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KJn Club Won Kjze On Its Report 1. Curd?n Club J* th? F* 0f jj 15.00 prize for making Ffpt annual report, Thia prize I to any individual Club 1 gut? Garden Club through the ELity of Miss Claudia Phelps of C^port was presented a* fol Fth? Club has held t?i regular Fi-, We were Mrs Ppmeroy'a F. at th<* imoving ipauturoa of Cjpotk?ua; the Georgetown's Fn onub'.i gueeta for their Gar Kj^riniiige; and the gueat of the L Hills Garden Club in Augusta I, visit to tlieir garden?. Lr Programs included a talk by I Barnes on flower arrangements Lib by Cain on Gardens In i^vv Country, and a discussion of Hi evergreens ucciduous shrubs | jolted to our locality. At euch Ijflg it blue ntfboti is awarded ttlwi J interesting exhibit, the greatest L.r of blue ribboss take a prize Lend of the year.: L held our Flower and Bulb Show Ipril. The stage, transformed II garden with white gate and lies, grass, many Easter and Lyilis lillies and azaleas received Ll mention from the judges. Mrc fcr presented a silver cup bo th? to be awarded to the outstanding lit m our flower show. Seven tr members attended the Flower I Course in Columbia given by iPecltham. We sent judges to Ranter, Florence ,amd Chester ler Shows. The Club sponsored Ll pilgrimage to ten gardens. I held a Plant Exchange in the Our Holly Cojujervation ( kwrumittee placed posters in public ipJuces, made H*ciVKMial appeals to city a:ui county school children, white and colored. Before Chrisunuas the committee is to arnange a display in a istore win dow showing the right and the wrong [ way to pick holly. Wo have special committees for our five parks. Each committee supervised C W A labor in cleaning and grooming, hedgeclipping, etc. The Memorial Fountain has been re paired <aind painted. Shrubbery was donated by members and planted at the colored School park. A survey has been made of All the parks with the idea of working towards 'perma nent landscaping. The library Park is being surveyed and pLans drawn for many improvements. Competitive plans are being drawn by members for landscaping the Post Office grounds. Our Tree Committee worked with the City in planting 200 live oaks cxn the City streets. The committee made life miserable for the City Officials until severed dead pines and the millions of bo*ers they harbored were removed. Fundis made from our local pilgrimage in the spring, will be spent in caring for city trees. Tho Club is cooperating with Chamber of Commerce in* offering prizes for tho most attractive yard in each ward, also a prize to the colored citizens. Our Highway Committee has work ed on two Highway projects, High way 1 from Camden to the River; and a certain section on the outskirts of town on tho Charlotte Road know as Dusty Bend. Three prizes have been offered the colored residents for the improvement of heir home grounds. Our members have donated grass seed, and the City cooperated in re moving fwo old automobiles and a peanut roaster. On Highway 1 the Garden Club planting at the bridge was trimmed, mulched and seed planted in the long grass plots; oak trees planted 80 ft. apart for 2 miles Big signs and little ones have been removed, shoulders of the road cleanded up and trimmed rag weed and other weeds suppressed. At The Kershaw County Fair our Exhibit was a miniature Highway done to scale; shoulders planted with graas, banks graded and planted with honeysuckle to /beautify and also to prevent erosion. On one side was a lake with dogwood and other flower ing Sttrrubs. A filling station, now ia necessary part of every highway with hedges, grass and flower beds was shown and even a hitchhiker thumbing his way.?Mrs. F. H. Craighiil. Presidents "Tug" and "Hop" Warm Springs, Ga., Dec. B.?-President Roosevelt's two new mules? those he traded for with a Georgia farmer?are named "Tug" and "Hop." The names were selected out of deference to Rexford Tugwell and Harry Hopkins, whose interest in better farm conditions are nationally known. The president thought the names excellent so "one can tug as the other hops." Russia leads all nations in the production of Irish potatoes, with 000,000 bushels, and Germany comes second with nearly 1, BOO,000,000 ibushels. 1 The seven leading nations of the world are expected to spend nearly twice as much for national defense in 193B as they did in 1014. ? ' > unden Theatre eek of December 14th | FftibAY HAPPINESS AHEAD" h Dick Powell, Josephine cbinson, John Halliday, and Frank McHugh. I jmedy and Paramount News. SATURDAY "GUNS FOR HIRE" is Lane Chandler. Also Chapg "Burn 'Em Up Barnes" and Comedy. 