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Watch The Pullets
lit Laying Quarters
"The poultry flock owner's Job la
not over when the pullet# are put Into
their laying quarter*," says county
agent W. C. McCarley, advising that
if these pullets are to be most profitable.
the owner must k&cty an eye on
them from the time they #jre put in
the laying hpuse until the whole flock
comes Into Production.
"It may be that some of^ the mow
aggrosslvo pullpts will keep others
fought off from the feed hoppers," he
continues. In such cases, additional
food hoppers may correct the trouble.
In other cases, It might be well to remove
some of the less aggressive pullets
ana put them iu u port to themselves.
"It would be wise to cull out the
slow-developing pullets that are lato
coming into production, also those
that show any Indications of being
sick."
Pointing out that sometimes considerable
trouble is experienced because
of a large numbor of floor eggs,
the county agont suggests that additional
neHts may help to correct this
trouble. If one nest to every four or
live hens is already provided, the
troublo may be corrected aomowhat
by darkening the nosts. This can be
. - done by making the nests deeper or
by hanging some feed bags about 18
Inches In front of them. If the birds
still refuse to use the nests, it would
be wise to put the nests on the floor
until the pullets get accustomed to
using them.
"It Is a wise plan," says Mr. McCarley
as a final suggestion, "to go
Into the house with a dim flashlight
or lantern after the birds go to roost
to see If certain parts of the roosting
space are avoided because of drafts
or other reasons. It may be n'ecessary
to place some of the pullets on
the roost at night until they get the
habit."
NEW BRIDGE PLANNED FOR
WATEREE RIVER EARLY DATE
A new bridge, to cost $350,000 may
be built over the Wateree river west
of Camden within the next two years,
and probably within 18 months.
The state highway department has
received a report from the engineering
unit that a now structure of the
modern type of bridge would cost approximately
the above sum, and Senator
S. F. Brasington has expressed
the belief that the bridge will bo In
actual construction at an early date.
In addition to the new bridge news,
Senator Brasington also reports that
the work of putting on the bituminous
surfacing on Highway 26, known as
the Eastover road, will be started
early In 1938, as the highway department
has arranged to receive bids for
this job In December.
The work of surveying Highway 34,
between U. S. No. 1, In ILugoff and
the Fairfield county line, is now under
way, and when thiy >urvey is
completed and the gradb-^ostablished,
the state will advertise for bids. It
is said that the general route of the
new highway will be approximately
where the present 34 is, but that a
few relocations may iron out some
bad curves and grades.
A new highway between Liberty!
Hill and Kershaw, a distance of 18
miles, opening up virgin territory,
rich in beauty and agricultural lands, j
Is uuder construction and the work
of making a preliminary survey has
been started.
Senator Brasington, with former
governor Richards of Liberty Hill and
C. C. Horton of Kershaw consulted
with highway commissioner Hamriek
of the Kershaw-Richland counties district
and state highway commissioner
Ren M Sawyer at Columbia Tuesday.
t 100 Horses Die In Blaze
\. Bennettsville?Fire destroyed an
auction barn of the Folletle Horse
and Mule company here early Tuesday
together with live stock valued at
? $15,000. Equipment of the C ircle Bar
F. Ranch Rodeo, stored a; the barn,
also was destroyed. More than ,100
horses and ntules were trapped In the
big barn and burned to doath. a
quantity of feedstuff also waa destroyed.
The Max*- had gained such headway
that efforts to bring It nnder
control or remove the livestock were
fruitless. - Eight animals ware ~. rescued,
several of these had to b# destroyed
because of severe herns. The
total loss was eetlttaUd At AMI *?,~:Mk
Pisgah News Notes
Pisgah, Nov. 22.?On Wednesday,
November 10, Miss Blancho Norrls
and Herman McManus were married
at the Baptist parsonage In Bishopville,
Hev. J. T. Llttlejohu officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Charlie
Norrls and the late Mrs. Norris. The
groom is the eldest son of Mr. and
Mrs. Belton McManus. Their friends
wish for them a long, happy and prosperous
life, ^ ... I
The W. M. U. held its regular
monthly meeting on last Wednesday
afternoon. The devotlonals were conducted
by the president, Mrs. H. R.
Konney, who also made a very interesting
talk, after which the following
officers were elected for the coming
year: President, K. R. Kenney;
vice prosldent, Mrs. W. P. Baker;
secretary, Miss Carrie Baker; treasurer,
Mrs. Leroy Rogers.
Miss LI la Baker spent Thursday
night In the Charlotte Thompson
community with Miss Gladys Gaskln,
a member of the school faculty.
Mr. und Mrs. Clarence Hough, of
Camden, and Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins
Watson and little daughter, Suzanne,
of Orahgoburg, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Baker spent Sunday with Mr. aifd
Mrs. J. T. Watson.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mcl^eod and
young daughter, Mary, spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Bakor.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McManus and
Miss Anna Hawkins were Sunday
supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Belton
McMan us.
