Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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rTNOLONGER^ ^ PAYS, TO TRY TO ) GET ALONG ( ^^WITHOUT ONE^ ^ ' r I UK present duy coat of a telephone in your home id mo low and the advantages mo many that it really doesn't pay to try to get along without one The home with a telephone is equipped to enjoy greater happincsH and comfort The knowledge that the telephone is , handy in any emergency is most satisfying A.nd to know that you and your family are ulways in aulck. easv reach of friends, acquaintances and relatives. is a great comfort In fact, the telephone is now depended on in so many ways and is so intimately associated with every ohase of our daily life, thut the home without a telephone is more or less isolated. is it really economy to try to do without a telephone ? Why not order yours today? There are several classes of service to select from, and all, you will find, are surprisingly low in cost Call or come into the. telephone business ofllce or ask any telephone employe to explain how little it now costs to have a telephone of your own in your home. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co, Incorporated ir. ? ~ . , McDuflie Executed For Killing Woman Columbia, April 10.?George McDufFle, young Lee county negro, died in the electric chair at the state penitentiary at 6'13 p. til. Friday, a few minutes after he entered the death ( hamber, unaided, singing a spiritual. Hural Policeman if. I,. Hopkins, who arrested McDuflie a few hours alter tin* axe kilting of Mrs. Maggie Ann Prowo lust Deeetuber. was among those preset)' About a seme <>i negroes from the Hrowntown section c>t" I ,ee county, where tlie slaying occurred, attended. Harrison Drown and H<?si\ Watson. 11 e p 111 w > of Mrs Hrovyty, reuuiined outsub tie- prison v. nils alter giving their passes to negroes. Mrs. Drowns body was found ill the living room of her farm homo with four wounds inllieted about her head. ?y)ftieer Hopkins said, adding that he arrested MeDulTie. who liad done odd jobs about the home of Mrs. Drown, a widow of about seventy-two years of age. a few hours later nearby. Seven representatives who say they spoke for a hi partisan block of 100 representatives, have proposed that work relief he made permanent. They suggested also that $2,400,000,000 be appropriated to give 3,000.000 men jobs at about $07 a month in the next liscal year, which begins July 1. The appropriation they proposed would be about etio.onn more than the amount Me ntioned by the President in hi* bud-t t m-essnge for recovery and i Ii. f 1 B. F. McLendon Dies At School Bennettsvllle, April 12.?News has been received here of the douth of B F. McLendon, 20, .midshipman at I'niled States Navul academy, AnI nupolis. Md. This occurred In the in{ Urinary there tonight after several | weeks' illness of kidney complications. I The body will he brought here and j interment will follow in McC'all cetnet tery. ' lie was the son of the late Rev. I I! I-'. ("Cyclone Mack") McLendon jiind Mrs. Rena Ratrliff McLendon. He graduated from the liiuh school here, at!- tided l>a\i<lson college and was in hi-> sim ond year at Annapolis. He was a \oung man of sterling ipiulities and I his passing is mourned by a host of j friends. j lie is survived by his mother, and | the following brothers aud sisters: | Hr. Sol McLendon. Stale hospital, Cojluinbia;. Dana McLendon, Mrs. .Paul j Nelson. Margaret McLendon and Walter Melveildon. Seek Identity of Body W'innsboro, N. C., April 13.?County officers sought today'to Identify the body of a young man found beside a railroad track. In a pocket was a card signed by Michigan's secretary of state and which bore a number issued to ,E. C. Itawlings of Keego-Hoboro, Mich. In i another pocket was a small photograph of a young couple and written (in it were the names "Ester and ' Frank Nagel." | ?? ? - ' I REPORT OF CONDITION OF BANK OF KERSHAW LOCATED AT KERSHAW, S. C, AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON MARCH 31. 1937 ASSETS villi other banks. ami cash i loins in prongs of ? oiio I iiia $452.441.34 lint-d St a. - 11 o \ emtio tit obligations. direct and fully guaranteed 67,393.78 Sia . county Mid munhipnl obligations 97.129 96 I Loans and di-? ounK . 