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"Nobody's Business ... ? for The Chronicle by Gt* *r MoGeo, Copyright, 1 *>2*. lt.? WRITES ABOUT HI MS EM1 M1K flat rock, ?. C? Mug. 8, 1834. ^rt'coive'lotter, from time to time / '?t my ?>?nuy friend* who want know what my hobbies , are and L i look and what i do for a livving, \ hIIso what i do for pleasure an,th *a=? * can't rite or f.o*m all ( them ancers to their otters, pies* print the followering in yore valuable P^'r: X subject: mike Clark, rfd. j | do not play go IT, and think/ to ff links ought to be converted into g W pastors onner count of the drowth u? west has forced the govvorment to ship cows here to be paatored. o i do not play bridge, and don't know the ?<?? of ?P?des from the j?ck It diamonu. i think the time our ;vtrS waste around the bridge tables * <rht to be turned into patching britches and darning sox an^oforth. t i have no bad halbbits, but do h?w a little tobacker and smoke a rrtle ever now and then when offered w. my friends, including cigars and cigarette, i cuss verry little, i don't work on sunday, i set close to the pullpit, and pay my preacher something ever fall 4 i peddle beef and tater slips and bernanas for a livving excepp when i am vissi^ng. i do not snor? none in my sle*p. i let my credditors worry about what i owe. i do not belong to no labor unions, i am a constant member of the church. i have newer benn in jail except on biines, and have benn in the penitentiary only once trying to trace ip some of my wife's Rinfolks. 5. i do not drink enough to hurt, have kept my boddy in its original fol-m. i have not had nothing cut out. such as appendercitis, gald stones, tonsils, addy-noids, livver, lights, arms, logs and turners, i have nevver had but 2 axidents, as followers: ia) i got my arm ketched in a cotton gm in li?lS; (b) \' got married in lSi'2. i own my own home and don't owe nothing on it but a morgage and a ftw taxes, i am a dimmercrat. i >t a it el for law and order and have ' benn ir. polliticks 4 years, but got out alive with all of my honner. i rave never grafted but verry little, and i have a nice black mushtash. that's all. j yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. corry spondent. FLAT KOCK HAS GONE FAMILYTREB-T ..since mrs. mike Clark, rfd, started her familey tree, flat rock has\ woke up to her ancestors and $e?veral other familey trQes are now growing in our midst, she has her trees about completed, but she will have 4 limbs with nothing at all on same excepp the name of the 4 fellers that left home without leaving anny future address. ..hoLsum moore and his wife are getting up a combernation familey tree ar.d it wont cover noboddy excepp 'heir own family at pressent as they will not go back of him and ier. and he plans to add on limbs in the future just as they are needed bv marriage and death ansoforth. it will be called the moore-stuffing tree, as >he was a stuffing befoar matrimony. at thi> riting, they have 7 limbs, oompuM."! of their followering children-:. t . wit: holsum, hansom, fre'iuer,'. a 1 lie, pattica, hort and the 'ai-y; have not benn named yet, F1NAL DISCHARGE \ is hereby given that one : r. from this date, on September ' I will make to the Probate r -ur'" of Kershaw County my final as Guardian of the estate of TVK;r.g, Union, deceased, and ". .. -.ime date I will apply to the -a.i i ,,urt for a final discharge as *? i Guardian. .J. W. Boykin, Guardian of Thelma King. ' am. S. C., August 10, 1934. ESTATE NOTICE A persons having claims against >'.a'e of John E. Gaskin, de.. are hereby notified to file the arr.<-. ;uly verified, with the under gr> : md those indebted to said '-'a.- a;;; please make payment like v <e j THOMAS P. GASKIN GROVER C. GASKIN Executors o- v. Brookland, S. C. _ V .gust 2, 1934 County Campaign Date* August 17, 10 a. m., at . T :ay, August 21, 10 a. m., at "> mecjay, August 22, 10 a. m., liaoor.'s Cross Roads. Cy.