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News Of Interest In And Near Bethunej JllS. 'J, uti?, ii. vV. littHt wuh called to McCormick last weekend to attend the funeral of her sister, Mra. P. J.' Robinson, of that town, who had been ill for some time. Mra. Frank l<ee ban boon In Florence under medical treatment on acoouut of an attack of septic sore throat. She has returned home, howover, and resumed her school duties Floyd Kerr, or McBee, lias accepted a position here as cashier of'the Merchants and Farmers Hunk. J, M. Clyburn, Jr., after working in Lancaster during the full, Is ut home again and has taken over the Hethune Candy Kitchen which had been l^t to Harris Oliver. While the Presbyterian church is without a pastor the laymen are conducting services. On the first Sunduy morning Neil Truesdale spoke to the congregation and last Sunday evening J. H. McDauiej conducted the services. ?? The teachers of the Hethune schools a itended the monthly meeting of the Kershaw county teachers' association in Camden Thursday ufternoon. DeKALB NEW8 NOTE8 Westvllle, Jan, 14.?As this Is being written your reporter Is seated on her front porch enjoying the mild wind and sunshine, the first time this week. Let's hope it will continue to be fair weather, after so much rain. MisseB Minnie Hodges and Mary Wells Stevenson attended a meeting of the alumni of Winthrop College, Itock Hill, during the week end. Founders Day was observed Monday at the college. Representative L. C. Clyburn was in attendance at the opening session of the legislature Tuesday In Columbia. O. C. Rush accompanied him on the trip. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Truesdale and son, Sam, Jr., spent Sunday afternon with Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Truesdale, in Kershaw. I ton Williams celebrated hie a.y Sunday with a dinner. Young i invited were Lou Clyburn and 1 Horton, of Camden, L. D. e, Jr., and Edward Lorick. and Mrs. Ralph Owens and Minae Owens, of Kershaw, spent ;ek end with Mrs. Anna Owens/ icls Revere spent the week end nden as the guest of Caroline dson. Etters and Sam C. Truesdale Friday in Columbia. N. B. Workman, Boyd Workind ?Fred Tidwell, of Camden, Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Nye nan. last Friday the basketball teams ron DeKalb with the coaches, e Hodges and C. G. DuBose 3d to Mt. Pisgah high school game. The girls winning 12-8, te boys losing 32-8. Again on iy night ip the Charlotte )son gym both teams lost to st-stepplng Charlotte Thompson . Girls 32-8; boys 19-14. Many upporters attended both games. Bethany Missionary sooiety ith Mrs. John Henry Clyburn sday afternoon, 3. Thomas, of Chester, is spendfew days with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas. and Mrs. C. B. Busbee and Carrere supper guests of Mr. and . M. Huckabee of the Charlotte son section Tuesday, later they id the basketball game between DeKalb and Charlotte Thompesentative and Mrs. L. C. Clytfrs. F. L. Thomas and daughan, visited In WinnBOboro Sunand Mrs. J. D. Gulledge had reek end guest, Miss Gulledge, sterfleld. DeKalb Home Dcmonst) ation ot with Mrs. E. B. Lorick Tuesernoon. Miss Margaret B. Fewme Demonstration Agent, gave resting discussion On "Reflnlshrniture." During the social le hostess served ^delightful ches, fruit cake and tea. *tu8 Thomas expects to spend in Columbia, and Mrs. E. L. Barfleld spent with Mr. and Mrs. B. D. GardKershaw > is becoming governor of Flortvernor Fred P. Cone revoked ler issued by Governor Sholtz, rs before he went out of office, g the ouster from office of Mrs. Armstrong, as mayor of Daysach, . * _ t ' ; " 66 IIS SUE ? - ?? Nom ' HEADACHE ? 30.,mlnutea Try -Ru^My-Tlam"^ WorlcTg BmI Liniment; * D.KA13 PHARMACY Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Geo MoGee, Copyright, 1928. HARD TIME81 ..It sounds funny to hear folks talk about hard 'times. I am not such un old codger, but up to about 1905 or theroubouts, wo nevor know of any bettor ttinoa than the* worst the Hoover depression ever gave birth to. ..When I was straggling and struggling along thru my toons, such thing's as underwear, pocket handkerchiefs, I cheese, bought molasses, chocolate candy, dimes, dollar^ Ice-cream, sugar in the coffee, coffee itself, or any other luxuries wore indeed few and far between. |..The average cost of the entire wardrobe of a grown girl, that is? in. our community and acquaintance, rarely exceeded $6, including hat, I dress, 6 petticoats, u shimmy, a corset cover, shoes, stockings, hair-ribI bou, a baimoral and other garments I necessary to doll her up for church. 