The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 15, 1936, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
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I PENALTY WILL
BE ADDED
I ALL PROPERTY OWNERS ARE HEREBY NO|
MFIED THAT A SEVEN PER CENT PENALTY
WILL BE ADDED fO ALL 1935 CITY TAXES REOf
MA1NING UNPAID BY MAY 1, 1936.
J. C. BOYKIN
CITY CLERK AND TREASURER j
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Pleads Guilty;
Gets Sixty Years
Tacoma, Wash., May 9.?William
Malum pleaded guilty today to two
charges, kidnaping and 'conspiracy to
kidnap, in connection with the abduction
of 9-year-old Qeorge Weyerhaeuser,
and was sentenced to 60 years on
each count, the sentences to run concurrently.
Mahan's first reply, "guilty," was
In a low tone of voice and Federal
judge E. E. Cushman lifted his head
and looked quizzically at him. Mahan
then repeated again in a louder tone,
guilty." ----Judge
Cushman then sentenced Manan
to 60 years on each count.
The sentence was to McNeil Island
penitentiary in Puget Sound near
.here.
Judge Cushman decreed that the
two 60-year sentences should be concurrent.
Another indictment, charging mail
fraud, was not read.
Mahan declined to make any statement.
He had also refused the offer
by the court to appoint an attorney
to represent him.
The Cnited States attorney general
at Washington will determine later
whether Mahan remain at McNeil Island
or be transferred to Alcatraz or
Leavenworth penitentiary. ?
" Maintain
Terraces
In Good Condition
Proper maintenance of terraces
greatly increase their value, according
to specialists of the South Carolina
Extension Service and the Soil
Conservation Service After heavy
rains and before crops are planted,
all terraces should be inspected to
see that they are functioning properly,
advises County Agent W. C. Mc
Carley.
Fixing breaks In terraces can be
done more economically and satisfactorily
before crops are planted. Every
farmer should repair all damage this
spring to avoid severe erosion or gullying
that might occur before fall.
The following eeeenttala in main.-.,
taing terraces are pointed out by Mr.
McCarley.:
Keep the outlet channel open.
Build up low places in newly constructed
terraces soon after the tractor-grader
unit completes the terrace.
Fix breaks in terraces before crops
. are planted.
If water stands iu channel, plow
?ut high places to permit free flow.
Plow terraces as recommended by
'he Soil Conservation Service and the
Extension Service, keeping the water
channel plowed out.
If terrace ridges are not to be sown
down, plant three rows of. cotton.or
two rows of corn on the terrace ridge.
1)0 not plant In water channel.
Perry E. Griffin, 24, former preacher
?f Polk county, Mo., who ran away
*ith his wife's sister for a brief carof
crime, pleaded guilty to a
ch*rKe of highway robbery at Hani*
8onviUe, Mo., and was gtven a maximum
sentence of 10 years. The girt
wanted a "free life," and after their
first arrest engineered a Jail break to*
herself and lover.
The district attorney at Bt. Paid,
fnn., win ask the oourt to make the
1)011(1 of Alvin Karpls $400,000, and
^ys that he has "an airtight oaae" asxinat
the outlaw. ? -?-?~ -
Octopus Influx Is New
Menace for Fishr-i-ivi ^l^ ^f^ \h^^anC,l8C0'~~An
oct?I??s wuv?
from the coast of Mexl<v> . ? '
noruiern California ?|ml|?w Ce?
fishermen plenty of thrills and ?,?..*
ground for real ."fish stories.'*^geveral
fishermen, particularly those
T.~ Ter cre"cea und ""*
wasnes, have been seized and have
been saved only by friends who 1
chopped off the tentacles of the devu
The visitation, sold Or. Alvln Seal
director Of stelnhart aquarium here'
Is due to a sudden shift In current
from the Mexican const, the usual
range of the fish.
Two species are in the migration?
one small, not more than 14 Inches
across the arms, and the other large
measuring as long as 15 feet.
Find* Mules Scarce
Vancouver, Wash.?Washington has
no overproduction of mules. Supervisor
K. P. Cecil, of Columbia National
forest, wanted 30 pack mules for the
fire season, but weeks' search of Washington
farms yielded only 1L
Money On Trees
Dandridge, Tenn., April 7.?They
vere picking $5 bills off of willow
rees and cornstalks along the French
8road river near here .yesterday. The
noney apparently was deposited by
ecent high waters. H. B. Jarnigan,
iank president, said more than $100
>f the recovered bills had been
wrought to the bank here. About $20
tas been presented to the post office.
