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9^sssssss^smsssscsi\iij'fii" . i 1 ,. mmnmwmmmaaaxgs&a I ^DEMAND THE GENUINE^* DeKALB PHARMACY I EXCLUSIVE AGENTS IN CAMDEN ' SOCIETY NEWS Telephone 100 v ' ' , ii * Miss Cantey Bridge Hostess Friday afternoon at hor mother's home on Fair Street Miss Carolyn .Cantey entertained at a bridge party and invited as her guests the member^ of the D. C. O. C. club and Misses Edith Copeland, Barbara 'Zemp, Helen *Tindal and Emily Sheorn. A yellow and green color note \vns used in the decorations and the salad course which was served late in the afternoon. Miss Louise McLeod won top score prize and Miss Barbara Zemp low prize. The floating prize was last held by Miss> Lena Stevenson. j Mrs. Boykin Entertains Honoring Mrs. Robert (Stephenson, of Atlanta, the former Polly DePass, Mrs. BrevUrd Boykin entertained with a lovely spring party Monday morning at her apartment on Monument Square. Fragrant sp r i n gTJTttsso ms made Mrs. Boy kin's home most attractive. The tally cards and other table appointments were also suggestive of spring. Sixteen of Mrs. Stephenson's friends were invited to olay contract-and little Edna Aldret, niece of the hostess, and Mrs. Harrington Yates assisted in serving. Top score prize was awarded Mrs. I George Coleman and low score Mrs. Jack Nettles. To the guest of honor the hostess presented an attractive gift. A "salad course was served after cards. Mrs. Boykin was again hostess on Monday afternoon when she received guests for four tables of bridge. Prizes for the afternoon's game were awarded Mrs. Leonard Schenk and Mrs. J. H. Osborne. Junior Auxiliary Met The James Leroy Belk Junior Legion Auxiliary met at the home of Ailene Belk this past week. All joined in singing America, after which the preamble was read and the secretary's report made. All members and visitors joined in making lockers. Margaret O'Leary gave a violin solo. After business the hostess served refreshments. Met With Mrs. Whitaker Thoffirs-t meeting of the Thursday contract club since the Lenten season wa< held this week with Mrs. Jack Whitaker, as hostess. There were three tables of players and those |>n >ent besides club members were: Mrs. J. K. de Loach, Mrs. E. H. Leadley, and Miss Molly Anderson. The h<v.tess served a sweet course. The afternoon's high score was made by Mrs. Frank Zemp. Miss Annie Blake Kelly had as her guests last week Mr. Worth and Mr. Downing Middleton, of Pomona, Fla. They left Sunday for Danbury, Conn., to spend the summer months. A Plaze-lMMeze Met Mrs. J. M. Dempster and Mrs. U. K. Taylor were joint hostesses at a party Monday evening, entertaining the members of the Pluze-u-pleze club and Mrs. Beulah Hicks and Miss Alberta Team. Mass Elizabeth Clarke,' who made the top score pnd Miss Etta Zemp, who made the low score wore awarded prizes. After cards the hostesses served a delightful ice course with coffee, followed by crackers and cheese. Miss lioykin Honored Miss Frances Boykin, who will on April 18 wed William Clarence Boyd, Jr., of Columbia, was honor guest at a bridge party Monday evening when Miss Willie Haile entertained in her honor. Miss Haile invited as her guests the members of the Spinster's club with which Miss Boykin has been affiliated since its organisation. Each guest brought a gift for the honoree and these were presented to her at the close of the bridge games. Prize for top score was presented i Miss Dotty Zemp. The hostess served | a sweet course late in the evening.