Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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president Certain Of Another Term The Pathfinder, weekly paper, publUlicd i? Waahingtou, D. C., claims to be non partiaau, Because of its location. Pathfinder is in good post(ion to observe moro or less accurately the political trend of the country. It see* very little hope for the Republicans to defeat President Kooaevelt neXt November. Indeed, it seems to indorse the claim or the Democrats that the reelection of the preaideut Is at?oh a "cinch", that "the election might as well not be held". Iu a pane editorial in its issue of last week reviewing political conditions throughout the country, The Pathlluder says: The New Deal leaders are not going to retire from office and surrender everything Just on being politely requested to do so. They're preparing to stay indefinitely. And they have /ample reasons on their side ll? Democratic leaders are masterinl professional politicians?graduates and post-graduates of the Tammany una! city of New York for nearly a century and a half?giving out offices and and favors and Immunity to those who support it, and making it impossible for opponents to get anywhere. The Democratic orators know how to tickle the ears of the populance and play on their emotions as an expert plays on the wooden sticks of a xylophone. "The Republicans, in comparison, remind us of one of Major Bowes' worst 'amateurs'?and that's going some! The Republicans mean well, hut here's a secret we are revealing for the first time: They have an unhappy way of saying the right thing at the wrong time and the wrong thing at the right time. They seem 10 be utterly ignorant of the principal of mass psychology,? which are (he first things to learn If you want to appeal to the people. The republicans are even divided against themselves. There is even mon- hostility and suspicion between the Republicans of the 'liberal' west and those of the 'conservatory' East than there used to be between the old line Republicans and the Democrats. Where is there a man with the outstanding stature and unselfish devctioti .ittii talent to make a good G. O. I' candidate for president. Echo answers where'. The cities always tend to Go Democratic. The New I'eai tuts given the cities cheap liquor. and that's all they ask. And the < ity population 'is now the majority. Hut the New Dealers have adopted a wholly new piece of political strategy Hy what the militarists call 'peat-cful penetration', they have reached out iuto the Republican territory and in every county and at every crossroads they are firmly entrenched. backed witli unlimited ammunition provided at public expense and the treasury to call on for funds, i Piffle!) "New England is now lost to the democratic party. So are New York and New Jersey. But there the sure G. o P. Territory ends?and that isn't enough. The great rock-ribbed Republican State of Pennsylvania is in the 'doubtful' column. So is 'hat great moderately progressive State Ohio. And so are Michigan, Illinois and other great States which in a big majority of cases in the past navi- gone safely Republican. Taking out. the States mentioned the rest '-\iil all have to be vigorously fought 1'1 r it they are not chalked off in ad\an< as surely Democratic. In fact. -Ohio people say the election might aitnost as well not lie held?it's such i inch'. I cause of vast fields of ice, spring -hipping on the Great I^akes may be delayed two weeks longer than usual 'his year. NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that in acoordance with the terms and provisions of the ' Decree of the Court of ' onimon Pleas for Kershaw County, dated March 11, 1936,_ln. the case of i he Enterprise Building and LoarPAs>ociation of Camden, S. C., PlalntiuJjs against Bessie R. .Sheorn, defendant, ' will sell to the highest bidder for ash. before the Court House door at ' atnden. S. C., during the legal hours oi sale on the first Monday in April, I'.'Jtr. being the 6th day thereof, the lollowing described property and -tool;: All that parcel or lot of land in the city of Camden, County and State aforesaid which fronts Ninety-Two '''21 feet eust on Mill street of said ity and extends back west of a uni' >rm width to a depth of two hundred *-ixt> -four (264) feet and is bounded north by premises of W. R. Outlaw, 'ormerly of Adeline Moore, and west hy premises of Zemp." Also fourteen (14) shares of the capital -'ook of The Enterprise Building and 1-oan Association of Camden, S. C., ' Vrt ideate No. 252, Series No. 17. Tortus of Sale: For Oash, the Masltir to require eft the successful bid'h r. other than the plaintiff herein, a deposit at five(6) per cent of his !'id, same to be forfeited In case of ~ non-compliance; the bidding will remain open for a period of SO days af? ?