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* ^ ?If ' meet IIBROAD STREET 1IINPH I II ON TOP OF THE HILL " H ell irik8^1 lJlickel .Hambur*?r Anywher | ! COUHTEOU8 ; CfilUD | I CURB SERVICE OPEN UNTIL I " 3 A. M. Families Must Quit Arid Farms \Vft8hi?Ston, Aug. 16?Migration of ',9,000 families from the drought' Recked farms of the great plains was recomuitudftd today ill a population jurvey of that area by l)r. C. W, Thornthwalte, former University of Oklahoma eliinatologist. Hits study, published by the University of Pennsylvania, contended erosion bad damaged 65 per cent of the plains region, extending from the Canadian border into the Texas panhandle. A long range government program lor the return of millions of acres of wheat land to its native sod, he said might be the only means of checking the devastating dust storms. Observing that long dry spells have been frequent in the history of the plains. Thornthwalte predicted "the present drought might be prolonged lor twenty or more years." Evidence from tree rings, lake levels and other sources was cited in the survey to show a forty-year drought began in 1826 and was interrupted by only occasional wet years. ' The weather expert estimated a minimum of 12,610 families should move out of Montana, the state In which he reported the greatest "surplus population." He urged a migration of 12,000 families from Texas and 7,360 from North Dakota. Heavy removals also were suggested for South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Colorado. 4 School census returns indicated, he said, 36,000 families have' left the Great Plains since 1930. Reynolds Heiress Gets $30,000,000 Winston-Salem, N. C., Aug. 19.? Mrs. Reynolds Babcock, eldest daughter of the late R. J." Reynolds, has come into her inheritance of $30,000,? 000, it was revealed here today. The inheritance which came to Mrs. Babcock is a part from the estate of her mother, Mrs. Katherine-ReynoldsJohnson, from which Mrs. Babcock receives a life income. Mrs. Babcock was married about six years ago to Charles H. Babcock, Jr., New York brokerage employe, J and with their two children they re-.| side at Greenwich, Conn., about 28, miles from New York City. ?i She is the second of the fabulously wealthy Reynoldses to receive a portion of the esUkte. R. J. Reynolds, Jr., oldest child, came into his inheritance about two years ago. Nancy Reynolds Bagley, second girl of the family, will be 28 In 1988. Smith Reynolds, fourth child of Reynolds, was mysteriously killed here in 1932, before he was old enough to receive his^ principal. A long coiirt battle was fought over his estate, with two former wives and two children, and his brothers and sisters contesting. A settlement recently reached split Smith's principal among the contenders, with participating lawyers also Retting large shares. ' c. mules ARB KILLED DY . electrically charged pool Ehrhardt, Aug. 14.?Electricity loosed in a pool of water killed tiro mules that attempted to draw* a wagon through the pool and shocked four Persons who tried to aid the mules. Horace Grant, the driver, said tht mules began- to prance on entering the water, then fell and died near a power transformer beside the pool. He reported he was severely shocked when he leaped the wagon. Jesse Sease, a ginnery employe, also *&H shocked, and two other men, one a power company empleye, felt eleotricity when they sought to tree the mules. The accident was attributed to n short-circuit in transmission lines. B. Hart Marshall . Died In Bishopville B. Hart Marshall, well kuowu and highly esteemed citizen of Bishopville, died at his home here Wednesday morning, August 12, at 8:30 o'clock, after a prolonged Illness, Mr. Marshall was born In Darllugton county August 8, 1858, and was 7JLXSST8 and four days old at the time of his death. He moved to Bishopville about thirty-five years ago. Mr. Marshall married three times and Is survived by his widow, who was Miss Hattie Lou Jones; a daughter by a former marriage, Mrs. I'aul Wilson; two grandchildren, Marshall and Laura Wilson; and a number of nieces and nephews.' He was a member of Bishopville Baptist church and had been a member of the Masonic Order for fifty-two years. He wag^the oldest Mason here both in age and years of membership. Funeral services were held at> the Baptist church at 4 o'clock, conducted by his pastor, the Rev. J. T. UttleJohn, assisted by Rev. R. Bryce Herbert of the Methodist church. Brother Masons served as pallbearers. Burial with Masonic honors followed at the Presbyterian cemetery. A profusion of floral tributes attested to the high esteem in which he was held.?Lee