Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I REPORT OF CONDITION OF BANK OF KERSHAW .ED AT KEB8HA^c?0CBk2T2THEjCLOSE OF BU8.NE88 ON A88ET8 Ihiic?m with other banks, uud cash item* in pruce** lift (ion sxxt? 4is'i '*'% Government obligations, direct and fully guaranteed ' 7iWuu n n i >. Hiiil DiuniMpul obi iKHl i mi m ... K4\i-v^i .1 :::::::::::::::: i52-?s?;i s oil cotton >7,118.70, other overdrafts *11 7 lllu r miir-c owiit'd, furniture and fixtures !!!.'!!."" 34U6113 LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ,l individuals, partnerships and corporations itl I >e posits ' *34H Ha 42 time deposits 208163084 my, and municipal deposits >4 1U4 ?> >r other banks ....... 1,933.3/ iiul officers chocks, letters of credit and travelers' i sold for cash, and amounts due to Federal Reserve [transit account) 6,471.mi ilities excluding Capital Account *633,io6t>2 L'ount: 1 stock and capital notes and debentures ..>100,000.00 a 60,000.00 tied profits 112,881 04 capital account ix2.88l.04 ABILITIES ANI) CAPITAL >816,037.66 ober 28, 1937, the required legal reserve against deposits of this >34,962.22. Assets reported above which were eligible as legal minted to >386,981.76. Clyburn, Cashier, of the above-named bank, do solemnly affirm ove statement is true, and that .It fully and cprrectly represents ate of the several matters herein contained and set forth to the knowledge and belief. ' T. B. CLYBURN. ttest: . Stevens Threatt lcDonald V Directors. State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw H Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of November 1937, and ^ beivto certify that I am not an officer or director of this bank.' j T. H. FAILE, Notary Public. J My Commission expires at the pleasure of the Governor. NEW USES FOR COTTON H Experiments with cotton on roadHeikliin: are not the only new nses Ho which the fabric is being tried to ^Lcreasc home consumption. I Charles K. Eeverett, manager of Hir new UBe section of the Cotton Hutile institute, in a pamphlet on Hpton consumption in the United points out a number of other ^L??. including construction of airHen runways and mats for the curHe of green or freshly laid concrete Hpj?cntst as well as cotton duck as Hoovering for the outside wall sur- ( He? of the conventional frame dwell- ( Two such cotton covered demonHntion houses have been erected on Hc? island, and architects, housing ( H^irtw, una hntlrt pra Bald to bp , Hplaying keen interest in what may ( H developed as an important new ( Hvkei for cotton. , lit i* interesting to note the vast ( Hwunt of cotton that such expert- , Htnts will need. For instance, the , Hunphh-t says tne importance of the . Hgle outlet for cotton in the con- , taction of cotton re-enforced roads ( Hay he visualized in tha, fact that ( Hwry mile of road so re-enforced ab- } Hrbs the equivalent in fabric of from , Bght to ten bales of cotton. The maHrial is used largely on what the pre- j Hot administration refers to as the | H&rm-io market" roads and there are ( ore than two million miles of dirt s Bids in the country to which the 1 Hit method is adaptable, exclusive I H some forty-five thousand bitumiHwg roads which are re-surfaced < Eighty even thousand concrete 1 Hats wer?- supplied gratis last year ' B> more than twenty states for dem- ' Hutrations of their practicability, and 1 B large 'lnantlty of cotton Is being j in re-enforcing bituminous linB& of malaria-control, soil erosion } H*d irrigation ditches. } Mr Kv<-rett gives credit to the Cot- | H? Textile Institute for beginning ( H movement looking to the new ( Hjw. claiming that for more than , H^e years the Institute co-operated j H highway departments ot a j ^P>iber < : states in experiments with ] I ipttor. fabric re-enforcing mem- x Be b- : wen the base and top sur- , Of bituminous surfaced highways f I ni - .! States Department of Ag riculture made its first allocation of M,300,000 for a nation-wide demonstration in 1936. Since that time the *oads in every section of the United States have been treated with the rabric and just recently it has been lenionstrated in this section, one of he first being sections of the SaludaRidge Spring highway. Nearly five lundred miles of cotton roads were auilt in twenty-two statps in 1936, lsing re-enforcing fabric supplied without cost by the Bureau )f Public Roads.?Greenwood IndexJournal. Save Manure For Greater Crop Yields; Clem son, Oct. 30.?The well fed dairy cow produces about thirteen tons of manure per year and this has a value of $2.00 to $8.00 per ton, depending upon the land and the crop grown, says Prof. J. P. LaMaster, chief of the Dairy Department of the South Carolina Experiment Station. Advising South Carolina farmers to practice the same extreme care as do western farmers _1il_saving, and utilizing this excellent source of ferlility, Prof. I^aMaster points out that the poorer the soil the greater the eturns from manure applied. "Probably one of our greatest ban.Heaps in properly conserving manure from our dairy cattlo is the-acarcity )f suitable bedding material on many >f our farms," he says. "Straws- from he cereals, which make the best