Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Arid A tourist traveling through tb? Texas I'anhandlu got Into couversa Hon with an old eettler und hie ?oi nt a filling elation. "Ixioka a? tbougf w?j might have rain," suld the tourist "Wall, 1 hope eo," replied tho natlvo "not ho much for myself as for my hoy here. I've ween. It rain." Fire in Pleping. China, caused a property iohh of 13,000,000. with twenty-six Uvea reported loel. ?r- ?" 1 Canmen Theatre FRIDAY/ JANUARY 22 final showing ok "RAMONA" With lioretta Young, Don Amache and Kent Taylor. SATURDAY, JANUARY 23 Buster I'rabhe, Raymond llatton and Marsha Hunt In "ARIZONA RAIDERS" 1 jy Zano Grey. Aleo Cartoons and Comedies. Late 10:30 Show: Martha Kaye, the big mouthed girl In I "HIDEAWAY GIRL" MONDAY and TUESDAY JANUARY 25-26 WILL ROGERS, with U'W Ayers and Janett Gaynor in , "STATE FAIR" Prohahly the heat picture Will Rogers ever did. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27 Uiwrence Tibhett. Wendy lJarrie and Arthur Treacher in "UNDER YOUR SPELL A charming but light musical comedy. THURSDAY and FRIDAY JANUARY 28-29 An Important event! Greta Oarbo with Robert Taylor In "CAMILLE" L_? ?? Haiglar Theatre Corner Broad and Ratledgo St*. FRIDAY. JANUARY 22 Claire Trevor. Jane Harwell and Arllne Judge in "STAR FOR A NIGHT" Vaudeville on Stage. j Two Western Features DICK FORAN in "GUNS OF THE PECOS" JOHN MACK HftOWN in "CROOKED TRAIL" Also "Darkeat Africa." MONDAY and TUESDAY JANUARY 25-26 Marc Connelly's production of "GREEN PASTURES" With a distinguished cast and Hall Johnson Chair. WEDNSDAY, JAN. 27 Barbara Stanwyck. Gone Raymond And Robert Young in "THE BRIDE WALKS OUT" Morning Show 10:30 THURSDAY and FRIDAY JANUARY 28-29 | Jane Withers, lrvln S. Cobb and j Slim Snmmorville in | "PEPPER" I Will entertain adults as well a? cbildren^^^^^^^ J STATE THEATRE KERSHAW, S. C. MONDAY and TUESDAY, JANUARY 25 and 26 The mbst glorious Lo\ e Story ever written "RAMONA" With Loretta Young. Don Anieche and Kent Taylor. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27 Francis Ud? rer. Ann Sothem in Musical Comedy "MY AMERICAN WIFE" "No Place LiKe Rome" THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 Claire Trevor. Jane Darn well. ArLne Judge, arid Kvelyn \ enable in "STAR FOR A NIGHT" A laugh a lilt . and a Heart Pang' FRIDAY, JANUARY 29 Jane Withers in "PEPPER" Also Mickey Mouse in Dockn?pp?r" j SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 V "CROOKED TRAIL" With Johnny Mack Brown pt| guns roar defiance to a law 1 at** GtHAter 12 of "Ftaah Gordon** ^?-???? j^adwiltlon^ ?od Night 25c. ? Seaboard Will Improve lanes ' Washington, Jun. 8.?The Seaboard . Air Line railroad, which threads the . Carolines, asked the Interstate ComuuTce Commission today lor authority to Issue $ii,0u0,000 ut 3 1-2 per cent Interest hearing bonds to raise funds tu Improve Its lines und buy uew equipment. The money to be raised through un agreement with the Guaranty Trust] company of New \ ork, hh trustee, will be spent buying live locomotives, 100 box enrrf, six passenger cars, and four passenger and baggage ears. It Is proposed to ucqulro under lease and trust agreement the railroad equipment for use on lines In the Carolina?, Virginia, Georgia, Florida und Alabama. The approximate net cost set out by officials lu their petition before tiie interstate Commerce Commission is |3,3itl,000. Midway Club Met The Midway Homo Demonstration club held uu ull day meeting with Mrs. J. J. Young on Friday, Junuury 8. There were sixteen members present in the morning, and five to call In the afternoon. We were delighted to have as visitors, Mrs. J. D. CJulledge and Miss Gulledge, wife and sister of Hev. Gulledge, pastor of the Heaver Dam Uuptist church. Since our meeting was a quilting one and Mrs. Young 'had the quilts ready to begin on. We immediately began our work, after Mrs. Alec West and Mrs. Carry McCoy had chosen, sides, with six persons to each side. | It was very interesting and amusing, one side trying to finish before the other, and it must have been tor neither side was very eager to stop long enough