The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 17, 1934, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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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
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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.
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"MANNING'S THE MAN"
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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
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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
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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
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"// 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.
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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?
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