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I Nobody's Business I Written for The Chronicle by Gee I MoGee, Copyright, 1928. I 8END IT RTQHT AWAY; AND I ' CHARGE IT I >t Years and years ago, I ran a roI tail grocery atore for 6 montha In I the y< &r tt,ld tbat aame retail grocery I store run me for the otber 6 montha | |0 the year. The life of a retailer I jbo extends credit to everybody who I $dyH wil1 him "next week" ( jg indeed a bed of-thorna. I / ? I- My cuatomera consisted of Dick, I foui and Harry. Dick paid up every month; Tom carried over about half of what he owed each month, and [ jncreaaed hie balance steadily until ho got ao mad at me and iny wife and my 4 clerka auid my delivery boy that he quit trading at my atore alto< gether. / I; ..Harry paid a few dollara on hla I . bill every now and then, moatly then. r Hla wife and mother-in-law were sick nearly all of the time, and hla monthly rent fell due every week and he [4 had to take a lot of medicine himself. He managed to bprrow 65c from me every Saturday night to finish paying for a prescription at the drug store. He still owes mo $154.65, but ' he's deadyand don't know It. l ..Dirk and his wife usually came to the atore and bought what they wanted, being careful aa to the price and the quality. They carried neurly all of their purchases home with them and I rarely ever had to send the chores boy to their house with a package. Dick was a funny fellow; he hated "duns" and we never sent him one. He always paid around the first of the month. ..Tom and Mrs. Tom phoned for their stuff, or sent word by Busle, the 4year-old daughter who wa^ too little to tote anything home heavier than a spool of thread. Mrs. Tom always called for goods we didn't carry, and we'd have to go out and buy them for her. She sent back about onethird of the articles she ordered; nothing wrong with them much? "just ain't what I told you tq send me." ..Mrs. Harry always phoned for 5c worth of cheese at 11:45 for lunch. She never failed to order a bunch of celery and a dime's worth of but- j ter about 8 minutes before closing1 time. The first trip our delivery boy made every morning was to Mrs. Harry's house with "something for breakfast." She evidently considered it a sin and shame to phone an order for an item until 3 minutes before she needed It and then she'd phone every other minute thereafter till she put it in the skillet. She lived 2 miles from my store. Harry moved to a distant state owing me $324.66. But I hope folks of today have more consid, eration for their friends, the retail merchants, than they had when I was trying to believe that "the customer is always right." ? MI-LADY'8 FALL. HEAD-GEAR ..... ..The women are wearing their new Fall hats, and, believe me, they are a scream. There seems to be 6 different and distinct styles this seasson, as follows: (the few tea-cup styles are not included In this set-up). 1?The pan-cake type Is the most impressive. This shape looks exactly like a pan-cake with a crispy piece of breakfast bacon lying on top of it. Some of them appear to have a bite or two nibbled off the front and back edges. Priced: Cash, $4.93. Installment price, $6.00, balance at $1 per month for six months. -?The waffle design hat looks slightly like a hat. Its trimming consists ot something that resembles a dough-nut plastered on the flat crown with a tooth-pick and a tail-feather poking east and west to hold It down. / The brim and the crown are the same height. This hat looks better if hung upright on the back of the head. Down payment, $7.98, balance on easy terms. Cash price, $6.49. 3?The saucer model is the same sdze as a saucer, but It is worn upvide down. It fits the head exactly like a postage stamp fits an orange. 'Ik; trimming is unique, and appears to be a cross betwixt a butterfly wing nnd a doodle hole which is attached immediately above the left oar. It seems that this pattern has a few Pitches chipped off as if the man had been drinking coffee out of it and bit tt occasionally Priced, cash?$8.79, ?o terms. 