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I VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE ji [ 336 .ere., four mile, northen.t from C.mden ? J f Woodward Airport. Thi. f.rm ba. been .ubdividJ J j?lo three trxct.. Will .ell a. . wbo|e or jn parj ^ 9 (00d farm, good building. ??d excellent loc.tion I. 3 being offered .t b.rgain price and on ; m T. D. NOLAN J phone 538 P. O. Box 155 rt . ? ? : Cherter, S. C. ? aI r_i ,r "f r-fi-- -1. * SPORTS SENSE t b, AND NONSENSE I FRANK H. HEATH | P-- O fchldfl to I*obby B*11- Bohhy 18 |a[ the sweetest outfielders In the flSht league and a valuable ad?to any team. He ought to fit Mil with the Guards. lit Job of umpiring that Babin 11 Ightfoot staged In the Cub-Merit game last week was as nice a 0( "cabin' em" that 1 have seen , season. [teplng the mob back of the chains Ld a lot. It also affored specta(a better chance to see action at home plate. * 11 the luck in world to Jack Neti and Clarkson Rhame as co-manrs of the Camden Cubs, formerly Legion Junior team. * * bat shift in the batting order and tviaton of the linkup on the field ( ped a lot, for the team looked fine the game against the Great Falls n. * * he idea of organizing a six club tral South Carolina baseball loop i swell om- and we hope it car-, through. It will mean a big boost laseball enthusiasm "here iu Cam-, .... | imden. Rock Hill, Columbia, Flor|e, Sumter and Great Falls are I poned as league cities. It would It a nice compact group. ? - * * *?w Iney remarks that if Bchmelling ieen battling Joe Ixsuls the other t inatead of it being Braddock, I Louis would have taken another lng. ? ?b, Tunney, we sure hope that have the right dope when those boys mix in the ring next time. * * ie fact that Louis' backers are tog wide of the big German leads J believe that Joe isn't going to -?ny chances of getting the tar out of him again. * r sincere congratulations to Percys and Dewey Creed on the Eswinning of the first half of the fcht league race. ; * * ore is a lot, of credit due that gang. In the opening game of, league away back in- the spring Jox took it on the chin from the *8, 22 to 0. * ire they discouraged. "Like John Jones," quoth Dewey and Percy, have just begun to fight." And te it or not, that Is just exactly happened Fighting hard, forgthead and then dropping back { i Oilers made life miserable for ie other teams of the league and | y out of the chaos of a four team hey wo i top honors. a if teams were left in a tie for id place. The second half scheiloses late in September and the k at that time will play the fir6t inner for the city title. If the i win again?well, that would set* matter. ' hats off to I)r. Corbett, Dougijkln and several other notables 'tag top-hat softball fans. They ?1br a game and one evening toe ground was a wee bit damp, Wnent medic calmly told us he j?tog to sue the recreational bu'of canceling the game. Fellows, ?P8 like you who are putting this ll Bummer sport program over with a bang. i * Joe McKain is on his vacation. We'll miss seeing Joe doing one of his dashes down the main drag. One swelligent boy, and who should know better than the Skipper. Don't know where the gang got that nickname for me, but it sure has taken hold of tbe crowd. So In the future, "Skipper" to you. * * * Welcome home Moultrie. Missed you a heck of a lot when you were across the poutf hobnobbing with the Duke, Wallie, Mussolini, Hitler and Haille Selassie. * Whoops my deah! Did you know that Camden has a real old nightie club. Real old fashioned nightgowns with tails. Wow! Women, did you say. Gracious no, some of our best known bubin<*BH men are still wearing those old duds so common back in the Revolutionary war period. * * # Laugh, gosh sing it laugh, but believe me, I can remember back up in the Lake Superior country when one of those balloon nighties, flannel at that, felt blamed cuddly when the temperature was down around 30 degrees below. Buckward turn backward, Oh -time in your flight Bring back that nightshirt again, gosh what a sight. Pappy come back from that echoeless shore Don that old garment again as of yofe. Well, after recalling those good old days for a few spasms, let us wander back into the realms of softball. Some smart alecks took up the b&Bes, removed the Tubber plate and In general raised Merry Hell with the softball setup at the high school grounds Monday. The opening game of the second half schedule between the Professionals