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IP J. c. cox Sanitary Plumbing and Heating TELEPHONE 433-J Estimates Furnished on Short Notice Ml? Greatest Book To I Have Anniversary I ov? r the signature of John H. Fin ley, mi Martha Berry, William Al iwj White, and Robert K. 8peer, anBjouneenieMt waa made today of the ^ formation of a national committee to Kpootor a nation-wide commemoration Kf (be four hundredth anniversary of be fir*1 Pointed English Bible. Dr. Kin ley, speaking for the Com mittee stated, "On October 4, 1535, ibe first printed English Bible, a transKll|oll |)> My lea Coverdale, was issued Hrom th? press. During the four cen turles since that date, It has not only orpassxi in circulation any other ook in the world, but has pftrfotmdly ^Eflut-nn d the liveB of peoples and j.if.-ilx of governments." Regional. state, city and church ^^^Lmniittees throughout the country ill b?< selected at once under the di rettlon of the National Committee to R^ny out the commemoration proKram. Additional information and ma rial will be released by the ComKittee as plans are developed and as he sub-committees are organized." Greenwood Newspaperman Dead I Greenwood, June 1.?Joel 8. Bailey, 52, business manager and secretary-, treasurer of the Index-Journal, died t hie home here^lasb night after a ong illness. ' """ I Mr nalley had befen in the news paper business since 1905, serving as business manager of The Greenwood index until 1919 when The Index and journal were merged and holding the Bame position In the consolidated tapers | NOTICE I JOHN WILSON, Receiver of 'ORTHWESTERN RAILROAD COM-' any of SOUTH CAROLINA, and the NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, erebv give notice that on the 9th day of May. 1935, they filed with the nterstato Commerce Commission at Washington, D. C.. their joint application. and on May 21, 1935, filed amendment thereto, for a certificate that the present and future pub ic convenience and necessity permit abandonment by them (a) of the ^ftfilroad of the Northwestern Railroad pgapany of South Carolina, which exBta&s from Wilson's Mill to Sumter, ^^na&ttom Sumter to a point at or near Camden, with branch lines extending from Milliard to St, Paul, and from ^Kfuvillc Junction to a point at or ^ oear Rose Hill, a total distance of fi miles, all in Clarendon, Sumter, Kershaw, and Lee Counties; (b) the ^ abandonment of operation under nckage rights over 0.80 mile of the lUantir ( oast Line Railroad and the ^ isp of tf-,,. freight and passenger sta^ iou facilities of said company at Wilson's Mill. Clarendon County; (c) the bandomnent of trackage rights over ^Proximately 1 mne of the Atlantic Joast i.'tie Railroad and the use of he latter company's freight and pas (,"LVr : "ions, and other joint, facili ff s"tuter, Sumter County, ftnd <>) the amendment of operation over e Soutiit-ni Railway between Noith^ esteru Junction and Camden, a dis ?nce or t.u3 miles, and over certain |hfr 'racks at Camden, 1.52 miles and the abandonment of the ^ rmuiii! of the Northwestern Railfompany of South Carolina at including tracks . approxi1 ' "lil0 'ong> now used jointly ^pth th,- Southern Railway, in Ker naw' Com.ty, all in the State of South ^ arohn.i. WILSON, Receiver of ORIHWESTERN RAILROAD COM* BAM' SOUTH CAROLINA, and North western railroad UMpYN'1 OF SOUTH CAROLINA. | CITATION "f South Carolina, I r>?uil.' v Kershaw. 1 Arnett, Probate Judge: hmvas John Laney made suit to ^ 0 grant him Letters of Adrnlnis " l>! Gie Estate and effects of i.r'ney. - oiu*?'" hrft therefore. to cite and ad ". /. a" aud singular the Kindred ?. .^"torg of the said Lucy Laney ^at they be and appear be h.n ln,thG Court of Probate, to ^Knn t. ilt Camden, S. C., on Monday, ",, !Jh ?ext, after publication here ' . '1 0 clock in the forenoon, to R 'ause, if any they have, why tni.' i A(',ntnistration should not be G'v- n under my hand this 28th day ^ " ?