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C., In 1774 had a courthouse built on stilts over the river. When court convened, ladder* J which ullowed descent to boat* wore removed, and no one could leave. A wrcat ling match decided where one Iowa county aeut ahould he, I New York ahowered Gertrude Kderle with 160 tona of ticker tape and torn telephone dlrectorlea after ahe a warn the English channel hut gave Charlea A. Lindbergh a full 1,800 tona when he came back from Hying the Atlantic. J heao are a few of the atrange bits of folklore and oddities that aplce the work of 4,500 persona busy with the Worka Progress administration's writers project. From a rnaaa of this material and other more prosaic matter the WFA is evolving |ta aeriea of State Guide Hooka. Some already have been published und moat are Hearing completion. i he publication dates, however, are up to state authorities, for the WI'A only prepares the manuscript which la turned over to aome state historical society, unlversly or other state agency for publication. An almanac for New Yorkers includes along with present day statistics on things and places the old story of the Dutch purchase of Manhutton?Manhattes It wuh then?from the Indians for 60 guilders. To add t olor, it gives the statistics on paper showers for visiting heroes. I* ort Dodge was the Iowa town that' became a county seat through a wrestling match. HoMer also wanted the honor but agreed to a settlement or he controversy by u willing match, and John b. Duncomhe, Fort Dodgo pioneer, defeated John L). Maxwell Its representative ' Superstitions galore of Southern negroes have been recorded. To hear a hoot owl at night Is bad luck, but a little salt sprinkled by the hearer will drive the bad luck away. Three lights In a room are bad luck. A whlstlhT woman and a crowing hen are good for neither God nor man." Sprinkling mustard seed on the doorsteps win keep away "bad spirits." Here are some of the other facts and tables they have gathered: The pioneer labor law In America was adopted in 17??8 by Foxboro, Mass and forbade more than eight hours' work in heavy industry, it also provided for a minimum wage of 66 cents. Near Webster. Mass . is a burying ground in which the graves are markI'd with field stones large ones for Id men. small ones for young men. <>t in> sterious oi igjn js s(olle Jmt "Pton, Mass. constructed of huge IIII t oo led stones It js ktlOWlt to tu o\ej .{oo years old Similar huts 111 i"'1'?",l ore atirihuted to sixth cenlury t>n ts Iceland also has such huts believed built by the Horsemen. early Phoenix. Ariz . butcher shops' proprietors killed a steer and ,n"ig i( >'P Customers chose and eut. with their own kni\es. the parts they wanted , Ih,'T Was ,ar> revaluation < s early as it,,3. Scarcity of wampum. used in trade with the Indians, ca used the settlers in what is now en county. N .1 . lo revalue it to !h" basis <,f airings for a penny, instead of eight On* of the famous hoaxes of all ""m. that of the Cardiff giant. Is re told for the Iowa book. This hoax whh carved from Iowa gypsum, aged with sulphuric acid and hurled lit OnodaKo county, New York, to be discovered "accidentally." It created a furore In the aclentiiic world of the nineteenth century, until the petrlhed man waa disclosed as u fake. The giant now Is in the Iowa historical collection of Oardner Cowles, Jr., a Des Moines newspaper executive. Another Old i Plantation Tale (liy Coble Funderburk In The Monroe Enquirer) Several years ago, when practically all of the oldest boys at home, which were fdhr, had finished the little field school house at Dudley, S. C., our parents decided that they wanted to give us a better schooling than Just the seventh grade. They were not uble to send all of us off to a boarding school and it was almost too far to go backward and forward from Pageland, S. C., which was about eight miles away so they went to Pageland and rented a large house. The arrangements were made that my mother would take the children, all except my older brother who was not going to school at that time, and move to l'ageland and keep boarders. My father and my oldest brother were to stay up in the country on the farm and take care of it. Well, we moved to l'ageland that fall, that 1b, mother and the children did, and took in about six or seven boys as boarders. Most of the boys that boarded at mother's that winter were boys who lived back in the country and were going to school at Pagelund. . I One of these boys was a very moody type of person. At one time he would be so light headed until hp was hilarious. at another time he would be so despondent and blue until he would not even