The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 12, 1934, Page Page Eleven, Image 11
[[Attention, Cotton Farmers!
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i 1 he price of cotton hna declined more than 150 |
I points, $7.50 per bale from the August'high. Every
j bale you sell now helps to further depress the price!
< it is time to stop selling! ;
| Store your cotton and borrow 12 cents per pound,
II $60.00 per bale, under the Government's Lending Pro|
| gram. You are guaranteed a minimum of 12 cents
j regardless af future market conditions. Take this
jj loan and wait for higher prices before selling.
| Obtain your loan through the Cotton Co-op. No
charges for preparing Loan Documents. No service
j charge when you sell. You can handle your loan
! | through the Association on as good or better terms as
II anywhere else. Support Cooperative Marketing!
I Visit aur offices and discuss this proposition with
K| our Field Representative, J. B. Shannon, Kershaw
j County Field Representative.
I | QFFICE, CAMDEN BONDED WAREHOUSE
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SOUTH CAROLINA
II Cotton Growers Cooperative Association
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I one of the free acts to be seen at the Kershaw
county fair, october 15-20, 1934
Know Any Bigger?
Mine shafts anywhere are awesome
sights, but C. Allen Kelly thinks
there's something especially wonderful
about those in Hibbling, Minn.
Being interested in mining," he
writes us, I took a stroll to one of
the underground mines and was engaged
in conversation with the engineer
in the hoist house when 'three
bells rang which was the signal from
below t" bring the skip to the surface.
The engineer released the
brake, opened up the controller of
the huge electric hoist and the skip
started on its way up. Curious
to see the type of skip used, I walked
over to the shaft house to await
its arrival. I hung around for at
least an hour and still there was no
si?n of the skip despite the fact that;
the cable to which it was attached
was coming up at a terfiflc speed.
At that point my patience was exhausted,
hut still curious I hurried
back ;o the hoist house to find the
controller wide open, the cable winding
around the drum at a dizzy speed
and the engineer fast asleep in his
chair. With one lerfp I was on him,
shaking him violently. Rubbing his
eyes, he inquired sleepily, "Wha's
amatter with you?"
"Matter!" I yelled excitedly. "Pull
yourself together, man; do you want
to pull that skip over the top of the
Shaft house ?"
"Huh?" he grunted.
"Sure, over the top," I shouted at
him. "That's what it'll do if you
don't stop it."
"Lemme see, what day is this?"
"Why Monday, of course," I replied
wondering, "Why?"
"Tha's all right then," was the |
answer. "The skip won't arrive 'til
Friday," and he promptly went back
to sleep.?Pathfinder.
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Former Charleston
Man Recalls Events
(Frank F. Whilden in Columbia State)
August 80 and 81 are two oustanding
"red letter days" fothe city of
Charleston of half century ago und
those living today will never forget
them.
The writer was one who passed
through these trying days and nights.
August 80, 1885, at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon the wind began to blow
from the southeast, freshening every
hour; storm signals had been displayed
for a severe blow but these were
bommon occurrences on the coast and
not much attention was paid to them.
As dark came on the wind increased,
accompanied by a heavy rainfall. By
0 p. m. we were in the embrace of a
cyclone. Very little sleep in the city
that night.
Daylight revealed wreck and disaster.
few houses had the roof left on
them, the tide rose above ordinary
find the southern part of the city was
inundated. At 9 a. m. August 81 the
writer waded in sea water waist depp
on the White Foint garden (the battery).
Saw the great sea brake over"
the eastern sea wall, the spray going
over the roofs of the houses on the
opposite side of East Bay street.
Fishing smacks of considerable sire
were floated up into the street, large
and small boats sunk in the docks
and wreckage was everywhere.
The tall steeple of the Citadel
Square Baptist church was blown over
and fell on the house across the
street occupied by the Dotterer family,
cutting it in half. All were at
home. Some of the family were pinned
under the wreckage but no one
was seriously hurt or killed. This
was almost a miracle.
The wind reached a velocity of over
90 miles an hour, blowing away the
United States weather bureau instruments.
It was estimated that the
| wind cached the velocity of 140 miles
art nwh\
We passed through the certter of
the cyclone at 10 a. m. August 31
when it began to blow from just the
Opposite direction. Damage to propel
ty amounted into the thousands, especially
on the eastern water front.
However, the people set bravely to
work repairing the damage and by
fall things had assumed their natural
trend again.
Months rolled by, nerves became
quieted and on the first anniversary,
181H), we were reminded of the great
event. The day opened beautifully,
a mild breeze came but it was hot.
August usually is in Charleston.
The morning of August 31 everybody
breathed easy, the day had passed
and no storm. But they did not
know what was in store before the
day was over.
August 31 t>pened clear and beautiful
but sultry and hot, no breeze,
many remarked experiencing a peculiar
odor and stillness in the air.
