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ii i id ?JCsVirrKlV BULLETIN nTTT.i.j. SC. Game ^Fish Association - - mim m ^ - - - a Jhru jtafeivide Cooperation Oame, Jisn ? Jo rest can be Materialh^ (Increased for the Benefit of Jin. ' 1 " "" ~ " " ' '' f The legislature committee of our association together with the vie* presidents representing the seven districts, will hold >a meeting in Columr bia next Tuesday, November 27th. At this time matters pertaining to the future activities of the association as well as the shaping of the association's legislative program will be discussed. The association is sponsoring bills creating a game and fish commission; a closed season for fish during their spawning season; a reasonable fishing license with u daily bag limit and size limit; that all monies derived from sale of hunting license go/to the game department; the divisi#h of state into game and fMfl zones wit>T rticuIur section; and other matters looking toward a betterment of the game and hah c(>ndition? of our state. These proposals received the approval of the Chief Game Warden at the association's meeting in Greenville in September, and have the endorsement of the present temporary advisory council of the game department and association. Our association is endeavoring to develop a legislative program that will be of the greatest benefit not only to the hunters and fishermen of the stat<# but to the game and fish as we|i/ To do this it is necessary and/ essential that it have the benfit (>f constructive suggestions and advice. Letters should be sent to West Jacocks, Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, Columbia, S. C. in time to be considered at the meeting on Tuesday morning, November 27th. Preacher Mourned For By Thousands Greenwood, Wov. 14.?Twenty-five hundred mourners, including 45 ministers from several states, one of them from Chicago, paid tribute to the life of the Rev. William Peterson, i>2-year-old Negro preacher, -who was buried at Sprinftfield Baptist church near the J. H. Self place in Edgefield county Monday. The Rev. Peterson died at his home in that section la?t Wednesday after having preached more than BO years in Edgefield and McCormick counties and the funeral services were delayed until Monday in order that preachers from far and near who had expressed a wish to attend the rites might uttend after their regular Sunday engagements. The Reverend Peterson had been a leader among his own people for more than a half century and had lived an exemplary life as a citizen, this fact being attested by the large number <>f white people who attended the serene. The Rev. J. F. Marshall of McCormick, who is HQ-odd years of age and: himself a veteran preacher, leader! and a friend of the Rev. Peterson for j thr?-c score years, was in charge, hut I ho was so overcome with emotion that he spoke only a few minutes. Eighteen of 20 others then made brief remarks and the assemblage, too large for the church, gathered on the grounds, sang spirituals and at times was demonstrative as it surrounded the white plush casket at the foot of the stdps leading to the pulpit and the rear of the church. The casket had been selected by the Rev. Marshall "because it represented the purity of the aged man's life." Wagons loaded with Negro people from Edgefield and adjoining counties began to arrive at the church at H o'clock and later 'autong)biles from Georgia drove to the grounds for the services whfch were scheduled to begin at 12 o'clock. The mourners continued to come until after that hour and the rites were not concluded until 4 o'clock when the casket was lowered' into the grave near the church steps, 20 feet from the pulpit in which he had preached for over half a century. The Rev. Peterson served four churches regularly, often preaching two and three times on Sunday, until about three months ago when his health failed. He was pastor of Mt. Moriah, McCormick county, 34 years; China Grove and Liberty Springs, Edgefield county, more than 50 years, and Springfield, more than (30 years. - 11 ' 1 1 4 1 . U HP J 1 . n. HOWS BUSINESS? New York.--Business is ringing up more money. The National Cash Register Company reported October , sales 05 per cent in excess of Oeto' ber; 1938. Neto securities floated in October totaled $131,102,000, the largest /or any month since July, and congiderbaly more than October last I year. Hut Stock Exchange trading i October amounted to only 15,600,0>. 