200,203.68 ( >v< rdnitt> _o-liptloni 1,978.9/ Latikiiu: hnit<. owned f2 >.??'. 1 I v. furniture and fixtures $7,359.95 . 34,051.13 Other :.,d estate owned 22,959.92 TOTA1 $870,158.78 LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL Deposits of individuals, partnerships and corporations: Demand Deposits $418,851.12 Other time deposits 217,928.37 State, count) and municipal deposits 48,276.71 Deposits of other hanks 9,674.4a Certified and ofticers" checks, letters of credit and travelers' checks sold for cash, and amounts due to Federal Reserve bank 929.84 Total Deposits $695,660.49 Total Liabilities excluding Capital Account ' $695,660.49 Capital account: Capital stock and capital notes and debentures . .$lo0.OO0.00 Surplus 50,000.00 I ndivid, d profits 410.498.29 Total tapital account 180.498.29. TOTAL 11 A lULI I IKS AND CAPITA 1 $876.158.7s On M.idh 1. the required legal reserve against deposits of this bank was $39,979 '.? Assets reported above which wcte eligible as legal reserve amounted to $ 152.441.3d. I, T. 15. Cl> burn. Cashier, of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true, and that the schedules on the back of this report lull) and correctly represent the true state of the several matters herein contained and set forth, to the best of my knowledge and belief. T. 11. CLYllURN. Correct. Attest: ... .John T Stevens % \V. II Threatt II. I.) McDonald Directors. ^ State of South Carolina. County of Kershaw Sworn to and and subscribed before me this 12th day of April. 1937, and I hereby certify that 1 am not an officer or director of this bank. I). P. DYK, Notary Public. My Commission oxplros at thejdeftsuro of the Dovtmior. ^^HOSI^MARLBtTON^^n Clement? Ripley |n May Cosmopolitan Some year? ago I wae Invited down to Charleston, 8. C\, to ahoot a deer. I stood in a great green cathedral of swamp and heard, faint and far away, the hell music of the hunt?heard It grow stronger and stronger, until It hurst in a crashing chorus through a green wall In front of me and whirled past, huck and hounds running beautifully together. And I missed my deer clean, and had my shlrttail cut off according to the ancient rite, and, drunk sherry, and was entirely happy, j '1 hat night there was a dance- -a debutante party?and a champagne punch, and after that u sort of progressive tour of Charleston sideboards, and about 4 a. m. I fouud myself with a crowd in an uptown lunchroom, eating something % made of shrimp. At the counter, .not far from our party, sut a harmless looking individual eating pie with his knife. Just what started things happening, I've never been very clear. Hut somebody objected to the pie eater's table manners and emphasized the objecIlon by throwing him into the street. At thai instant, like the things that happen in an unimated cartoon, two policemen appeard, caught the throwee on the liy and neatly removed him. The rest of us went back to our shrimp. Now, vurious members or the party have since assured me that this was merely a mistake on the part of the police that they saw a disturbance and got the wrong mun. Hut you can't tell me! I believed then, as I believe now, that Charleston is u place where the police are on the side of good table manners. A place like that struck me as a pleasant one. I decided that if the time should ever come when I could see more of it I would. Eventually 1 did. 1 start with this, the true, unvarnished account of how J, a Vermonter, happen to he in Charleston at all, because everybody assumes that, being a writer. J must have come here to J draw inspiration front the atmosphere I and Old World charm of the place. ! Unfortunately, I ain not that kind ofi writer. Hut there is atmosphere and! Old World charm (whatever that is)' in plenty, it comes, so a Charleston-' inn tells me. from a great many of the houses having been built slightly! cockeyed. 