1 All of the garments named wore worn I at one time, plus a few more. I..Young boys had nothing much, ex1 pected less, and were considered "uppity'' if they had ay much as 30 cents I to spend at Christmas time. We had I no soft drinks,,, no chewing gum, no I toothpaste, and no nothing else if it took money to buy it. We were not the bnly poor folks in our township. As we eventually bought an organ with a looking-glass in it ,wo got the I name of being rich: all of ua were about the same, thank you. |..Wo had plenty plain, simple food. I know children today, whose mothers and daddies are considered rathI er poor, each of whom spends more [money per week for movies, candies, and other little things, than father spent per month on his 8 or 10 chilj dren for both necessities and luxur| les. In fact, upending money was a mighty unusual thing In those days. [..Every fall, after a bale or 2 of 6 or 4 or cotton was picked out, we would* all sit on top of that J cotton which was on top of a 2-horse J wagon, and drive 24 miles to town, sell it, pay our store debts, usually about $30, and then take the residue, generally about $25, and'buy everything required to clothe and shoe and hat the younguns for the winter. Our purchases consisted of calico, outing, [ lindsey, "narred-homespun" and a J Job-lot of boots and shoes. Nope, [folks: you grumble, but you ain't had anything yet to "deserve euch indulgences. | HOW TO GET RICH [ ..It was a beautiful day in May, 1936, | when my good old friend, I. O. Aull, [ called to see me with a face lit up With smiles. He had driven 26 miles [to do me a favor. In order that he might be able to pay his son out of college, he borrowed $500.00 from me, ..As this was purely a matter of | business, I.. O. Insisted that I take a 90-day mortgage on &, small 6-room house he ownjed in my city. I didn't object to him giving security but took [ his word about the house worth $1,[ 500.00 and rented for $15.00 per month, or 10 percent, so he said, and so I swallowed. ..Fried Aull's son got out of college all-right; I saw him keeping time for the WPA the following July. Not having seen hair nor hide of the mortagee at the maturity of the note. I proceeded to foreclose It. The house in auestlon became my property in October, 1935, Just 14 months ago this coming next Tuesday at 4 o'clock. ..I drove around to look at my "pick up" the next afternoon. It was located on Sport St., just like he said. A badly be-wliiskered man, followed by a terribly besootod woman, .accompanied by 9 horribly be-dlrted younguns came out to meet me in the front piazza. One of the children fell' thru a crack In the floor immediately after exiting. ..The gentleman claimed that he had never paid apy rent and didn't intend to. He had burned the celling and most of the roof as kindling: his wife, had no axe. \ got him to 'move in 45 days. I spelit $85.00 on my newly acquired bargain and got a tenant. He agreed to pay $5.00 per month. He wasn't living there when I called for the past-due rent 40 days later. 1 ..Up to this'writing, I have had exactly 8 different tenants and have collected exactly nothing from 6 of Ihein. I have had 6'plumbers, 3 carpenters and 4 brick layers m&k^. repairs on thia so-called "pick- up. (ft was I that got picked up). I have ^een knocked down twice, had the dog ale'd on me 8 times, rocked once, and shot st 8 times, and cussed out 19 times. But still own the house. I Wish now 1 had Het Slim Aull stay I. colle,.. ""V Governor James M. Curley of Massachusetts, was married to Mrs. Gertjids.M. Dennis, a widow, 44. He is Sl. r- -- ? Horses And History A most interesting article under the above title appeared in the November issue of Naturul History. It was written by UeorKe Gay lord Simpson, Ph. I)., assoclute curator. Vertebrate Paleontology Museum. We aro glad, for the sake of all horse lovers, to bo permitted to reproduce u purl of It. Wo wish we had room for all of It. He began with the" following quotation from Shakespeare: "When I bestride him, I soar, I am u hawk: he trots the air; the earth slugs when he toychos it; the bassest horus of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of iiermes . . , his neigh is llko the bidding of a monarch and his countenance enforces homuge." Before the dawn of history the thunder of llying hooves sounded among the green valley of Gaul, across th ebroad steppes of the Volga, and the Caspian, and over the plateaus und the deserts of Turtury. That ancient singing of hooves, Jike the clash of distinct cymbals, was to mingle with the voices of men aud to "go echoing down the long corridors of history. Indeed it was to be history, for the horse was to carry on his back the fates of nations and the hopes of civilization. When, in the course of our rise in wonder and in pain from out brute ancestors, primitive man first crept silently ulong shaded paths stalking dun and shaggy wild ponies, he created u partnership that was to help shape the destinies of both man and beast for ever after. liawk-Iike Arabs, fierce Tartars, muilelad chevaliers, little yellow men and J lean red men, Innumerable hosts, were 1 to woo the horse and to live with him and by him. There is, however,' no conclusive evidence that the men of the Stone Ages ever domesticated the