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Showers Of Stars Made Frantic Scenes Almost daily 1 hoar one King over ladio, "Siars Fell C)n Alabama," which caused me u> look up a quaint old history entitled, "Great Events of the i ast Century." In this book there is a chapter entitled, "Sublime Meteoric Shower All Over the United States," which of course, includes Alabama, and from it excerpts are taken which may prove of interest to my leaders: "Extensive and magnificent showers of shooting stars have been knowm to occur at various places in modern times; but the moot universal and wonderful which has ever been recorded is that of the thirteenth of November 1833, the whole firmament, over all the United States, being then for hours, in fiery commotion! , ) No celestial phenomenon has ever occurred in this country, since the first settlement, which was viewed with such intense admiration by one class in the community, or with so much dread and alarm by another. During the three hours of its continuance, the dny of judgment was believed to be only waiting for sunrise, and, long after the shower had cea?ed, the morbid and superstitious still were impressed with the idea that the final day was only a week ahead. Impromptu meetings for prayer were held in many places, and many other scenes of religious devotion, or terror, or abandonment of worldly affairs, transpired, under the influence of fear occasioned by so sudden and awful display. "But, though in many districts the mass of the population were thus panic-stricken, through fear, as well as want of familiarity with the history of such appearances, the more enhghted were profoundly awed at contemplating so vivid a picture of the apocalptic image?that of the stars of heaven falling to the earth, even as a fig tree casting her untimely figs, when she is shaken by a mighty wind. In describing the effects of this phenomenon upon the black population, a southern planter says: 'I was suddenly awakened by the most distressing cries that ever fell on my ears. Shrieks of horror and cries for mercy, could be heard from most of the negroes of three plantations, amounting in all to some six or eight hundred. While earnestly and' breathlessly listening for the cause, I heard a faint voicev near the door calling my name. I arose, and taking my sword stood at the door. At this moment I heard the same voice still beseeching me to rise, and saying, '0, my God, the world is on fire!' 1 then opened the door, and it is difficult to say which excited me most?the awfulness of the scene, or the distressed cries of the negroes. Upwards to one hundred lay prostrate on the ground, some speechless, and others uttering the bitterest moans, but with their hand raised imploring God to save the world and them. The scene was truly awful, for never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell toward the earth; east, west, nort hand south, it was the same.' In a word, the whole heavens seemed in motion. The display, as described in Professor Stillman's Journal, was seen all over North America. Over this vast area, an appearance presented itself far surpassing, in grandeur and magnificence, the loftiest reach of human imagination. From two o'clock until bioad daylight, the sky being perfectly serene and cloudless, an incessant play of dazzling, brilliant luminosities was kept up in the whole heavens. Some of these were of great magni-1 tude anil most peculiar form. One. of large size, remained for some time almost stationary in the zenith, over Niagara Falls, emitting streams of light which ladiated in all directions. The wild dash of the waters, as contrasted with the fiery commotion above them, formed a scene of unequaled and amazing sublimity. Arago computes that not less than two hundred and forty thousand meteors were at the same time visible above the horizon at Boston.' To form some idea of such a spectacle, one must imagine a constant succession of fireballs, resembling sky rockets, radiating in all directions, from a point in the heavens near the zenith, and following the arch of the sky toward the horizon. They proceeded to various distances from the radiating point, leaving after them a vivid streak of light, and usually exploding before they disappeared. The balls were of various sizes and degrees of splendor; some were mere potnts, but others we;e larger and brighter than Jupiter or Venus; and one in particular appeared to be nearly of the moon's size. Some of the larger meteors must have been bodies of very great size. Dr.