The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 13, 1934, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
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Nobody's Business
Written f<?r The Chronicle by (ice
McCee, Copyright, 11>28,
AHK YOl Arri.KTKD WITH TUB
ORDKKLNG-OFF DISKASK
..When 1 was just budding into long
hi itches, I contracted the "ordering*
i,IV" habit, that is -every time I got
holt to as much as 25 cents, and that
wasn't very often 1 "usdered-off" for
things.
. .There was a firm in New York City
that sold more trash for the money
than apy other firm 1 have ever heard j
of since. And, by the way, the first j
time I went to New York, I looked ,
up that very house and there it was; j
a little side-street mail-order estab- ,
lishment about the size of our smoke-,
house at homo.
..I became headquarters for "order-j
ing-olf 1 went around and took or- j
ders for goods from- white folks, col-]
ored folks, and everybody else who.
had as much as 3 cents to s^>end. I
wouldn't fool with an order for less
than <1 cent-. Sending off ami receiv-j
ing mail the m??st thrilling thing,
1 did up to that time or since." j
.1 recall that the fir-,' thing I -cnt ,
for was a little rose-bud pin for my
sweetheart; la$cr on I ordered a tine
sterling silver linger-ring for 8 "cents. \
She appreciated those presents very /
much indeed. The most fun I ever
had was with my lapel bouquij, ('?
eeiits) which wl-uM squirt water in,
people'.- face- when they would try,
111 stnelNit.
j
.. ..lus* as .-vion as 1 would mail a
U tter which contained the money anil
my order, 1 would begin asking for
mart at the post office. It would al-]
ways require a week for my stuff" to j
come, but the second day was a very:
long wait for mo, and the post master j
would say when he saw me coming: I
"No, Gee; your things ain't come j
yet."
. . I ordered off for the first bottle of j
cologne 1 ever saw and 1 smelt every ;
boy in the community out of his girl.
My. how good that stuff must have
jp smelt in the noses of the envious. My
first green spects came thru the mail.
Little velvet ear-muffs (4 cents) j
raged in my community for several i
months, all InvaiLse I got 'em started, j
. .This "ordering-off" habit is a bad i
one. Folks right in my own town '
order thousands of dollars worth of |
merchandise from mail-order houses ;
every week that can be bought with-j
in 5 to 10 blocks of their own homes
at the same( or lower) prices, and '
frequently, on credit. There's a ]
strange thing about "ordered-off"1
.stuff; no matter how sorry and worth-j
less it is, it is always satisfactory to,
the guy who ordered it. Such is not
the case with home-bought merchandise.
FLAT ROCK SOCIALS
..miss jennie veeve smith, our afficient
.scholl principle, in company with
her twin sister, miss sallie veeve, rode
to the county seat last friday with 1
hansom moore the secont son of hoi- j
sum moore, and he has not bonn seen
since, they drove back in the buss,
it seem- that they are thru with hansom.
ho drinks.
..the little poodle d< g which disappeared
from her bed ai d ard m the
home of mr, and. mr>. hadden quitt
returned back of her own free will
ai d a coni yesterday and the reward
for her whereabouts i> hereby withdraw
id. they have bonn married
year-, an i this is the . r.iy poodle they
have.
the sowing machine agent who has
i n f e -1 ed this section f.,r sevveral
months has di-appeared from our
midst he li ft over 55$ worth of bad.
checks ar i drug stoar bills for sody
wa'.lcr ar.d ice cream for the giri?
unpad, -eweral broke hearts a - e
bleeding and t- re. he ma le love faster
than amy other vgotor of a recent
date ;n fiat rock, bit he is gone
at this riting.
..our post master has rote in to the
|e. w. a. for an assistant in his oifis.
i he ran not stand up under the burden
and wants 2 girls took out of the
I sowing room over the peoples cash
j stoar and put to work under his jurisJ
diction behind the mail counter, by
the time he gets thru reading all of
' the postal curds and trying to read
'the letters which is hell up betwixt
him and the light bubb, it is u/ne
! for the r. f. d. mail to go out. his
ftssicul condition is showing up on
him.
