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Sumter Officer """ Ends Own Lift Humtor, Jun. 24.-~-AI?c Norrls, 6(J for 24 years a member of tiio Humtei county rurul police force, shot am fatully wounded himself lute this uf ternoon In the county courthouse. The county auditor, J. H. Duftle discovered Mr. Norrls lyiiiK by tin: door to the sheriff's office shortly uf tor 6:30 o'clock. The wounded man was taken to the Tuomcy hospital, where lie died at 7 o'clock. Two pistol bullet wounds were found in Mr. Norrls' head. ills service revolver - was found beside him. The officer hud left iiis hat, cout and vest in his cur parked outside the courthouse and a note that read, "J/jok in courthouse." Financial worries were believed to have caused him to take his life. He was a fearless and popular officer. He hud made his home att Wedgeflehl. Surviving him are his widow, two sons, one a student ut Wofford college, and two daughters; two brothers, one u member of the Sumter city police, and five sisters. Dog Returns Home 700 Miles Away Newberry, Jan. 15,?A story of a long distance traveling fox hound was related here Thursday morning by Li. S. Hulfacre of near Newberry. The episode occurred upproximutely fifty years ugo hut wus vividly brought to memory by the hading of an old photogruph of the dog and its owner, Irvin L. Feagle, who was a youth at the time. Mr llalfacre states that the late irvin Ij. Feagle, while a youth living nt 1'omarla, had u fox hound dog which was greutly admired by u traveling salesman from Arkansus. A price of $25 was agreed upon and the new owner set out with his new friend for his homo across the huge Mississippi river, some 700 miles away. Shortly alter arrival there the new owner wrote Mr. Feagle and told him ' that his (jog had disappeared and that1, il lie should i ei m il home lo lot him 1 know. Alter a certain length of time the dog -bowed up at the home of his ou! ui.!.-.( r 'I he was returned and I lie dog remained with Mr. Feagle. ' J us i how I lie dog returned is a m> s-! tory to all since he had to cross the Mississippi river rn doing so. At that time tliei'.' \\eie no bridges across the ri\< r, ai iording lo Mr. llalfacre. the trip was made to tlie river by; rail hut even then there was no bridge! for the train to c ross. The photograph shows Mr. Feagle. with the dog standing on its hind' feet greeting pis old master upon his ret urn. Snakes Out Early Columbia, Jan. 25.--Warm weather and the rise of rivers in the state has caused many reptiles to awaken from their winter hibernation early this year, according to John A. Crawford,! director of physical education for men' at the I nivcrsity of South Carolina, j Having killed on,, four foot timber rattler within nine miles of Columbia and having s.eii a number of snakesin nearby uoihH and swamps, Mr.! t raw lord adsises those entering woodlands a tin.-, lime of the year to he e\ t fi : < ' y careful. j I High Dairy Records ; In December Tests '. Clem sou, Jan. 25.?The nine Jerseys r owned by Wheeler Brothers. Saluda, 1 f with uu average of 65.87 pounds of * j butter fat, led all herds In the sfate on test during Ueceinber, says C'. C\ >1 Jlrannon, In charge of Advanced Keg1 Istry testing for the South Carolina {Experiment Station. Two of these Jerseys were umong the first ten Individuals In butterfat production, Peer's Royal CJn> x placing fourth with 76.21 pounds, and Volunteer's Heauty Vera placing seventh with 71.46 pounds J Second highest herd record was (hut of this six Guernseys owned by J. H. Guess, Jr., Denmark, which averaged 04.65 pounds of butterfat. Barj oil's Stella In this herd mude sl>th highest individual record with 71.58 pounds, and Jeweller's Esther made j tenth place with 67.39 pounds. ) Seven Jlolsleins owned by Cleinson College won third herd honors averaging 62.73 pounds; und seven GuornI seys owned by K. 11, Caldwell, Chester, ranked as fourth highest herd with 51.40 pounds each, ilazelwood's Hopeful, one of the Culdwoll Guernseys, won ninth individual honor with a production of 68.411 pounds. Fifth ranking herd wus that of the six Guernseys of S. 11. Zimmerman, Columbia, averaging 60.04 pounds; j and sixth was that of George 11. Sulley, Orangeburg, whoso twelve Guernseys averaged 411.69 pounds. The twenty-three Guernseys owned by Pedigreed Seed company, Hartsville, averaged 49.10 pounds, winning seventh herd honor, and two of these cows won high Individual honors: Cavalier Fancy with 78.68 pounds placing second, und Coker Cavalier's Fink with 71.63 placing fifth. The thirty-two Holstelns of the Ktate Hospital, Columbia, placed eighth among all herds with an average of 4 7.69 pounds; und Orinsby DeKol Lily in this herd was first among all cows on test with her production of 98.01 pounds. JRoast Vera, also in tills herd, was eighth highest individual producer with 69.36 pounds. Ninth herd honor went to \V. C. Kings seven Guernseys at Bishopvilb*. averaging 46.90 pounds. Third individual honor, lot- a production of 70. ds pounds, went to New Delias Queen in the King herd. Tenth herd honor was won by the eight Guernseys of L. K. Stroud, Great Falls, with their average of 46.03 pounds. State's 4-H CltTbs Honor Constitution Clenison, Jan. 23.?Community 4-H ?1 libs in South Carolina will join with those over the nation in