1 shares, the lowest volume for October sinc? 1021. Two important developments encouraged industries that have been harruxscd by union labor organizers. T^e National I^abor Relations Board, in its settlement of the Great Atlantic &Paciflc stores case in Cleveland, included a clause forbidding union organizers to use coercion upon workers. President Koosevelt extended the automobile code until February 1, including the "merit clause" that gives employers control of promotions and demotions on the basis of individual merit. Net railway operating income continues to present a black picture. Class I roads reported total net earnings of $41,000,000 for September, a drop of 32 per cent from September last year and 16 per cent below the same month for 1932. Private industry, struggling hard to reduce unemployment by maintaining payrolls larger than are needed to supply trade requirements, is still foregoing dividends. .Reports by 163 leading industrial corporations for the third quarter showed net earnings 26 per cent lower than in the third quarter of last year, and 33.4 per cent below the second quarter of 1934. Building men are more optimistic than at any time since 1929. They predict better business in 1935, good business in l&JO, and boom business in 1937. But they say all hope will be blasted if trade unions cpntinue to ham-string construction y?ith their jurisdictional disputes, and demands for wage scales out of proportion to other trades and earnings.?'Industrial News. Made very angry because his cowwas attached for unpaid taxes, Stephen Kejkai near Budapest, Hungary, seized an axe, killed three of his children, seriously wounded a fourth and then tried to commit suicide. Thomas Berry, newly elected governor of South Dakota, by a plurality of f>0,000, told interviewers that, "I got on the tail of Roosevelt's kite and rode like everything." Some others are not quite so frank. ?e,?^__ 3 sm DRY CLEANING OF SUPERIOR QUALITY |J| With I ?ltankagumtg Just Ahead <r I | Send us your clothes for launder| ing or dry cleaning, so you will beready for TURKEY DAY. ? *1 - I " : Men's Suits Dry Cleaned 50c A $ Men's Overcoats Dry Cleaned ... 50c Men's Hats Cleaned and Rebuilt . 50c Ladies Dresses Dry Cleaned 50c Ladies Plain Coats Dry Cleaned . 50c Ladies Fur Trimmed Coats | ^ Dry Cleaned 75c Ladies Felt Hats Cleaned 25c j 4 CAMDEN DRY CLEANERY CITY LAUNDRY . Telephone 17 | Oldest Largest Best Committee Makes Their Report $" ' The Problem Confronting 1JM. This committee has studied the problem of conservation in Kershaw County primarily from an economic standpoint, and as a result of its study has arrived at the following conclusions: j We feeel that the people of South Carolina and Kershaw County have never realized the g*v<?v value of their timber resources. Few realize that our timber crop is about half our cotton crop in value, three times our tobacco crop, twenty times our peach crop, and ten times our potato crop. Even so/ of all these crops it is most neglected. Little money or attention has been devoted to its care and development in the past. The timber resources of the nation are fast dwindling. Timber is being cut four times us fast as it is being produced. This statement speaks for itself. Before many years if thia rate of reduction is maintained, timber prices must soar to levels never before reached. South Carolina has standing in its woods timber forming a natural resource valued at between $160,000,000 and $200,000,000. Assuming that Kershaw County is an average county this would mean that Kershaw County has within its bounds standing timber worth between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 (or about one-half the assessed valuation of all property in Kershaw County), which is five or six times the value of our annual cotton crop. Nevertheless, we have been sitting idly year by year watching these great resouices steadily dwindle and doing nothing to replace them. Annually we have been witnessing thousands upon thousands of dollars of our heiitage literally go up in smoke through countless forest fires and doing practically nothing about it. Another resource inextricably involved with forestry is game. Even | though it is of value that cannot be [definitely determined, no one can deny but it is an enormous asset. Shootj ing is America's major sport. More money is spent upon it by fur than any other, and those section of the | country which?Ju^ve game to offer hunters can, b^atl^cting them, gain enormous revenue^ Kershaw County, in particular, being fortunate enough [ tg have a winter colony offering additional inducements to bring hunters to the county, has a particularly good opportunity to derive enormous revenues from its game. It is generally admitted, however, that its game supply is far below what it should be and might well be if adequate care lis given. We are doing nothing to provide adequate game refuges, and worse than that, we are sitting idly by witnessing destruction of our game through woods fires which not only destroy the food supply, but frequently the eggs and young of the game. A third great resource that is wasting away little by little through neglect of our woods is the very land itself. Idle lands not protected wit* forests and allowed to burn over frequently, unless they are very flat, become little more than the playground for the elements, and through erosion gradually .become worthless waste lands.v And once these lands become waste lands through erosion they must inevitably remain worthless from an economic standpoint for 11 time and are irretrievably lost as an economic asset. This report being primarily upon the economic side of conservation, little stress is laid upon the esthetic value of lands and their transformation ,mo productive forest* and game refuges wnichx would greatly enhance the attractiveness