and the Redfearn Motors was delayed fifteen minutes while the plate was being replaced' and the bases lined up again. ~*The recreational bureau has made complaint to the police and that unit has promised to see that the affair does not take place again. The high school field is now used only for softball and bases, atffP^the like, cannot be changed for hard ball purposes, saith the bureau pf recreation. Well, the Redfearn Motors led the league after trimming the Pros, 6 to 1, Monday night. Mister Russell's son, Beck, pitched a three hit game for the Motors. Dr. Oscar was on the mound for the Pros and had an off night. He was nicked for nine blows. * The girl next dopr called up to inquire hpw Jack Nettles was gettingalong. "My gosh," sez I, "What's the matter with him." "Well," said the Girl. "Something terrible must have happened. He sat on that bench on the Fair street side of the field Tuesday nigt and never said a word." I "Gosh," sez I. "He got the Blues from the Blue Devils." The hot weather sure has taken a lot of the pep out of the gang this Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Ge4 MoGee, Copyright. I#*#. PA88 THE FISH .1 went home to lunch today. Lunch, meaning dinner, wuh on the table- 1 j hu<l my choice of ti different vegeta; bit's, including crowder peas, corn on J cob and off, okru and tomatoes, plain tomatoes, and Irish potato salad. Fried chicken and rulsod gravy and hot biscuits were also set before me. ..Out of all of the ubove named rations, I found none that my appetite craved. The night before, we hud a party at our house and somehow or other, the folks went to the expense of serving small portions of cavier on still smaller potato chips. 1 ate 2 chips and the contents thereof. ..Having in mind the aforementioned caviar, and knowing that none of this delectible essence of a Mark Sea sturgeon was In sight?1 asked if there were any sardines in the house. She said, "Yes?there are other sardines in the house," evidently cracking at me as though I was one yet uncanned. The sardines were duly served. They called back my saw-mill, cotton gin, and golng-to-town days. ..Nothing used to be any better than sardines. They were nearly as good on this occasion as they were in my youth. I ate only one box of these so-called imported fishes. (They were 'tnarked "Norway," but they looked like "Maine"), I used a little vinegar, some pepper, and 3 pickles, besides about 10 soda crackers. ..Nobody with whom you talk, 5 to ti hours after you've eaten sardines, ever has to guess what you've been I eating. 1 avoided nearly all of my 3 (friends on my way back to the office, jbut one of them simply had to talk I with me; she'B a very dear frJend,-too. j Our 3 cats followed me 8 blocks. Havj ing used soda crackers with my sar| dine^, I soon learned why so many sparrows made a dive at me when I did some sneezing. ..It has been 4 hours since I enjoyed those sardines, but I am still being avoided. Looks like somebody would invent a fluid or a sauce that would out smell sardines. They are really and truly swell food, but no one is fit for decent society after having "rej pasted" upon a box of them. I ate an onion after I decided that something had to be done in order that my self-pride might be sustained. 1 really do give ofT a fine odor now; onions messed up with sardines. But it's worth it to your social standing to eat some sardines every now and then. FLAT ROCK AND CEDAR LANE .PLAY A CLOSE GAME OF BALL j LAST WEEK a right smart of dicontent and disturbance taken place enduring the game of baseball last satturday p. m. betwixt flat rock and cedar lane, the first trnbble Bhowed up whefi It was pointed out by a batter for the vissitors that the empire, mr. skin fllnnt, had only 2 fingers on his left hand. ..it seems that mr. flinnt hell up only his 2 fingers for 3 balls and the same for 2 balls, as that is all the fingers he had. that made the batter take another chance as he thought 2 more balls would be flung to him, when, as a matter of fact it was alreddy 3 balls and 2 strikes.