- Smith, of North Carolina, and other persons in various places, saw a meteor which appeared to be as large as the full moon. If this body were at the distance of one hundred ar>d ten miles from the observer it must have had a diameter, of one mile; if at a distance of eleven miles, its diameter was five hundred and twenty-eight feat; and jf OTlly one mMe off, itj must have been forty State Prison Being Rapidly Refilled Columbia, Jan. "ixty new prisoners have been ami:. ,-<i to the South Carolina pemtin.ay since January 1, it was reveaie 1 \. sterday. This is an average of ihno new | inmates each day, but of couim- a few have left during the same ptiu.d. Prison otTicials expeet a laigi- influx of prisoners to continue for some time, as the 11)36 sessions of the courts are just now geLtipg under way. V Snow la NoveltyV1 J. ? New Orleana, I*., Jan. 22.? years from now we can gather fchV youngsters in our laps and tell them about the snowstorm in New Orlaans back in 1936. Flurries fell all day, and although the fall measured less than a quarter of an inch, it was the first real snow since 1899. Thousands of natives had never seen anything like it. Death Of Mias Newman Sunday morning, January 6th, our, community was made sad, indeed, when the news came to our" homes that Miss Essie I?. Newman had passed on after a very brief illness. She had spent a half century in Stokes Bridge community.?Bishopville Mes-, senger. eight feet in diameter. These considerations leave no doubt that many of the meteors were of great size, though It may be difficult to say precisely how large. The fact that they were stopped by the resistance of the air, proves that their substance was light; still, the quantity of smoke or residuum, which resulted from their destruction, indicates that there was quite a body of matter. Although it is doubtful from the want of requisite data, whether the source of the meteors, or the height of the meteoric cloud, has been accurately ascertained, yet tho truth in regard to the latter may be approximated. According to the established laws of falling bodies, the velocity of meteors would acquire in falling from a point 2,258 miles above the earth to within 60 miles of its surface? this being considered as nearly the height of the atmosphere?is about four miles per s.eroftcP, which is nioie than ten times the maximum velocity of a cannon-ball, and about nineteen j times that of sound!"?Monroe Enquirer. Early Electrocution For Noted Gangster I.I m\i '? y Richmond, V*., Jan. 22.?Robert Muia and WaHer Legenza. notorious in-state gangsters, who cheated the ek-c-tno chair by three months, were told by Judge John U Ingram in hustings court today that they must die February 2 for the murder of E. M. Husband.* Three hours alter he had been brought from New York to (Richmond with his companion in crime,"Walter Legenza, Mais, his legs chained, shuffled down the aisle in hustings court. Judge Ingram said that since Mais' escape from the Richmond Jail prevented the scheduled electrocution on November 1, ho was letting February 2 for tho execution, Mais was returned to the death cell at the penitentiary while guards left to bring :Lcgenza from the prison to hear the judge set the date lor his electrocution. Legenza, both legs broken, was carried from the train to the penitentiary on a stretcher. Faithful Unto Death. ~ p Last week two old colored servant* the like of whom Cheraw is famous, died. Sane Wilson, who for 37 years has been the house servant and gardener for M; W. Duvall's family, died. He started service in the Duvnll home as a boy and had remained in the same household for all these years. A few days later Josephine Reid died. She probably holds the record for long service. She has been the nurse und cook in the Powe family for more than 03 years, having been born a slave and has remained the 03 years in the service of her prior master's family and has served four generations. Many white people called at her humble home, as they did to Sane Wilson's home, to pay their respects and it can be truly said that these respected colored people were "faithful until death." Cheraw Chronicle. Dog Walking Agency Opens New York, Jan. 6.?