1 had supposed this cockoyedness was the result or the Charleston earthquake, until 1 saw a gang of colored J carpenters doing beautiful detailed j work without benefit of rule, level or plumb line. Charleston is like that. It does things its own way?and a very pleasant way it turns out to be. It situation, the city is a little like Manhattan?a narrow strip of land between two rivers. And it terminates in "the Hattery." But right there the resemblance stops . For Charleston lias done it all wrong side to. It has moved its stores, offices, wharves and nianufaeturies uptown. It lias put its loveliest houses on the Hattery. Ureal, gracious old houses they are; Ceorgian. of mellow brick, wirli classic doorways; West Indian, tall, with j cool galleries to catch the night' broez.-. They face the blue of the harbor, dreaming of the day when Sir I'eic i s 11. et bore down on Fort Moul"it "r 11 later April mot mug aiul I 'be Tmk.v guns thudding inun the squat bulk of Fort Sumter. thai baton is an unhurried city.! I hat does m>t mean it is in the least' a -sleepy Southern town." I he t'harlestonian is leisured, but.) lie gets through a surprising amount of work without any lost motion. And' he has long since discovered the su-1 prenie silliness of registering energy when there's nothing to be particularly energetic about As to impressing other cities with the . go-aheadness of Charleston?In the first place, Charleston doesn't know there are any other cities, and in the second, it wouldn't care about impressing them if it did. Which is the last word in snootiness. as the rest of South Carolina can and frequently does, testify. The Charlestonian occupies the same office that his grandfather occupied before him, and is far more pleased with a carved mantel (yes, in his office) or a bit of iron balcony than with any amount of plate glnssv and imitation mahogany. He Isn't pi'oud of traffic jams, and doesn't go out of his way to create an>. Charleston is rMlizcd. and that I goes for the negro population, which j makes up nearly half the city. The j Charleston negro lifts the gentlest speech and the best manners of any negro anywhere. They are not eerjVile manners; they are civil n.mners ,He does not regard the white man as an enemy or an oppress,r. As for lynching? and race riots. Charleston simply doesn't have them I oop.o ask me frequently. "But isn't there a lot of prejudice' against '-^-Vtmkrr-trr muilw, they still feel bitterness over the war?" I don't know?poaalbly. I have j fought the Confederate war, an It In called down here, over many a long mint Julep with Confederate veterann and with eone and grandsons of veterana, and the only bltterneaa I ever heard expressed waa over the dlffluulty of getting decent aherry and Maderla In the degenerute daya before Repeal. Charleatou la a Muderiadrinklng city?which la aa near a one-line characterization uu 1 can find. It drinka (julotly and pleaauntly. It haa not yet learned that there la uny diegrace In leaving aomethlng In the decanter for next thue. For Charleatou knowa that there will ulwaya bo a next time. Another morning, warm with a blue haze over i the harbor, when the city will wake to the singsong call of the ahriihp ! men: "Huw raw-raw raw?shrimp!" and to: "Ah gola anah-buan, snubbean, rizzonubble!" Then the black, whilu-aproned niaida will come out of the green doors to polish hraaa knockera and chatter in soft Gull ah. 'fall, hip-swinging flower women from the sea Islands puss?"Gyarden on do I haid, missus; gyarden on de hald!"? balancing their flut baskets plied with yellow jonquils, gardenias, creamy velvet magnolia blossoms. Jessamine ( scents slip through the Jalousies . ( Then will the Charlestonlan arise i and don his linen suit and eat his 1 whiting and hominy. And after, he , will go to his office, past old brick t walls with iron gates and a glimpse 1 of garden?red of polnsettias, purple 1 of cascading wisteria; past old door- i ways with gracious, fluted columns; i past the blue shadow of the gleaming colonnade of St. Michael's church. Broad street is the Itialto. Offices c are convenient places in which to ( keep records and answer letters, but . business is done on Broad street, i where a doorway lends a patch of 1 shade. Law, banking, real estate, cotton, building, fertilizer, brokerage . . . the linen suits cluster in groups. t The bells of St. Michael's boom out two solemn strokes?the solemn strokes of Charleston's dinner hour, sacred