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imp 11 H " " 1 B fl *0 Tffl FOR YOUR THANKSGIVING DINNER Mince Meat W Fig ttiwi Plum Pudding Nutr%nd Raisins Canned Pumpkin \j Fresh Cranberries W Cranberry Sauce Fresh Potato Chips Heinz Chow Chow Fresh Tomatoes Celery and Lettuce * ? y Full Line of Fruit Cake ^Materials Gladden's Fancy Grocery | Wo Deliver Phone 282 I ap^sj^irrrr*?? + ? " . 1 Children's I(ook Week Contest The week of November 11 to November 17th was celebrated throughouth the nation as Children's Book Week. To develop the child's interest in books, to create the reading habit in the young child, and to further the taste for the best in literature were the aims of the Book Week Program. To the parents of the young child is the following message. "While the mind is sensitive to every impression, give the child good books. Ia?t them be well-written and living, whatever their subject, so that a taste for reading as a vital and enriching part of life may be a natural heritage. The child is so pathetically eager. It is stupid to feed that engemess with dull dissertation, cheap sentiment, or horror. There is so much that is fine in the world?exact knowledge, wonder, merriment, courage, beauty, the multiple pageants of time and space?that every child should have his imaginative share im them before he begins to shape his own life. I^et the child follow his own preferences?there is room for each taste?.but let him be given spring water in his cup." The Corner Book Store, hoping to further interest in reading among the young children offered a prize for the best composition on this subject written by a pupil of the 4th, 5th, <>th and 7th grades. The winner of this contest wijs Miss Laura Green, age 11, daughter of Mr. Henry Green, with the following composition: "Why I Like To Read" By 141 ura Green " 1 he most plpasant and profitable pastime I know is reading. By means of books we are able to profit by the, experience of our ancestors. Sinco I time began, people have written their! deeds or ideas in one form or another, their glooms, mistakes, pleasures, disappointments, victories and defeats. "I like to read because I get so many new ideas. Inspiration keeps one pepped up. When I am tired, there is nothing I enjoy more than a good books to divert my weary mind. I can go to sleep with the pretty thought o,f some novel, poem or history in my- mind. "I think I especially should be grateful to books because I am not Quite like other children.. I have to rest a great deal. Books are really my friends. I forget my handicap and renlize that it isn't so bad after all to have an excuse to rest so that I might lose myself in the past, with the Greeks or Romans, or maybe a fiction love story. All literature broadens your mind and helps you to be a good leader. Just what this world needs so badly today is some one who knows." ~ THE TERRIBLE EXPLOSION Thnt terrible explosion in a Newberrv hnrdwam nforo T J | t"> show the danger that's always involved in the presence of high explosives. There are countless ways in which a terrible disaster can be brought about, and it's strange, perhaps, that there are not more of such occurrences, with resultant loss of life nnd Mmb. It's the duty of municipal authorities everywhere to check-up on the presence of .explosives in sufficient quantities to create a menace, and see that they are stored and handled in a manned to minimize as much as possible the likelihood of a disastrous explosion.?Chester Reporter. WHY TUB GOVERNMENT SHOULD FEED 'EM Following we have what are purposed to be excerpts from letters, reported to have been received -by various ogvernment agencies, PWA, CCC, FDRA, etc. A reader sent them in to Letters, fortnightly published by Time: I cannot get sick pay, I have six children, can you tell me why it is? This is my eighth child. What are you going to do about it? Mrs. Brown has had no clothing for a year and has been regularly visited by the clergy. I am glad to say that my husband, who was reported missing, is now deceased. I have been cohabiting with several officers at headquarters but without results. Sirs: I am forwarding my marriage certificate and my two children, one of which is a mistake, you can see. I am writing to say that my baby was born two years old. When do I get my money? Unless I get my husband's money soon I will be forced to lead an immortal life. I am sending my marriage certificate and six children I have seven one died which was baptized on half a sheet of paper by Rev. Thomas. Please find out for certain if my husband is dead. The man I am living with now won't eat anything or do anything until he knows. I am