*r the public sale. W. L,. DePASS, Jr., ' Master for Kershaw County. Henry-Savage, Jr., flaintifl's Attorney. South Carolina Asparagus Crop (By Guy A. Card well, Agricultural and Industrial Agent, Atlantic ("oust Line Kailroud Company) Tlie estimated farm value of the 1935 South Carolina asparagus crop was in the neighborhood of $570,000. Thin considerable sum was for 361,000 crutes of aspuragus cut from 0,500 acres, an average of 38 crutes per acre, sold at an average price of $1.58 per cruto containing approximately 24 pound*. ? ~ There are fourteen States produclug asparagus principally for commercial distribution to fresh markets. California, 'Georgia and South Caro Una are grouped together as "early producing States." California dominates llie asparagus markets to a considerable extent by reason of a substantial acreage, heavy yields, and large production. The average per acre yield in California over the live year period, 1529-11)33, was mbre than twice that in South Carolina and four times that in Georgia. South Carolina asparagus, however, is a real factor in the markets, and as experience has taught shippers to use greater care in grading, hunching and packaging, 1 do not see that the South has much to fear from California competition. Nearness to markets, and higher prices received on the average for South Carolina asparagus than for California "grass" should encourage local growers to even greator efforts in growing and in preparation for market. If this Is done the freshness of the South Carolina asparagus should result In its bringing a price premium in the larger markets. For all States, the total acreage from which the crop was utilized for either or both fresh market and canning, there were 110,380 acres of asparagus for cutting in 1935 compared with 112,850 acres in 1934, and a five year average of 107,490 acres. Growers' reports indicate that the total acreage of asparagus available for cutting in 1936 will be approximately 109,710 acres, and for 1927 about 110,000 acres. Prices paid to growers for the 1935 fresh-market crop averaged $1.25 per crate compared with $1.26 the previous year and $1.91 the five year average price. Kstimates of the prices paid to" growers by canners are available only in California, where the large portion of the total crop utilized for manufacture also represents the major portion of the total United States pack of asparagus. California growers received-an average of $75.65 per ton in 1935 compared with $66.50 the previous year and $67.03, the five year average ton price. Heavy falls of snow are reported from the northern half of Utah and a large part of Idaho on Sunda>\ Three negro men were killed and another injured when the boiler at a sawmill at Mints, N. C., exploded Friday. "?? . 1 1 1 11 -1 11 Found Reading A Vital Influence Dr. James K. Wi'Bl, editor of Hoys' i Life, the magazine published by the I Boy Scouts of America for ail boys, told a group of Scouts recently that ' the ambition to put out a muguzlne for boys ratuu to him when be' hltubr If wua u lad. ub a result of his own > love of reading! It Ib not alwayB that a boyhood ambition is realised in later life, and It is not ulwaya that a man's later career can be so directly traced to his early Influence. At the time his determination first developed. Dr. West?who 1h also the Chief Scout Executive of the Roy Scouts of America?was a poor, crippled boy in an orphan home in VVashi ington, D. C. There was a library | in the institution which wua kept nocked. He induced the authorities to let the other children have the use j I of the library, with himself serving, us librarian. Then he found that the j [Children did not care to road them. ; For a while he offered u cent for j I every hook read, but soon the chil-1 drou found the delights of reading, i and life at the institution became much more interesting. When he realized how important hooks were in bin own life and what their influence t i was meaning to the other children in the institution, the hoy resolved that when he grew up lie would do what he could to see that as many boys uh possible had the opportunity to read something worth while. Soon after he became the administrative head of the Boy Scouts of America in 1911, then a new orgaliizatlon, Dr. West secured authority j to purchase Hoy's Life and publish j it as the official magazine of the j Movement. Hoys' Life 1b celebrating ! its twenty-fifth anniversary in March ; 1936, Hoys' Life being one year young-j er than Its owner. Hoy's Life is not run as a coranier-i cial enterprise but is published to provide wholesome reading material ; for all boys. Scouts and non-Scouts. | Pine Tree Hill | Honor Roll Grade 1?Richard Davis, Cecil Park- 1 er, Gordon Reynolds, Eugene Watson, j Ira Taylor. Grade 2A?Richard Caulder, Ted j Davis. Wallace Davis, Leroy Fritli, Lewis Gardner, Hobby Horton, Sam McDowell, Hazel West, Ernestine Conyers, Mary Lou Catoe, Margaret Dtion, Jean McLaiif, Evelyn-Parker. Grade 2 H? Eugene Lloyd, James Huss. Grade 3A?Donald Crolley, Leroy Davis, Margaret McLain, Doris Sullivan. Gertrude Thames. Grade 3B?Margaret DeHruhl, Cora Goude, Sarah Kelly, Mazle Thompson. Grade 4?Jack Davis, Doris Conyers, Myrtle Thames. Grade 513?Charlie Cameron. - ? f ?' ' ? , I . ti Sale Mules And Slaves Orangeburg. March 14 ?The price of horses and mules have nol changed as much hh mahogany sideboard* in the laat hundred yearn, a lot ?