
of Flat Rock, to celebrate their golden
wedding anniversary.
War department reports the wounding
of Corporal DoBruhl, of Camden;!
Corporal Curtis Kirkland, of Cante.V,
and Clifton ItaTey, of Bethnne.
Lewis C. Christmas married to Miss
Ada Lillian Lloyd.
Editor Cunningham, of Bishopville,
loses faithful horse, "Pony," which
had been in the family fur Rfteen
years.
Charlie Elmore returns to Bishopville
after having been gassed in
France.
Mrs. Bessie McCoy, wife of J. E.
McCoy, dies in Bethany section of
Lee county.
Mrs. J. Ii. Waters dead in the Lucknow
section.
Marion Williams returns to Camden I
after serving in the Naval service in
Virginia.
Charlotte Thompson News
Boykin, Feb. 3.?Mr. II. K. Wylie,
after visiting his sister, Mrs. C. B.
Thompson, has returned to his home
in Chester. *
Miss Pollye West, a student at
Winthrop College, spent the week-end
recently with her mother, Mrs. Allie
West.
Mrs. It. E. Williamson and children
of Florence, are visiting her mother,
Mrs. J, E. Rush.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Shiver and family
spent Sunday with B. B. McManus
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Barnes and son,
Ladson, spent the week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Workman.
Residents of Botecourt county, Va.,
have been annoyed for several weeks
by some mischief maker exploding
nayseous gas bombs in and near residences
in the night time. A reward
of $500 has been offered for his apprehension.
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THIRTY YKAKH AGO
, February 12, 1901
Captain James 1*. lluilo announces
himself as a candidate for sheriff of
Kershaw county.
K. S. Nettles opens new meat market.
O. M. Fort leaves to attend funeral
of his brother, G, W. Fort, at Wadesbow,
N. C.
Eliza Helton, 8G, dies in Washington,
I>. C., and her remains brought
here for burial.
Dr. W. C. McDowell, of Kershaw,
goes to Atlanta to purchase dental
office equipment.
Robert J. Turner, of Westvilie, kills
white partridge when covey flies up.
Baltimore suffers most disastrous
fire in history of city. About 75
squares or 1-10 acres burned over with
loss estimated at two hundred million
dollars, throwing fifty thousand
people out of employment.
Canada had the worst snow storm
of 25 years this week. Canadian National
railway trains were marooned ?
for 21 hours with -1^)0 passengers. .
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SUNDAY DINNER i
SUGGESTIONS
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Ilr ANN rAGK . .
Marketing continues to be *
pleasuro ho Ion# ?as there is a
wide choice of foods at reasonable or
low cost. This is particularly true of
fresh fruits and vegetables at this
time but also of meat, fish, eggs,
cheese and butter as well. Most
staples are still moderately priced although
they have felt ?ho upward
trend of prices.
Among the vegetables the cabbage
family is outstanding in quality and
price. Lettuce and celery are plentiful
and cheap. Green beans are not as
fine as thoy have been. Spinach la
plentiful.
California oranges are very attractive
In quality and price. Grapefruit
continues to deserve superlatives.
Bananas are Improving In quality
with no change in price. Strawberries
are plentiful and low priced.
The Quaker Maid suggests the following
Sunday Dinner menus.
Low Cost Dinner
Snuteed,Liver and Bacon
Boiled Potatoes Buttered Carrots
Bread and Butter
Banana Shortcalce
Tea or Coffeo Milk ?
^ Medium Cost Dinner
Roaat Bcq/ Browned Potatoes
;$Suttered Cauliflower
Tomato SoIajJ withfJVeen Pepper Ring
^- *i'Bread and Butter
Apple Pie Cheese
Coffee Milk '
Very Special Dinner
Orange and Grapefruit Cup
Chicken Fricassee with Dumplings j
i Boiled Rice New Beets
; Lettuce Peanut Butter Dressing
Rolls and Butter
Vanilla Ice Cream Strawberry Sauce
Coffee Milk
The Fashion Shop, Inc.
February Promotion
Junior
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Size 11 to 17
$5.95
New Shipment of 4
SUEDE JACKETS $195 S
We Gladly Refund on Any Purchase Not Satisfactory
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