-.day, August 23, 3:00 p. m., a' ' arr.den. "^'urday, August 25, 5:00 p. m., at MSchool. State Campaign Date* AbberiHe?Friday, August 17 . . Tantn W??k ?Monday, August 80 alha.la?Tuesday, August 21 Vkena?Wednesday, August 12 Thursday. August 81. votumbla?Friday, August 14 but is only 8 months old at her last birthday which was julie the 4. at pressent, they are calling1 her number 7. the tree will be painted with water collars, the main boddy of same will be silver and the limbs will be gold. . .holsum more expects hansom, his secont son, to be the first that will take unto hisself a bride, and he has left room for 11 branches, holsum, jr., mought not marry as soon as the rest of the familey onner count of he is cross-eyed, stutters a right smart, limps bad in his left leg where a I mule kicked him and has rye nake which makes him turn around if he ever looks backwards. . . mrs, art square has begun on her tree and she plans to go six generations back looking for her decendants, and hopes to come within a few weeks of the mayflower. she is a colledge graduate, and will no doubt rite up a fine familey tree, she says her great gram-paw had 214 hairs at the forth generation, but she will have only 2 or 3 limbs for him. we wish her much joy in this terrible undertaking. . .sevveral of the leading families, including the jonses and some of the | smiths and all of the elkinsons have I started familey trees, but when they j commenced to trace their ancestors, they found so manny of them fn bad order, busted, incarcerated and otherwise enjoined, that they gave up the idea and will let their familey history come from the word of mouth and will pass it down to posterity in that manner. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. corry spondenL Manning Continues Race For Governor Sumter, Aug. 13.?With less than two weeks of the state campaign itinerary remaining, Wyndham Manning, Sumter county farmer and candidate for Coventor, rejoined the campaign party Monday after delivering four speeches Saturday, two in Union county and two in Cheater county. Continuing his aggressive quest after the governorship, Mr. Manning's speeches last week-end and the j early part of this week have been characterized by attacks on tactics of his opponents, i>artieularly those of "riding the coat-tails of so-called political bosses" and "platform plagiarism." In his references to the former, he said: "I have confidence in the intelligence as will as the integrity of the people of South Carolina, and I do not for a moment believe that independent, right-thinking South Caro-' linians will permit themselves to be delivered like a herd of cattle or a bag of meal." Of the latter charge his declarations included: "One of the gentlemen opposing me has almost picked up my platform in its entirety. I admire his taste, but I cannot say that I admire his forte for lack bf originality. Many good people of the state already are asking why he suddenly recognizes that he didn't have a platform until he studied mine. He saw that I stand for the things the people want, so he discarded the empty words of his former speeches and is even imitating the speeches I have been making from the inception of the campaign." Summing his own position, Mr. Manning said: "By this stage of the campaign I believe everyone knows that I am for necessary adjustments in the state's tax system, but no new or substitute taxes?we have enough taxes now; strict enforcement of all laws of the state; restricted use of the governor's pardon power as a means of protecting citizens who obey the law; establishment of a state departmen^5>f labor; enactment of an adequate workmen's compensation law; encouragement or cordial' relations between capital and labor, since the welfare of each depends upon the prosperity and contentment of the other; the end of rule by departments, bureaus, officials or outside influences of any character and assertion of the rights of the people themselves, through their, duly elected representatives, to guide the destinies of South Carolina to a new day of happiness, peace and security." The storm of Friday afternoon killed two mules of W. G. Darby, in Chester county near Lowrys. Many trees all over the county were struck by lightning. Melvin H. Purvis, the South Carolina boy who engineered the capture of John Dillinger, will visit this state shortly and will address the Lions club at Columbia. The fourth victim died the other day from the falling of a bus full of Charleston children from a precipice at Caesars Head on July 24. It was Sam Abercrombie, the negro cook of the party which had been camping in Greenville county. Babe Ruth, the ball player, has announced that he will retire from the game at the end of the present season. t? - * - - ? "MANNING'S THE MAN" jr George li. Cromer Endorses I.aw Knforcing Candidate for Governor. To the Editor of The ?jumter Item; It is fortunate that there are good men in the race for the governorship. One of them, to say nothing of the others, lias the requisite qualifications to a marked degree. He has character. lie has ability. He has intelligence. He has courage. He has legislative, experience. His patriotism has been tested in peace and in