> Anno Domini 1935. , N. C. ARNETT, , Probate for Kershaw County. Recalls Difficulty In Securing Salt (By E. K. Berry lu Columbia State) Orangeburg, May 18.?Linked with the many hardships and privation* experienced between '61 and '6f> by those who remained on the plantation while others of military age marched away in defense of their fair Southland, was the scarcity of salt. The Htory of salt?or rather the scarcity of salt?and the various sources from which a meager supply was obtained during those trying days, would well make a chapter in the history of that most eventful period. An Orangeburg county resident recently recalled some of the difficulties encountered in securing salt during his boyhood. From the period just prior to the conflict when plantation owners of the South were familiar with the wellknown brand of Liverpool salt, the story runB through those four momentous years with many a colorful iucldent in the effort to obtain this much needed necessity. The Liverpool brand came in sacks of about two bushels each and the price prior to the war ranged around $2 a sack. Like salt of today, it was inex^?nsive, and besides being used in the preparation of meals and the curing of meat, it was even mixed with lime and distributed over cotton fields in combating rust in those days. Then the time came when the Liverpool salt was no longer to be had, and every extremity was resorted to in an effort to procure salt elsewhere. Everyone in the South has heard the story of the ground beneath the smoke houses being dug up, soaked and leeched to extract the salt therefrom. There was, of course, much saturation in the earth from long years of drippings from salt-packed meat in the smoke houses. But this source of supply was soon exhausted and other sources had to be sought. Then it was that the salt factories sprung up along the coast, and plantation owners of the central part of the state depended upon these plants for their supply. The price of the commodity soared, and salt was almost wofth its weight in gold. Travel was slow in those days. Roads were not the best in the world, and there were long stretches between plantation houses and villages. McClellanville, at the time was one of the important salt manufacturing centers, and here It was that a supply was procured through the boiling of sea water. From points within a hundred miles of the coast, a trek to McClellanville for salt was a week's journey, including the trip there and back. These trips were made about once ,a year, the plantation owners went prepared to purchase a supply for that length of time. There was much activity on the plantation in prepartion for one of these trips, and there were usually five.or six covered wagons* in the train, sent by as many plantation owners who made the trip. They went in groups for convenience, protection and companionship, camping at suitable places along the way. The wagons were usually loaded with from 20 to 25 bushels of the valuable material for which the fancy price of $10 per bushel was demanded by the manufacturers. The story of war-time salt wgs rec.e.utly heard from the lips of an Orangeburg county resident, who as a boy was taken along on some of these trips. The route followed by the wagons with which he went, left the lower part of the county, traveled to the* east.^past Vance Ferry, on down the state road for a distance, and then either by St. Stephens, Pinopolis or Moncks Corner. Through the section near Eutawville, the story teller recalled the summer homes of river plantation owners known as Porcher Pinelands. He also recalled crossing the old Cooper canal which at that time had not entirely passed out of use. The salt factories were not the most' pretentious of manufacturing Industries. They served their purpose, however, and were a God-send, to those who lived in the interior. The factories were described as being located along the beach beneath the shade of small groves of trees which spotted the coast line. They were only sheds which housed the kettles, and a warehouse for storage. The' kettles were made by splitting steam boilers In half, lengthwise.! There were many rice planters along the coast and some were equipped with steam threshing plants. These kettles were made from the old dis- j carded boilers. They were not of the tilbular