4?Tho dlBh-ittg^-ensomhls la the most stunning. It Is made by mashtug a dirty dish-rag straight down to Dn* thickness of a custard plate; all ?f the -franled edges are left on. This Is the largest hat of the season and is intended for women over 50 who claim that they are under 36. It comes only in brown, and sells for around $16.67, caah. (I know)., ?' ' 5~~Typ? of hat number 6 fa exact ]r Ilka one-half of the pan-cake and ming is 2 beads on one siTIe anil 1 bend 011 the other side, with a canary lying-feather stuck In top of It. 6?This 'hat is worn by rich folks only. It loo^p like a coffee cake that had been sat upon. . Its gaudy trimming is a black bow of ribbon about the size of a dirt-dauber's wings affixed to the right slde/Tiear the large ear-bobs that must he worn with this pattern, according to Paris. All the women wearing these hals so far, according to my eyesight, are about 95 j>er cent bare-headed. What will they not wear If If atyllahf (Ana: Nothing). =rFT empire is preparing for klng'8 coronation London I he* British Empire's taptul is now hard at work preparing vm,\ \<'0,'?1,ati0n of k,n* kuwftrd * HI in May, 1937, Copunittees of Important court ofa ' of Km pi re representatives, of Ira import companies, of architects, of dress designers and fabric makers, of telephone users and of police have all been put t? work. Two government officers urtj being kept busy dealing with coronation urtulrs. Moat Important of all these committees is that of Empire represent*tlves. 'J he ceremony next year will hoi before the public in blazing colors and pageantry the visual symbols of What lias boon previously but written words upon the Statute Hook?the Statute of Westminister, 1931, layltig it down th^t each Dominion of the British Commonwealth has equal tights in relation to the Crown, which is the token of their free association. An Empire commission is now sitting, preparing vitally important changes in the thousand-your-old ceremony of coronation, finding significant parts for the Empire's representatives to play in tho actual ceremony, alongside the colorful Lord High Stewart, Lord Great Chamberlain, tho Marshal, tho Constable and the Champion, and the other potentates of more ancient days. The service descends from the ninth century "hallowing" of Anglo-Saxon monarchs. From the terms and ceremony used at these "hallowing" was taken the Liber Itegalis, Coronation Book, inscribed by monks 600 years ago. Previously there has been 110 need to alter the ceremony considerably, since the lands of the Empire were ruled through the Mother of Parliaments. But now the Dominions owe direct allegiance to the King. Parliament being no longer the Intermediary between them and the throne. So, for the first time, the Empire and the Dominions will each be crowning their King, at Westminister in May. The coronation route has been specially lengthened to enable vast crowds to see the procession, since many hundreds of thousands are expected from outside the British iBles. It is estimated that ?5,000,000 will be spent by the public on seats to view the procession, ltie Office of Works is erecting stands, the charge for seats in which will be between 10s. to 21s. Some, it is announced, may be free, as the Office of Works "hopes to provide good accommodation" for all types of King Edward's subjects. A special committee of three famous architects has been set to work to supervise London's decorations, which will last the Whole season. The British Color council has been busy preparing a list of ten special colors for the season for the benefit of manufacturers. About fifty laboratory tests have been made to get the most beautiful shades. A new crimson and a new blue will be the chief colors, one a blend of heraldic reds, the other of royal blue, Union Jack blue and gentian blue. Police and London Transport and telephone service are all making special preparations for handling the great crowds that are expected. There will be twelve underground railway stations In the Immediate neighborhood of the procession and these will have to bear the brunt of traffic. New telephone exchanges are being prepared to take the temporary rush of calls expected and hundreds of rer1 quests for extra telephones from hotels and restaurants are being met by engineers. And meanwhile the ancient customary Court of Claims sits to choose claimants to render services at the cere mony, final decisions to be made in November. When the gjant liner Queen Mary arrived at Southampton, England, this week, it was disclosed that eight passengers and four of the crew, had been injured slightly during the last crossing, as the big ship was wallowed around by a terrific storm at sea. Grady Odell Bowden, 11, Memphis, Tenn., school boy, Is held by the police after ho told them that he shot his step father, Reuben A. Barker, 27, eleven times in the back with a .22 calibre rifle. He claims he did tho act because Barker abused his mother."' The body of Edith Cavell. war nurse, is interred in Norwich Cathedral, England. Gen, N. G. Osteen Died Early Sunday Gen. N. G. Osteon diet! at the Tuoraey hospital at 2:45 Sunday morning as the result of injuries sustained Thursday afternoon when he collided with ail automobile at the corner of West Liberty street and Salem avenue while riding his bicycle out to his bee yard, located at the end of Oakland avenue. The bicycle struck the aide of the