. most of our citty farmers who have
rented their lands to the govvern'
ment are all vcrry bizzy getting their
fishing reels and rods in trim for the
i early spring trouts. most of them
say if they could of got 12$ per uker
instead of 0$ i>er aker for the land
they let uncle sam have, they would
not of had to work unny a-tall. ?^hey
hope to get paid for plowing up in
july what they plant in may and june
at 11$ per aker as befoar.
..the trial betwixt elburt chalk and
john witt will not come up at the
next term and mought be compel*
mised out of the coart-house. elbuit
i> suing john fir slander and "madam
i umor" says that elburt is getting
a feared that john can prove what he
Isaid about. him stealing the cash
drawer and content's out of the filling
-tation and will let it drop for o$
nrul costs, friends are trying t<> in:i
r. ept lajtwixt then; and save the
court action.
yores trulle.
mike Clark, rfd.
corry spondent.
"The Mark of the Beast"
This will be the theme of the address
next Sunday morning by I>r.
Wimberly, the teacher of the .Men's
Bible Class of the Methodist church
at 10 A. M. These Sunday morning
talks are becoming more and more of
interest, and our men can not afford
to muss one of them. Bet us rally
every member of the class, an dbring
out the full strength of the class.
This is one of the startling prophetic
themes which is strangely taking
place before our eyes. Be on time,
and bring some man with you.-?Jack
Moore, Secretary.
Death of Mrs. J. Robert Ma gill
Mrs. Serena Brown Magill. widow
of J. Robert Magill, who died about
four years ago, died at her home in
the Beaver Creek section Friday
night, March 30. following a ten-days
illness, though she had not been in
good health for several years and received
a slight stroke on Tuesday preceding
her death. The funeral services
were conducted on Saturday
afternoon by her pastor, the Rev.
C. M. Brown, and interment was made
in the cemetery at Beaver Creek
Presbyterian church, of which she
was a faithful and devoted member.
Mrs. Magill. who was only within
One day of her seventy-first birth-j
day when she died, was a daughter j
of the late George Brown Miller and J
Mrs. Mary Brown Miller, and was,
born in the home in which -he died.
Following her marriage to the late
J. Rol>ert Magill she moved away for;
a while but after the death of her |
mother she returned to the old home,
place and retained her residence
I
there ur.t.l the end came. She is j
-urvived by the follow ing child: < r.: i
Arthur Magill. St. Peter-bu-g. Fia t!
.1, Boyd Mag;.'.. Charh 'let Mr-. S. j
Hagood Kirklar.d, Camden; Mrs.
Frank P. H.nnar.t, Columbia; Mrs. I
S. [/<-on Blackmon, Mrs. Daisy D.
< arroll and M:-- Dell C. Magill, Ker-:
aw ; Mr-. Kdwir. 11 Stultz. R >ck
11.i ; K. Miller Mag.il, Port au Prince,
H i.:,. All of the children, exv pt
Arthur and Miller, who were too far
away .were present at the bedside of
r ntoT.er when the end came.
Mrs Magill was a lifelong member
of the Beaver Creek Presbyterian
- or. a tender and devoted wito and
mother, a staur.Cr. frond and neigbi*,r
and wa> generally beloved and
i by all who knew her. Ker
haw lira
Three Killed; Three
Hurt In Avalanche
West Point, N. Y., April 8.?Roaring
down the face of Storm King
Mountain, an avalanche of suddenly
losed rocks smashed three automo- ,
biles today, killing three persons and;
injuring three others.
A huge boulder struck the car j
driven by Otto Seilheimer of East;
Paterson, X. J., killing his wife and j
son, Otto, Jr., K.
Seilheimer and his daughter, Ger- j
aldine, 18 months, were taken t<>,
Cornwall Hospital suffering minor injuries.
Prom the wreckage of another car I
were dragged Mr. anil Mrs. Lambert j
Shackjiis of Brooklyn. They were |
taken to the cadet hospital at West j
Point where Shacknis was found to I
have died of a fractured skull. His
j wife was less seriously hurt.