County Messenger. Death Of Robert W. Muldrow Robert W. Muldrow died Thursday afternoon, August 13, after an illness! of one month, at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. E. Cousar. Mr. Muldrow had been in declining health for about six months and about the first of July he, together with his sister, Miss Ethel Muldrow had moved here from their home in the Mayesville community to make their home with | their sister, Mrs. Cousar. Mr. Muldrow was seventy-seven years old and had spent his entire life in the Mayesville section of Sumter county. He was the son of the late William J. Muldrow and Mary E. Montgomery Muldrow, his wife. Mr. Muldrow was a member of the Salem Black River Presbyterian church. He is survived by two sisters. Miss Estell Muldrow and Mrs. J. E. Cousar, of Bishopville. - Funeral services werp held in the cemetery of the Salem Black River church Friday morning. In the absence of the pastor, Rev. R. L. Orier, the services were in charge of Rev. IW. S. Porter, pastor of the Presbyterian _ church at Ninety-Six.?Lee County' Messenger. ASKED FOR IT; GOT IT From the always dependable Associated Press this Item of news is taken: Cleveland?Mrs. Mary Bauman, 42! years old, sought equality the other day and got it Appearing before Police Judge Louis L. Petrash on an intoxication charge, she said: Women hare as much right to get drunk as men." "Men can do miore things that women can't," said the ftMlgt, "And women can do some things that men can't," retorted Mrs. Bauman. "If you want to argue yourself into equality with me," quoth the Judge, "I'll give you the same workhouse sentence that I would give a man in your oase. Twenty days!" "Yon win. Judge," smiled Mrs. Banman as she departed for Jail. It is but another Instance of how often it is true that silenoe is fcblden. It never pays to try to be smart, in the old sense of that word.?-Greenwood Index-Journal. , The airmail Service of the country handled nearly 11,000,000 pounds of mall last year, and it now appears that the total airmail handling of this year will reach up close to 20,000,000 pounds. J_ ? ? --? ...... The crayfish has its eyes mounted on stalks, and can draw them in at WilL :?2 _ ? J. c. cox Sanitary numbing and Heating TELEPHONE 433-J ^ II Eitiwiii fitriitfl m Jlift riiiin H - -' \ r ; ^ ^ ?.m ' ? * - * Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee MoGee, Copyright, 1928. 8CHOOL DAYS OF TWO LITTLE WILLIES ..Forty your? ego, Willie Green wus an 8-year-old boy who lived at home with liia ma aud pa. Willie went to (tchool 5 or t> month* every year, lie did the following "turns" every morning before he went to school; but he had plenty of time to do hie chores before Blurting echoed war da. aa ho got up at 5:30 o'clock at the request, of hit! parents. ..First, Willie made & fire In the fireplace, then he made a fire In the kitchen stove; he went from the kltcheu to the barn and helped his brothers shuck the oxen feed the mules, slop the hogs,t and they all went direct to the woodpile and were busy till breakfust time. Willie helped his ma wash aud dry the dlshgs, he swept the house, and put the churn to the fire, and did many other things that had to be done by somebody around the house. A j, ..The school-house was only 5 miles from Willie's house by the big road, but by going thru the pasture, dodging the big rod bull, climbing u few fences, and stubbing toes on stones, he saved a mile. .That gave him more chances to throw rocks at birds, chase grass hoppers, and eat blackberries or any other edible stuff that grew near hig path. He studied hard all day, and walked back home and did all of the evening turns by nightfall and then he studied his lessons. ..Willie is an old man now, as age counts. His little 8-year-old grandson, Willie, Jr., Is a fine kid. He sleeps in his little bed every morning till 7:30. Then grandma's daughter (Willie's mother) slips in the room, kisses Willie Junior on the fprehead, gently awakes him, and takes him out of bed and totes him to the bathroom and washes his little anatomy all over. Then she fixes Willie's little breakfast and letches it unto him and lets him eat it on his little table. ..Mamma dresses little Willie Junior up In a pretty blue sailor suit, and powders his little cheeks and combs his little hafr, all the time holding him in her lap. . Then she asks blm about his little syrup of figs, and looks at his little tongue, and gives him 15 cents to buy Icecream and crackers with while away those 4 long hours ut school. . .A big yollow school bus rolls up to Willie Junior's front steps. Mamma kisses little Willie Junior