-, | Mrs. E\an>^Iostess A delightful meeting of the Better Halves club was held Friday after-! noon at the home of Mrs. John T. I Nettles with Mrs. Sam Evans as hostess. Only club members were present. Prize for high score was ; awarded Mrs. Ralph Little. Following the card games a tea course wa-s 'served. Entertain At Bridge The Wednesday Contract Club was {entertained last week by Mrs. B. M. : Sniitb "who invited friends for two I tables. Mrs. J. Thornwell Hay was I winner .of the high score prize. A tea course was served by the hostess. This week Mrs. Charlie Green entertained the members of this club. Invited to play with club members were: Mrs. Thomas Ancrum and Mrs. Kirby Tupper. After cards the hostess served a salad course. High score prize went to Mrs. Green. Entertains For Guests Mrs. Floyd Beaver gave a pretty party Friday morning at her home on Fair Street. This was the regular i meeting of her contract club and ' guests included the club members and? I several additional friends to meet, 'her visitors, Mrs. David Beaver, of Salisbury and Mrs. George Jarvis, of Charlotte. Mrs. Annie Davidson won 11he score prize for the guests, and ; Mrs. F. D. Goodale for the club memi bet s. Mrs. L. P. Tobin cut the conisolation. After cards the hostess I served a salad course. Those playing J besides club members were: Mrs. T. Lee Little, Mrs. Joe McKain, Mrs. W. C. Sandorson, Mrs. PL B. Mobley, Mrs. Henry Niles, Mrs. Clifton McKain, and Mrs. A. iS. Davidson. I Mrs. Ernest Spong and children, of Columbia spent last week-end here with the former's mother, Mrs. E. D. Blakeney. Base Ball t Game Today This afternoon at i o'clock there I will be a base ball game played on the school grounds between the faculty of the Camden high school and members of the (Jlir's Hi team. The game promises to be an interesting one, so plan to be present, the charge is 25 cents and the proceeds will go for the benefit of the Junior-Senior Banquet, Players on the faculty team are: I,. B. McFadden, H. Granade, Mrs. J. G. Richards, Mrs. Kthel Murchison, Miss Katherine Murchison, Miss Charlotte Salmond, Miss Ada Montgomery, Miss Dotty Zemp, Miss Lois Latham, Miss Lueilo Allen and Mrs, Louise Cantey. Those on the high school team are: Ned Beard, J. B. Gasktyf Charlotte DuBose, mgr.; Mary Florence Little, Dennie Smith, Willene McGuirt, Mary Ellen McDowell, Mary Burnet, Lucia Tobin and Ellen ,Salmond. Substitutes for the faculty will be: Miss Julia Seabrook, Mrs. lthetta McDowell, Miss Gertrude Strother. Those for the high school are: Mary Zeigler, Ruth DeLoache, Ina DeDoLoache. Water boy: Miss Sara Wolfe. i Personal Mention Mrs. Clyde Pate, of Anderson is on a visit to relatives here. Mrs. W. L. DePass, Jr., and children are in St. Matthews visiting rela tives. Miss Charlotte Boykin and Alfred Boy kin spent last week end in Georgetown with friends. Mrs. Frank Hilton, who has been spending sometime in Clinton with her parents has returned to Camden. Miss Mary Mickle has returned to., Johnson City, Tenn.. after a ten days visit to her mother, Mrs. J. L. Mickle. Mrs. E. IV Blakemy left Monday on an extended visit to her daughter, Mrs. E. L. Williams in Long Island, X. V. Mrs. W. A. Alexander, ^who has been the guest of her son, W. M. Alexander has returned to her home in Charlotte. MisS Lila Ross has returned to Coker College, Hartsville after spendinging the 'Spring holidays here with her parents. Mr. and Mts. A. M. Simon and sons and Mr. Dave Tewell, of Asbury Park, N. J. are guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Baum. Mrs. B. H. Baum, Mrs. S. Babin, Miss Doris Babin, Stanley Babin and Carl Schlosburg visited friends in Charleston last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Alexander, Mrs. Carrie Davis, and Mrs. W. A. Alexander, of Charlotte visited Magnolia Gardens, Sunday. Misses Frances Chewning and Emdly Goodale joined Mrs. D. M. Mays iind Miss Cecelia King, of Bethune, fast Friday for a week end trip to Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. A. Clifton McKain v^re in Atlantic City for a week's stay, Avhere Mr. McKain will attend a convention of around three hundred managers of the J. C. Penney /.Company's stores in the middle and South Atlantic states. A birth announcement of interest to friends here is that of a son being born to Mr. and Mrs. J. Ernest Ross, Jr., on March 30th at St. George. He has been named Robert Ernest Ross. The new American is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ross, of this city. Among those from Camden attending the State meeting of Sisterhood in Convention in Columbia Wednesday were: Mrs. Leon .Schlosburg, Mrs. Sam Karesh, Miss Roalie Block, Mrs. L. L. Wallnau, Mrs. L. A. Wittkosky, Miss Carrie Wolfe, Mrs. Gus Hirsch, Mrs. Jake Hirsch, Mrs. L. Lomansky, Miss Caroline Heyman, and Mrs. B. H. Baum. A Southern railway passenger train was wrecked at Harrisburg, N. C.. on Sunday night when it struck a coal trailer which had broken away | from another train on a parallel ! track and careened into the path of j'.he pas-enger train. No fa'.anl.o-. Eleven per.