horse, although their use of horses as food and their keen interest and observation may properly be considered as the first step that was to lead to domestication. When and where domestication first took place, or Indeed whether it did not occur at more than one time and more than one place, may never be exactly known, but we may infer that it was probably somewhere in Central Asia and around 14,000 B. C. Horses first appear in regular written history between 2 000 and 1,500 B. c. I Green paintings of about 600 B. C. I show the Libyans, both men and women, riding astride, bareback and nude. In these paintings the horses have bridles. Later authors describe J naked Numidians oh unbridled horsI es. The best horses of the Greeks are I portrayed in the sculptures executed I by Phldas for the Parthenon. What ever one may think of thi8 more practical aspect of the matter, the Greeks I must have loved horses and these I sculptures are among the most beautiful things ever created by the hands of man. Their lovely, simple lines, I in rich and flawless texture, their sure achievement, and their lively and J sometimes almost humorous spirit are all Incomparably fine. Had horses 1 never done anything for man but to serve as Models for these works of I art, they would yet deserve an honorJable place In the history of the huI man soul. It Is a curious fact that while horses were playing a dominant part In the ancient history of the Mediterranean, the Arabian horse, which was to become the ipost famous and important In the world, did not yet exist as such. There is no evidence that the Arabs or allied Semitic tribes had any horse before the Christian era, although they already had camels. During the first few centuries before Christ, -no one knows exactly when or how, some particularly potent strains' of horBes were introduced among ' the Arabs. These animals were for a long time few in number and their possession was confined to a few prominent men or families, but the stock was carefully perpetuated and Increased so that by the time of Mohammed the Arabs had acquired great skill as horsemen and also a stock of phenomenally fine I horses. v It would, be difficult to overemphasize the historical importance of I these Arabian horses. The air and gracefulness of sitting a Horse," says Don Quixqte, makes ^gentlemen of some ailtt grooms of others," and so It has bee$ throughout most of European history. I?4*01? ^ Hippels of ancient Greece to the Chevalier. Caballero, or Cavalier of today, the man on the horse is the gentleman, the aristocrat. There la no probability that the home will ever lose his usefulness entirely, and gj** did, yet he wottld gtm be fcher. t*he? as a friend and as a source of pleasure. <The borne will probably 2* .?*Lto ha*e 1,01,16 Bh,lre 1x1 h* man history as long asHhat history la made. Lancaater New.-, v - Sereh Persons, six of them policemen. hare b*>n indicted nt Hot Brtngd Arh.? on a second degree mur<* earned the death of mfetftoOMat ' wbo 41*4 Attorney Sapp Shot Rabid Hull Dog Considerable excitement wan crvatod Wednesday morning when a mail bulldog attacked W. H, Terry on'Catawbu street and would have bitten him bpt for the fact thut Allen M Supp shot the animal an it wu? lunging ui Mr. Terry. Some time before thin occurrence the animal wus noted hh beiiiK in a crazed condition us it entered the Craig Motor company building and acted in a vicious manner toward Hhalo Mobley in front of the K. At M. Motors building. The dog Htarted towards Mr. Mobley who la nursing a broken ankle but the animal teemed to have a lit and fell down before reaching him. Soon ufter thla occurrence the dog attacked Mr. Terry near the Gregory stable on Catawba street. Mr. Terry was able to hold the dog off for a moment by striking tho unimul with his umbrella. Tho bulldog which wuh frothing at the mouth wuh back on it k haunches and ready to spring ut Mr. Terry when Allen Sapp who hud secured the gun of John Stoguer fired u bullet into the unimul. Tho dog rollod over as if dead but In a moment got to Its feet and W. H. liyutt, Jr., secured the guu from Mr. Sapp and tired at the animul again. The dug was knocked down again and four more shots wore fired Into the buust. After each shot tho dog fell over but five times It attempted to got up and attack. When the sixth shot was fired the unimul tried to get on Its feet but was unable to do so and It died within a few minutes after every bullet In the revolver had been used. All si$ shots took effect but ouly the sixth oue finally stopped the mad bulldog. It was said that the bulldog belonged to a Lancaster negro. The dog was ot^.a brindle color and very large for a bulldog. Mr. Terry said after the dog was killed that the animal would have bitten him if the shot from the gun which Mr. Sapp fired had been a fraction of a second later.?Lancaster NewB, January 8. Dr. Edward Bailey, star witness In p. murder trial at Llndeen, Ala., in