Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 Wc Have a Gift For You I To Help You Keep Your Home Bright and Cherry Make Your Selection of These Two Useful Articles for the Modest Charge of 5c I A ?/4 PINT CAN y SOUTHPORT ROCK GLOS VARNISH -! (4-HOUR DRYING Regular Value 25c This Useful Little Gift . . . of South port Varnish or Enamel will <fome in mighty handy. You will be glad to have either of them. Willi III.- SOUTHPORT ROCK GLOS rapid-drying 1 I liniiri Varnish you can in a f<-w short ininiii.-M tomb up a lot of things about the house thai an- scratched or "looking a little bare" . . . ilu- < 1111111 room table legs, chair legs, the doOr sills. <-ir. You'll he surprised what a change a lew sir.ikes of good varnish will do around the house. With the SOUTHPORT RAPID-DRYING 14 hour) I'hiauiel you can make the living room and table, or the magazine rack, or the odd chair glisten like new. It's easy and it's lots of fun. Paint In the morning; it's dry, reudy for use by ' dinner time. There are lb beautiful shades. Brighten Things Up . . . 1 a 1 ok about tile house right now. See if there isn't something that a few deft strokes of Varnish or Knarnel will brighten to help make your home cheerier. Then come in and get the special GIFT OFFER CAN we are reserving for you. With it we will give you a beautiful color folder giving helpful suggestions and Ideas for touching things up about the house. You'll he glad to have it. OR A i/4 PINT CAN SOUTHPORT RAPID-DRYING ENAMEL (4-HOUR DRYING Regular Value 25c Bring the Coupon . . . Fill it in and bring it with you. It 1b u part of this offer, because we want to hoiijJ you helpful j suggestions regularly on how you eun cattily and ! cheaply brighten tlilngH up through the uae of paintH, enamels and varnlHheB in (lie house?on the porch?about the garden. Thin literature will give you many delightful color suggestions?give you the latent information about easy-to-use paintH, enamels and varnishes? tell you in non technical language that a woman can understand what in the right thing to use for different kinds of furniture, woodwork, floors, linoleuniB, walls, etc.?and bow to uhg it succeBBfully. Bring this coupon with you. CUT OFF HERE THIS COUPON ENTITLES YOU wIm-ii tilled in below, to a if fx run of SOl.'THl'OltT )t( it "K-(JIa IS (i-hour) Varnish or Ht)UTlll'ljllT H A I'l I -1 >lt Yl-N< J (4-hoar)- Enamctr"HQY color, > 1 i.Nl,Y &< Also a helpful folder of houm-hold color MUKKfstiong free. Name . Sti .1 t Aildr. ha Town and State 1 would ah-o like informal Ion on: ( ) Enameling Furniture( ) Painting Woodwork ( ) Painting a Kitchen ( ) Painting Floors t ) Painting a Oathroom( ) Painting a House ( ) Painting Walls ( ) Varnishing TO ADULTS ONLY? ONE GIFT TO A FAMILY Camden Lumber Company, Inc. LUMBER AND PAINTS CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA . ? ^1 in a blanket order President Roosevelt has place<l the legal status of the $4,000,000,000 works program in three major divisions with Frank C. Hopkins in charge, with spefiic orders for all governmental agencies to coojx'rate in the work relief drive. Hopkins is given s{*K-ifie orders to investigate and see that the program is honestly carried out. The division of ^ allotments will be in charge of Mr. Walker. COMMON CAUSE OF BALDNESS One of llie chief causes of premature grayness. tatting hatr and ultimate baldness is lack of circulation in the scalp. To overcome this and bring an abundant supply of Mood to nourish the hair r'tili, massage scalp at night with Japanese Oil. the antiseptic counter-ir; Want. Thousands of men and women reivrrt antar. ing results in stopping tailing hair growing iicvs hair on bald areas and in eliminating dandruff and itching scalp. Japanese nit ro?ts but e<V at any druggist l.ionomv >i/e, J1 I Is I } * "The Tiuth Al>out the ll.ui " W rite IVj t. 3o N \TIO\ \ I. Itl.Ml.nv CO. 6U Wr*t I." Ill sircrl. \ ? r? \orU General News Notes Dun & Itradstrcet reported n slight recession In business over the country during the last week. All white residents of the town of Wainwright. Alaska are reported to be victims of the flu, with none well enough to attend to the sick. Ed wing Penny, employe of the ^Florida highway department was in-1 i staidly killed Sunday when his auto-; mobile hit a cow on the highway. | Hill Lee, 2IL ex-sailor, has been con-, detuned to death at Madifionvllle, [Tcnn., following his conviction on a (charge of murdering his grandmother. The French army has developed field tanks to the point where they can even remain under water and can even remain under water and cross shallow rivers. Walter Spigner. negro, wanted at ()ra n-> lairg. S on a charge of assault with intent to kill, hits been arrested by police at Stamford, Conn., Spigner admits his identity. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS The Walterboro Press and Standard. after becoming a semi-weekly for three months, is restiming weekly issues. because the local merchants did not advertise* enough to sustain two papers a week. Senator Byrnes told reporters at Spartanburg that he will vote ^override the veto of the Patman hill, but has small hopes of the veto of the President being overridden in the senate. Marion Daniel, of Anderson, was jailed on a charge of murder, and a young woman giving the name of Neattie Farmer, of Ware Shoals, was held as a material witness, when Allen Boyter, of Anderson, was found dead with a knife wound in his heart in a cabin at a tourist camp. Boyter was a textile operator. Wilkie Swilling, of West Piedmont, near Anderson, was killed by a shotgun wound in the chest, and went down lighting, slashing at the throat of Kdgar Kvans, a semi-invalid, until Ben Fvans, father of Kdgar. shot j htfiT. i hr itfialr decuneu In ilie st reet, | and F.vnns has been working in the I same textile mill for lib \ears. and -.1 v< ral Swillings and Kvanses were engaged in it. Si inttor .lames F. Byrnes, in the principal address at the (Jr*-.-nwood homecoming, made a strong d* tense Of fill' New 1 >e;| 1 aualnst the Old deal, i laimitig a g< u? ral improvement in hnsin#*><. that a large part of th*> mone> being spent is in loans, and praising President Roosevelt, lie said he opposes the removal of tho cotton processing tax. unless a substitute is provided to pay the farmer for crop reductions. lie endorsed the tlreenw ood project for a county water-power plant tin re. held up by a eourt decision, and attacked the Duke company for devoting much of its protits to charities of its own choosing, instead of lessening its profits. Tho legislative sit nation prevented Gov rnor Johnston from speaking, as was programmed. A university professor in court at Birmingham, Ala., ate Id pie.es of glass to show the court that a plaintitT suing for damages allegedly caused by swallowing a piece of glass in drinking a pop. had nothing much to l?a--e his claims ujatn. The case was settled out of court. A crowd of 200.000 gathered before Buckingham palace in London on Monday night, and set up a booming hour long chant of "We want the king." Finally the king and queen appeared on a balcony and for 12 , minutes waved to the wildly cheering throng. Judge Thomas W. Harrison, former i congressman from Virginia for bIxj teen year?, and a circuit Judge for ; more than 20 years, is dead at Winchester, Va? aged 79 years. A Bargain in Telephone Se rvice The prevailing rates for telephone service are so low that telephone service is an outstanding bargain. Telephone service, never a large item in the business or household budget, costs so little as to be within the reach of almost everyone. This Is how you can take advantage of bargain telephone service . . you can change to straight line service If you now have party Mne service . . you can enjoy the convenience of a handset inatrument . . you can have an extension telephone . . or you can have a telephone put in your home if you are not a subscriber. There is no need to deprive your household or your office of the comfort and convenience of modern telephone service which is now offered at such small cost. For complete Information, Just get in touch with the telephone business^ off Ice. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. C I ? ? p r ? 4 ) h-i rrr * ! J?1 '! General News Notes Walter H. McCee, kidnaper uf Miaa Mary McKlroy of Kansas, Mo., and the first man to ta(e sentenced to death for that crime, has been reprieved by the governor until May HI, pending further study of the case, after the state supreme court had refused a new trial. The aged mother, 70, and the daughter, 11, of John I^aValle, noted Boston portrait painter, were burned to death when fire destroyed his Ijome Tuesday, Two maids were killed when they leaped from the fourth floor, and several others were more or less injured by jumping from the building and burns. (). Max Gardner, former governor of North Carolina, recently appointed as counsel for the investigation of the telephone industry at a salary of $10,000 per year, has resigned the post to continue as fepecia] counsel of the American Cotton Manufacturers association and other textile groups. In New York on May 17 there will be staged a "frog jumping" contest, when the best jumpers among the swamp croakers of the country will be put to the test. It will be a part of the centennial celebration for Mark Twain, one of whose best stories was titled, "Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Amelia Farhardt, woman flyer, on Wednesday made a one-day flight of 2,100 miles from Mexico, D. F., to Newark, N. J., covering the distance in 14 hours, 22 minutes and 50 seconds. Several thousand people greeted her when she reached the airport landing field at Newark at 0:28 Wednesday night. "Representative Raymond J. Cannon, Democrat, of Wisconsin, and a companion were locked up in a Washington police station early Monday morning on charges of drunkenness preferred by u taxi driver, after they refused to pay taxi fare. The pair forfeited bail bonds of $15 after having spent three hours in the lookup. Figures compiled by the Manufacturers Record of Baltimore, show that during the first four' months of the year construction contracts awarded totaled $143,580,000, and for April the contracts awarded totaled $33,t>21,0<)0, as compared with $29,1X2, for March. Residential contracts for April totaled $2,882,000. In the inquiry underway at Manila into the abortive Skadalists uprising in the Philippines, a witness testified that agitators had promised Japanese arms and warships to help them end American rule in the Philippines. The Skadalista leaders are working for immediate independence, rather than at the end of the ten-year period pro- , vided by law. Frank Hawkes, speed and long distance flier, left Colon, Panama Canal Zone, Sunday morning at. 3:15 for Los Angeles. He ran into a severe storm in Mexico and climbed to an altitude of 18,000 feet. His motor froze and he came down again. At 13,000 feet the motor began to run 1 again and was all right when 10,000 feet had been reached was going smoothly. He landed at Mexico, D. F., and frankly admits that he was scared and that the experience had cost him ten years of his life. AFTER THE MOVIE?