type if bedding, are limited in quantity in his section. Some substitutes for straws which may be secured abundantly are leaves and shavings. It will equire from eight to twelve pounds if dry bedding material per cow per lay to properly bed each dairy cow tnd about half this amount for young cattle and dry cows. "After the crops have been gathered it will be well to use the farm labor 'or gathering enough bedding for' the lairy herd to last well up into April, storing it under cover so that it will lave the greatest absorptive proper.ies. "Another excellent source of bediing for many farms is the refuse Tom feeding shredded stover. This naterlal has high absorptive properties, rots quickly in the soil, and is usually abundant on most dairy 'arms." 1 SAVE 2/j I The Cost of Driving-Going by ' GREYHOUND | I FARES AVERAGE I H | SlIGHTlY OVER I fit I For Round Trip* I Botwoon Prlnelpol citr#?. 1 I find I can travel three miles by Greyhound at the cost of driving one mile in my own car?and it's a small one at that? Resides there's no driving strain, no worry, jwst solid comfort and ple?<ing views'the Super-Coach way. Roved Trip Round Trip Columbia ... $1.00 Washington . $11.20 Augusta $3.15 Charlotte .... $2.10 Raleigh $4.60 Jacksonville. $10.45 Richmond ... $8.85Mlaml $17.6$ * New York... $16.65 Tampa $14.40 ; BUS TERMINAL \ ? DeKalb Street Phone 249 j 11 iii.m af^AeaMJi??j ?11 . Nobody's Business Written for The Chronic)? by Geo McGee, Copyright, 1928. I I'VE BEEN RIDING ON A RAILROAD I I hud u peculiar experience lust! jWeek; 1 rode on a railroad train foi ; ilu* mix time in nearly 8 yearn. It: vs.is the name kind of old train, the 'name Pullman car, only the berth had J , a small electric fan in it. and, ac- I Icording to my information, not much! has taken place in the south in trains | for the past lu or 15 years; they are' onlv scarcer. i I ..This train I rode on was a Limited train I never did find out what its ( limits was, but I think It stood somewhere betrlxt 35 and 45 m. p. h. We; traveled alongside a great many lino,' paved roads Our train (Massed 3 model "T's," 4 wagons, and 6 trucks. Kverything else passed us, including t one trailer-truck with 50 bales of cotton on it. ..Hut 1 didn't worry about somethtug shooting out of a side-road Into us. nor was I concerned about the driver! of our train being drunk; I knew he' was sober, llut 1 thought like this: As the engineer on a railroad train hus tracks to run on, I'd sooner risk him with 3 drinks under his shirt than I a car driver in a 1936 automobile with drinks under his. ..I felt 100 percent Bafe all the way where x was a-gaxug. Wr arrrrrrcr an time. The train conductors and porters were more polite than such employees wero 10 or 15 years ago. They ( have out-grown that "all-aboard" indlfferenceuoBs. They were attentive t to the wishes and desires of the pas-, sengcrc, ?nd, by the way, the Pullman j car was full of folks too. I ..Funny thing about trains and other automotive vehicles Our (train) car evidently weighed 150,000 pounds. 1 (saw a bus whiz by us (while we were running in high) that looked like it j would weigh, trimmed for the middle of the road, about 20.000 pounds. It had about 46 passengers on it. The present type of trains have to carryj too much ballast. Reminds a guy of; another guy trying to walk with a set of cross-ties for crutches. T .I have always believed that as soon as railroad trains become competitive, that is reach the place where they won't have to charge 2 or 3 times as much to haul a passenger as the buses do, they'll make it hard on the buses. A train that is trimmed down to size and rated up to speed, and sliced off to weight will sooner or later come along. But railroads change slowly, carefully, goverumentally; and there ain't no telling when the I.C.C. will wake up and find that they really and truly have some competition in the passenger and freight hauling fields. Higher freight and passenger rates won't help the railroads; they are now losing money on what they do not haul instead^f what they are hauling. The public and the taxpayers need the railroads worse than the railroads need them. ANTI-CAT LAWS ..our town counsell has passed a ordinance, forbidding cats to come into, loaf, scratch, or otherwise trusspass on a beef, fish, or meat market under pennalty of hawing all of her 9 lives snuffed out as well as the owner thereof punnished with a big fine to suit the occasion. ..yore corry spondent, hon. mike Lark, rfd, owner and runner of the sanni-terry beef market, was served with a cupple of suppenoes the other day to ancer for a cat which had benn spied meandering up and down his meat market, betwixt the ice counter and the back wall, no doubt?looking for mices instead of meat. ..the undesrslgned bizness man *aw nothing in the cat that could be called a miss-demeanor, as she was not his cat in the first place; and he dldden't know how she got in -ib^re In the secont place, and she was not nawing anyboddy's t-bones and livvers in the third place, so a Jury trial was asked for and got. ..all kinds of evver-dence was promulgated from both sides of the cat, vlzzly: her rat and loafing instinct, and the drawing capacity of f)eh and beef ansoforth. it was proved by the defense that If the cat was there, which she was, no doubt, she evverdently come thru the cat-hole which was cut In the door befoar It was a crime to have her on the premises. ..the prossy-cutlon proved that the cat was not a free morral agent and hat to belong to the beef market, or she would not of benn spending her time there, she, the cat, being a homelowing varmint and not of the vlssiting type ansoforth. the Jury shuck Its head at a cat nibbling a ham that It mought buy a little later on, but It did not become contaminated with inJustls when they did so. ..after all of the witnesses and law* - ***!.