to okra'n'tomattus (one word) or to she-crap soup. The linen suits \ anish; cars start. Try to find the Cbarlestonian at his office.now; just try to find him! The office door is locked. Maybe it will open again at half past three. It it does, you will find a pleasantly eager secretary to tell you that Mr. So-andso will surely be in tomorrow morning. For Mr. So-and-so is at the moment trading for strokes on the first tee, or slipping shells into the pocket of his shooting coat, or nt-anding-waistdeep in the surf, eyes tense on the riffle where, at any moment, a 30pound bass may strike like a bolt of lightning. This is Mr, So-and-so's real business?the business of having a good time. Mr. So-and-so knows that the best thing his income can buy him is leisure to enjoy it. That is one reason why, although a good many Charlestonians are comfortably off and a few [ even wealthy, there are no great fortunes. If by any of this 1 ha.ve given the I impression that Charleston is a neigh- i borly, a "folksy" town, 1 hasten to j , apologize. If th?i'e is one thing the i . Ciiarlestonian guards tensely, it is hisU pri\aey. He shuts his house and gar- j j den from the street with a ten-loot! brick wall. lie entertains at home M gild not at hotels. There isn't any- j thing remotely resembling a night club in town. The stranger who arrives without introductions will lookin vain for amusement after 9 o'clock. ' Rut as ho passes the shuttered windows, he will catch a glimpse of light, hear laughter and the tinkle of ice in long glasses. Charleston is having its 1 own sort of good time. ? Atter all of which, I don't know ' whether you would like Charleston. I You might or you might not. I like It because?well, because when I'm here 1 can't get up any interest in | going away, and when I do go, I want to get back. Negro's Body Is Shown Bishopville, April 10.?Throngs of curious Lee county white and colored people, estimated to number more than 1,000 visited a colored undertaking establishment here all day today to view the body of George McDuffie, young Lee county negro, who was 1 I electrocuted late yesterday in ColumI bia for the axe slaying of Mrs. Margie1 jAuu Brown, elderly. Leo county widow.! The body was brought here last; night after the electrocution and was exhibited with the hope of discourag-H ing lawlessness, especially among the' | colored people. j The Florida supremo court has ren-; j derC.l a decision to the effect that i j public officials cannot Interfere with j j newspaper reporters and cameramen engaged in gathering news lnformai tion of public lntehest. | Robert Wadlow. youth of Alton, 111 :whp nicasuifs- a Tf-61. 7 inches, Taa Joined the Ringlfng Bros.' circus In 1 New York. William N. McLood Sumter, April 0.?-William N. McUod, 04, died at his home flvt> m,le8 rpm here at 1 6'glock Tuesday after* loon after an illness of tWo days He la survived by hie widow, Mrs. jara Newman Mcleod and the following sons and daughter*; W. C. McLeod, Elliott; J. Frahk MeLeod, lulzell; Mrs. IJelmaa King, Sumter; ollowing brothers tynl sisters, A. K. McLeod, Summervllle; T. K. McLeod, Holly HIM; the Kev. P. B. McLeod. lurbeville; J. A. McLeod, Sumter; [>. It. McLeod, Bean City, Fla.; Mrs. j. C. Fox worth, Suinter; Mra. W. T. Vld^od, Camden; Mrs. T. H. New* nan, Mayesville; his step-mother, Mrs. Kosa I. McLeod, Sumter. Funeral services were held at 3 /clock Wednesday afternoon at Beth* my Baptist church, Ave miles south >f Blshopville. A world sugar conference in session it London for the creation of an inurnational tribunal to regulate ,?he sugar industry, aims ut control of overproduction in the twenty-two counries represented at the conference. NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that in ac* :ordance with the terms and provlsons of the Decree of the Court of Common PteaH for Kershaw county, m the case of I. C. Hough, Executor md Trustee of the Estate of K. S. /illeptgue, deceased, plaintiff, versus Douglas Carter, defendant, I will sell 0 the highest bidder, for cash, before the Court House door at Camden, 3. C., during the legal hours of sale >n tile first Monday in May, 1937, jeing the 3rd day thereof, the followng described property: "All that certain piece, parcel or ract of land, situate, lying and being 1 short distance Northwest of Camlen, in the County of Kershaw, State >f South Carolina, containing one (1) icre, more or less, bounded North by ands of Manning Williams; East by ands of William Brevard; South by I ands now or formerly of Sallie Cares and West by lands of Margaret lames, formerly of W. R. Pinckney. i "The parcel of land herein describ- ! id and conveyed is the same which j vas conveyed to me by Charlotte M. ! rhompson by deed of date November | ', 19.19, which said deed was recordid in the office of the Clerk of Court or Kershaw county, S. C., on Novem>er 17, 1919, In Book "AT," at page 145." Terms of sale: For cash, the Maser to require* of the successful bidder, i Jther than the plaintiff herein, a deposit of five (5) per cent of his bid, ! same to be forfeited in case of non bmpliance; no personal or deficiency i udgment is demanded and the bidling will not remain open after the sale, but compliance with the bid may i )e made immediately. W. L. DePASS, Jr., Master for Kershaw County. Kirkland & deLoach, Attorneys for Plaintiff. NOTICE OF SAui Notice 1? hereby given tW u I cordance with the terms ami tuLjfl lone of the Decree of the c<w!l Common Pleas for Kerahaw ilU in, the ceee of Federal Kara afl gage Corporation, plalutiff, vem., 7*1 A. Habon and W. A. Branbam ?9 ante, i will aell to the hiKiieat for caehi before the Court at Camden, B. O., during thTSi houre of eale on the first Mond*? May, 1937, being the 3rd day thUl the following dema;ibod proiM-rtT'l All that piece, parcel or tJ, J land iu Watoree Township, KeELl Countx, State of South Carnifag TJJ twelve (13) miles west of the oS of Camden, containing tw0 and fifty (260) acres. more or v9 and boynded on tho North by uj ojf First National Bank, of I) a? bon/ and by the public road as the Smyrna Road; on tho twS lands of Mrs. J. A. < Ma^le) jSj on the South by lands of First iS tlon&l Bank, aud lands of QualU- 9 o? the West by lands of Quail.? Harris, of 8. W. Wood and of nl National Bank and I), a. Habon M is the tract or land conveyed to 9 A. Rabon by Maggie Habon by <3 dated February 15, 1933, and r%9 ed In the office of the Clerk of q9 for Kershaw county in book of dJ C. E. at page 484, and describe? said deed as containing two hun3 and twenty-five (225) acres, more? less, but which by survey and Jm by J. T. Gettys, Jr., surveyor, ou ? cember-44#' 1933, is shown to' Jm two hundred and fifty (250) ac? more or less, the said plat belnt9 record in the office of the gIm'1 Court' for Kershaw County, g? Carolipa, in plat hook No. lo at b3 2, the original plat being on file 3 the Federal Laud Bank of Colun? as agent for the Land Bank ConS sloner." ??? Terms of sale: For cash, tnij? ter to require of tho successful? der other than the plaintiff herd? deposit of five (5) per ce#t of hfe? same to be forfeited in case of i? compliance; no personal or defiti? judgment is demanded and the mH ding will not remain open after? sale, hut compliance with the bid? he made immediately. W. L. DePASS, Jr,? ' Master for KerBhaw Coi? Kirkland & deLoach, ;? Attorneys for Plaintiff. Notice To Debtors and 's Creditors All parties indebted to the eiii? of Dige Brevard are hereby nojf? to make payment to the undenlp? and all parties, If any, having eld? against the said estate will prn? them likewise, duly attested, wl? the time prescribed by laWi ? MOSES BRBVAttD? Administrator? Camden, S. C., May 7, 1937 ? Premier Mussolini of Italy, charp? France and Great Britain withVk? ing the Spanish neutrality accori? threatening to plunge whole-held? ly into the Spanish civil war side of General Francisco leader of the rebellion. FIRE?AUTOMOBILE? BURGLARY?BONDS I9 DeKALB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE COM 9 "INSURANCE HEADQUARTERS" 9 U3 H CROCKER BUILDING?TELEPHONE 7 -H ^ M. G. MULLER ELIZABETH CLARKE, Mgr. ou A LI FORMS?OF?INSURANCE . -aM | j. c. cox J1 i Sanitary Plumbing and Heating |j TELEPHONE 433-J 9 23 Estimates Furnished on Short Notice 11 ELECTROL OIL BURNERS 9 H MEET ME -AT -UTM I BROAD STREET LUNCHB I ON TOP OF THE HILL "JH I ? 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