talk. And it always seemed like to me that his moods struck him just at the wrong time. When every one else was playing and having a good time he invar|(ably would be moody and sullen, then when every body else was serious he was full of nonsense. He was very peculiar in' other ways too, for instance when we were out playing he was rough and crude and very vulgar, yet when he got around the house where mother was he ucted as if he were a gift from God. If anyone even used slang in his presence when ladies were around he acted as if the person had committed an unpardonable sin. These are just some of the peculiarities of which he had many. All of this, of course did not set well with me and in spite of whut 1 told my mother about him she thought he was the greatest thing in the world and often pointed him out as an example for me to be like. This would nearly kill me for 1 did not like, the boy much anyway and I knew that he had mothers fooled to death. So I decided that I was going to make that young fellow show his reaj'self before ' mother at the tlrst opportunity that 1 got. The opportunity did not present itself until some time that winter. It was on Sunday that 1 stayed away I from church and Sunday school to help mother prepare dinner, all my sisters were too young at that time to be of very much help to mother. While we were fixing dinner that day 1 got an idea and as soon as I could get away from the kitchen I began to prepare to give that young man a nice reception when he came in for dinner Mother and myself were there by ourselves that morning, all the rest had gone to church and I could do anything I wanted to without having to look out for everybody in the household to keep lhem from catching me at it I got a long black thread so it would blend easily with the floor, and, twi-t.d it several times to make it) good and strong Then 1 threaded aj needle with it and wound it up and I put it in mv pocket and went into the! kitchen to help mother set the table! and get the chairs to their places before I did anything farther. Then while she was In the kitchen 1 changed chairs and put a straw bottbm chair at the Greek God's" place and ran the needle up through the bottom of the chair and then stuck the eye, first, back through the chair, one traw from where 1 brought It up ail I ! jttHt left the point of the needle level with the eeat of the chair. Then I laid the BtrinK along on the floor to the eud place where I always ate. Well, everything went along fine und we had the dinner on the table ready for them to eat when they got back from church. They did not lo^e much time In getting seated around the table and started dinner. Almost by the time we were seated at the table mother's little "Greek God" started his chatter and 1 saw that he was in the highest spirit of all. He was the most elegant talker that day Imaginable, the very essence of culture and refinement. Well I let him go on with that Jab until the dinner was about one-half over when I very carefully dropped a knife on the floor and reached down' to pick It up. Of course when I picked it up I picked up the end of the black string with it. I gradually took up the slack of the string In my hand while the "Greek God" held the center of attraction of the whole table. Then while he was right in the midst of a great flare of oratory I gave the string a Jerk. And I mean 1 Jerked it too. My intention was to cause the needle to stick in him and break the string off at the eye of the needle at the same time so I could put the string in my pocket and no one would know who had done it. My luck was even better than that, tof when I Jerked the string the needle* vent up so high and so deep into the little "Greek God" until the Needle followed the strihg out of the bottom of the chair and I wadded the string up and put it together with the needle in my pocket while the victim was having Bpasms. When I Jerked that string that boy shot up out pf his chair with a scream of pain and surprise and he Jumped ho high and so hard until he almost turned the table over and did upset one-half of the dishes on the table. Before he knew what had happened, or where he was, he let two or three of the vilest oaths you ever heard fly. And as it would happen a bowl of chicken gravy was sitting in front of mother's plate?mother was sitting straight across the center of the table from her star boarder. And when he Jumped he turned that whole bowl of chicken gravy over into mother's lap. 1 I Well, when the table finally came' to rest and the dishes were rescued the eloquent boarder began to apologize to mother for his action. Well, I have heard apologies but I have never