Crowds of people were away on the
annual mountain excursion.
At night the moon was bright but
it had a most peculiar appearance.
Most people were out of doors. I was ,
sitting with my wife on the second
story piazza facing west in the central
part of the city. **01d Betty,"
the family Grandfather clock, had
I just struck 10; wife remarked "I
smell sulphur," at 10:10 a loud roar'ing
noise broke the silence of the
night, then a violent earthquake. No
one knew how long this "quake" lasted
but it was long enough to do
thousands of dollars of damage to
property and wreck the nerves of
humanity and kill quite a number of
people.
In less than ten minutes the houses
were deserted and the population in
the streets, parks and gardens. Many
people "prayed that night who never
prayed before and those who prayed
before now prayed the more."
It's a long and interesting story
and this sketch is written only as a
reminder that those who were there
may think about that memorable occasion.
The writer shall never forget those
two outstanding days in his life,
showing us how feeble man is and
frail are all his works and what
great lesson Jehovah teaches through
the storm and earthquake and other
convulsions of nature.
A Soviet publicist of Moscow declares
that Upton Sinclair, California
candidate for governor, is "stepping
I along the path of barren Fascism."
He said Sinclair's campaign to end
poverty "will end only in bankruptcy,
but may give the masses a lesson."
When Martha Gabler, aged 7, walked
into a Brooklyn, N. Y., police station
and announced that "Josephine,
who was born last Christmas day had
been kidnaped,"'the police sent out
a general alarm. Josephine was a
rag doll, and was found in the home
of one of Martha's playmates..
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union, with headquarters in New
York, on Sunday ordered a "militant
strike" designed to call out the crews
of American ships sailing out of the
North Atlantic and Gulf ports to
start at 9 o'clock yesterday morning,
with 85,000 men involved. It is a
demand for a basic wage scale of $76
per month, an eight hour day and
so forth. 1
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Program Prevents
Lower Prices
Clemson College, Oct. 6. "South
Carolina and other Southern farmers
have seen the benefit* which come
from cooperation among themselves
and with their Government and they
surely will not wish to return to the
low prices and low standard of living
which prevailed prior to the beginning
of the present cotton production,
adjustment program," says I>r. W. W.
Long, director of the Extension Service,
who believes that without an adjustment
program for cotton in 1935,
growers might easily bring about a
condition similar to that which they
faced in the early part of 1933 or in
1932 when the price was around five
cents a pound, v
In this connection Dr. Long quotes
Cully A. Cobb, head of the cotton section
AAlA, who fears that the return
to 11)32 and 1933 condition* might occur
if the safeguards of the present |
contracts were withdrawn by the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration.
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"For instance," says Mr. Cobb,
"one grower would thipk that he
could safely increase his acreage by
10 acres and would use a little more
and a little better fertilizer. The present
iprice, ho would think, would justify
.such action.' Then, if the other
two million cotton growers thought
the same way, as they probacy
would, we would have an increase of
20,000,000 acres right there. The
greater use of fertilizers accompanying
the increase might, with a good
producing season, again add to the
price-breaking surplus production
now on hand.
"For that reason, each individual
grower might well ask himself tha
timely question, 'How - much cotton
should I plant in 1935?' The question
needs to bo debated at meetings
of growers and by the county control
associations. It should be kept in
mind also that ever^ grower in the
South should have the same privilege
that might be desired by any one
group or individual."
Kidnap Ladder
Is Traced
The Augusta Chronicle.
McConnick, Oct. 6?Citizens of
this littb South Carolina copnty.
law-abiding and csMru-tenored "in
their manner oi living little dreamed,
tlvey read the harrowing story
of the Lindbergh kidnaping more
tluui three years ago, that tho ladder
down which the ill-fated baby
v.nw brought from the apparent
safety of. its crib came from one
o? the myriads of pinos that grace
the foiresta of McCormick county.
A year and a half ago a group
of Strangers was poking about in a
local lumber yard, for what reason
no one knew.
Now, however, it develops that
one of these mem is the same man
who recmtly was the subject of J
much discussion in the newspapers
because of his having declared that
'Richard Bruno rtauptmamm, now
being held in the Lindbergh case
pure has sd lumber for the ladder
which was traced via a Bnceix lumber
dealer, a Mason lumber manufacturing
company hack to a McCormick
lumber concern. The plan's
name is Arthur Koehler, wood technologist
of Madisom, Wis.
On his visit to McCormick, Mr.
Koehler had a section of a ladder
in a case, now believed to have been
a part of the Lindbergh kidnapsr's
ladder.
The lumber of which tho~ lad .er
was made is said to have beqn traced
by matching pieces of >t with
other boards, figured by Mr. Koehlefc*
to have boeti sawed from the
name log. Hia intricate knowledge
of wood and its peculiarities. amounting
to a ecieeice in itself, was
the only foundation on which Mr.