- this miss-understanding caused a lot of talk and hollering at him. ..a new empire was warmed up in the third ending that, had 4 fingers on both hands, allso 2 thumbs, but he I was so near sighted, he called 2 past week. And I'm telling the little old world that trying to keep a schedule perking is some Job. The Blue Devils debuted in the majors Tuesday and took ft 17 to 5 lacing from a loafing Merchants team. The Blue boys did their best but frankly, they'll never have a chance against the play of the other seven clubs in the wheel. strikes on the batter when the ball was being pitched buck to tho pitcher by the ketcher. be could tell when the batter hit u ball onner count of the noise, but he couldden't tell whether a ball whm coming lowurda hint or gwi lug the other way. ..the game wa? delayed over time eitUd lark (for the home team) come to tlje bat. he usually knocked 2 fowls behind the grand stand and lost them, und as that left them with 1 more ball, he took It on hlsaelf to knock a home run when this altua tlon come about, and that meant that all 3 of the balls owned by both teams were lost at the same time. I ..the icore seemed to be tied In the 8th ending, it was reported by the tally keeper to be 45 to 45, but the captlng of the flat rock team checked up on him and found that he had transposed his Aggers and It* was 54 to 45. it looked rather suspicious to the funs; he was from cedar lane, and the game was In their favvor. the attendance was of verry bad at this game, a nlcknlck was being hell by miss Junule veeve smith in I honor of |ier golug away for the summer and that took nearly all of our young men who are^it pressent unmarried, as well as a few married men who are verry fond of her allso. ?he will tower vlrglnny, n. c., and wind up at a beech In our own homo state and she will^be sent for by ourl poleesman who is her cuzzin In hlsf] ford after she ends her stay. j yores trulle, '! mike Lark, rfd, i corry spondent. I ShrinePlanned To Thomas E. Watson Thomson, Ga., July 10.?The men who carry the farmers' mail have doelded to make a national shrine here at the home of the "Father of the R. F. P." | The tree-filled acres and the spac-l ious house at Hickory Hill soon will he a mecca for rurallsts wishing to pay respects to the man who secured the first appropriation for free delivery ot their letters and catalogs If the Thomas E. Watson Rural Free Delivery foundation has Its way. Gordon H. Thomson, president of the foundation, said they were raising funds to buy the homestead, restore the beauty the fiery Tom Watson gave it, and build a park. I Red-haired Thomas Edward Watson (he was named Edward Thomas, but reversed the order In early youth) J won a seat in congress in 1890 on all farmers' Alliance platform. In 18931] he obtained the first money, $10,0001| for rural free delivery. | The outspoken Georgia man, who 11 founded a New York magazine (Tom Watson's Magazine in 1905), twice ran ] for president as a Populist and be- , came a United States senator, was < called "the Incarnation of the agra- , rian revolt in the new South." , His home near here was a practical I demonstration of his Ideas of rural , living. At Hickory Hill he edited his , Jeffersonlan weekly paper, through , , which he managed to keep embroiled 1 in Georgia and national politics. He became known as the "Sage of Hick- , ory Hill." | , The rural carriers want to renovate ! the place, plant more trees. Thomp- , j son says It will take some $40,000 (which will be sought from rural carrlei s and those they serve. I Watson bought the plantation In 1900 from the son of the man who had built It soon after the Confeder-I ate war. He lived there until he died in 1922. I I His name still Is a household word I in Dixie (there is a Tom Watson watermelon) and some sections of Geor-|| gin's backwoods yet echo the "Tom | Watson song about a "man of mighty II power." 11 In a clash of police and striking aluminum workers at Alcoa, Tenn., on Wednesday, 21 persons were wounded, two critically. The strike had continued since May 18, and was brought to an end by a compromise. I 8URVEY BEING MADE HERE FOR SIGHT DISTANCE 8AFETY DRIVE (Prepared For The Chronicle) Because a great many automoblleB accidents ure due to road conditions, the state-wide Highway Planning Survey recently placed a special party in Kershaw county to go over ull primary roads und locate every situation where inadequate sight distunce might cause accidents. In this county, the party has completed its work and has recorded every location where the motorist is unable to see at least 1,000 feet ahead of him. The bureau of public roads has set this as a minimum at which driving 60 miles an hour is safe. When engineers first began building highways for our "horseless car-' riages,' they little realized that the