automobile, head-on, Just back ot the hood, and he was thrown backward, striking the pavement. He sustained bruises on the head and back, which superficially appeared not to be serious. Concussion of the brain developed, however, which, complicated with pneumonia, that supervened, the next day, caused death. He was unconscious almost from the time he wus admitted to the hospital, suffered little and passed away peacefully in the early hours of Sunday morning. _ The funeral was held at Sumter cemetery at 4 o'clock Monday aftornoon, Dr. John A. iirunson, pastor of Grace Baptist church, assisted by Hov. R. L, Grier of the Mayesville l'resbyterian church, conducting the service. The funeral party left the residence of his son, H. G. Osteon, 31G West Hampton avenue, where he had made his home at 3:45 o'clock. The pall bearers were: C. W. McGrew, I'. F. Patton, II. M. Dollard, It. W. Beaty, J. A. Andrews, Gonzales Way, J. E. Stokes and Henry Jackson, the eight employes the Osteen Publishing Company longest associated with the organization. The subjoined sketch embodies the salient facts of his long, industrious and useful life, which was spent, save for a few years, in this community for which he had/ an abiding love, and for which he gave his best efforts and a long life time of unselfish devotion. Noah Graham Osteen, only son of Charles LeRoy and Elizabeth (Weston) Osteen, was born January 25, 1843, at the home of his maternal grandfather, Jonathon Weston, ntar Concord Presgyterian church, Sumter county. His great grandfather, Thomas Osteen, a koldier of the American Revolution, came to Sumter county from eastern North Carolina and settied near Bethel church In what is now Privateer township, but later moved west and finally settled near Natchez, Miss. The father of Thomas Osteen was named Henry. He lived on Pamlico River, North Carolina, where Thomas Osteen lived until he moved to South Carolina In 1773 or 1774, at which time his son, Jacob, was a small child. Thomas Osteen's wife was Rachael Pritchard, of Pamlico, N. C. Jacob Osteen, son of Thomas, and grandfather of Noah G. Osteen, remained in Sumter county and" married Elizabeth Hilton. Jonathon Weston, his maternal grandfather, came to Sumter county from Eastern North Carolina, Bertie county, settled In Concord township and married Mary Pringle, daughter of William Pringle of that community. Noah G. Osteen spent his early life on the farm of his father, attending the country schools until between the age of twelve and thirteen. It was his good fortune to have as his teacher the last two years, Major John James, a graduate of West Point and a most competent instructor. He gives the following account of his entering the printing business: "About this time the Wilmington & Manchester railroad was built and Sumterville changed its charter and dropped the "ville." Occasionally when I came to town I visited the printing office, sight-seeing, and got it into my head to be a printer. In the latter part of 1855 when I was less than thirteen years old I read in the Sumter Watchman that two boys were wanted to learn the printer's trade and that boys from the county would be preferred. I talked the matter over with my father and finally obtained his consent. He brought me to town and we called on Mr. A. A. Gilbert of the firm of Gilbert and Richardson, publishers of,\he Sumter Watchman. Being small for my age there was some objection to ine on that account, but Mr. Gilbert took me on trial and I afterwards entered a five years apprenticeship, serving altogether nearly five and a half years. My compensation was board and clothds and twenty-flve cents a week the first year, but at no time during the five and a half years did I receive more than my board, fifty cents a week spending money and an allowance of $50 the last year for clothing. Soon afterjentering my apprenticeship H. L. Darr, a practical printer from Charleston purchased the interest of Mr. Richardson, so that I served my apprenticeship with Gilbert and Darr. My apprenticeship ended early In 1861 and for the next eighteen months I was employed by Gilbert and Darr to publish the Horry Dispatch at Conway which they established and which was the first newspaper published JnTlorry county. "The Horry Dispatch was forced to son or o,e disturbed conditions engendered*^) y the war and thy difficulty In obtaining newsprint paper. I went to Columbia and was enrolled I In Colonel J. |>. Thomas' Huttallon of Reserves and detailed to work la the printing office of Wanton Duncan, who had u contract to print paper money for the Confederate States goveminent. Wanton Duneau losing the contract for printing money i resumed lettejLpreas printing and was with The (arolinian, then published by Felix O. DeFontaine and edited by H?ury TJinrod?William O 11 in o r e SliuniB being on Jth# editorial staff u part of the time. When Sherman'* army approached Columbia I Wus calletl into aetiv^ service witli Colonel JTiotiiflH . JlaUflllon of Heatu vea and was with that organization during the retreat from Columbia. The presses, Jype and ' printing material of The Carolinian were removed from Columbia before the surrender of the city to Cieneral Sherman and after remainInk in storage in Chester and Charlotto ror a time, the office was re" established in Charleston in the full of 1866 and I went with Mr. DeFoiituine as foremuu of the composing room. The Carolinian failed to rnuke expenses in Charleston and after a few months' struggle it suspended publication and Mr. DeFontuino mpv- i ed hack to Columbia." About this timo Mr. Osteen had married and lie determined to return to his old home in Sumter. In September 186G, he bought a half Interest In the Sumter News, which had been started a few months previously by H. L. Darr, one of his former employers, and this partnership continued for sixteen years. The name of the paper was changed to The True Southron and it was conducted as a straightout Democratic newspaper and carried on a vigorous fight against the carpetbag and scalawag regime that controlled South Carolina during ! the reconstruction era. It carried at the head of the editorial column: "This is a white man's country and must be ruled by white men." It insisted on a straightout fight and dur-! ing the Carpenter and Butler campaign was the only paper in South Carolina that opposed to the last a coalition of the Democrats and Hepublicans in the effort of the white element to get Into control. The nora-' ination of Generul Wade Hampton for governor in 1876 was first made* in I the True Southron and throughout that memorable campaign The True Southron was in the thick of the contest. In 1881 Mr. Osteen purchased Mr. Darr's interest In the True Southron and at the same time bought the Sumter Watchman and consolidated the two papers under the name of Watchman and Southron, the latter paper being subsequently made a semi-weekly. Throughout all the years Mr. Osteen has continued an active member of the organization, seldom taking a holiday and missing very few days from his place in the printing office. In recent years he had devoted most of his time to proof reading and up to the very day that he was Injured and was taken to the hospital, he spent the morning at his desk reading the proofs for the dally issue. He was a member of Camp Dick Anderson, United Confederate Veterans of Sumter, and served several years as a Brigadier General of the Second Brigade, and two years as Major General, commanding the South Carolina Divisional!. C. V.. He was a familiar figure at Confederate I reunions and had a great many friends among the veterans in all sections of the south. Mr. Osteen married March 6, 1866, at Charleston, S. C., Mrs. Esther Anne Anderson, daughter of Thomas and Loulsia Anno (DuBois) Doar, of Christ Church, Charleston county, Mrs. Osteen died January 17, 1911. Throe children survive: Dr. Charles P. Osteen, Hubert G. Osteen, editor of The Daily Item, of Sumter, and Mrs. i K. H. Schirmer, of Columbia, S C One son, Dr. N. G. Osteen, Jr., died five years ago; also surviving are eleven grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and three step-grandchildren.? Sumtfy Daily Item. riife nation-wide strike of longshoremen, aided by seamen, which began on the Pacific coast ten days ago, is becoming quite serious, and at present there is little indication of an early settlement of the trouble. Scores and hundreds of ships are tied up [at docks on the Pacific and Atlantic porta, as well as those of the Gulf jof Mexico. From Anchorage, Alaska, | comes word that port and other Alasl kan points, have food enough to last only tMrty days, duo to the ttcing up of ships ordinarily supplying towns in thp^-'territory. Other trade unions are taking sides with the longshoremen and seam^p and the extent or length of th^liirike cannot be forecast at present. * k . Business conditions have so Improved in Pennsylvania, that the state board of liquor control has not on file enough applications for jobs or examinations to fill the vacancies In its clerical ranks. ' Ssji iiisse 7 V-" v .>Cr: ; News Of Interest In And Near Bethune Bethune, Nov. 11.?The Bethune Chapter IJ. I). C. gave un Armistice day program Wednesday morning at the high school auditorium during chapel hours. Miss Stella Bethune, the newly elected president, presided. The school Hang "The Stur Spangled Banner." There was a special number !