very annoyed to find that you have branded my oldest boy as illiterate. This is a dirty lie as I married his father a week before lie was born. In answer to your letter I have j given birth to a boy weighing ten lb. I hope this is satisfactory. My husband has been put in charge | of a spittoon (platoon). Now do I get my money? You have changed my little hoy to a girl. Will it make any difference? I have no children yet. My husband is a bus driver and works day and night. In accordance with your instructions' I have given birth to twins in the enclosed envelope. I want my money as quick as you can send it. I have been in bed with the doctor for two weeks and be does not seem to be doing much good. If things don't improve I will have to send for another doctor. Mr. Kirkly Dies Here Kershaw, Nov. 20.?Waddy I). Kirkley, 27, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Kirkley of the Flat Creek section of the county, died at a Camden hospital last night after a short illness of pneumonia. The passing of this young man will be learned of with much regret by his many friends and relatives in this section of the state. He is survived by his parents and the following brothers and sisters, C. B. Kirkley, Kasley; Mrs. O. B. Flagler and Mrs. G. M. O'Rourke of i Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. B. Harold Rucker of Columbia and Mrs. J. R. MoLeod of Detroit, Mich. Funeral services were held at the home today, conducted by his pastor, the Rev. R. R. Tucker of the Methodist church, with interment in Kershaw cemetery. The members of the young men's Bible class of the Methodist church acted as pallbearers. Patient?'What! You charge me $5 for pulling a single tooth? Dentist?I'm sorry to do it but I have to. You shrieked so loud that you scared away two other patients. r I PLYMOUTH I ! | 1935 MODELS WILL BE ON DISPLAY SOON AT I L I CAROLINA MOTOR COMPANY 1 Bp-- | ( j Super Service Station Ph^M 210 i Great Eucalyptus Trees of Australia Tallest j We are accustomed to think of the ; great redwood trees of California, or I their sisters, the massive sequoia, as j the tallest trees In the world. Bqt ! the grout eucalyptus trees of Australia are much taller, attaining at times a height of 470 feet, according to a writer In Tit-Bits Magazine. The euculyptl, however, ure of comparatively small diameter, ranging from 10 to lft feet. The sequoia and redwood trees In certain localities grow to 400 and JlftO feet respectively but are of much greater diameter. There are 800 species of eucalyptus, tallest of which are the 10. Iteguans and the Amygdallna. They ure Indigenous to Austrulla, except a few species that are natives of the East Indies and the Malay peninsula. The eucalypti ure valued for the gum reslo in their trunks, the volatile oil in the leaves, the tannin In the bark, the fiber In the Inner hark and. uhove all, for their timber. The oil Is stimulating and antiseptic, and Is used for affections of the nose and bronchial tubes. Eucalyptus trees have been planted with the belief In their beneficial fects against malaria. This may be | because in swumpy ground they help I to dry the land and prevent the mosquito's growth. They have been transplanted to ?mnny British possessions, and also to California. A common species, the blue gum, is known for its ability to withstand a long drouth. ' "Tin Can Island" Gate Mail by Canoe Delivery The Island of Nluafoou, or as it is popularly known, 'Tin Can Island," U one of the Tongan or Friendly group, and la located in the Pacific ocean some three hundred miles from Samoa, and about midway between Honolulu, Hawaii, and Sydney, New South Wales. Tbe name of the Island, notes a writer In the Chicago Tribune, Is said to mean "many new coconuts," and while the island Itself amounts to little, It has the distinction of producing the largest coconuts In the world. Nluafoou has s lefter writing population of five or six and one of these, with time on his hands, conceived the Idea of the Tin Can mail. A vessel of the Union Steam Ship company of New Zealand was engaged to call at the Island and put off and receive mall In sealed tin cans, which were carried to and from the stenmer by native swimmers, for the nature of this volcanic island Is such that vessels must anchor n mile or more off shore. Some time njrn the Tin Can method of carrying mail was supplanted by a canoe line, due at least In purt to the sharks which have a special fondness for swimming postmen. Peafowls Peafowls are indigenous to Asiatic countries. They are plentiful In the large forests of India and are found also in the mountainous regions. They have been quite widely domesticated In America