-on.- lost *ht :r lives in a tire at Havana. < uba. Monday, \\!.e u | destroyed a ia-g" garage <?f a '"jI company. The tiio i.- bei.eved to !.a-?' been of incendiary origin, and on:a Ied a property loss of ha.f a mi.lion, including 35 buses. Manley Stoles, farmer of Columbus county, N. C., is dead from bullet wounds received in his -head as he stood in his yard last Sunday watching two men fight over the possession of a rifle. One of the fighters was a son-in-law of Stoles. Hi-jackers held up a truck load of cigarettes enroute from WinstonSalem, N. C., to Norfolk, Va., and carried off the entire load of 25,000 cigarettes, after handcuffing the two men in charge to trees. The army mail flyers hereafter must be experienced flyers with not less than two years' experience. Most of the dozen flyers killed since the army started flying the mails have been young men of inadequate experience after graduation. List of Winners In Local Flower Show The Garden Club Flower Show was I held in Grace Church Parish House, Thursday, A^ril 5th. Considering the season, both the quantity and the quality of the flowers exhibited was a surprise to everybody. So was the attendance, many cars coming from a distance. The outstanding display of the show was the decoration of the stage, which was transformed into a garden bower of rare beauty ^arpeted with grass, banked with evergreens and flowering shrubs, furnished with white seats and fence, with beds of amarylis ^ and Faster lilies leading the eye through a vista past the white gate to a green door with pointed arch ' in the background. THte garden room ^ was a composition one might expect *to meet in a metropolitan flower 1 show. Mrs. Carroll Hassett was u chairman of the committee. The judges were Mrs. Clarence Ow- v ens and Mrs. T. T. Moore, of Colum- j bia, both students in the judging course sponsored by the state gardon club held in Columbia in March of this year, two hours they judged the following classes. They were entertained at tea by the garden club. The prizes awarded* were as follows. Azaleas?Mrs. Withers Trotter. Wild Flowers (largest number in one collection) ? Mrs. L. 1. Guion, first; Mrs. Carl West, second. Massed Arrangement?Mrs. Reuben Pitts, first; Sirs. A. M. Fletcher, second; Mrs. Da ere Bush, third. Arrangement in the Japanese manner? Mrs. L. I. Guion. first; Mrs. Carl West, Second; Mrs. F. X. McDowell, t bird. Arrangements in Pairs?-Mrs. L. I. Guion. first; Mrs. Reuben Pitts, second. Arrangements by Children?Anne Whitaker, first; Ned McDowell, seci-nd; Doris Rabin, third. An angoments in Miniature ?Mrs. .). P. Hutchinson, first; Miss Lillian Yates, second; Mrs. F. X. McDowell, third. Live Bouquets?Mrs. W. N\ Kerr, ? first; Miss I.oila Shannon, second. Arrangement of Fruit and Vegetables?Mrs. Dacre Bush, first; Mrs. Reuben Pitts, second. Arrangement for a Large Dining Table?Mrs. H. S. Steedman, first; M rs. W. L. Wright, second; Mrs. I Hubert Reese, third. Corsage Bouquet?Mrs. Francis H. Craighill, Jr. Tea Tables?Miss Ethel Yates, first; Miss Jennie Whitaker, second. For Best Single Specimens?Long trumpet yellow daffodil, Mrs. Ancrum Boy kin; long trumpet cream daffodil, M iss Fanny Fletcher; long trumpet bi-color daffodil, Mrs. W. L. Wrignt; rium trumpet bi-color daffodil, Miss Fletcher; short trumpet yellow daffodil, Mrs. L. I. Guian; short trumpet white daffodil, Mrs. W. L. Wright; short trumpet cream daffodil, Miss F. Fletcher; short trumpet bi-color daffodil, Mrs. L. I. Guion; polyanthus yellow daffodil, Mrs. E. N. MoDdwell; polyanthus white daffodil, Miss F. Fletcher; polyanthus bi-color daffodil, .Mrs. L. I. Guion. For Best