helping to celebrate the sesqutrontennial of the Constitution of the United States. February, the birth month of George Washington, will be the month of most of these patriotic programs of the 4-H cluhsters. To this end Dan Lewis, state boys' club agent, and Leon Clayton, the assistant agent, are sending out suggested programs and supplying special literature and other materials from the American Tree Association, Washington, I). C.. and the Extension Service. of Cleinson College. With these special mail rials local clubs will I stage different types of celebrations' arranged by local 4-H lenders and ' presidents and local 4-H communil} ' committers in cooperation with county agents. A feature of these Constitution ? el ebrations will be the setting of ornamental trees on pnblie grounds, 4-H forest plant tugs, and such. In the setting of those trues the 4-H club member* will observe the fourteen points in ornamental tree planting as outlined by t he American Tree Association und thus learn the principles of successful tree planting. Mr. IniwiH and Mr. Clayton urge that every 4-H community club in South Carolina Join in this national celebration. They suggest also that the scsquiceiitenninl plantings be registered on the national honor roll of the American Tree Association. This is done by notifying the association, giving the name and address of the planting club, the date of planting, and the kind of planting ?whether it is a single tree, a memorial avonuo, a communitj forest, or whatnot. Mrs Robert 11 Brand, former Phyllis Lnnghorne of Richmond, Va., and sister of Lady Astor, died Wednesday of influenza, in Northampton, Eng| land. Freak AccidentsPlentiful In 1936, Chicago.?Fickle, fancy Duiiiu Fortune pulled many a trick out of her bag V? accident? In 1936. National Safety Council figures, Indicating the year's toll of mishaps will top 1936's, when 100,000 penvuns wore killed and more than 10,000,000 Injured, cover u cra/y quilt of huinau experiences. A Chlcagoan's flivver suddenly jumped into (he air, bounced and rolled into the ditch. A pavement manhole cover hud blown off under it. A rut ran up u Moravia (N. Y.) (ruck driver'a pantsleg. He loosened hia belt to free it?and his truck rammed into a building. Miss Faith Joacelyn of Mlddleton, Mubb., was driving with her puppy heated beside her. A bee landed on the pup's nohe. MIhh Joacelyn slapped the bee. The bee stung her on the eye. And the car "slapped" a tree. Result: hospital. ^ A Texun, driving forty-live mites an hour, felt the steering wheel pull loose from the rod. He couldn't replace it. So he Jumped out, Just as the uuto smashed up in the ditch. An Atlanta' baby choked on her spinach and was saved by an emergency operation. Craig Reynolds, movie actor, was in a Cos Angeles dentist's chair. He suddenly began struggling and gurgling. The dentist simply bore down a little harder, saying, "Now, this won't hurt a bit." Reynolds ilnally bryko loose, spate out BOi^e tools and yelled: "Doc, .your' coat's on Are!" It had been Ignited by a sterilizer. A bailiff ran through the Council Bluffs (Iowa) court house, yelling "fire"?not knowing that it was his own coat that was burning. He had put a lighted pipe into his pocket. One man even stabbed himself with his wax mustache. Some movement in his sleep drove its point into hl? nose, rupturing a small blood vessel. Two vehicles collided in Illinois with slight damage, until a kibitzer dropped cigarette ashes oil spilled gasoline. One machine burned up. At Torre Haute, Ind., a trucker whs hauling ten tons of shotgun shells when his machine caught Mire. The gas lank exploded, touching off the cargo. The cannonading lasted an hour, but he wasn't hurt. Nancy Carroll Freweard, 16 mouths old, of Green Bay, Wis., emerged practically uninjured after a locomotive and three cars had passed over her. Fight->ear-old Jean Trombley of Columbia, Mo., missing for nine hours, was found alive, hanging by her head between the ties of a railroad bridge. A truck driver piloting a supply of dynamite and 200 dotonator caps deliberately toppled his machine over an embankment near Long Beach, Calif., to avoid a collision with a bus load of children. There was no explosion. Less fortunate was a Chicago man who tried out a gasoline kiddie car. It took the side of a barn to stop him. and he went to the hospital. A Montana golfer swung at a ball so hard he threw himself and broke his leg. He can sympathize with the Houston, Texas, chap who sprained his back while gargling for a sore throat. Or the cement plant worker who literally kicked himself into the hospital, infection setting in after lie bumped his right heel with his left foot. Falling from a second-story window, a Chicago girl landed on the shoulders of a man passing by. She volplaned to the sidewalk. Neither party was damaged. Otto (ierlach of Danville, 111., was scalded to death in a refrigerating plant. A falling cake of ice knocked him into a vat of boiling water. An auto luden with forty cases of ( whisky crashed on a highway near j Memphis, and an occupant drowned in a pool of the spilled liquor. A car slowed up In deference to a skunk on a New York road, causing a crash in which one man was killed and two injured. A turtle caused the same kind of a crash, in which two persons were hurt. A girl's