war. He knows the needs of our people and is in sympathy with them. He is conducting a decent and dignified campaign. He slanders nobody. He belittles nobody. Ho "totes his own skillett." He can afford to stand on his own merits. In the referendum on the 28th of August this state is going to vote dry. It is of the utmost importance that, during the next four years, we have a governor pledged and devoted to law enforcement, Manning's the man. George B. Cromer. NeWberry, S. C., Aug. 14. Chief Justice Blease made an order that the bail be fixed at $2,500 for John C. Sparks, held at Gaffney for the. murder of Guy P. Clary, at a filling sttaation seven miles from Gaffney on the night of July 22. Sparks claims he killed Clary in self defense. Orders have been placed for 8,577,000 yards of ticking to be used in making mattresses for the needy in the Carolinas with most of the order going to North Carolina mills. -J 1 ?je? ? jjr* The Greenville \ News-Piedmont radju btation ha* rc*u(fted operations aftei being burned out and now has its power increased to 1,000 watts. It can now be heard in Charlotte, Gastoma, Columbia and Atlanta. It was silent ten days while being rebuilt ami began broadcasting again Monday. The government will establish a state park in the southwestern sec-1 tion of Sumter county. One thousand acres have been purchased for $5,000 and a CCC camp will be established. The park will be named for Joseph R. Poinsett, after the South Carolina statesman and naturalist, who is buried at Stateburg in that county. Julian P. Selby, auditor of the state department of agriculture and one of its first inspectors, died at his home in Columbia aged 75 years. Roanoke Island, N. C., last week celebrated the 350th anniversary- of the first settlement of Knglish-speaking peoples on the American continent. Roanoke laiand is also the birthplace of the first white child, Virginia Dare, born on- the continent, August 18, 1587. FORECLOSURE SALE Notice is hereby given that in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Kershaw County, South Carolina, dated the 11th of August, ,1934f in the case of The First Carolinas Joint Stock I>and Rank of Columbia, plaintiff, vs. L. J. Whitaker, Ix>an & Savings Rank and R. E. ! Stevenson, as Receiver of I/oan & Savings Rank, Postal Telegraph Cable Company, Carolina Light & Power Company, The Federal I/and Rank of Columbia and Laura V. -Thurmond, defendants, I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, requiring of the successful bidder a deposit, of $150.00 immediately upon the conclusion of the bidding, as a guaranty of good faith, and upon such bidder's failure to make said deposit the Master shall immediately resell said property on the terms above provided. In case of any subsequent raised bid, as provided by law, each such bidder shall make a like deposit. The amount' of such final deposit shall be forfeited and applied to the judgment ahd costs in the event of non-compliance by such last bidder within forty days from the date of public sale as herein provided, before the Court House door at Camden, South Carolina, during the legal hours of sale on the fir^t Monday in September, 1934, being the 3rd day thereof, the follow-) ing described property: i "All of that piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the State of ?>outh Carolina. County of Kershaw and in DeKalb Township, about eight (s) miles south of the City of Camden, containing two hundred forty-three (243) acres, more or le.-s, and being bounded on the north by lands formerly of Roykin, later of Sorrell, now of L. J. Whitaker, east by Camden and Sumter public road known as the Charleston road, separating same from lands of Cantey, south by Pine Grove Plantation of L. W. Boykin, west by right-of-way of Southern Railway Company. The said tract of land has such shapes, metes and distances as will more fully appear by reference to a plat made by S. W. Laughlin, Surveyor, dated December 24, 1918, and is the same tract of land conveyed to L. J. Whitaker by deed of Camden Realty and Security Company dated the 16th day of April, 1926. Said premises shall be sold subject to the easement granted by L. J. Whitaker to Carolina Power & Light Company by instrument dated 23 July, 1929, recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County in book of deeds "BX" at page 210, which is hereby confirmed and preserved."' W. L. DePass, Jr., Master for Kershaw County. MASTER'S SALE State of South Carolina County of Kershaw In the Court of Common Pleas Pursuant to an Order of the Court in the case of