>>' the Girls' (Bee Club, "My Buddy." The address of the occasion was made by A. Stanley Llewellyn of the American Legion, Camden. "Keep the Homo Fires Burning" was sung by the school in conclusion. On last Thursday ovening the Epworth League guve a delightful and well rendered play at the school auditorium entitled, "The Little Clodhopper." One of the most thoroughly enjoyed entertainments of the season was the community singing last Friday evening undor the supervision of Miss Sara Grey Proctor, who teaches school music. Much credit is due Miss Proctor and those assisting her for the pleasant evening spent by the appreciative audience. G. B. King with Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Gardner have been recent visitors to Relatives in Durham, N. C. Miss Ruby Nobis, of Newberry, who is now teaching in Clinton, was ihe week end gueBt of Mlss-Eloise Miller at the King-Davis hptel. I/oring Davis has returned from a few (lays' trip to Detroit, Mich. Mrs. R. L. Waters had as her guests last week: Mrs. N. C. Hall and two children and Mrs. W. H. Garrett of Akron, Ohio. Leander Helms and Josh Smith, Clemson students, were at home during the weejt end. Paschal McLaurln, accompanied by Dan Hoyle of Appalachian State College, N. C., were here for the week end. Mr. Hoyle was a guest In the home of Mrs. A. B. McLaurln. Miss Louise Ortman has been at her home in Anderson during the week on account of serious Illness in the family. The Rev. S. C. Floyd has gone to Charleston to attend the Methodist conference. Mrs. A. B. McLaurln has" also gone as a delegate from the M E. church here. Lee Morgan, of Columbia, and Forbis Morgan, of T. I. I., Spartanburg, were guests of their mother, Mrs. Eva Morgan, last week end. ' Mrs. M. L. Kelley, Mrs. J. M. Clyurn and Mrs. A. K. McLaurln have been recent visitors of Mrs. C. M Wilson, Columbia. Miss Mary Ellen McLaurln and Miss Mary Alice Helms of Flora McDonald College, visited their respective homes here durfng'lfie *pasT~ weelt " end. A*rCl?le!, ono ancl two of th? Baptist W. M. S. met Monday afternoon at 1 ^ T0f Ml88 Ma8Kle Brannon Tho wr8w a6 H,,ton- respectively. The W. M. S. met at the church Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Hattle" Houstlss, Mrs. C. C. Bethune, Mrs. R. L. Waters and Miss Elctfse Miller * taking part on the program. J General News Notes A New York rumor is to the effect that James A. Farley Will soon retire permanently from the chairmanship of the National Democratic executive committee. He is also said to have the governorship of New York boe buzzing in his bonnet. l-ondcn papers gave more space to the re-eJectlon of President Roosevelt than they did to King Edward VIII, on his first appearance as the king of 'England at the opening of parliament on Wednesday. The king and parliament was relegated to second place in the day's news. Alfred E. Smith Issued the following statement on Wednesday: "The American people have spoken, and the cardinal principle of democracy Is tho will of the majority. Every -Citlzea, every, real American, must put his shoulder to the wheel and stand behind the president." Voliceman W. V. Hood of Whitesburg, Ky., seriously shot M. M. Coleman, election official, at Whiteeburg, Ky., Tuesday. . Hood attempted to arrest Coleman on a charge o| carry* ins a concealed Weapon. The latter denied that his gun was concealed and the officer shot him, claiming that Coleman was reaching ~for TO.????7??.. , - I ' ~ " .'V - . C- | J y -V..- .. *-' li.Sfc - - ' I WARNING! I 1 ! , v H. i times. Clean. No more coal to carry in. Terms. , Surprise your sweetheart or wife and children with a box of our delicious Chocolates and Chocolate Covered Fruits and Nuts. 0 Chocolate Covered A % Brazil Nuta, lb T'srC "I Chocolate Covered aa CherrleB, lb. Chocolate Covered OA Dutch Style Mints ?J?/C Also Hollingsworth's Unusual Candies And don't forget for good Ice Cream Call the TOWN TAVERN PHONE 315 . ' T - 7 NOTICE ~ Of Termination of Shareholder's Liability. I*urBuant t6 the provisions of Sec* tlon 304 of the Banking Act of 1935, notice" is hereby given by the First ' National Bank of Camden in the city ?tfe of Camden, State of South Carolina, . '-*M that the liability imposed upon the holders of shares of its common stock -o.'M by the provisions of Section 6161, United States Revised Statutes, as ~M amended, and Section 23 of the Fed eral Reserve Act, as amended, Bhall cease on July 1, 1937. By order of the Board of Directors. C. J.; SHANNON, Jr., President ?r Henry J. Allen, former governor of Kansas and also a former United States senator, is in a hospital at Wichita, Kan., for treatment for injuries received in an automobile accident last Saturday in Indiana. 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