The bills are new, but torn and mutiated.
All of the money 1b of the
L928 series, almost in consecutive
serial numbers. Business was nearly
it a standstill as folks wsnt out to
lunt money. There was one nnsubitantlated
theory that the money
night be part of $80,000 missing from
t Charlotte, N. C., mall robbery, be-" I
ieved by some to have been hidden
n Cocke county. The French Broad
md Its tributary, the Pigeon river,
*un through Cocke county.
Traffic Through Great Lake*
The distance from Dnlnth at the extreme
west end of the Qreat Lakes
system to Buffalo Is nearly a thousand
miles : 088 miles, to be exact From
Mackinaw point to Gary in Lake Michigan
will add, another 334 miles. Together
with the other shorter sailing
distances, there Is* a total of nearly
2,000 miles of "main line and branches"
over which the heaviest traffic density
moves. The average number oT ton
miles of traffic carried by each mile
of lake highway per annum Is about
30,000,000.
Monday morning, a regulation comnunist
flag was fonnd flying from'
:he top of the flag pole on the supreme
court building at Washington.
Unable to get to it, firemen stuck up
i plumber's blow torch on a pole and
mrned the taag to ashes. Governnent
men began an intensive search
'or the men who put the red flag
here.
New York's "Little Italy" put on a
ioisy celebration Tuesday as It went
nto ecstaciea over the entry of the
Italian armies into Addis Ababa.
Ifany fireworks were used la the celebration.
The keynote of the prohibition
>arty'a national convention, opening
it Niagara Falls on Wednesday, was
i warning that conditions were worse
han ever before because the liquor
ratio was creating "women drinkffi?iain^
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Nobody's Business
Written for The Chronicle by Geo
M*iee, Copyright, 1928.
MY FIRST SUIT WAS A MISTRIAL
..I was 17 years old wheu 'i got my
first store-bought suit. I cau see it
noWI tl was a fussy, dark blue thing
that cost me and my father together
exactly 13.49. I had saved up 83 cents
during the 4 or 5 previous years to
thus Invest.
..The nice clerk threw In a pair of
uspenders. By the third time I had
worn them, they were at least ? feet
Jong; the rubber simply disappeared.
My folks bought a pretty 26-cent blue
hat to match the suit. It turned Itself
into a 15-inch funnel-shaped tube
the first time it got damp.
. .1 wore that new^iu to church the
following Sunday. It was August. If
there had been such a thing aa a
thermometer, it would have registered
at least 125 in the hot big road I
walked down to church. But noboddy
in our neighborhood could have read
a thermometer; they could not even
read almanacs very well, they being
our principle reading matter. (The
church was only 6 miles from home
as the worm crawls.
..Ihem clothes faded me almost an
egg-plant color. I had no handkerchief,
and never saw one Ull I fcaa
21, so I wiped off the sweat with hxy
sleeeve, and was I a beaut when l
oozed down the Isle? Everybody
knew that something had happened
to me. . I thought I was dolled up;
they know that I was dyed a dizzy
blue-black. I didn't know any better
till amen was Buld, then brother slipped
me out the back way.
..I wore a pair of patent leather
shoes, size 7; my feet were size 9. I
never got so tired of a sermon in my
life. I hoped every second that that
preacher would fall dead or something.
He saw me sheading tears (on
account of suffering feet) and thought
I was getting religion, so he directed
both barrels right at me shaking
his Index finger point-blank, and yelling?"Young
many
..I finally got back home .... thru
the woods. Not having worn any underclothes,
which were unknown by
poor-folks like us, my new garment
had painted my entire body the color
of the cloth. Every button had busted
off, and the britches were ripped
In 4 different places, and every place
was the wrong place for rips. The
sleeves had come out, and the lining
was also blue-black in harmony with
my skin. Folks called me "Blue-Gee"
for months after that. I went back
to my old Jeans suit and used it 2
years longer. .
Gee McGee.
A TREE-8ETTINQ MARATHON 18
ON IN FLAT ROCK
spring has started off In flat rock
with a tree setting marrathon with
skinny moore In the tree, he started
his racket on top of a post, but the
snn burnt his nake a right smart, so
he picked hlsself out a nice oak tree
and has started to set.
..he hopes to get some setting aid
from the advertisers of flat rock, and
expects to stay up as long as annything
comfcB In. the drug stoar will
furnish him one of his cellebrated
rubber cushions to set on provided
he hollers its merrits to the publlck
ever once In a while.
who will come down for his meals,
allso to spend the night, mrs. moore
won't ltet noboddy take nothing up to
him, as she thinks this setting up in
a tree Is Just a poor excuse to get
out of manual labor, he has not done
a hand's turn about the house since
he first dumb that tree.