W. L. Rlackmon, plaintiff, against ('has. P. DuBose, Et Al., defendants, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, in or in front of the Court House at Camden, South Carolina, during the legal nours for sale on Sales Day in September, 1934, the following described property: "All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with buildings thereon, situate in the City of Camden, County of Kershaw, State of South Carolina, fronting West on Fair Street of said City, three hundred (300) feet, with beginning point- at the intersection of Fair and Laurens Streets, running thence North along the line of sain Fair Street three hundred (300) feet to corner on property of Ix'slie McLeod, thence East along the j line of said property two hundred forty (240) feet, thence South one hundred (100) feet, thence West f if[teen (15) feet, thence South two hundred (200) feet, cornering on said I/aurens Street, thencf West along the line of said I>aurens Street two I hundred twenty-five (225) feet to the beginning point. Bounded as follows: North by property of Leslie McLeQd, 1 East by premises of Elizabeth R. ' i Thomas, South by said I^aurens j Street, and West by said Fair Street. And being a portion of the property i known as King Haigler Inn, conveyed to me by Elizabeth R. Thomas by I deed dated the 11th day of May, 1929, j and recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw f'ountv in Book "BY" at page 184. Plat of same is recorded in plat book No. 8. at page 155. * Terms of sale, cash; purchaser to pay for paper and stamps. Deficiency Judgment being waived the purchaser will he allowed immediate possession of the same. W. L. DePass, Jr., Master for Kershaw County. Gregory & Gregory, Plaintiff's Attorneys. Pays His Respects To Higher Wages Editor the Greenville Observer: The new deal has taken two new controlling whacks at the production of cotton. One was a direct whack to control its production. The first and most effective whack was an indirect stab at the production of cotton. The curtailing trick that clicked with a click and went over the top is the wage scale for common labor under RFC, CWA and on down the line to FERA. $2.-10 per day is no bonanza for the worker when lie puts in only two days per week, but it is a powerful aid to old man Crabhead or crab grass to walk ahead of Mr. Bankhead in curtailing the production of cotton. Something like 00 p<|r cent of farm labor in the eastern half of the cotton belt consists of colored labor. Scads and scads of colored labor, and plenty of white labor thrown in for good measure, prefer $-1.80 for a two-day work week in lieu of $0.00 for a sixday week. 1 he mistake of mistakes made by the new dealrs was the wage scale for common labor on government projects. The government, by all means, should have paid labor on these projects a wee bit less than the farm or private business is able to shell out and keep their farming operations and business from dipping deeper into the red. Such a method would naturally cause labor to first seek employment from private sources and to seek jobs on government projects only as a last resort. If the government had seen fit to employ such a policy, General Green and Colonel Crab Grass would not have forced the farmers of Dixie to wage a defensive war against the two arch foes to old King Cotton in their attempt to keep him on the throne. Dear reader: Did you ever have an effective- remedy at hand for your ailment and didn't know it? Well, our government had one and didn't seem to be aware of the fact. Secre-' tary Wallace and Secretary Bankhead with sore, bald and bushy heads knitted their brows and wrinkled their foreheads to devise ways and means to control the production of cotton when they had an ideal plan in operation. The plan of $2.40 per day for common labor was the trick with a click. Look here, white man, Don't pester me, I'se gwine to keep my job On the K. F. C. That is the attitude that many laborers are taking. They work two days on some government project and loiter four days on the streets. Then they elbow their way in and out of the relief agencies like magots working on a dead dog in a gutter. Farmers drive 10, 15 and 20 miles to the cities for cotton choppers and offer as much as $1.00 per day and lunch, with transportation both ways, yet many go back empty handed. Ivook here, white man, keep yo' ride, I gits four days rest And eats on de side. Yes, the government is feasting him on ham ami eggs, smoked shoulder, etc., while his neighbor who follows private pursuits is dining on fa baMv and