- .1 -y-kj yers and other arguments had benn heard and abaorbed, the Jury retired to Lhe back room and fetehed In the followerlng verdick In 3 mlnneta: "we, the Jury, find for the eat and the owner of the beef market, neither which was guilty of a mallls-aforethought crime." (for sail: round stake, square stake, veel cutlets, brains, eggs, lawaage analouce meat rite or form, terms cash . , . yores trulle, mike Lark, rfd, meat ipacker. ^ E3&SSE& .. - 2^, nihil: uti&it&tSeisSiL. Hudson Terraplane Sedan for 1938 The Hudson IVrrapIane Sedan in the Deluxe series is on 117-inch whoolbuse and hus u 96-hor?e}>ower engine. The Hudson Super Terraplane, on the same wheclbnse, has five additional horsepower. Leaps From Empire ; State building New York Oct. 26.?The man who O commit led suicide by Jumping from the observation platform on the 86th floor of the 102-atory Empire State I building was Identified by relatives as Albert Megginson, 25, a negro WPA worker. Earlier, the body tentatively was identified as that of Arthur Morello, . New York, by a note found In the coat of the victim When police went to Morello's home . he told them that he knew Meggin- ( umm u?y l lilV.l ""d f Lo onot h a was wearing when he died The body cleared the set backs to- , taling 84 feet at the 82ml and Tilth and Gtli floors, and landed on an en- , trance marquee while screaming by-( slanders dashed to safety. About 200 persons were on the observation platform of the building, tallest in the world, when the man, j dressed in a blue salt and tan topcoat, suddenly dashed for the rim, valuted to the edge and leaped out. 1 Police found a paper in his pocket with the name written on It. AN IOWA BANK FAILURE The city of Ilurlington In Iowa had a bank failure last week. Bank failures are rare in the United Stutea and have been so for several years. I'p to 1933* they were not infrequent. In fact, bank failures used to happen | so often they did not make interesting news except in the vicinity of their occurrence. The failure of the bank at Burlington is of interest because it was cans- 1 ed by the gambling operations of the! assistant cashier who, about u year, ago, decided that lie could beat the! game in Wall Street. Wall Street' likes nothing better than the shearing! of lambs and it fleeced the Burlington banker to the tune of $400,000 of the bank's money. A dispatch from Burlington says that the cashier was paid a salary of $225 a month, yet he lived in a home valued at $20,000, owned the best river cruiser in the community, had a string of saddle horses, and was the most prominent sportsman in the city.?Aiken Standard. Immense Cotton Crop Predicted Washington, Oct. 11.?The agricultural department forecast this year's cotton crop at 17,573,000 bales of 500 pounds each, based on October 1 conditions, in a statement issued at the weekend. The census bureau announced 8,259,445 bales of this year's crop h?d<i been ginned prior to October 1, compared with 6,031,950 to that date last year. A month ago the agriculture department reported 16,098,000 bales were indicated existing September 1. Friday's forecast was based on 33,735,000 acres in cultivation and a condition of 79 per cent of a normal on October 1 indicating a yield of 249.8 pounds of lint to the acre. A month ago the condition was 75 and indicated yield 222.5 pounds to the acre, larger than any previous year. Then condition of the crop on October 1 and indicated production by states included: South Carolina 67 per cent of normal and 875,000 bales. North Carolina condition 74 per cent of normal and indicated production of ?95,000 bales. Georgia 75 and 1,430.000. The census bureau's report show I Inn cotton of this year's growth ginnoil prior to October 1 count Inn round tts half hales with comparative figures for last year hy states included: South Carolina 414,876 and 278,347. North Carolina 217,845 and 1 li?,093. Georgia 881.767 and 645,973. At New York, caught off guard by the unexpectedly big Increase in the government cotton crop estimates, prices of the staple In futures trading figures dropped to the lowest since the spring of 1933. Quotations fell about $1 to $1.50 a halo shortly after tiiading was resumed following a halt, when the market received news of the estimated yield of 17,473.000 hales, the sec-1 ond largest in history, The market reaction was due not only to the almost record figures of the government forecast, hut also toj the