* | THOMAS' COFFEE SHOP SODAS SUNDAES CA I 7 FRESH FRUIT DRINKS I or K.N EVERY NIGHT UNTIL 11:30 DeK.lb Street Telephone 3|, J LOOKING BACKWARD! Taken From (he Filea of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yet,, J THIRTY YEARS AGO May 19, 1905 The week ending* May 15th was considerably warmer than usual, with the daily maximum temperatures ranging from SO to 96 and the nights from 65 .to 75. Miss Mary Cantey was hostess Thursday, entertaining the Acorn Club. She had as guest of honor Miss Bessie Steedman, of Hcndersonville. Mrs. Richard Y. Steedman gave a euchre party for Miss Steedman. She was assisted in entertaining by her sister, Mrs. C. H. Zemp. To wage war on boll weevils, state Entomologists adopt resolutions setting forth the precautions that shoqld be taken. The baby son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. llinnant, of Bookmar.s, S. C., was drowned Tuesday, when he fell into a tub of water several feet deep. Dr. A. A. Moore, Jr., of New York City loses his young wife, who died last week after a short illness. Before marriage she was Miss Agnes Von Vredeuburg, of Freehold, N. J., a young woman of beauty and charm. Nan Patterson, ohorus girl accused of the murder of "Caesar" Young is liberated. There are over 5,000 policy holders of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of South Carolina. M iss Gertrude Mitcham became the bride of Dr. Sydney C. Zemp at a lovely home wedding on Wednesday, May 17th. Rev. C. C. Herbert, pastor of Lyttleton Street Methodist church performing the ceremony. The city council of Philadelphia was hissed as "thieves" last Wednesday night for leasing the city's gas plant to a private concern. E. Rives LRang, in third year high school writes composition, "The Beauties of Nature in Our Woods in the Spring." Compulsory vaccination law passed by act of legislature. New Virtues In An Old Design "Now, Billle," said the teacher, who had just read aloud the story of the hare and the tortoise, to a small lad who had paid scant attention while she was reading, "can you tell me why the tortoise won the race?" "He won it," promptly replied Billle, 'because he was streamlined." FIFTKKN May 14, ^ 1920 I John B, Arrants, a life l0neM dent of Camden dies at age af? State Confederate Reunion J ing in Sumter comes to a close meet in Camden next year., ' <1 George W. Vanderbilt'g dr?J a model town vanishes when hi79 tiful estate near AahevlHf ;iIidM Biltmore, sold to Sowth<.ni | and two individual i>urc-haserT^H In London there are more thai shopa that sell nothing but fri^fl American soldiers in France? 20,OpO,000 pounds of candy. 1 Joseph B. Crocker, who haitfl in Boston for sometime return* this city. ? Mexico City occupied, rebels m? trol and Carranza and party John Bracey, eolored employe? the Camden Ice Company loses? in automobile accident. Good roads for Sumter assurd? vote in favor of $2,500,000 bondis? for purpose of hard surfacing j? highways in county. Memorial day in C^amden obto? -with dinner being served the Cod? erate Veterans an<l their wivet,I noon. Inc the afternoon there'? an address at the cemetery madt? Professor Yares Snowden, of the? versity of South Carolina., B. B. Clarke, attorney, who? been in a Baltimore hospital uifl going treatment has returned hert? Miss Charlotte Thompson, tp? her lovely home "The Terrace'? the Boykin community to theeofi? cos of the Hermitage Mill. R? was spread in the beautiful old? dens. Tuskegee, negro college n? new year book gives interesting J? ?that the colored peoiple of fl South are accumulating' prop? other than real estate. \ Breaking The News "Oh, Mrs. Flatbottom, I havencfl seen a child as 'badly spoiled as tl? son of yours." 9 "Why, Mrs. Murphy, I don't be&? "Oh, yes he is too. Just cow^B and look what the fire engine <9 to him!"?Nerw York Medley, -j; II Redfearn Motor Company Speaking you Figuring on Buying a I USED 1CARI This Spring? J WE'LL SAVE VOL 1 MONEY ON IT! J Got a lineup of smart-looking, trim model*9 on our floor right now . . . cars just waiting fo* someone to use up the thousands of unriddenj miles still in them. Late models, too . .< cart9 you'll be as proud of as were their original own-H , Certainly?We'll Allow Yoll Liberal Terms 1 '34 Ford V-8 DeLuxe 4-Door Sedan. I Excellent condition, low mileage, new tires Ul '34 Ford V-8 2-Door. Excellent condition $425. '31 Ford Model "A" 2-Door. Looks and runs good '31 Chevrolet 4-Door. Good condition .. '29 Chevrolet Coupe '29 Ford Coach $140.<? Also other cars of all makes from $25.00 up? 9 Redfearn Motor Compam| SALES DeKalb Street SERVICE M