knee-high gravy. Therefore, the common wage scale set up under RFC down to KKRA has put the two letters G and L in going the limit. If a farmer paid a laborer $2.40 for a day's work he would indeed be lucky if he secured $1.00 in service. The present scale of wages on gov- k eminent projects has created a wavo of discontentment in the ranks of common labor and thusly has proven to be a most effective weapon in cutting down the yield of old King Cotton, but this indirect plan is neither feasible nor pleasable. The government wage scale will always prove to be a thorn of contention itriho ranks of common labor until the present generation passes to the far beyond unless the price of raw and finished products soar to unprecedented heights. The present attitude of labor toward farm wages has beaten the bank head . hi 11 to its goal in curtailing the production of cotton. J. S. GOODWIN. All but Id of the 49 members of the police force of Lynchburg, Va., signed an oath part of which entreated God to strike them down if they had lied about stealing $1,500 of automobile license fees last May 12. The other 13 officers did not sign the oath for various reasons. Some were on vacations, others had already testified under oath and so forth. Mrs. Anna Antonio, 29, the mother of three children, was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison, New York, last Thursday night for participation in the murder^of her husband. Two men, convicted with her also sat on the hot seat. Ruth Snyder, convicted in New York seven years ago for the murder of her husband, was the last woman to have been electrocuted in the state before Mrs. Antonio. Ren T. Leppard, Democratic state chairman, predicts that the vote in the primary this month will reach 300,000 ballots, based on the percentage, of voting to enrollment in the past. 1 MIALS I i birth 1 FROM CHARLESTON 1 Mondays and Saturdays 1 Breeze-cooled oil the way. Big modern 1 I Inert. . . deck tports, dancing, radio, 1 etc. Five-day round trip givet you a day and a half In New York ... or itay longer . . . ticket limit It 30 days. 1 to JACKSONVILLE I Thursdays and So fur day* $12 round tHp 1 Superior occom mod *t torn ili&htly bigbor I Lea rates for aotos when sccotnpanted CLYDE-MALLORY LINES W A. O Srten, Gen't Apsnt, CHARLESTON. S. C. blonde <3^d hej* tterth 4re -fa 1st / why, I tJu'nX Shes very Am LY 2?Assassin Guitcau shoots President Garfield, 1881. 3?First street cars in U. S. run in Brooklyn. 1854. 4?First trans-Pacific cable service starts, 1903. 5?P. T. Barnum, "sucker-aminutc," born 1810. 6?John Paul Jones, first U. S. naval hero, born 1747. 7?Four are hanged for assassination of Lincoln, 1865. 8?The Liberty Bell ia cracked while tolling', 1835. [ det this -for (vorfad WT "// good head and industrious hand are worth gold in any Land." ULY 9?Elias Howe, tewing machine inventor, born 1819. 10?The first steamboat ' reaches Chicago's harbor, 1832. . I 11?John Quincy Adams, the 1 6th President, born 1767. j 12?Joslah Wedgwood, noted pottery maker, born 1730. 13 ?Maude Adams makes hit in "The Little Minister," ' 1905. 14?The start of the bloody French Revolution, 1789. 15?U. S. Rainbow Division ttops German drive, 1918 ] you a o/itneed LILY IS?A destructive frost hit* ? Pittsfield. Mass.. 1849. 17?First photograph of stars is completed. 1850. IS?Nero busy fiddling while ^ome is burning. A D.. 19?Start of the German retreat across Marne. 1918. 20?Franklin suggests the idea of a phonograph, 17S8 21?British defeat the great Spanish Armada. 1S&8. 22?P eta in says -Tenacity, audacity, victory." 191? i This might be a Friend of Your* RECENTLY a telephone subscriber, while paying her . bill, gave us the name of a former subscriber and asked ua to try anil induce her to put her telephone back in. "They are frlvnda of oure," ahe aaid, "and we and their other frienda miaa having them at our aocial gathering*. When they ' , 'V had a telephone we called them frequently but now we can't.** Moat folks who have telephones with their frienda had ^ them too. If you are one who ia trying to get along without a telephone, poaaibly you never thought what it meana to your frienda not to be able to reach you quickly and easily by * I telephone. It is not only a great inconvenience to you bat to your frienda as well. o When you atop to think of the greater comfort, protection and added pleasure that a telephone in the home affords, don't you agree that it really doesn't pay to try to get along without one? Order yours today. It costs little. 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