day would come when a minimum of 1,000 feet of unrestricted sight distance would be absolutely necessary for modern high-powered cars. Con-1 aequently, there are situations on our highways where a driver may see as little as 160 feet ahead of him. The officials of the Highway Planning Survey want to find these situa-; tions so that recommendations can be made for improving them to fit the needs of the 1937 motorist. The sight listance party has entirely covered 24 i counties and is working on four of ' the. others. ?' The party uses two cars. The first i travels along with a vertical black- _ and-white ten-foot (stadia rod) on its aide. The second, with a horizontal bar (stadia interceptor) on itB hood, foliows. At a 1,000 foot unobstructed aight distance, the tip of the pole on the first car appears to touch the horizontal bar on the second one. When the polo cannot be seen from the second car, the recorders know that the sight distance 1h less than 1,000 feet. When the driver of the first car Ipsos sight of the second one, he stops beyond the obstruction. The driver of the Becond car comes up and takes a measurement of the actual distance from where the fiist car comes back into view to the Bpot on which it has stopped. This records the minimum sight distance from the back car to the front one. The recorders write down the exact location of the obstruction. They describe tho general nature of It? whether It Is temporary or permanent ?whether It is a sharp curve, hill, right angle, or any other feature that might be remedied. The Burvey expects to finish this work in all counties by September 1. Soviet Russia is still engaged in the pastime of executing alleged "agents of the Japanese intelligence service," 22 being done to death recently at Vladivostok. The widespread search for Amelia Earhart, woman flyer, and her. navigator, Frederick J. Noonan, lost since last Friday somewhere in the south Pacific, goes on, with ships of three nations?England, Japan and the United States?making the search. The search is being directed by Rear Admiral O. Q. Martin of the U. 8. 8. Qolorado, and many airplanes are being used in the combing of thousands of square miles of the ocean in the hunt for the missing flyers. It is now the theory that the lost aviators are on one of the .hundreds of very small coral islands in the Pacific, and if found at all. It will probably not be for several days. COUNTY FAIR PREMIUM LI8T ? Continued From Page Six) 'J0* Pig 3.00 2.00 1.00 and Utter 4.00 2.00 1.00 Barrow 4.00 3.00 '2.00 5?? 4.00 ^ Sow 4.00 CATTLE h First Seoond Third over 2 years of :' ' .. .. $5.00 $3.00 $1.00 j 0r Yearling Bull 5.00 3.00 *?lor Yearling Bull 4.00 2.00 r Bull Calf .. .. 4.00 2.00 JMor Dull Calf .. .. 3.00 1.50 J; 4 years and older 5.00 4.00 ' 1.00 3 years and 4 years ,. .. .. 5i00 4.00 1.00 w 2 years and * , ' J! year? - 6.00 1 4.00 1.00 Yearling Helf 4.00. 2.00 tor T^rita. Best Junior Heifer (?alf .. 3.00 2.00 * *1.60 Get, of Sire 8.00 4.00 Produce of Cow 8.00 4-00 General Agricultural Department First 8econd Third CORN: Best 10 Ears Prolific Corn $2.00 $1.00 Best Single Ear White Corn 50 .26 Best 10 Ears Single Ear^ White Corn 2.00 1.00 Best JO Ears Exhibit' Yellow Corn 2.00 1.00 Best Single Ear Yellow Corn 50 .25 Best 10 Ears Popcorn ... .60 * .26 Best Peck Corn Meal .. .. 1.00 .60 SMALL GRAIN: Best Peck Fnlghum Ooats 1.00 .60 Beet Half Baehel Any Va- . ?' ,frlety Oati . . 1.00 .60 Be?t Peck Wheat LOS .60 v B?.t Peck Rr. i.oo .50 BMt rWk Barter .. .. ... 100 mmmmmSn Ummlywi. Best Peck Cowpeas .. .. 1.00 .50 Best Peck Velvet Beans .. 1.00 .50 Best Peck Soybeans .. .. 1.00 .5# ' Best GallonNLima Beans .. .60 ^ .25 HAY:' \ Best Bale Peavine Hay .,1.00 .50 Best Bale Soybean Hay .. 1.00 .60 POTATOE8: f Best Bushel Sweet Potatoes 3,00 2.000 1.00 I Best Peck Irish Potatoes 1.00 .50 PEANUTS: | Best 5 Bunches Peanuts .. .60 .25 Best Peck Peanuts 50 .25 VEGETABLES: v' * Best Do sen .Tomatoes 50 .25 Best Dozen Peppers ' 60 .25 Best PecK Onions ...... .60 .25 Best Half -Dozen Turnips .60 .26 Best Hslf Dozen Potato Squash .. .tfo .26 PfCANt:! ! * Best Quart Schley 60 .26 Best Quart Stuarts .. .60 .16 Be* Quart A*f Variety .. M J6 Build or Refinance II Your Home With Our Easy Monthly Payment Plan Interest 6% LOW INITIAL COST gfammmrn WEDERAUAVINGS Band loan association ' CAMDEN, S. C. I BEFORE YOU BUY I Printing FROM A PEDDLER [j! 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