of our surroundings. and indirectly in so doing would make Kershaw County more attractive to visitors and settlers. What Is Desired To Accomplish With the above facts in mind this committee suggests that it would be highly desirable and valuable from an economic standpoint to take steps seeking the following goals: Through adequate inducement and protection encourage the reforestation of unsightly, non-producing acres making them revenue ]>roducir~ and an asset to our county, and in to doing beautify our country-side. To set up in Kershaw County an efficient country-wide organization [for the control of forest fires. | To endeavor to make conditions favorable to the protection of bird life, thereby increasing game birds and insectivorous birds necessary to j maintain the balance of nature in controling insects. To set up game sanctuaries on the [ public lands of the county. [ The (ommittee's Recommendations To gain these ends this committee recommends that the protection 0f .forests over the whole of Kershaw ty be made by law a public function, fire protection being provided from the public revenues and employees of the county taking over the duty of giving this protection. It is submitted that a one-half mill levy would be sufficient to give efficient r? protection to the whole of the fnU.vly,/?o o8 h a levy Would bring in about $8,300 annually. It has been the policy of the State and Federal - -.I1--' i i i i i 11 Government to supply funds in an equal amount to that supplied by the county, which would provide something over $b,fiOO annually for forest fire protection in Kershaw County. When put on a per acre cost basis the cost of this protection would rbn a little over three-fourths of a cent per acre for the whole county, but as a matter of fact, the farmers and feidents of Kershaw County would not have to pay nearly this amount, for nearly one-half of the assessed valuation of Kershaw County is made up of public utilities. This would mean that Kershaw County people would have to pay lees than one-half cent per acre for efficient forest protection. It is proposed that all lands now owned or hereafter acquired by the Forfeited lands Commission of Kershaw County be set aside as game sanctuaries for a period of 20 years. Doing this would have a double ben-; eflt. In the first place, it would give us game sanctuaries spread throughout the county, thus increasing our game supply. In the second place, it would remove from the market the most worthless lands in our county, the sale of which after they have been sold for taxes, having always in the past tended to depress our real estate values. While it is through this per-; iod of 20 years that these lands would not produce any taxes, revenues during that interval, through rest and the growth of timber, the county would have the ownership of valuable tracts of land from the sale of which it could no doubt derive more than enough revenue to compensate it fori not having received taxes on those! lands during their 20 years devotion J to game and conservation purposes. Public versus Private Control. The advantages public protection has over private protection may well be summarized as follows: Any private control organization is necessarily inadequate and inefficient, covering only tracts here and there throughtout the county. Greater interest because every landowner is taxed proportionally to the amount of land owned and when every person shares in the cost he will take greater interest in the entire project. Intensive supervision of fire fighting and protection. Trained men to organize and publicize the movement and more intensive fire fighting. Rangers, wardens and lookouts for every section of the county whose chief business is fire prevention. Disorganized fire fighting is usually worse than any suppression. What is everyone's business is no one's business. Organization of a County Conservation Commission gives a duly organized public unit which can sponsor and carry out conservative policies much better than any other group of citizens. The sooner we obtain countrywide fire protection, just that much sooner we will have State-wide forest protection sponsored by the entire State. The committee then offered sample legislation, to put into effect the recommendations. SEVERE"WINTER COMING. From meteriologists who foretell weather by scientific data down to frontiersmen and Indians who judge the coming season according to signs of nature comes the opinion that we are in for a cold and snowy winter? let's hope they aren't guessing right. The meteorologists back up their forecasts in various ways. Some assume that the average temperature and precipitation for any one year is j little different from that of any other year. Therefore, since last summer was both dry and hot the average can only be maintained by a winter both cold and snowy. Others neglect preceding seasons and base their prognostications on weather cycles. Thoir figures tell them that weather repeats itself every 23 years, and they point out that 23 years ago we had a very severe winter. Still other groups have other reasons and the unscientific predictors still stick to the extent of the nut crop, etc., as unfailing signs. With a few exceptions all of them tell us the thing we like least to hear. But even m this advanced age mistakes are still made?even in Saturday night's prediction of the weather for Sunday afternoon.?The Pathfinder. ? l SCIENCE NIBBLES. A needle surgical instrument capable of dissecting or operating an organism 1-lQOth of an inch in size is now being used by a Vienna surgeon. Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, believes that man made his first appearance on earth about 30,000 years ago. Snake venom exposed to ultraviolet light becomes harmless, Dr. D. I. Macht, of Baltimore, has learned. Dr. Alexander O. Cottier, of New York, has found that alcohol is a natural constituent of the human body. ?'The Pathfinder. E. R. Smith, 42, of Dallas, Texas, undertook to scratch his foot with the muzzle of a gun. The gun WU unloaded, but his foot was shattered *nd then amputated. He had been bitten by a mosquito. SUMMONS^FOR REUET? Stat? of South Carolina County of Kershaw 'he Codrt of Commun Pic I . Tho Enterprise Building ?lwi f Aviation of Cm** &$* ,'^B Hotttt Biiiney, V8iUtti? KonnJ Florie Burroughs, Sadie K^y. Chirlol^'E '?? hamirno Rainey, nnd AlmSft'igH To the Defendants ?bove^na^^J)M^| Vou are hereby summoned and J quired to answer the comuilhi ? *L which a copy ia with served upon you, and to 2!H a copy' of your answer to the SI complaint on the subscriber at ? ?ikf V C*md?n' South Carolfcl withhi twenty days after the ISSM hereof, exclusive of the day ?f .* service and if you fail to answe/t? complaint witUn the time aforlM the plaintiff 'in this actipn will annifl to th. Court for tho roll.f dcmS* in this complaint. wooe^? HWNRY SAVAGE' j? *"* . . . Plaintiff's Attorney.^] Dated at: J ? Camden, (3. C., November 20, 1034. To the .'Non-Resident Defendant* Hattio Kennedy, Sadie Powell Ra ney, Charlotte Fngerman, Samm* Rainey,- and Alexander Rainey *" } You will take notice, that the sum* mona in this action of which the going is a copy, together with u* complaint were died in the office oH the Clerk of Court for KerehwHI County on th? nineteenth dav of SB vember, 1034. y 01 w? HIBNiRY SAVAGE, J? _ . Plaintiff's Attorney. ' I Cumden, S.;C., November 20, 1934. K! NOTICE OF SALE * Notice is hereby given that in scK cordance with the terms and nrnvitHI ions of the Decree of the Court Common Pleas for Kershaw Count!*! in the case of S. M. Childers, Plain* fi'i V8'n Childers, defendant will sell to the highest bidder fo* cash, before the Court House door ifl Camden, South Carolina, during th^H legal hours of sale on the first Mon? day in December, 1934, being the 3r?* day thereof, the following describe^?"" "All that certain piece, parcel oK tract of land situate, lying and fein? in Kershaw County, South Carolina* Flat Rock Township, about seven (7? miles north of Camden, bounde*1 North by lands of T. Lee Little- Eat*1 by lands of W. A. Edwards and b* lands of the estate of James H?m Burns; South by lands now or format er y of J. B. Zemp, which was form* erly known as Childers Mill propert** and West by Flat Rock Road sepa*t from 'ands of Hirsch and landKu ?? 1 . kittle. Which said trac^K of land contains seventy (70) aere<? more or less." Terms of Sale: For cash, the Mas*1" ter to require of the successful anflt? all other bidders after the public ssleK* a deposit of Fifty ($50.00) Dollars ?^ W. L. DePASS, JR., * Master for Kershaw County*>? TAX NOTICE Tax books for the collection State, County and School Taxes foS" year 1934 opened October 16, 1934? ? ai &5L r?mai* open until Decembe?ar 31, 1934, inclusive, without penslty^E Please state school district in whicJ^T you live or own property when in** quiring about taxes, - B it Following is a list of total levieAu for each School District for SchoolHto County and State Taxes: ?, DeKalb Township District No.1 1 District No. 2 ! 36 *8 District No. 4 38 * District No. 6 40 Hi District No. 25 24 District No. 43 24 I I Buffalo Township i District No. 8 .... 3711? District No. 5 211? > District No. 7 301? L District No. 15 21*1 District No. 20 j81?0 District No. 22 40 ' District No. 23 281? District No. 27 321? District No. 28 211? District No. 31 29If?^ District No. 40 District No. 42 211? 1 Flat Rock Township District No. 8 321? 1 District No. 9 821? District , No. 10 261? District No. 13 24fl?| District No. 19 32|H| District No. 30 2l?l District No. 33 381?* District No. 37 MP District No. 41 tUHll District No. 46 District No. 47 Wateree Township i District No. 11 241?y. District No. 12 351?' District No. 16 2?Ha District No. 29 rSH District No. 88 21 j? District No. 39 241?f( Yours respectfully, _ llC S. W. HOOUE, Treasurer of Kershaw County?^ South Carolins Ill BIWIM?J | I ^'*1 NOTICE viy John S. Myers, carpenter and buiM?fc( er, who has just completed a months' building project in the norts?^ is back to serve his customers 4>??j friends as before, in all kinds of <*|??a] pentry work. Wishing to solicit patronage. If needed phone 268, 812 street, Camden, S. -C.?Adv. Colds That Hang Osl^ Md ! CreomSeion take. No aarcetfe* Year Aroggl^ajB yottr^oonjb? didfa