unexpectedness of the news . which came like a thunder cloud out >f a clear sky to traders and produc-i crs alike. soil conservation-woodland maintenance (Ely Guy A. Card well, Agricultural md Industrial Agent, Atlantic Coast, Line Railroad Company.) j If properly maintained, woods will rumlsli at till times a convenient supply of timber, fuel and fencing tse, and at Intervals will yield valuable material for the market. The ma- i ior factors in proper maintenance of. woodlunds arc protection from fire, uid grazing and judicious thinning. No other one factor nor comhlna-. ion of destructive forces can wreak co much havoc in so short a time tpon woodland as fire. Fire destroys he sponge-like layer of humus material uii the forest"floor, thus exposing! he mineral soil and permitting the I apld runoff of water. It also destroys : coeds, seedlings and sprout growth,! :hus retarding or even preventing the ( production of the stand. Although ;i forest fire may not actually kill the argor trees it may so weaken them than they become susceptible to inlury from insects and* diseases, or to lamage by wind or sleet. Every ef'ort should be made, therefore, to present the burning over of woodlands. Hazards, such as brush or other dob"is along traveled roads should bo emoved. Where conditions permit ind the danger of fire Is great severU furrows plowod around the wooda ( will assist In stopping fires. I'asturing of woodlands has been me of the chief causes of their de-J Lerloratlon. The severity of the dam- { ige depends largely upon the number bf animals and the size of the woods. Dne characteristic of a heavily pastured woodland Is the almost com-1 plete absence of young growth, or its existence only In small rugged patches us broken or scrubby muterla I. Cattle, horses, mules, sheep or KoatH eat young seedlings, particularly the hardwoods, trample them out, or brush against them ami break them off. Hogs eat the seed and thus prevent reproduction from start lug, or root young seedlings out of the ground and sometimes eat the roots. Oruzlng damages the old tree growth through trampling and wounding of the roots and through compacting the soil to such an extent that it becomes almost impervious to water. On the steopor slopes the water tends to touow lite pauiH mane by stock, and this Is often the direct cause of gullies being formed. Woodlunds generally make poor pasture, and pasturing makes poor woodlands. Nothing short of a well-maintained barbed wire fence of three strands will insure woodlands from grazing by livestock in thinning it must be remembered that the condition of the soil vory materially Influences the health and vigor of the forest trees. The soil should be kept fresh, soft, loose aud free from mat grasses. This may bo done by keeping the ground shaded. It Is deslruble, therefore, to retain any of the intermediate or suppressed trees which are necessary for shade. In selecting wood for fuel tbo troes to be removed should be those species of least value as well as the dead, diseased or Insect infected specimens of all classes. The tret's which remain after thinning should, as a rule, J)e those which arc of the best form regardless of species, and presumably of the highest market value. Numerous thinnings that remove a comparative iy fow troes -anch time ?ra preferred to one heavy thinning. In general, openings should not be so large that they will not close again within three to five years through the growth of the remaining treo tops. While set rules can not be given to cover a variety of conditions generally not more than one-fourth of th6 trees should be removed in one thinning. Such vines as grape, ivy, honeysuckle and woodbine frequently occur in woodlands. They Invariably twine about the trunks and throughout the tops of the trees. They affect both conifers and hardwoods and do more damage than may be realized. When of largo size, their heavy foliage and small branches shade out and kill the leaves of the trees. Also, by their sheer weight they often bend over the tops of the trees, which are thus killed or rendered unthrifty. The Vines Uave^ no -special value and should be eliminated by severing the parent stem near the ground. Keepuvj Home 'l ies Alive J") ana Warm Your telephone i* means of quick per Bonal contact v. ? t li o s c frit [.do and relative!" wdmnt you d<> not v I -; * as often as >011 would like. More and more people who arc separated by distance? are u=in<: the telephone to keep friendships alive and to maintain family ties. The relief f(om anxiety and the pleasure of hearing e friendly, cheerful voice, give satisfaction and alue which is almost priceless. Tet the cost of a telephone conI vcrsalion It ft f r n friend- m relatives who ate /niapart i?> Mirpri singly low. By usin^ station to station srrv'uf after 7 p. :n. you can talk a distant'' : 1.70 miW? lor aLout ">0c, ami j',riatcr or ics? distanced ro? 'or'er " di ^or . If the town )ou wish to call is not listed in the fiont of your telephone directory, just ask your "long distance' operator. will gladly quote ratea to any point. Southern Beul Telephone and Telegraph Ccmpanq. -- , i i niTTTTI ?