for dinner, a bountiful Bpread at one o'clock prepared by three members, Mrs. Thelma DeBruhl, Mrs. Maud# Horton and the hostesB, Mrs. Young. For devotional we all sung, while standing around the table, our club blessing led by Mrs. A. A. West. Immediately after dinner we all went back to our quilts In a rush. Both sides were getting excited by this time, and one side was keeping up with the other, but one finished Just long enough to take the prize, a nice box of candy, given by Mrs. A. A. West. Mrs. Mattie Branham also presented an apron to the hostess. After the excitement waa over, each side hemmed its quilt and presented them to Mrs. Young. She seemed to be very pcoud of them and i we hope she will receive as much | benefit from them as we had pleasure j quilting them. j Following this Mrs. Gulledge led in ! some very Interesting and new games, ' which were greatly enjoyed by every one. SOCIAL SECURITY ACT Deputy Collector Will Visit Camden to Give Information. The excise tax on employers pro! vlded by Title IX of the Social Security Act became effective January 1, 1936. The tax rate for the calendar y?*ar 193$ is one per cent of the total wages paid or payable by an employer to his employees. For the purpose of the tax, an employer is dellned as an individual, corporation, partnership, or other entity who employs eight or more individuals on each of some 20 days during the calendar year, each such day being in a different calendar week There shall be credited against the tax the total amount of contributions paid Into an unemployment fund under a state law. but such credit shall not exceed 90 per cent of the tax liability. Compensation paid the following groups of employees is exempt from the taxes: agricultural labor, domestic services performed in private home, services performed by officers and employees of crews of vessels on the navigable waters of the l'n:tetl States, serv;c<- s performed by Federal and State employees, certain family; employment, services performed by j employees of religious, charitable or] educational organizations. Returns covering the calendar ytar j 1936 are required to be filed with the Collector of Internal Revenue. Columbia. S C . on or before Jnanarv 31, l:?37 The tax disclosed by such returns is due and payable at the time of filing. The provisions of Title IX of the Social Security Act are entirely separate und distinct from the provisions of Title VIII. A deputy collector will stationed at Camden on February 2. 1937. at the court house from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.. for the purpose of giving information concerning the Social Security Act and assisting taxpayers in preparing returns. All employers are Invited to contact the deputy collector if in need of information or assistance. The W. P. A. administration in Washington, has given approval for twenty a?ran projects tn Louisiana, Involving Mend grant? totaling $1, lEMSl. $167 coo. Blind Man To Serve In House (By John K. Aull) Columbia, Jan. 14,?Not in 1|b his lory has the Houth Carolina general uHH? iul>ly presented u finer human In teres*. In one of ita ijuembera from Greenville county. Not only la he th? tlrat blind man to aerve in the son eral aaaembly of the Btate during the recollection of old-tiihe reporters, go lug back many years?In fact, ever since the Tillman days?and nobody recalls any blind man so aervlng before that time?but, take the record of Representative lloblnaon Willluxna, of Greenville; and maybe it can't be bettered anywhere. He was not in' tervlewed, but a schoolmate of his told the story. And here It la: Willlujus is Just approaching 38 years of uge. When he was a lad below school age, out in the country In (ireenvllle county, "at Kauley, Route 2," his official address Is, he went out on a rainy day to get some wood for the fire in the home. That was before he was of Bchool age. He put it down on the fireplace to dry. Some of the sticks were small. His dog picked one of them up, and in playing with it hit young Robinson in the eye. The sight of that eye was lost, and he was forced to wear glasses. Then he started