earache ended when the doctors stuck In their thumbs and pulled out a diamond. It had fallen from her mother's ring twelve years previous. A hunter was killed when a wounded doe kicked the trigger of his shotgun when he bent over the animal Another hunter got his deer?when a huge buck committed suicide by charging his automobile. A rooter at a Harrisburg, Pa., basketball game scratched his ear with the business end of a match. A flying ball hit his hand, drove the match in and Ignited It. He was injured seriously. Nine-year-old Bryan Garett, of Dallas, set a record for mishaps In one day. He caught his toe in a bicycle wheel, was hit on the head with a brick by a playful brother, was stung by a wasp, then scratched his leg on some briers and wound up by failing off a barn.. Kudzu Proving Fine For Erosion Control Kudzu vinos, which have been found to ho very valuable for controlling gullies and other severely eroded areas, are going to he a more familiar Might in South Carolina. \ The Soil Conservation Service has allotted 1,060,000 kudzu crowns for erosion-control plantings la demonstration and camp areas in the state and these demonstration plantings ure expected to result in widespread use of the vine for erosion control. Although kudzu has been used as a shade vine for porches antf has grown along hedge rows and In gullies for twenty-live years or more In the southeast, It has been used only to a limited extent us a cultivated plant, agronomists point out. The demand for dense-growing perennial vegetation for erosion control hus resulted in greatly increased interest in methods of establishing stands of kud/.u, particularly on budly eroded slopes where conditions ure unfavorable for plant growth. Strong first-year growth has boon shown to he dependent on proper land prepurution, fertilization, careful plunting, and first-year cultivation. Plantings made on poorly prepared lund without fertilizer have made little growth during the first two years and in many cases have been virtually choked out by broomsedge. Entertains For Rev. and Mrs. Gulledge On lust Friday evening quite a number of tho members of Be&verdam Baptist church gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. West for a very informal reception for Rev. and Mrs. J. I). Gulledge, who ore leaving on February 3 for Dillon county, where Mr. Gulledge has taken up new work. The weather being very warm many games and contests were enjoyed. Wo were favored with a song "The China Man," by Miss Mary Lee Gulledge, of Chesterfield, sister of Rev. Gulledge. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gulledge led In severnl entertaining plays. W. N. West, agriculture teacher for our community, gave a moRt pleasing Interpretation of "Caesar," a negro sermon. Later In the evening we were invited into the dining room where a variety of sandwiches, cakes, coffee and cocoa were served. At this time A. A. West presented to Rev. and Mrs. Gulledge a very beautiful velvet finished picture entitled, "Sunset On The Sea," as a token of love and appreciation for the unselfish sacrificial service which they have rendered to the church and community. We, then, returned to the living room where all Joined in Ringing several songs. Tho hour for departure camo all too soon. The pastor and his family have endeared themselves to the people of this community in such a way that we regret very much the fact that they are leaving for another field, but we wish for them God's blessings In this new work. We were then dismissed with prayer by Rev. Gulledge. ?Contributed. . Marquis Yorlsada Tokugawham, a noted Japanese statesman, has surrendered his entire fortune of more than $2,860,000, to pay the debts of an Industrial Joint stock company, In which he held 60,000 of the 60,000 har*. t ,4 I'm on my l way to . . NEW YORK CAFE Camden's Best We Specialize in . . . Tender Boneless Steaks Western T-Bone Steaks Fillet Mignon Courteous Attention Prompt Service I MEETMEAT I BROAD STREET LUNCH I ON TOP OF THE HILL The Be#t Nickel Hamburger Anywhere. Milk?Bottled Drink*?Beer?Ice Cream 1 COURTEOUS OPEN UNTIL CURB SERVICE 3 A. M. I Fertilizers and Farm Machinery RHAME BROS. Rutledge St. Camden, S. C. k MAYBANK FERTILIZERS and MATERIALS Hay & DuBose Rutledge Street J. T. Hay John K. DuBose FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THE FARMERS We are placing in Stock a | Limited Amount of Coker's Pedigreed Clevewilt Cotton Seed DIRECT FROM COKER Price: $7.50 per 100 lbs. Hay Cotton Co., Inc. Rutledge Street I , "If's pretty hard to beat NATURE* Hill ?f Sulu, deeplly?r*?o<i9 Ull 1# whlt? ppinM* bitch, i j n ^ owned by A, G. C. "If- Dkoal Sa*e. Ncw Yo*k- Ha'" ' ttueetl ly ClyUw Moituu. > HERE is an action picture of the famous Sultr, the poi nter who swept everything before her at National Field Trials of 1936 at Grand Juhction, Tenn. Sulu, the queen of them all!* Thousands of bird dogs range the fields... but there's only oi*e Sulu. To this glorious creature Nature gave her greatest gift, a perfect balance of the vital elements; speed, scent, endurance, instinct and intelligence. Another pointer may be just as good to look at, but Sulu has that vital spark?every thing in perfect bal ance. Sy Sulu is the queen; the other is just a dog. 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