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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.
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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.
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DRY CLEANING OF SUPERIOR QUALITY |J|
With
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Just Ahead
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ing or dry cleaning, so you will beready
for TURKEY DAY. ?
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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