-Walking the dog, nocturnal task of countless Manhattan husbands, marched right into the select category of big business today. % From now on the strolls sometimes, sulky husbands take with their wives* poodles can be put on a time-clock baeis, for a price, that is. Walking the dog isn't a chance occupation any longer. James Daley, president of "Daily Dog Walking Service, Inc., proudly disclosed the idea was born after long bt boding from seeing sadfaced husbSWds by the score with a scampering pet on a leaah, f r "Why,' the poor fellows (the husbands) don't even get their morning coffee before it's time for Fifl or Fido ? to have a bit of morning air," Daley said. - - - - - J "Then at night, the best mystery In the world miist wait if Eric, the .Great Dane, needs his stroll." For |5 a month, Daley said, he will ^ Ik a dog 20 minutes a day six days a week. He won't be bothered with dogs on Sunday. The twioe-a-day fee 18 IS and a three-a-day at f 12. * estimated 8,000 New York men will bid for his corpormtion'e. coivJSP *?l n actual dog-walking within two weeks. ' j th|k2^WUi_be blanket insurance for he COUGHS authorized to itfS^ J)"* ?**? druggist lai rolv:;r%^ss%^| i prescriptton^^^^i W? send for and deliver your prescription* promptly. The work is executed by two experienced pharmacists with the utmost care. I DePass' Drug Store I | Phone 10 Open Evenings Until 9i30 f I Kfufid*oil? in ?och Wckspocko^Tjl METHODICAL DANIEL BOONE When out of the thick of the tight Daniel iBoone was a quiet honest, me-! rhixiical And lovAble hero, but a poor business man, according to a writer in the Kansas City &tar. He either lacked the time or inclination to take out patents on the claims that he staked?or perhaps he was more far-( sighted than we would believe and foresaw the never-ending conflict of titles to Kentucky land, hundreds of which to this day have not been settied. I During his lifetime his fame spread afar. In England at the time he was. regarded as a second Robin Hood. He was America's most widely traveled man?not even excepting George Washington?for his journeys, always to new places, carried him from New York to Florida and from North Carolina to the Yellowstone valley. He honored seven states by living within their borders and at different times lived under the jurisdiction of seven nations on the same continent. There can be no doubt, either, that ho was one of the most versatile of Americans. During his fourscore and six years he was a weaver, blacksmith, farmer, hunter, trapper, explorer, soldier, Indian, surveyor, sheriff, magistrate, road 'builder, legislator and world hero. He died at the home of his son, Nathan, at Charlette, Mo., on September 22, 1820. His wife had died thirteen years earlier. In 1845 their bod, ies were removed to Frankfort, where a monument was erected to "The Father of Kentucky." A school bus carrying 20 children, collided with n truck near Piedmont, S. D., and five of the children were killed, with 14 others injured, five of them critically. FORECLOSURE NOTICE | Notice is hereby given that in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Decree of the Court of C'tinmon Pleas for' Kershaw County, South Carolina, dated January 11th, 10*55. in tbe case of The Federal Land Mark of Columbia, plaintiff, vs. W. F. Young, A. B. Young, T. H. Young, Mr-. D. B. Love, Mrs. Willie Hammonds, J. A. Young, Walter C. Young, Mrs. Earl# Bullock, Jack Young, Mrs. C. A. Love and Clarence Young, and J. A. Young Administrator of the estate of A. F. Young, deceased, de- j fondants, I will sell to the highest] bidder for cash, before the Court House door in Camden, South Caro-1 lira, during the legal hours of sale on the first Monday in February, I 1035, being the 4th day thereof, the following described property: "All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being i in Buffalo Township, Kershaw County, S. C., containing one hundred ninety-two (192) acres, as appears by plat of Kershaw deLoach, Surveyor, of date April 3, 1922; bounded North by lands of the estate of J. M. Kirkiey and Hanging Rock Creek; East bv Lynches Creek.; South by Chisholm Branch, which separates the same from lands of O. H. Watson, and ' \Ye.?: by lands of N. B. Taylor. The above described tract of land being 'he -ame conveyed to A. F. Young by lames H. Clyburn, by deed of date . January, 1920; which said deed was' ' corded in the office of the Clerk Court for Kershaw County, S. C., on the 2nd day of February, 1920, in Book "AZ" at page 706." I Terms of Sale: For ca^h, the Mas-1 ter to require of the successful bidder and all other bidders after the public sale, a deposit of five (5) per cent of his bid, in cash or certified check, same to be forfeited in case I of non-compliance. The bidding will ; remain open after the sale for a period of 30 days. W. L. DePAiSS, JR., Master for Kershaw County. WOMAN She's an angel in truth, a demon in Action, A woman'* the greatest of all contradiction; She'a afraid of