and in England where winters are not sever. There arc four varieties of peafowl, known as Black Winged, Common, Jnvnn and White. They are bred purely for ornamentation. The Common peafowl is the variety most common In India. The Jungle fowl Is a breed with fairly Ion# tall feathers. This name is applied I to the wild fowl from which It U Claimed the modern domestic varieties have descended. Red and gray -varieties predominate. They resembled the Rhode Island Red or the leghorn chickens In body formation. Turtle* Check Water Mark On the shores of the Amazon lives a apecles of turtle which lay^a lta eggs iiKthe sand a few feet above the line that will denote high-water at the time when the young are due to appear. The eggs are laid weeks ahead of the actual rising or falling of the river, and In some seasons there may be a margin of at least three miles In lta width, but this tortoise or land turtle never makes a mistake, always depositing them In a secure spot Just the right distance above the Una which later will show the high-water mark. V**si Ha* Dens* Atmosphere Venus has a very dense atmosphere, heavy clouds hiding the surface from our view. It Is not definitely known how long It takes the planet to rotate on Its axis. Probably It is considerably longer than our 24 hours, but it Is very doubtful^ Venus, like Mercury, keeps one face perpetually turned toward the sun, for If it did. the dark aide would be extremely cold, whereas It seems to radiate an appreciable amount of heat. . Illiterate People In the moro restricted and technical sense of the term an Illiterate person Is one who Is unable to read and write his own language. The tests of this ability vary greatly, but all are a? aim pis that a person could easily pass them and yet be Illiterate In a wider sense. It has been estimated, very roughly,-Uytt about CO per cent of the wo#kP# population over ten yearn of age cannot read or write. Uncle Sam la Ware Wars in which the United States has participated Include the Revolutionary war, war with Tripoli, war of 1812, Merlcan war, Olvtl war, war with Spain and World war, not counting Ionian ware, the Philippine insurrection, expedition (a the Boxer rebellion la fhisi, ; - General News Nd|J Command of the 260,000 Boy of Yugoslavia, has been placed In tbo hand* of Tomislave, 0 year old, b*0titer o* the U-year-old king Ot the nation. Four brothers named Beer were married at KaUeiadorff, Cxechoalovakla, to four relative*, all of tbem named Beer. Some brew. Will their children be steins or 'mugs? Guillermo llall, professor of social science at Boston university, (fives it as his opinion that the best Engludi in America is spoken by educated Virginians. Councillor Kooppen of the reichbank, was jailed in Berlin last week because he evicted a tenant for nonpayment of rent. He hanged himself in his cell. President Do Valera's party in convention at Dublin, Ireland, adopted a resolution reaffirming its determination to secure unity and independence for Ireland. The Thanksgiving parade in New York will include a rubber Mickey Mouse 40 feet high and 23 feet wide,| filled with helium gas, and requiring, 40 men to hold Mickey "in the road."' New life insurance to u total of $004,718,000 was written in the Uni-1 ted States during the month of Octo- j bcr, as compared with $057,362,000 for the same month of last year. Muriel Hunsucker, 26, shot and killed Dorothy Weber, 16, high school j girl, at Medora, Ind. They secretly j I married a year ago and when the marriage became known recently the j girl refused to live with her husband.] He shot her down and then committed suicide. A Jersey City policeman walked to an automobile iri the center of a traf- j ftc jam, and roughly demanded of the I man at the wheel, "What's the mat-j ter with you?" There wasn't much 1 the matter, except that the car driv- ] er was dead. An Alabama delegation called at the White House to request the president to intervene and ask Governor! Miller of Alabama to stay the date of execution of the negroes convioted in the Scottsboro case, pending further action by the supreme court. General Jan C. Smuts, Boer war^ leader and at present minister of justice in the South African cabinet, has come out in advocacy of Germany having equality in arms with other nations, and revision of the treaty of Versailles. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, war Hying ace, made a round trip from Newark, N. J., to Miami, Fla., in a big passenjjer plane, 2,390 miles, but failed to make the trip from dawn to dawn. He reached Newark cm the return at 11:27 p. m. A farmer of Cabarrus county, N. C., committed suicide by shooting himself with a shotgun. He left a note in which he said: "My life is being made miserable by a fool woman. I can't stand it. I want my son, Nelson, to have everything." Sameold gag, blaming it on the woman. Frank R. McNinch, chairman of the Federal Power commission, in ah address at Washington, says that privately owned power plants must face the New Deal test and asserted that the Tennessee Valley Authority has I established a new yardstick by which! power rates must be measured, approximately 40 per cent of what has 'heretofore been charged by privately operated hydro-electric plants. j Wall street is coming to the opinion that the awakening of the urge to build throughout' the country, is one of the -best indications now extant of economic recovery. Christmas clubs throughout the country will in the next few weeks distribute $370,000,000 to 7,600,000 ! members of the clubs. It is eptimat' ed that three-fourths of the savings will at once be turned into the marts of trade or circulation, paying taxes, insurance premiums and so forth. The Home Owners Loan corporation in Washington, has closed down on further loans because of the fact that it is out of money, and will accept | no further applications until more money is available. With more than a million applications on file there is yet $1,200,000,000 on hands, which will take care of about 400,000 re1 quests. j A Los Angeles, Cal., woman, aged 76, died of a heart attack. A big shepherd dog would not let police enter her home. They killed the dog. Then they found a note in which the j woman requested that her body be cremated, her ashes scattered in a French cemetery, and also requested] that herv dog be destroyed. It was, before her note was read. A Chester, Pa*, service station operator on his way home after closing his place, was attacked by two mask-j ed bandits. He yelled for help. None! came. The bandits beat him with their pistols. He became desperate. Pulled a pistol from his hip pocket and shot one of the bandits dead. The otker escaped, and was arrested later. Tbey were brothers. is claimed that Italian investigators have discovered methods for making a wood pulp fibre to be used in place of cotton, that will tend to reduce American coton exports by about $100,000,000 annually. It is claimed the new process will turn out a cotton-like fibre that will render 1 Italy independent of American cotton *t about one-third the cost. 'it"a beginning to look as if this country now is composed of two classes: Those who are securing relief from the Government, and those who are raising hell about it.?'New Orleans States. DE PRIEST BITES THE DUST A most 'unusual thins: happened in Chicago on election day. Oscar De Priest is the only negro congressman. He was beaten by a negro Democrat, Arthur Mitchell. So far as we are 1 concerned the joy would have been practically undiluted had Mitchell -! been a Republican. Any honest pro- 7] ceeding to put* Oscar on the scrap heap would have been welcome, He is a bad egg. Hit able stock in tradt is hatred of the white man. It is a peculiar freak of human nature that the narrowest, bitterest hatred for the Caucasian is often found among so-called leaders, With a strong flow of white blood in negro veins. Born and reared a Southerner, his animus against the South is profound. ^Sprinkle this country pretty generally with DePriests, find L'Ouventures, San Domingos, and the fate of the Indians would soon follow. Among the other blessings resulting from the Roosevelt landslide, the scrapping of Oscar De Priest is one over which we rejoice, Pope's dictum that a little learning is a dangerous thing certainly applied with interest to Oscar.?Calhoun Times. Mrs. .Brown?I think your husband always dresses so nice and quietly. Mrs. Smith?You wouldn't think so if you we-c around when he finds a collar butt, n missing. "Is a ton of coal very much, papa?" "That depends, my son, on whether you are shoveling or buying it." DeKalb Pharmacy Phone 95 We Deliver ^^HHIHHHHHIIIHMiHHHIVHHBHHMHPPBPIBIHPHMHHPHBHIji^^^K^'' I Thanksgiving Sale I ' of . ..K BERETS and BRIMS Formerly sold lor J 2.95 **4 *3.95 NOW ON SALE FOR - ' $1.00 and $1.95 w " LAY "AWAY 99 ARE BUYING I i now! Join the rank* of the "lay-away" shoppers this Christmas. Get the cream of the grift assortments while you still have time to shop leisurely. This year as usual, we are prepar ed to assist you In solving: the most difficult of your grift problems?both - ' ?3 men and Women. For the men especially, see the new Wedswortk gift sets ... belt buckles, tie clasps, and collar clasps of precious metal? . moderately priced. 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