to school some time later. His eye-sight was not good, even with the eye that w;as left, and with his glasses. In Borne manner?in some kind of school accident?his glasses were broken, and pieces of the glass went into the other eye. He lost the sight of that eye. Hut he wus undaunted. He kept on getting an education. We find him at Cedar Springs in 1919, where the state conducts an institution for the deaf, dumb and blind. Four yearB later, In 1923, we find him an A. B. graduate of the University of South Carolina, and the valedictorian of his class. A year later he was an M. A. and LI. B. graduate of the University, having completed the course in law at the same time taken the degree of Master of Arts, and being president of his class. Now he is practicing law at Greenville, a member of the firm of WilHams and Henry. The reason he was not interviewed was because it was feared he would request that the story be "kept out of the papers." They say of him? those who know him and who told his story here today?that all he needs to get around by himself is to "go there once," and then he doesn't need any further assistance. And lots of people who know him were talking about him here this morning, and predicting greater things for him. His mental exploits at the University here were recalled by some of his old class-mates. This morning he was noted in a group of members on the street before the convening of the hoyse at noon, and none would have noted that he did not have his eye-sight. Few noted it on the opening day of the house yesterday. But from the time he stood Immediately in front of the press desk in the house, and his record of achievement became known to keeta-eyed newsmen, he will be in the rays of the legislative spotlight. INFANTILE PARALYSIS AMONG MOST ANCIENT DISEASE8 New York, N. Y., Jan, 20.?Infantile paralysis against which modern science wages a courageous but so far not completely victorious battle, is not, as many have supposed, a disease of modern times. It did its fatal work in ancient .Egypt and in medieval Europe, according to a survey recently made by Ur. l.eRoy W. Hubbard, director of the extension work of the Warm Springs Foundation of New York. Only in recent years, however, and since the disorder has from time to time reached epidemic proportions in parts of the United States has the medical fight against it been scientifically directed Medicine in the United States has been assisted by the contributions of the people of the country through the annual birthday bnlls in honor of Mr. Roosevelt, and this year it is expected further sinews of war will result from the parties to be held on January 30. In his review of infantile paralysis in ancient and modern times Dr. Hub bard points out that Dr. Clarence Victor Vaughan. the medical historian, found definite traces of the results ol the disease in Kgyptian mummies. "The first big modern epidemic in the United States," Dr. Hubbard writes, "occurred in 1916. It reached every' state in the nnion and struck down more than 25,000 persons. th? majority of them children." The difference between the situation of the Egyptians and that ol Americans Is that sufferers In 1931 are treated with all the skill of mod em science which continues a point ed-up research in an effort to stam( out the disease to the extent of the Interest and funds supplied by tb? public, largely through the President ! " 11 " ? . Sumter Sells Hogs For Over $100,000 Bumter, Jan. 16.?"We made two ' F. O. 13. bog sales In December, mov1 lug eight carloads which carried 686 hogs and brought 911,827.47 at Bum1 ter, raising our total returns from ' hogs to more than a hundred tbous' and dollars," says J. M. Eleazer, coun1 ty farm ugent. Kleazer's recounting of the history of commercial hog production in Sumter county and his statement of prospects for the future carry real encouragement fQ.r other communities. ' lie says: "Our aim when demonstration feeding sturted in 1928 was to try to get this project to grow into a millionpound und a hundred-thousand- dollar business in possibly ten years. This was the eighth year, and that