. .the boys and girls furnish him some
pleassure and dellicacies ever now
and then by roasting Winnies on the
ground and letting him pull one up
to his mouth very frequent, they allso
send up a hunk of bread and a bottle
of sody watter ever now and then,
he has lost no weight so far.
. .skinny has his gittar and Juice harp
up In the tree with him and he plays
them a right smart to draw crowds
with, a bee stung him frlday In the
pants and he almost lost his foot and
hand holt on the tree ... he la thinking
of building a cot betwixt 2 limbs
and tie hlsself to same and sleep up
there a few nights. .
..he, meaning skinny, the tree-setter,
wants all concerned to come and view
his hoddy. while setting, and anny one
desiring to have him advertise anny
of their products, such as medison,
fried chicken, whiskey, litterature,
beef market, or anny other substance,
will kindly fetch him a> libberai sample
and he will trade wtth them.
. .skinny hope sand expects and promisee
to win the tree setting pendant
iff 4 d*y?. off Off OB. ?6-h? wont
baro to remain tw. but about ?
wookm longer to cot hi. name la tb.
papon aa tb* obampmn alMtaa tr*?
Mttar of tb, wotM. tb* tolwaaaa
, cbaab at hla Itilitu Jm
j
HHHMHHi
thought ho whh a billy goat up there,
yores trulle,
mike Clark, rfd.
' conry Bpondent.
SENSIBLE TIME VS. DAYLIGHT
8AV1NG TIME
..Mr. A. Nu(t, the gentleman who
thought up and worked out the proaout
"daylight Having time" died in
ah inaane asylum in Now York laut
week at the ago of 70. Ho waa an
Inmate of the aayluin at the time ho
sot the idea luto his head about trying
to aave daylight.
.,Mr, Nutt discovered this great "daylight
Having*" scheme by a. certain
manipulation of a silver dollar he had
in hi? pocket. lie found that if he
took his dollar out of his left britches
pocket and put it in his right britches
pocket that he had a dollar in his
right britches pocket.
. .All in the world he would have to
do Is to imagine that ho etill had hie
dpllar in his britches pocket, so, he
worked It 011 his clock, lie wanted
to get up every morning an hour earlier
ho's ho would have more time to
spond in the aBylum, bo he turned
his clock forward an hour, and preato,
he suved"that hour. (This scheme
has absolutely ruined the usefulness
of radios).
..He got up every morning at 8
o'clock by the clock, and it wasn't
very long till he had forgot all about
It ever being really 7 o'clock, and af*
vter lots and lots of figuring, he observed
that he had saved from 30
to 31 hours every month. He never
found uny use for the time ho saved,
but miser-like, lie just kept on saving
daylight.
..Mr. Nutt got a few other crasty people
to practicing his daylight saving
plan, and then lotB of so-called sensible
people took it up on the outside,
and now it is a whole world affliction
Just like the oulja board used to be.
It gives a fellow a chance to eat
breakfast and dinner and supper earlier;
in fact, he eats supper so early,
I he has to eat another meal before
night to keep from starving to death.
..It has been a mighty fine thing for
the watch-makers. People who live
away from places that have no better
sense than to follow this daylight saving
time bug have to wear 2 watches
when they visit where this foolishness
is practiced. Nobody even there ever
gets used to it, and only one engagement
out of 23 Is kept punctually.
Women never keep them. By the
time the natives think they have got
the time of day down pat, lo and behold,
it is changed again back to
sensible time. It's a pity Mr. A. Nutt
never knew what pain and consternation
he caused millions of innocent
people.
BACK TO NORMAL AT LA8T
. .Well, we have all of our installment
accounts in good running order at
{last. Our income, including salary,
I drawing account, and 2 dozen eggs a
I week from our 7 hens, and a mess
I of J surplus vegetables ever now and
I then, amounts to exactly 16 dollars
Iper week.
I. .We pay $4.00 every Saturday on
Jour refrigerator. Every other Friday,
| we pay $2.00 on our radio. We pay
| $6.00 every third Monday on our elec|
trie range, and the same afternoon,
J we give the collector $6.00 on our new
| bedroom suite, twin bedB, dresser and
J everything. Nothing else comes up
I till the following Thursday: our car
1 dealer drops around pleasantly for his
J 25 dollars on the 4-door we traded
J for 3 months ago.