a cockroach, ahe'll scream at a mouae, Hut ahe'll tackle a husband aa big as a house. She'll take him for better, ahe'll take I him for worse; She'll split him open and then be his nurse. *" . And when he is well and can get out I of bed, , Sihe'll pick up a teapot and throw at I his head. She's faithful, deceitful, keen-sighted ' and, blind. She's crafty, she's simple, she's cruel, 1 she's kind; She'll lift a man up, she'll cast a man down; She'll make him her hero, she'll make him her'clown. You fancy she'a this, but you find I she's that, ' For she will play like a kitten and bite like a cat; In the morning she will, in the evenI ing she won't. And you're always expecting she does I ?but she don't. ?'Dayton Herald. j Dr. Elmer V. McCollum, of Johns 1 Hopkins university, who discovered ' Vitamin A, believes three vitamins ' remain undiscovered. | NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP 'state of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. Notice is hereby given that a limited partnership has been formed in pursuance of Article 2, of Chapter 155, Code of Laws of South Carolina I of 1932, entitled "Limited PartnerI ships." That the name of the firm is Walsh and Alexander but the trade name Palmetto Dry Cleaners may be used, and that the general nature of the business to be transacted is that of owning and operating dry cleaning plants and establishments and or laundries, either or both. | That the names and places of residence of the general partners are T. V. Walsh, Jr., of Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina, and W. M. Alexander, of Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina; and that the names and places of residence of the limited partners are John W. Corbett, of Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina; W. F. Nettles, of Camden, ; Kershaw County, South Carolina; A. i Stanley Llewellyn, of Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina; S. L. Crolley, of Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina; J. H. McLeod, of Camden, Kershaw County, South Carjolina; J. H. Osborne, of Camden, KerIshaw County, South Carolina; J. C. Gillis, of Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina; W. T. Redfearn, of Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina; R. M. Kennedy, Jr., of Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina; H. D. Niles, of Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina and M. M. Johnson, of Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina. That the amount of capital stock which the said limited partners have contributed to the common stock or capital of the partnership is $2,000.00, which has actually been and in good faith contributed and applied to the same. That the period at which time said limited partnership is to commence is January 1, 1935, and the period at which it will terminate is ten years from that date. That a certificate thereof as required by law was filed for record in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County. South Carolina, on the 15th day of January, 1935. Dated at Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina, on the 15th day of January, 1935. T. V. Walsh, Jr., W. M. Alexander, General Partners. John W. Corbett, W. F. Nettles, A. Stapley Llewellyn, S. L. Crolley, J*_ H. Osborne, J. H. McLeod, J. C. Gillis, W. T. Redfearn, R. M. Kennedy, Jr., H. D. Niles, M. M. Johnson, Limited Partners. 43-48 sb. [tax notice| I A11 - 1934 City Taxes unpaid I I February 1, 1935, will be subject I I | to an additional penalty. . j | I J.C.BOYKIN, I 8 City Clerk-Trcas. of Camden, S. C. I B * . . WHY I AM A PIGGLY WIGGLY STORE OWNER No. 2 of a series of personal statements from owners in nearby towns. M LYNCHBURG, VA? Says "Because I Know Value of the I Pigg/j Wiggly Name" "My name, alone, doesn't mean much. But, my name, as Owner and Operator of a Piggly Wiggly store means a lot ? to customers. "Piggly Wiggly is a name that has always stood for the best in food retailing. It is at least as well known as any other in the entire grocery field. Yet, Piggly Wiggly stores are .independently owned and operated I "The Piggly Wiggly name assures customers not only of quality and full value, but the easiest, pleasantest way of snopping yet devised. Even in towns where there has never been a Piggly Wiggly, the name is usually well known. A Piggly Wiggly in your community would be instantly welcomed and patronized by the best people.'1 1 9 3 5. I S A PIGGLY.WISGLY YEA RJ~ .? . f , M t . - : 5T ? >T.> I u I I n. mt?M k 1 I gmm al ^ aS I