goodbye, and packs him away on seat No. 34, and wraps his little raincoat around him and waves at him till the big (free) bus passes out of sight. Willie Junior Is toted Into the house by his lovlhg mamma, and he sits down to a fine lunch of everything the little stummlck craves for. After that, little Willie Junior plays with his little baseball and his little bat and his little football and his bicycle and his everything else that a child's heart desires. Poor little Willie Junior! He has to go to bed'at 8:^,15 p. m. . ANOTHER LOCAL 80N OF FLAT ROCK HAS MADE GOOD IN THE BIQ BURG .. fiat rook was honnored last week with a vlasit from hon. skeeter Clark of chicargo who is a prominent lawyer of the central west, some of his competitors and all copper-rations call him a shyster lawyer, but he nevver told we what branch of law that was. he Is a nephew of yore corry spondent, mr. mike Clark, rfd. I ..mr. Clark says the hole town of chicargo is jealous of blip, he is too fast for them, he do not chase amberlances; he's alreddy there with 2 witnesses by the time the amberlance gets to the wreck or his Client, which has benn run ever. ..he firmly bellevee that all of bis customers is Innocent till they are proved guilty ansoforth. for that reason, he makes kidnapers pay him a big part of the raheom monney in advance; he rarely ever loses a case, he hsjif plenty of good witnesses on his files at all hours of the night. * IT- -r? r\ ... . I. .big factories and railroads and Insurance companies are nearly always his defendants, he reperaente the men and wimmen who they have hurt or killed thru gross neglects, carelessness, and woman Indifference to the weltfare and pease and dignity of the law. . .he spoke of lils wadeHrorld followertng and eatd that they spent more money for legal practice than everboddy else pnt together, he did not say where the underworld was that he worked la, but we imposed it wan a town by that name near lake mltchlfan, as he spoke eC a lake and nanrunweis by that name. to the beet clients IUvbSSbSS he has trumt +rnm* glHl|t >illj end iter foam htm when aagBbNT ^ A.,.-; V mmBBSmmM rr^parea by the National Olographic 0ocl?ty, Washington. D. OL?WNU Bffirvlce. T ANTED, female servant; \ A / wages by the month to be V V clothes, potatoes, carrots, beans?and sixty cents." This Is not a line from a musical comedy, or a funny movie subtitle, but the translation of a bona fide "wantad," In an American newspaper It might reasonably have aroused curiosity, If not Investigation by a local union, but It caused no unusual stir among the crowd of peasants In the small town of Mezokovesd In Hungary, as the town ^rler shouted it out^ There was all the weekly news, as well as thie rest of the "advertising" to be heard. The oral Journalists of Mezokovesd were Informing the townspeople of the week's events, at the usual Sun'day morning gathering. Kven with Lenten restrictions, there Is little curbing of gaiety among the peasants on their treasured weekly holiday In Mezokovesd. True, you may have no opportunity of seeing a marriage dance. Nevertheless, the air Is full of merry excitement and happy chattering. And no one can smile more wholeheartedly and infectiously than the young Hungarian girl t Mezokovesd Is a most typical of Hungarian villages; there the traveler may see the real peasunt life of the country. The town's population is some 20,000; It is about three hours' ride to the east of Budapest, and only two trulns a day make the trip. Sunday afternoons the healthy lot of villagers parade In their festival finery, the heavily embroidered costumes ablaze with bright colors. And of a Sunday morning the life of the town centers In the church, always crowded to the doors, and In the weekly "newspaper.". At ten o'clock on Sunday morning you find the streets almost deserted. It la a brisk day And you are glad to have the protection of a heavy coatvThe sun teases you faintly at Intervals, which Is especially vexing, since you have a camera and copious material for pictures. Tou walk to the center of the town, some distance from the railroad station, and enter the church. If It were not for the saving landmark of 4he church steeple, it would be easy to get lost In any Hungarian town* There is little standing room In the church, and you find the air too Incenseladen to linger long. Besides, your preatfiCS causes much curiosity, so that the chanting women, with shawl-covered heads, and the men, telling their beads, are being distracted from their devotion. So you leave and walk about the square, mqpveling occasionally at* the sight of an American-made product In one of