J .. Our electric toaster is the most useI
ful thing: we owe only 4 more payJ
ments on it of $1.00 each, but we
I pay for it monthly, and they never
bother us for weekly payments. The
| carpet-sweeper is the handiest thing
j we ever installed. The old lady pays
$3.00 every other Tuesday out of her
j weekly allowance of $2.00. She will |
J have it paid for in November. (We
J keep our landlord fairly well satis*
| fled; we'never stay "< more than 4
| months behind with our rent)./^ .
I . .The crib for dear little Willie cost
only $14.00, with only $1.00 down.
J We pay the Furniture exchange every
j Thursday. He happens to be passing
j by on his way to see somebody else,
| and drops in casually and gets his
150 cents. Willie will be able to walk
| and sleep In his big bed 'when the
| last payment is made next December,
I at which time we will exchange it for
| a baby bed.
1. JWe are getting slightly behind with
I our grocery and doctor bills, but we
J don't ewer try to owe any one person
| or firm too much, so we change our
I trading place every tew weeks and
J are trying a new doctor every time
I little WUlie sneezes; we think it is
I nice know all of the doctors. We
I don't go to church now at all; little
I Willie cuts up so bad-?we go over to
I mother's home and spend Sunday 1
I with her. It's only M miles there
Ian# back.
I ..Ten we areaO O. K. new. No more
[ HHllki nights. We have got car
I payments scattered very badly and
* 1 ill 1 - - it
none of them come due at the same
hour of any day ; that ttlkM it easier
on us. We are, having to pay cash
for gas and oil; we traded on credit
a good while, .but after going the
rounds, we fonnd that they had put us
on a cash basis. They were mighty
nice to us as long as our credit lasted.
Our last suit of clothes and the
dress for her will be paid for sooner
or later, by the week, as usual. Wore
it not for Installment buying, we
couldn't get along at all.
Gee McGee.
Report Of The
Associated Charities
Report of the Associated Charities
of Camden-Kershaw county for February,
1936:
Balance from last month ....$106.16
Receipts this month , 496.41
$602.66
c Disbursed
Sehlosburg, clothing ..$ 4.16
Burber 3.00
Box rent 3.86
Wallnau's, clothing 6.94
City Filling Station 2.35
DeKalb Pharmacy 6.80
D. M. Mays 6.26
Arthur Stores 15.13
Belk's Dept. Store 11.60
Ruth Alexander 9.76
Water and Light 12.64
Lomansky's 3.10
Rent, J. S. Lindsay, sec. & treas. 5.00
Wood 66.26
Repairs to stove (Anderson) .. 7.00
$151.82
Disbursed at Home
Groceries $85.15
Milk 45.86.
Labor and Servant hire 97.60'
$228.00
Total disbursed $879.82
BALANCE $222.74
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Ginger Rogers and her husband,
Lew Ayers, movie actors, have separated.
DRAYAGE
AND
STORAGE
F. R. CUR ETON
Telephone 233-J
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NOTICE OF TAX SALE~
To Alice A. Russell.
You are hereby notified that under
a certain tax execution to me directed,
the. real estate hereinafter described
was sold at public outcry for
tuxos, on the 3rd day of June, 1935,
to Forfeited I^and Commission, they
being the highest bidder therefor, and
unless you, being the owner or holder <of
a mortgage.covering the said premises,
redeem the said real estate within
thirty (30) day*~-after service of
this notice upon you, title to the same
will be delivered to the purchaser.
The said real estate was levied upon
as the property of Wm. Grant and Bd.
Jones and is described as follows:
"150 acres land bounded on ail sides
by land now or . formerly of J. M.
Martin, known as Ghesnnt Lands."
Dated at Camden, South Carolina,
this 7th day of May, 1981.
J. H. McLEOD,
Sheriff for Kershaw County, South
Carolina.
The temperature in New York on
Saturday reached 88.8 degree#, only
2.2 degrees lower than the aU-tlme
record of 91, set til 1890.
j YOUR SAVINGS
Invested In our shares art Insured
against Iota up to tfi.00tiQft, Wt
have MONEY TO LOAN ftr
BUILDING, REPAIRING,
j IMPROVING
Homes In Caniiltn "71,
First Federal Savings and
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CITY LICENSES
DUE 1
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ALL U. $....
, CENSES FOR BUSINESS, OCCUPATIONS AND PRO1
FESSIONS FOR THE YEAR 1936 FOR THE CITY
OF CAMDEN WILL BE DUE AND PAYABLE BY
MAY 1, 1936. . |
J. C. BOYKIN I
CITY CLERK AND TREASURER j
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