1 Saturday Nite At 10:30 I ed Attraction: URDER IN THE CLOUDS" h Lyle Talbot and Ann Dvorak. '''''MONDAY ELL IN THE HEAVENS" h Warner Baxter and Gonchita Monteneg-ro. Also Comedy and News, the Stage: "PRINCESS ZELDA" ~ TUESDAY "BABBITT" * h AHne Mi&VIahon and Guy lso Selec^dd^Shbrt Subjects. WEDNESDAY MWAGON WHEELS" it Randolph Scott and' Gail - Patrick. I lw Selected Short Subjects. URSDAY ana FRIDAY FLIRTATION WALK" ; h Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, O'Brien, Frank Berzage, BobConnollv and The West Point Cadets. j Also Comedy and News. iiee at 3:30; Admission 10 and tents. ?ing at 7:15 and 9:00; Admis110 and 20 cents. A Bird's Eye View Of Waxhaw County (By T. H. Drvfcer in CalKoun Times) tor a good many years I have hud a smattering knowledge of the bloody historical scenes around the old W uxha w church in what is now Lancaster county, and had a curiosity to see what was to be seen and hear what was to be heard. So, the q^her day 1 corraled my young friend, Eugene Keller, and we steamed oIT In the tnore than a hundred miles jaunt each way. It seems to me there it?more poor land from Columbia to l^ancasier than 1 have ever seen in the same distance. If "Uncle Sam,"'at his Pontiac Experiment Station can make two blades of grass, or other saleable and catuble products grow, where one. grew before, 'no is a "crackerjack." A great? relief to the eye is the highly enticing and progressive little city of . ( amden, due largely, I presume, to tourist boodle and invisible local feeders of far better promise than along the paved highway. From Camden on was new territory to both of us. I he pretty little Kershaw town has a sort of Siamese-twin concern, composer! of an oil and cotton mill nearly as big as the rest of the burg put together. We sped on through Heath iSprings, where I wondered who got some happy joyrides on my B hundred dollars of exploded bank stock. Pope, the poet, warned us that little learning is a dangerous thing, and to drink deeply or not at all from the Pierian Spring. This does pot apply to my limited and ridiculously small bank vision, as to have fciirgled deeply from such a spring Would have been far more painful. The first thing we did after blowing into Lancaster, was to ferret out Lawton Golson, native of the Murph's Mill section of this county. He has been wielding the pedagogic scepter, for eleven years, over the woolly Lancastrian high school youngsters. He first piloted us over the city of about 15 red hills, instead of 7, like Rome. About the biggest thing in it is that enormous Springs cotton mill. In the yard is a large and most unusual memorial in his honor. It is appropriate, as he bought a huge pile of boodle into the city. He died before he reached old age, and leaves a handsome window, now living in New York. He encountered some rough snags before he passed over the fated river. A maddened old exbusiness partner of Charlotte tried to kill him which preyed on the mind of Mr. Springs. He and another excompanion, Charlie Jones, went into court with grievances. From a complication of misfortunes, Charlie ended it all with a bullet through his brain. I asked Lawton about his 80 thousand dollar home, and he directed us to what is now, an up-to-date small city hospital. He was the son of Ira Jones, a Newberry product, originally, I believe, who unfortunately resigned as Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court to run futilely against Cole Blease for gubernatorial honors. Lancaster's chief claim to biographical immortality is to the nativity of ^arion Sims, the greatest pioneer surgeon in his line that the 19th...pentdry produced, and the famous old "hickory" Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United iStates, among many other notorities, good and bad. It is needless to tell my readers that Tarheelia vigorously challenges the contention that Andrew's initial squawk was in a Lancaster bed. After the spin over I>ancaster city we headed for old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church, 10 miles away. It was I a solemn but tremendously interesting half hour that we spent in those confines. Rather picturesquely located. naturally, there was everything to lend additional interest to the surroundings. A glorious autumnal afternoon, with acorns and leaves falling here and there from the big red oak trees. A