the shop windows. And praUfitly the church bells announce the clone ef the service. < > Then the church doors open and crewda of black-clad figures pour out. As If watting for thla signal, two gendarmes take their place* en oppoelte stdea of tha large square in front of the church and begin to beat a vigorous tattoo on their drums. Prom the church the people gather in two fcrowds about these officials, who draw forth Important-looking documents of paper and begin their reading. It la an education and a revelation to hear the news of Mesokoveed. "A cow was lost on Tuesday. If anyone baa ..found her let him report to the town headquarters." " There la a long list of farms to rent and sell; plows to rent, servants to hire. The usual monthly wage of the servants is seldom more than three or four pengoe (a pengo Is worth about thirty cents) added to certain supplies and their needed clothing. It !s sufficient, no doubt; their wants are few. Any national news of Importance Is told; new laws are read, ft is an amusingly terse, clear effort, when one contemplate* the columns of unread copy In out own metropolitan papers, u- < ' thniay Afternoon Parade. This rite otsr. the peasants depart hohwffi sag the tows is and^ ^ ?sss ; *..'l""... #. Dinner, and then you are among the gaily dressed crowds, on their weekly parade about the town. They wuit always until the afternoon before donning their gorgeous costumes and then they pour Into the streets like the yudden blossoming of a garden. Indeed, the pretty aprons are surprisingly like gardens, or bright flowers in a basket, or clusters of posies in the sunlight. Their embroidery is peculiar to Hungary. Small pieces of it, on sale at one of the homes may be too guudy to attract some travelers; but on a black apron and a tightly fitting Jacket, It seems most appropriate and quaint. The men of the town are quite as ornately garbed as the women. They are smartly dressed In black velvet trousers made much like riding breeches, short Jackets, and leather boots shlned to a glow. Some of them also wear the long black aprons embroidered by a doting mother or an adoring and dutiful sweetheart. And all of them wear green hats, round and high?shaped somewhat like a derby? with feathers of varying size and color perched on the side. A fetching lot of fellows, and not slow at flirting with the girls. But the Sunday parades are not courting parlies. Far from it. The men keep to themselves, and the women walk apart from them, for etiquette In Mezokovesd does not permit any prom enadlng In couples. Not even the married ones walk together. And so the boys contrive their own little fun as they pass the maidens? calling to them, teasing them by pulling at one corner of their aprons, or tweukIng a long braid of hair. Shiny faces blush and the girls giggle?and probably think It the very best part of the entire day! Unmarried, girls always go bareheaded, even in the winter months. It Is only after the marriage service that a young girl may put up her hair and wear the distinctive headdress of the married woman. Then the hair ribbons are dispensed with and the long braids are wO^pd about the head, so that a cone-shai^d cap can be pinned on. Over this la placed the satin shawl that marks the girl as a young matron. The new brides are easily found. They wUl be walking legetfcer, few i ikw mbre than eighteen years old, and some several years younger, still giggling when they pass their young husbands, and proudly conscious of their new coiffures Courting? Oh, yes, when they meet at the Sunday balls. And at home, too. I But the mother is always present there, and it Is more an ordeal than a pleasure. But every Sunday afternoon, except daring Lent, they hold a dance, and the young people And It very satlafactory r for getting acquainted and 1 falling in love. |: -^Vhen JWlUIS found bis chosdn 'Wife, and shq looks favorably on him, tub young man asks her father. If the father - U willing, the youni fellow tends two' of bis friends to ask formally for her hand, and this Is consldersd the ofdclel announcement of the couple'e engagement n ... Then follows the wedding at a Sunday dance. The bride. incidentgUf,must hsvs complete furnishings for her new house. Including linens and clothes for herself. Usually some money ?t a cow goes with her, too. A father of many daufhtSlV^Uaiarimnds full to get her dowry together. But her trousseau Isn't so formidable - as It would seem to us. Her new home consists of one or two fOotnA Furnishings are few sod simple. And the linens and embroideries that she brings ft those she has worked at from early childhood days with this