>f sules made by the administrator*/of the estate of Joiin JennltiKa. of the Orangeburg district, on April 7, 1861), reveals. Jennings, who died at the age of otglitytwo, owned n plantation In ' Jennings' Quarter" of the forks of the Kdlstoea, nenr Otmnon'ts bridge, lxnully he wus known as "I^ong John" to distinguish him front u cousin of the same name, "Stumpy John." Ix>ng John whh three times married and became the' father of fourteen children many of his descendants still live in and around what was once "Jennings' Quarter." Though a man of prominence in his homo district, he never sought or held political office. This fact saved his oil portrait for his descendants, for, in February, 1805, a I'nion soldier retrained from ripping the painting with his bayonet, on learning that the original was not u senator. ' Jennings' belongings sold for a to-; Till of $20,577,111. A gray horse brought' $120; ?u bay mare, $52; a "dark fllley," j was sold for $140, and a blind horse brought $25. His "Jack Mule" brought $202; tl^e "Altck Mule," $201; the "Jll Mule," $140, and the "Jim Mule,", $130. Mahogany tables and Hideboards did not appeal to purchasers of I860, as they would to the buyer of today. The highest-priced table brought only $7 and the "sideboard and casters," $9. The "old chairs", and the "new chairs" together, sold for less than $8, while a trunk of bed clothes brought $17. Bedstoads brought uround $20. Corn sold for almost $1 a bushel and there were four hundred bushels sold. Four cows and calves brought a little more than $60, but thirty-one other cattle averaged only .$7.00 a head. All farmers had cattle In those days, and one paid more for a branding iron than the best milch cow. evidently the plantation spinning wheel must havo been an "old model." or out of repair, for it brought the astonishingly low price of fifteen cents, while the loom sold for $1. Wagons were as valuable as second hand automobiles bf today, bringing as high as $59, but one cart was sold to "Long John's" son for fifty cents. There is a story told of one of the slaves owned by "Long Johu" Jen-1 nings, a smart, healthy woman who became the mother of sixteen children. When the last one arrived, her master told her that she had earned her freedom and he gave her a con)-, fortable cabin and several acres of land. At the sale, twenty-odd negroes were sold, several of them to Jennings' sons, or sons-in-law. "Peter" and "Andrew" brought $1,500 each; I Don't Burn Pastures Advises Agent There Ims been in t tio past a tendency for farmers to burn over their pasture laud thinking that this will make the gruss come out earlier. Experiments have proved thut this is not the case. Your gruss will not come out uny earlier and If you burn your pasture land you are destroying a large amount of humus that should be allowed to decay on the soil. When you burn your pastures you are likely to let the fire got out into other land and do untold damage. Farmers should be particular in burning ditch banks and edges around the Held and not let it get out into our woods. Fires at this time of the year are more prevalent than any other times due to carelessness burning around the fields. Met Death in Wreck Darlington. March 20. .1. Wiley Ithodes, 07-year-old music store manager here, was fatally injured in an I automobile accident while going on a fishing I rip. Duck Itegister. Jr.. of Darlington his companion, was taken to the Conway hospital for treatment. "Archibald" brought $1,010; "Ed mund"\must have been very old or] very young, for he sold for only $400 Jjut "Martin's" price was the highest of all, $1,185. One purchaser bought VJamfgry," "Elia," Hannah," "Mary," "SylviA," "John" and "William" for $4,000, and five others sold for over $2,500. Nearly all of these negroes were purchased by relatives of their former master. || Farmers Are Using Credit Association A substantial increase in number of farmers of Kershaw and Lancaster counties availing themselves of the credit service offered by the Kershaw Production Credit Association is reported by A. C, llrudhaiii, secretary and treasurer of the association. The Kershaw Production Credit Association sorvoH the counties of Kershaw and Lancaster, and the volume of loans made so far tills yeur is considerably ahead of the corresponding period for last year and the previous year, Mr. Drndham said. The indications, lie said, are that the total volume will bo much ahead of the two previous years as more and' more farmers learn of the credit service which the association offers. The Kershaw Production (Credit Association makes short term loans to farmers to finance the production, harvesting and marketing of crops; the breeding, raising and fattening of livestock and commercial poultry; the repair, improvement and alteration of farm buildings and for general agricultural purposes. The farmer borrower pays 5 per cent Interest for the money but ouly pays for the time ho actually has the money and Interest is not required In advance. The usBoclat.lon operates solely for the benefit of its farm borrowers. Mr. Hradham says thut many farmers who have not availed themselves of the credit, service offered by the association heretofore are making applications this year. ?<?w x PAGE THREE ' 1 )i 11 'J " ' ' . km!. i - -.u-U-H I WANNAMAKER'S I I Wonder Dixie Triumph Resiitaat Cotton Seed I The be?t, Genuine, Pedigreed Seed Direct From The I | Originators and Breeders j j I* Our *tr?in of thi* cotton has made the HIGHEST i JI AVERAGE YIELD, for the past four years, at the S. j j C. Pee Dee Experiment Station, 2,227 pound* of seed cotton per acre. I Wannamaker-Cleveland Seed Farms I j L. B. Wannamaker, Owner St. Matthews, S. C. j ^ These Seed For Sale by I I SPRINGS & SHANNON 1 | (Our Agents) H , j CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA I Proof of Jord * - - c MOVE up to high-priced car performance?without the extra cost! The thrill of driving a Ford V?8 can be matched only in cars costing hundreds of dollars more. The Ford Y* 8 is responsive. It picks up more easily. 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