Koehler had to work in his exhaustive
investigations.
Mrs. A. C. Carson, wife of the
mayor of Wilmar, Minn., and Mrs.
Malcolm Douglas, the wife of a supej
rior court judge of the state of Washington,
are outstanding candidates for
the presidency of the American Legion
Auxiliary, in the election which
takes place at Miami, Fla., this
month.
|Vo men, Harry Thornton and
Thurman Bowen of Bridgeport, Ohio,
were arrested at Wheeling, W. Va.,
on a charge of threatened kidnaping
of the daughter of a wealthy man
there. They "pleaded guilty and are
held under bonds of $100,000 each for
the federal court. They planned to
hold their intended victim for $25,000
ransom.
Sales of the 1935 automobile license
plates began on Friday, and applications
were sent out to all car owners
of record by the motor vehicle division
of the gtate highway department.
One set of plates is designated
especially /or separate trailers which
require them after the first of the
Jttf- by legislative flat.
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Says Ben To Ken
Ben looked up from the newspaper.
"A heap of changes going on in this
country," he remarked.
"There sure are," agreed Ken. "But
therms one thing that hasn't been
thought of that ought to be done."
"What's that?"
"We ought to change the insignia
of tho United States," said Ken,
shifting his quid. "We ought to have
the bullfrog instead of the eagle. The
eagle is a distant bird, has a tenor
voice when exMted, and he occupies
circles far above the common people.
But the bullfrog has come up from
the bottom, gets around nights, has a
bass voice at all times, and is at home
in the country or at the dinner tables
of what Is known as 'Sassiety' in tho
big cities. Besides, the bullfrog is a
natural grcenbacker and he inflates
easy."
Ben scratched his head in an attempt
to get into the spirit of the
conversation. "Well, I don't know,"
he said Anally. "A heap of folks will
object to the bullfrog as our representative
because he's a banker."
"But he's not a regular banker,"
said Ken. "When the bullfrog
plunges, he does it with his own resources;
not with those of other
peopde."
"Still, I don't seem to care for the
bullfrog much in the job," said Ben.
"I can't see him perohed on the
mainmast of the ship of state."
"Yes, but if the ship of state was
wrecked," said Ken, "the eagle would
Ay away to the tall timber. The bullfrog,
on the other hand, would swim
around and climb onto what was left
of the deck. We would at least have
our insignia left. I'm for him!"?
Fred B. Mann in Country Gentleman.
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Foreign Tabu
While swimming in the Adriatic
Sea at Susak, Yugoslavia, an 18-yearold
girl was eaten by a huge shark
weighing 3,800 pounds. The sh:.rk
Wk* later c&ptured by fishermen.
A plan to build a waterway costing
$2,000,000 from Bristol Channel to
The Wash, which will cut England
in half, was approved by the government.
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A former Czarist was discovered to
he a long-time member of the Communist
party in Kusia and was
promptly expelled when he admitted
forgoing documents to gain his entry.
The site of Nessa, capital of Tarthin,
a rich pre- Christian empire,
was discovered in the Turkmanian
Republic, Russia.
With the Red Army reputed" "to be
the largest in the world, Russia has
only 05 warships in her navy, most |
of them pre-war. "Js
Under the regime of pro-Catholic
Chancellor Schusehnigg of Austria J
Catholic and non-Catholic children in
the schools are taught in separate
buildings.?Pathfinder.
Children of Eldorado, 111., will be Jl
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taken to jail if found on the streets
bhere after 8:30 in the evening, to be
called for 'by their parents, according
to the terms of a new curfew law.
Hamburger steak is the most popular
dish at the world's fair in Chi- .1
cago, about 1,500 pounds of hathburgI
er being sold each day to fair visitors.
Coffee is the most popular beverage.
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A movement has begun on the islands
along the Carolina coast to revive
the production of long staple cotton.
The government has maintained ,
a station for a number of years on
one of the islands to perpetuate the
seed. 'fifB
ANNOUNCEMENT
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| I have leased the DeKalb Service Station, corner
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of Market and DeKalb Streets effective Monday
morning, October 15th, when 1 will handle Purol
Products and Good Year Tires and Tubes and maintain
twenty-four hour service.
I have been in the Service Station business in
Camden for eight years and believe I can give the
public the service they have a right to expect. 1
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shall be glad to have my friends call on me at my new
location.
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Warehouse your cotton in a Federal
Bonded Warehouse?under the
supervision of U. S. Department of
Agriculture. We are equipped to
handle 12-cent loan on your cotton.
Rate of storage 25 cents per bale per
month, fully insured.
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Camden Bonded Warehouse
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R. E. Stevenson J. S. Thomas