The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 16, 1937, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
I VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE ji
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T. D. NOLAN J
phone 538 P. O. Box 155 rt . ? ? :
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SPORTS SENSE t b,
AND NONSENSE I FRANK H. HEATH |
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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.
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11 the luck in world to Jack Neti
and Clarkson Rhame as co-manrs
of the Camden Cubs, formerly
Legion Junior team.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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r sincere congratulations to Percys
and Dewey Creed on the Eswinning
of the first half of the
fcht league race.
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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.
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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
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Bummer sport program over with a
bang.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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