very occasion In mind. j There ere no regular streets except, ing the main thorough fares In Mezokovesd. You go this way and that, off at aa angle Here, and cbdrtly And yourTtar fati yoe that, 9** ? .married within tb? last few week's, sad | gets hurt or shot or ran over and | fetched with contraband on their person In violation of code 55, rol. 44. pace tt, joftN re. smith In IMS. he seems to know his blocks tone, he totes a pistol hlsself. do he say*; servers! folks here took ? pop at htm.' he left lest tuesday night by huso. ' gOod-bye, skeeter; come beck and fetch some mora food licker with yon rail soon. 1 * v yores traits. ' mraUi^^md *>4 pyftl/ WI^^^M^Qpnws . PISGAH NEWS N0TE8 IMhkhIi, auk. 21,?MrT and Mrs. Leon Stuckey mid daughter, Aureliu, and their guest, MIhH 1 .sear I llradloy, of Csiuden, apuut u few daya ?r laat week at Chimney Hock, N. c. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Baker, Thelma, 1 *'la aQd Furinan Haker, with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence McLeod, of Rembert speut several daya of laat week at arrla laland, where Mr. Haker waa statlouod f?r (wo yeuj.? wl)1|o |n (h(j Itoli ^ n"","" Mur'","' Tb?> ?!?? visIted holly Heaeh. JfT". find Mrs. T. L. Shiver and chllAha!?6"1 * fww <lay8 week at T^ieAc'1' T' u,,tl <l?UKliter, Aib^t^T' """" hur ??. Aioei t,vHqnCaineron. Ml?? May Hammond, of Columbia, ba. boon visiting Ml.. Amelia stuckey. o/r.r "*k8r' " waduuto nuruoOf the Idobauon hospital of Now Ycrk y' lM 8Pe"<l'ng sometime with her.:. parents. Mr. and Mra. W. F. Haker On Wednesday quite a number of relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. VV. F. Haker enjoyed a barbecue and Picnic dinner nt their home. Helatlvea present were S. H. Hatlleld, of Langley; j,t Raker and aon, Mr. and Mra. H. L. Robertson, Mra. A J Hatlleld and family, j. j. ?tttfU)ld Hud Miaa Elma Capell, all of Sumter; Mr aiid Mra. T. H. Hatfield and children.' M. c. and Mr? 8 H and children, Mr, and Mrs. L. H. Baker and family, Mrs. Wesley Kennedy and son all of Blshopville; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hatfield and children, Mrs. M. H. Catoe and Algie and Kate Morries, of Borden; Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Baker and children. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mcod' ot Rembert; Mrs. Clyde Eddinga and children; 8. B. Hatfield, Jr., and Fay? Horton, of Camden; Miss Lucile Hatfield, of Augusta, Oa. Visitors present wore: Rev. Journenkln, of Aiken; Rev. and Mrs. Llttle[John and family, of Blshopville; Miss Keel, of Aiken; MIbs Dorothy Catoe, of Hartsvllle; Mrs. J.. K. MoLeod and daughter, Irene, Mrs. T. M. Rogers. 8. W. Young, Hasel Young. Morgan Shuler, Bubber Moore and Mr. Bennett, of Rembert; Mrs. Sandy, of Blshopville; G&illard Lenoir, of Horatio; Harold Chase, Julian and Irwin Love, ' of New York City, who are spending their vacation at Pocallo; and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Watson. Mrs. S. H. Hawkins, of Blshopville, vltJHlng Mrs. Bmm? Hawkins.' * nya educational aid : The National Youth Administration will again furnish part-time scholarships for over 3,000 grammar and high school students who have reached bUt not their twentysixth birthday. Materials are being mailed eligible schools to which a quota of scholarships averaging $4.00 fi month will be assigned. As soon as the necessary data are available, the assignment of quotas will be made to the Individual schools, n the meantime, students of eligible families may fli? thelr application forms to be supplied him by the Youth Administration at an early date. * Students who receive the NYA aid his year must be approved by the official of the school to be attend** and they must perform useful work! ' ?uirrtji::op*r'i"on * _9ver wo part-time scholarships. Paying an average of $16.00 a month, will be allocated to the colleges of the state. Students will apply to the college of their choice, asking to be considered for this aid, which Is Intended for needy and worthy students. Naturally, due to limited funds, all worthy applicants cannot be helped. A college committee oomposed of faoulty members considers all applications and selects those to be granted this aid. VIOITAILM ARC CROWN ON FRINGE OF ARCTICsettlers, living in mining villages on th. frtng. of tho MM JwZZZ their own vegetables, Austin Cummlmin* tospector, revealed durftg a visit hire. Cummin ga said t|ie setters manAged to grow enough fresh vegetables * thf f6W fert*le ar6M around the lake to meet their own requirement* eV6n * to seta*, ments further north. The "fermin* " ssean* begins In June and extends Into August. ? .