big fine looking and intelligent gentleman, T. L, Craig, strolled along the highway and kindly walked in to converse with us. He married a grent-great-granddahghteh of the noted Ttevolutionary patrist, Cel. W R_ Davie, who lies buried in probably one of the most expensive and bea.utiful county enclosures in the state. The frame church, Mr. Craig said, is the 3rd of its kind. I>r. Howe, in his History 6f the Presbyteriin Church, is not positive when the log Edifice was started, hut was in the ,1750's. The first pastor was Rev. Robert Miller who spilled his beans by falling in love with a young lady of the congregation, was tried, convicted, and demoted, as given by Dr. Howe. Miller, however, seemed to harbor no grievance or revenge, as he deeded .the log church and "4 acres pf sloping hillside" to the congregation. r There are 7 graves or memorials within a walled plot, and all to Davieses except one to the preacher Rev. W. R. Richardson, who, Mr. Craig sly*, married a Davie. The wall, built of handsome brick, is surmounted with eSmefit eoptng. Strong and locked iron gates are supposed to exclude tho curious. ?I -presume they don't always succeed as we noticed thut an ocvusionul round, Hmoolh rock pebble hud been extricated from the cement walk on the inside. The monuments arc handsome. Hows of boxwood skirt the walk, and euonymous lines the inside wall. It was erected by the Davie families. When we mar- i veled at the expense, Mr. Craig said that one of the descendants stated that the cost of assembling the bodies and work under ground cost over 3 thousand dollars. In the cemetery proper, among over a hundred markers, a ltock Hill patriotic chapter has erected a monument to Andrew Jackson, Sr. Mr. Craig says that well-authenticated tradition is that the old gentleman was buried after twilight had faded. The pallbearers, having had free access to Jackson's decanters, got drunk while bringing the body from "across the creek," lost it, and had to return in search of ihe remains. Space, ami sympathy for my readers forbid my giving detuils of the horrible butchery by bloody old Turleton upon Col. Buford's little army. The wounded were carried into the Waxhaw church where they were tenderly cared for by the women of the community, but few survived. The only redeeming outcome was that it fired the hitherto indifferent Scotch-Irish blood to get revenge, and win our independence. From Waxhaw church and cemetery we motored about 4 miles to the boulder which marks the birthplace of Andrew Jackson. A tablet near by quotes the words of "Old Hickory" as to the identity of the place. His letter, Lawton Oolson told us is in the possession of a Mrs. Witherspoon in the city of Lancaster, where he suggested we go for its peusal. Time, however, was getting precious, and we bad to decline. Curiosity urged us 2 miles further, and across the Tarheel line, where a much more pretentious monument is erected. Upon it is inscribed the fact that Andrew Jackson first saw light in this spot. One thoory is that in moving the mother across the border to u Chawford house confinement pains started in Tarheelia and ensled in South Carolina. The matter seems rather ludicrous to me, so I leave it to the historians to snap and snarl over. The Tarheels will go on believing that "Old Hickory" is their product, and South Carolina equally convinced otherwise. After all I can't see that it amounts to little more than a hill of beans either way. On the swing back home wo took a beeline from I^ancaster to Chester and invaded some more new country. We passed through some fine lands, with neatly painted homes, and far less of the usual decaying shacks along the way. After Chester, dark ness sot in, and it was then u question of steering clear of apparently 10,000 automobiles before wo reached Kt. Matthews. I had the safest, man at the wheel in the country or I would have been often uneasy about my old bones. Automobiles have brought to the surface, what we did not know before that the world is full of morons and fools. I despise paved road night travel, 'but the joys of tbe day were too fascinating for undue haste. The annual football game at Philadelphia on Saturduy between the army team of West Point and the navy team of Annapolis, was witnessed by 78,000 people. The navy team won the game by the score of 3 to 0. This was the first time the naval cadeta had won in ten years. I ninTTini Arc DiivinrLiAV/L. 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