type in those days. They were some 20 or 30 feet in length and three or four feet in diameter. Each half was rigged up over a furnace, and into the kettles went the sea water for boiling. At a certain consistency, the contents were removed to another boiler, and^the final product was a fine granqlftr salt about like present day re'fined sugar. On the beach in front of these boiling plants, there would be excavated a large bhsin and at high tide those basins would be filled with sea water. It was in this way that the supply was obtained with little difficulty, and it was run through troughs from the pool to the kettles. The surplus supply was stored in warehouses constructed of logs, sealed and floored, glome of these warehouses contained as many as a thousand or more bushels of salt. Wooden shovels were used to handle t-he salt, the purchaser being r&quired to furnish his own sacks. V 'The narrator of the story, on one of these trips, recalls the name of Mr. Skipper, owner of one of the more pretentious salt factories located at McClellanrille. ? i?y * I SUMMER SESSION, NEWBERRY COLLEGE I JUNE 11-JULY 20, 1935 | I Approved courses for renewing and raising teachers' certificates j in I'rimary, Intermediate and High School grades. Standard courses ?r college degree credit. Special training In Music, Business, Ex* * Able faculty, varied curriculum, congenial atmosphere, comfortI a domitory accomodation for men and women, excellent table fare. Total cost. Including all expenses, only (42.00. for catalog write c- K1NARD, President, Newberry, 8outh Carolina. Former Citizen Dies In Columbia H lends in Camden and Kershaw C?U.?i,y 10 buru of the death <>t I ally Hlackmon which occurred ill Columbia ou Wednesday of last week. Mr. Blacknioo resided lu Camden for a number of years before go lug to Columbia. Mr. Hlackmon married Miss Deasle West. daughter of the late J. A. Weat, of this county. The following is fn>m the Columbia State of lust Thursday: Mr. Hlackinou, owner and operator of lllackmou's Vulcanizing station on 1 aylor street, had been seriously ill for about two weeka. He was a native of I Lancaster county and had 11 v?d i? Columbia for about 16 yenrs. He has a wide circle of friends who will mourn his passing, "Ho Is survived by his widow, Mrs Dessle West Blackmon of Columbia; two daughters, Mrs. C. L. Fuller, Jr., and Miss Mary Jacqueline Blaek'mon, both of Columbiu; three Hons, 1) T Hlaokmon. J., Wuddy Hlackmon and Haul Hlaokmon. all of Columbia; his mother, Mrs. Mary Hlackmon of Orangeburg. "He is also survived by two sisters. Mrs. Wilmer West of Ashevllle. N. C., and Mrs. John Wannamaker of Orangeburg; live brothers, T. M. Hlackmon of Heath Springs, A. T. Hlackmon of Knoxville, Tenn., G. u! Hlackmon of Chappells und W. G. Hlackmon of York; four half-brothers! J. W? H. A. and A. B. Hlackmon of Iji^ncarfter county and J, K. lilackmon of Louisiana." % Claude Girardeau Dies In Columbia (Maude Hearne, Girardeau, 78, of 1810 Assembly street died at the Columbia hpspitui at 10:16 yesterday morning. He had been in 111 health for some time, suffering from heurt trouble. Mr. Girardeau was the son of the late Rev. John L. Girardeau and Sarah P. Hamlin Girardeau. He was born in Charleston December 5, 1859, and was educated at Charleston high school and Bingham Military academy. He was for a number of years agent In the Columbia o/fice for 'the ^Southern Express confpany and was later In business in the city lor 14 years as a member of the firm'of Girardeau and Marshall. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church and had at one time been an elder of Arsenal Hill Presbyterian church. He was married November 5, 1XS4, to Caroline Dodge McDowall, daughter of Charles McDowall and Frances Patterson McDowall of Camden. Mr. Girardeau is survived by his wife; two daughters. Mrs. Witherspoon Daniel of Waycross. Ga., and Miss Elizabeth Girardeau of Columbia; one Bister, "Mrs. George A. Blackburn of Columbia; one brother, John B. Girardeau of Thomaston, Ga.; three sons, J. L. Girardeau, Charles Girardeau, Jr., preceded hiin to the grave. ?Columbia State. May 29. Whitewash Government Formula?Slake onehalf bushel of quick-lime or lump lime With boiling water, keeping it covered during the process; ' strain, and add 1 peck of salt dissolved in warm water. Boil 3 pounds of ground rice in water to a thin paste; dissolve in warm water one-half pound of Spanish whiting and 1 pound of clear glue; mix these well together and let the mixture stand for several days. Keep the wash thus prepared In a kettle or portable furnace and when used put it on as hot as possible with a brush, advises Henry D. Green, County Agent. Death of the NRA codes started price wars fn several sections of the country. In New York dealers in cigarettes cut prices to as- low as 70 cents per carton, where the code price was $1.25. Atlanta, Ga., cigar and cigarette dealers and dry cleaners cut prices and in some cases increased hours of work, but made no reduction of wages. COTTON PICKING MACHINE ? ? H'.? WW ?*"*? Vieitora ut the National Cotton Show lu Mcmphia recently aaw the newly tlntehod 2.000 pound machine which itB makere, John and Mad Huet, buy will pick uii acre of cottW In an hour at one-fifth the coat of hand labor. Drawn by u farm tractor this "cotton picker" eonaiata principally of at) eudleaa bolt to which are attached numeroua wire aplndloa. When the machine la drawn along the cotton row theae aplndlea revolve rapidly. They are molatened automatically and when they come in contact with the open cotton it cllnga to the molatened wlrea and ia pulled from the bur. it ia then uieciftntcally removed from the apindlea and drawn into containera by the auction of a large fan.?The Pathfinder. The aupreme court of California haa cauHed many movie actora and actreason of Hollywood to become Jittery, hecauae of a deciaion holding "mall order" divorcee granted in Mexico to he invalid, and In a apeciitc caac decluring u local oil man to he a bigamist, he having married again following a Mexican divorce. Preacher dhoota Police Chief Orange, Texas, May 30.?The ltev. Kdgar Kelt ridge, 4<>, Baptist miniat^r and vice crusader, whh arrested late yesterday as the suspected shotgun slayer of Police Chief 10d J, O'Heilly, whom he baptized Into Ills church. O'lteilly was fired upon from a motor car while standing on a street corner hero conversing with a friend. Tueeduy he arrested Mr. Kskrldge on a charge of Impersonating an officer during a raid early Sunday oh the Sliver Slipper night club near Ifore. Friends of the minister said he was highly Incensed and drove around all night in hils motor car. C. C. I-edy, a lumber accountant, who was talking with Chief O'lteilly, told police that the minister was the man who tired from the motor car. A. II. Burns, a steward In Mr. Kskrldge's church, quoted the minister as confiding yesterday morning he had received f>0 letters recently threatening his life and that he believed he was marked for "execution" this week. The first anniversary of the birth of the Dionite quintuplets was celebrated at Callender, Ontario, Wednesday.1 Charleston Editor Dies Charleston, May 31-?Thomas It. Waring, for 38 years editor of the Charleston Kvenlng Poat, illod ut hie residence, 2f? l.amboll street, shortly after y o'clock tonight. Ho was lu his 04th year. Mr. Waring first became ill with heart disease about two years ago. Ills last uttack began the latter part of April when he was In New?York attending the annual convention of the Associated Proas and the American Newspaper Publishers association. Mr. Waring had an active part in the cultural and business life of Charleston for nearly forty years. Hold nuggets vuluod at $824.41 are reported to have been found recently in White county, (leorgla. by a gold miner ut the mine of the Dixie Uravol | company. Joseph 1." StelnineitK, young ministerial student, was convicted In New York in his trial on a charge of killing his 17-year-old wife and a t'atholie priest In u hotel room. The Jury made a strong recommendation for mercy and thcidefendant will probably be sentenced to life imprisonment. WHEN LIVES ARE AT STAKE ... ... ........ 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