Another boulder crashed into the
I rear >eat of a third car, narrowly j
escaping Dr. E. K. Lehman and Miss
Agn? s Wolf, both of Long Island. A
wrecking crew worked hours to dislodge
the 500-pound rook.
Traffic along the highway, which
i skirts a -loO-foot cliff along the side
! of the mountain, was blocked nearly
; all afternoon while state police and
i army officers from the United States
| Military Academy here cleared away
The cause of the slide, which or.g- J
limited .-ewra! hundred feet above the
i crowded highway, was not immediate-|
) .y iictcrni;ite?i.
I
A serie.- of 1t>-12 year treasury'
' : tv.-g t !-l per rent was tr.i Aru
gfi-rtd ri'ddt r- < f a hiilior. :r
f .urtr. Liberty bonds tr.atur.ng Apr..,
lb ar.d of fd-ll.JJ S.'tob in trea<- ,rv
a - :rg M.r. J. \
Sen at r Par> ur. Rep j:?ii. a:
N't w .1. r-iy. make - the charge th?f
t. e T. . \ a... v Authority i- 1.
: t: law ;r. that it is awarding
,.,.r. ... ..a/ners than the low b:u.
. a kV.i i 1 y la w
1 : i V.' . ... r.t to jai. for
da;. - at 1 am, Mass., for viola"
i c i'g.o a ;; .mobile law. corn m.t-'i
ic. nft.-r h:- bondsmen had
sum n.a r h.n. b? . au-c he wa- ur. fiV.
* ray his fine of $50.
Joe Kopm.an was absolved by a
cor 'P.er's jury at Brader.ton. Fla..
within less than two hours after he
had a rrgro to death f'r a'f-i k:ng
hi- daughter. The jury said it
was a "justifiable homicide."
( Car! Wirkman, Denver, Co!., drug
wa- convicted at Albuquerque,
N M., of murdering his fourth wife.
Electric chair Juno 8.
Ftew Books at library
The following new books have been
added to the library: "Best Poems
of 1933, compiled by Thomas Moult;
"100.000,000 Guinea Pigs," by Gallet
and Schlink; "Kemmerer on Money,"
Kemmerer; "Culture in the South,"
edited by William T. Couch; "Rssay
Annual of 1933," "a yearly collection
of significant essays, personal, critical.
controversial and humorous"; "At
33," by Eva Le Galliene; "Tia Barbarita,"
by Barbara Peart; "State vs.
Elinor Norton," Mary R. Rinehart;
"Gallows of Chance," Oppenheim;
"Manhattan Love Song," Norris;
"Thin Man," by Hammett; "Work of
Art," Lewis; "Valour," Warwick
Deeping", "Mr. Pete and Co.," Alice
Hegan Rice; a?d "the World Is
Yours," by G. B. Lancaster. New
books added for children are: "Child's
History of Art," V. M. Hillier; *"Boy
Builder," by E. T. Hamilton; "Boy '
Scouts' Year Book of Ghost and My?tery
Stories"; "Story Book of Things
We Use," by Maud and Miska Peteishaw;
and "Seeing The Unseen," by
Robert Disraeli.
Sixty-five borrowers were added
and 82-1 books were borrowed.
Seven thousand employes of carpet
and rug mills at Amsterdam, N. Y.
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Startles Automobile Industry Again!
Ford Prices Have Not Been Advanced!
THE PRICE WAR IS ON! April 3rd Studebaker Dictator and Commander j
models advanced $25; President models $50; Chrysler 6's were jumped $40 and
$45, while Airflow models carried a boost of $130 and $145; Plymouth went up
$25 and $45, while Dodge was increased $45. General Motor lines were jumped
April 4th as follows: Chevrolet Standard $25; Master $30; Pontiac $20; Oldsmobile
8, $65; Buick $65 and $130; LaSalle $100; Cadillac $300. When this news I
startled the industry, Henry Ford increased the excitement by issuing a statement
in which he said: "Neither Ugher wages nor increased material costs can FORCE
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