heard one so profuse lu all my life and he ended up by saying that tftere was a pin in his chair that caused him to act so unnatural. Well, I was sitting down at the end of the table nearly dying to laugh j hut 1 was afrnid to because he had raised more havoc by breaking a number of dishes and turning the chicken gravy over into mother's lap than I had anticipated. When he had finished with his great apology I said in as dry a way as I could, "pin nothing, don't you know that if there had been a pin in his chair that he would have felt it as soon as he sat down; and here he has waited until he was half through eating dinner before he decided to have a running fit. There was no more pin or needle in his chair than there is in my pocket. He was just having one of those crazy fits that he has been accustomed to." With that the boy grabbed the chair i and went around to the other side of ] the table where mother was and said, "Just look here Mrs. Funderburk and see for yourself that there was a needle or pin in this chair." Well, of course when mother looked and he examined the chair there was no needle in it for I already had the needle in my pocket. Well when mother looked at the chair and there was nothing in it, I saw her look out of the corner of her eye at me and 1 decided I had better get out of there and destroy that evidence 1 had in my pocket or business was going to pic k up for me So 1 got up and went out the door mumbling as if I were mad enough to die about a boy being so inconsidorato and t razy as to let his spontaneous moods get the better of him and tear up a whole bouse of furniture. So far as 1 know neither mother nor that star boarder knows until today what really happened at that Sunday dinner. Russia has executed 66 persons following conviction on charges of railway sabotage, under direction of a "Japanese Intelligence organisation" in the Far East. J. A. FAULKENBERRY DEAD Kershaw, June 9.?John Archibald Fuulkenberry died at the home of his daughter. Mrs. John I/ane, of Timmonsvllle, with whom he had made hip home for several years. (Mr. Fuulkenberry had been an in[valid for a number pf years, but he Mkad a cheerful disposition and pleasing manner that made those who j tame In contact with him love him.: He was a man of sterling character and always took an active part in the civic affairs of his1 county and town. He was a life-long member of the Baptist church. - * He was bocn April 26, 1866, near the town of Kershaw, the son of the late John A. Faulkenberry and Margaret Williams Faulk.enberry. In 1886 he was married to Sarah Ann Catoe, of Birmingham, Ala, Early after his marriage he moved to the town of Kershaw, where he was engaged in business until his health failed. His wife preceded him to the grave 20 years ago. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at Hanging Rock church. Services were in charge of his pastor, the Rev. John M. Neal. . He Is survived by one son, Jesse Ervln Faulkenberry, and three daughters, Mrs. John Lane, Miss Elglva Faulkenberry and Miss Lula Faulkenberry, all of Timmonsville; three grandchildren, Herbert J. I.-oine, of Washington, D. C., Miss Margaret Hope Lane and Jack Lane of Timmonsville. General News Notes Three boys were blown to bits when a dynamite explosion demolished a dynamite warehouse at Pine Tree, Pa., Tuesday. Investigators found a rifle near one of the bodies and concluded the boys had been using the powder cache for a target. Roy Phifer, of Mooresville, N. C., has allegedly confessed to the police of Kannapolls, that six years ago he caused the death of Will Bost, a barber, when he struck him with his car near Bost's home. Phifer was a worker in the Cannon mills and later moved to Mooresville. Felons, idiots of insane persons, cannot vote in any state of the Union since they are not legally regarded as persons. In recent years Virginia has supplied from 30 to 50 per cent of the apple crop exported from this country. The strike of workers of various kinds at Hollywood, Cal., in the moving picture industry, is becoming bigger. About 6,000 are involved in the strike and the strikers are picketing the various production studios. The leading stars, both men and women, are continuing with their work. The office of education at Washington says that a falling birth rate brought in 1936 the first decline of public school enrollments in the nation's history. An estimate showed 130,000 fewer children were enrolled last fall than the 26,434,193 in grade and high schools two years ago. The 48th annual national congress of the Sons of the American Revolution, in session at Buffalo, N. 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