which Marvin C. Wells was on trial charged with the murder of his wite, was fatally stricken- with paralysis just as he began to give his testimony concerning a dying statement made by the dead woman. Georgia Terborgh of the Federal Reserve bank, Chicago, declares that between 40,000 and 60,000 automobile trailers are now being used in the United States as permanent horaeB. He estimates that the total number of .trailers used in full or part time at 300,000. Madrid fwas subjected to the heaviest shelling of the war on Monday, with about fifty big shells bursting in the city. Few persons are reported Killed, but quite a few injured. U. S. Treasury Is Hunting For Heirs Washington, Jan. 1.?Treasury officials said today they have run Into difficulties In paying the bonus of soldiers who died after making their applications, but before receving their bonus bonds. Under the law, the Treasury is responsible for distributing bonds to heirs of about 8,000 such deceased veterans. In many cases, the Treasury can make payment direct to the administrators of their estates. In some cases, however, the Treasury has difficulty determining who is entitled to the bonds. Detailed application for these cases are being issued. In a few Instances payment has been made to a widow-and the veteran himself has later turned up. Although the Comptroller General has held the government's liability Is dissolved in such instances, they have made the Treasury doubly cautious. About' 78,000 veterans have failed to apply for their bonds. The obligations have been issued to 8,440,000 veterans, and $1,887,244,000 bonds have been turned in for oaeh. Census bureau shows' business upturn In retailing data. Camden Pugilist Shows Up Well ? Willie Reddish, better known in Camden as "Wildcat" Reddish, Is showing up well In Philadelphia puglllstlc circles according to a press dispatch from that city. It says: "Philadelphia, Jan. 7.?/The highly touted, muscle-bound Otis Thomas, of Chicago, had a 12 1-2 pound pull In the weights over Willie Reddish, exstevedore, in the second bout but found a man who could sock a little oftener and a little harder than he. "Thomas bled freely from a cut eye all through the light but took many a punch without any other effect. Both men were tired at tpe end and the verdict for Reddish wfts well received." i Gray Hair Turns To Black Overnight Charlotte, N.'C., Jan. 12.-r~When J. M. Means, negro employe of the Mecklenburg Industrial Home, looked Into the mirror on hie 66th birthday, he almost failed to recognise himself. The gray-haired negro's locks had turned a raven-black overnight. He could not explain the phenomenon. m * ? i maBBammaestpm .?"? 1 Bring the Family and Your Gue?t? to . . , S HOLLAND'S GRILL | FOR A DELICIOUS MEAL ?A Good Uji IJ J Place i to Eat v We cater to business people who j enjoy superbly seasoned food . . . of- j ?Tasty fering a variety at every meal ... fin Foods served with finesse, refinement and | consideration for your valuable time. I , Prompt Visit us for luncheon . . . you'll make Service it a pleasant habit. | i PHONE 497 I ?Beer and m Soft Drinks JBL?W. HOLLAND'S GRILL I Next to Post Office E. DeKalb St. | ?* ' . ' > ... - . - ? ( ? ^ National Leaders Plan Gigantic Balj to Honor -President and Raise Infantile. Paralysis Fund! / ! ' ? . if" T4; I ? v The nation's biggest social event, the celebration of Presi\ dent Franklin D. Roosevelt's fifty . ..fifth birthday anniversary, is set? ici't-Jajrtiary 30, with more than 5,000 communities throughout the country planning parties to raise funds for the philanthropy closest to the Chief Executive's heart, - and for infantile paralysis strfferers. Colonel . Henry L. Doherty. for ihe fourth year chairman of the T national celebration, is being assisted by many of the country's foremost leaders in plans for the events. Among those on his committee ate: Vincent Astor, Postmaster General James A. Farley; Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, K Will H. Hays, Carl Byoir, general , director,Colonel Edward M. House,' Sdsel B. Ford, Walter P. ChryaPC?rt&if iSgTutaft v. ^ William T. Manning, Harvey *S. Firestone, Keith Morgan. General John J. Pershing, Owen D. Voung, Howard Chandler Christy, Charles Admiral Cary T. SSety leaders, radio, motion jilryn ^and^theatrical^ stars^are \Vfcj. fc ?iJi 0&A -$! '* ?5S < .42 ^{I\v\ A1# ??{ *r ^>1 "i > * .'Jd iw .* X 5k brations the gf*&t?*t series of parties ever staged. m Meantime In cities, towns and hamlets throughout the nation millions of Americans are making SSSa t. . ' ' 1 . V . " " 1 ' 1 ' I * ftp. J A mm* of pwUtMct the Warm Spring*, G*.,Foundaton, where Infantile paralysis sufferers are treated. - Below, President Frank* Mn D. Roosevelt, whose birthday January 30 is inspiration for the nationwide parties to raise funds for the fight against Infantile paralysis, and Colonel Henry L. Doherty, national chairman of the * tydl for the lofirth year.