goal lias been exceeded for the first time?j we have shipped sixty-six carloads and sixteen truckloads containing 6,016 hogs that . weighed 1,149,104 pounds and netted $105,845.67. "The prospect is for heavy sales on through 1937. We try to keep our farmers informed about the outlook. For a few years the outlook had bebn poor, and we so advised our folks, and shipments shrunk. "For about a year now we have known that this fall and all of 1937 looked good from a hog standpoint, and we liaye repeatedly stressed this to our hog growers. Close to 800 western feeder pigs were brought in to supplement our supply. These together with augmented breedings for 1937 hogs will enable our folks to get some good money out of hogs In 1937." Nets Would Prevent Auto-Train Wrecks New Orleans, Jan. 13.?Huge nets soon may prevent heedless motorists from running Into the paths of trains. The plan was cited by Major Robert B. Brooks, consulting engineer of St. Louis, as one of the newest methods to prevent grade crossing accidents. Major Brooks, attending the convention of the American Road Builders' Association here, is chairman of its committee of highway intersections and grade elimination. A Spanish steamer landed 21 tons of gold from Spain at Marseilles. France, Tuesday. U. 8. Army Reoruitlng 8ervlce Sergeant Clifford C Floyd, United States Army Recruiter, Columbia, announced today that' the following named men have been enlisted in the Army recently: David El' Kyzer, New Brookland, enlisted for Infantry, Fort Moultrie; i Legrande R. Sowell Chesterfield, enlisted for Field Artillery, Fort Bragg, N. C.; Leroy B. Marsh, Camden, enlisted for Medical Department, Panama, Canal Zone; James F. Cloninger, Wagener, enlisted ior Coast Artillery, Panama, Canal Zone; and Frank J. Martin, Strother, S. * C., enlisted for Infantry, Fort Moaltrle. Sergeant Floyd states that the following vacancies exists- now: Seven for Infantry, Ft. Moultrie; two for the Panama Canal Zone; and Beveral for the Field Artillery, Ft. Bragg, N. C. Any young man desiring to make application for tbe above vacancies are requested to apply at the United States Army Recruiting Station, United States Court House Building, Columbia, S. C. A state-wide referendum bill is, before the legislature of North Carolina, by terms of which it is proposed to put the liquor question up to a state-wide vote. The dry forces of the state are said to be back of tbe proposed law. ?r"* -T - - -?ax \ ' _ ' * 7^3 Confessed Slayer Put Behind Bars New York, Jan. 15.?With the threatening cries of screaming womea still ringing in his ears, Major Greene, 33-year-old negro, was behind bars today awaiting trial February 1 for the bathtub slaying of Mrs. Mary Robinson Case. The wiry porter, who authorities said, had signed a complete confea-' sion, was sullen -and seemingly unmoved last night as detectives led him from Queen county court where, he pleaded innocent before Judge John S. Colden. Outside, a noisy crowd of spectators, most of them women, surged toward the negro. "Lynch him!" the crowd cried. "He's no good! He ought to be hung! The chair's too good for you." They attempted to pummel him with umbrellas, sticks and pocketbooka, but most of the blows fell on the shoulders of detectives who swarmed; around to elbow him unharmed to the Queens county jail 200 yarda away. The senate has passed without I dissenting vote, the administration bill to extend the life of the Bo#*. struction Finance corporation to Jum 30, 1939. I WARNING! I I ('old Winter Predicted I | * ->/. .. i | ! A Nor go Oil Heater will keep your home comfortable j I in the coldest weather. Even temperature at all i I times. Clean. No more coal to* csurry in. .Terms. I I City Electric Company I I Radios Ranges Radio Repairs H i West DeKalb Street Phone 194 ! fc CAMDEN, S. C. I I ] o CAMDEN " IISSOMCK * NEW ERE IN DRmilfiSJlfETY SINCLAIR PRODUCTS Complete 24-Hour ; Service . TVe Inible, nugr-EiimJ rib* of ibo U. S. Royal Motor bit* tbrfgb to tn* Its* mrnmwmcf F?r 4tpm ti ? 4. T?gnmit RkUw, mmj (tmm >i dM^...?P are Ifi . 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