Collection of Narcissi Horticulturally?Mrs. Ward C. Belcher. > Collection , With Greatest Number of Varieties, Miss' F. Fletcher. . Hyacinths, The Rev. Mr. F. H. Craighill, Jr. There were very interesting exhibits of tulips?one of rare yellow tu-lips by Mrs. Bush. No ribbon was awarded in this class as the schedule called for single specimens or collections, which means different varieties. The exhibits were all of several flowers of the same variety. ' For perennials Mrs. W. N. Kerr took first with stocks; Mrs. Bush second. For flowering shrubs Miss Leila Shannon first with Bechtel's Crab; Mrs. T. W. Sheheen second with lilac. For single sprays of flowering shrubs Mrs. L. I. Guion, first; Mrs. J. W. Trotter, second; Mrs. G. R. Cook, third. For foliage plants, Mrs. E. N. McDowell first with maiden hair fern; Mrs. J. H. Burns, second; Miss Leila Shannon, third. Mrs. Louis I. Guion took sweepstakes and Mrs. Reuben Pitts holds the silver cup awarded to best in massed bouquets. Mrs. Willis Cantey, able chairman of the committee to stage the show ' and all her assistants have won the j gratitude not only of the Garden Club ' but of all Camden :i<4 we!!. To the' Camden Floral Company, which fur-; r.i shed plants for decorating the stage and to all exhibitors, much credit is !ue for the success of the show. Celebrates Birthday Mary Walsh, daughter of Mr. and ! Mrs. T. V. Walsh, entertained a r.um| her of .her friends at a lovely party, j i riday afternoon in celebration of her tenth birthday. When the guests arrived they were given vari-eolored party caps as favors. Various games j were played and prizes in the contests were awarded Frances West, ! Dorothy Sowell and Ben Smith. At-j tractive tables were placed on the! lawn and the birthday cake, topped! with ten pink and yellow candles, was cut. Ice cream, cake, and candies were served to thirty little guests. Mrs. Beard Hostese The Thursday afterooon^Nbrtdge club was entertained this week by Mrs. Henry Beard, who invited her sister, Miss Charlotte Boykin to play | with club members. Mrs. I>eonard j I Schenk made the afternoon's high score. Upon the arrival of the guests the hostess served a delightful chicken salad course with coffee. , 11 I III History Class Visits Legislature On Wednesday April fourth the secion of the History Class taught by diss (Jertrude Strothor df the Camden ligh 'School, was invited by their repesentative, d. K. Belk t$> visit the tenate and the House of Uepresentaives. The class wants to express its ippreciation to Mr. Uelk and -Mr. Velsh for the pleasant ai\d profitable isit to tho legislature. They also want to thank Mr. J. C. Ford for making the trip possible by allowing the class the use of the school bus. Hoy Scout News The F.aglo Scout Patrol met at the home of Norman Haum on Wednesday of this week. A program was planned to be held at Hill Crest school on Friday, April Ktth. After all business the host served refreshments. TO HOLDERS OF FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN ty4 PER CENT BONDS Permanent coupon bonds. Series A. K and J and ' mpnrarv and registered bonds, the final digit of ' i".ich is 9, 0 or 1. have been called for redemption April 11934, at 100 and interest. The holders of called Fourths can, if they so de *;re. exchange them for U. S. Treasury VA Per Cent Bonds of 1944-1946 We offer our services to effect the above exchange or sell the called Fourths. j: FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE Tho funds of each depositor in The Commercial Bank of Camden are insured up to $2,500 by the Temporary Federal Deposit Insurance Fund. The Commercial Bank of Camden TELEPHONE 27 CAMDEN, S. C. 1111 , SEE THE NEW SPRING COSTUME BAGS and LOVELY NEW CHINTZES -?at? Catherine Goodale's Shop ALSO REDUCTION ON GIFT WARES TO 25c 50c 75c $1.00 JOHN KEPLER?Respected , Authority! JOHN KEPLER lived ages ago, but his work in optica . la still regarded with respect. All sensible people respect the experienced judgment of those in authority when sight is at stako. 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