Students Inspect
Timber Harvest
During the past week the Vocation- J
ai Agricultural classes of Camden and j
Baron DeKalb high schools have inspected
tlfe~oito-acre demonstration in
improved methods of harvesting timber
crops established on D. R. Williams'
Mulberry PplantatlQn near,
Camden by the South Carolina State ,
Forest Service.
Accompanying the students and ^
their teachers was District Forester,
R. W. Rieger, who explained the demonstration
in detail.
The advantages of conservative cutting
practices as opposed to clear cutting
were emphasized. Mr. Rieger i
pointed out the wisdom of converting
the tops of trees cut into sawlogs, j
into pulpwood and fuel wood thus de-1
riving a profit from material often
left in the woods to decay and present
a very great fire hazard.
The forester stated that the fact
that the acre on which the demonstra- j
Hon has been established has grown, j
an average of 1 1-4 cords per year,
which is considerably more than is
produced in a year on the average
acre of forest land in South Carolinu,
can be attributed chiefly to the wisdom
of the owner in protecting his
lands from tire. The thirty-six year
old stand of pines has never been
burned over.
H. A. Small, who is vocational agriculture
teacher at Camden, nnd W.
11 Carter, who has charge of the
course at Baron DeKalb high school,
state that .their classes were (juick to
realize the wisdom of handling timberlands
In the manner demonstrated
They felt the Inspection a very
Interesting und worthwhile one.
Dry Weather Increased Fires
Ranger W. C. Perry reports that the
period of dry weather which was
i broken by rain last Thursday night
resulted In numerous woods fires in
the county.
The ranger states that, during the
i week ending Thursday, November 11,
j seven fires burned over 22.9 acres of
woodland in Kershaw county.
Mr Perry urges hunters, woodsi
working crews and others having oct
raston to go into the woods to take
I every precaution to prevent the oc.
curence of woods fires.
Columbia police captured Worth
Proctor and Sam Thompson, two of
the gang ot convicts who escaped
from the North Carolina penitentiary
and later killed a policeman in Asho,
ville. The most notorious of the escaped
convict*, Bill Payne, eluded
jthe Columbia officers in a wild chase
* through the business part of the city,
'with the police unable to shoot without
endangering other people. Payne
| and Jack Barden, his pal, left Colum.
Ma, on the road to Wfauufroro and
I disappeared. The gang palled recent
S.W6WTT.
The Last Trip of |
The Hindenberg i
Our trip on the Hlndenburg in May
was the most uneventful Journey 1 (
ever undertook in en airship. Visl*1
billty was bad, and. we had barely j
glimpsed the North Atlantic before (
we had crossed it. Passengers spent
their time reading, addressing post-j
cards In the writing room, discussing.
Germany's problems in the smoking j
salon. In the reading room i'tbe
Doehner children played games while
their mother crocheted. ' The ship,
glided as smoothly through the black
storm clouds as though it were a
calm, moonlight night.
On the third day we sighted Newfoundland.
Binoculars and cameras |
appeared, and my wife's delight grew
when the white dots along the coast j
turned out to be icebergs. The cap- (
tain ordered the ship to fly low and
steer toward them. Very slowly we
passed over the most beautiful, which |
looked like a magic marble statue.
The sun came out and laid a double J
rainbow around the airship. The giant
iceberg turned Into a monument- of
sparkling brilliants. . 1
Wo glimpsed the foothills, tho lighthouse
on Cape Race, the limitless
Beggar Woman j
Left Money Hoard:
North WHkesboro, N. C.? Nov. 19? 1
Mary Bauguess, 63-year-old recluse
who died this week from burns, had j
cash amounting to $2,030.72?but had j
sought and received relief right up
to her death. I
The unusual case cjame to light ^
aTter her death when neighbors, who ;
J went to her home to look after the
household, found money in every con'da
boxes, cabinets, cupboard, old cans,
old clothes, shoes and in many places
where money was least expected to
be found. {1
The neighbors also found an abun-.'
dance of good clothing stored in the
house?although Mary wore rags un- (<
til her- death. j1
The elderly woman had lived alone 1
the past year since the death of her (1
mother. Neighbors, hearing screams i
Monday morning, discovered her (<
clothes burning./ She was rushed 1 to ]
a hospital but died later. U
The first money found, 3108, wasj
wrapped in an old newspaper on the ;
floor. Search uncovered money in at i
least 50 places in tho dilapidated 3-1
room bungalow?and with each depos- _ i
It a rabbit's tall, which, neighbors
said, had been a Joken of good
In the family for generations.
Mary had obtained relief from the
local relief offices and had begged J
food, clothing and money?in tattered ,
clothes and barefooted?at many of
the homes.
SHORT LENGTH HARDWOOD
LUMBER BOOM TO FARMER.
Manufacture of short length hardwood
lumber Is providing farmers
with a better market for farm timber |
since the lumber trade found a do-1
mand for thlB typo <Of lumber from j
both farmers and manufacturers, re-1
ports the Forest Products Laboratory
of the United States Forest Service.
The trade calls short length lumberdimension
stock. Demand for siuch
stock not only provides a market fo??
short pieces that formerly were waste!
nt the mill, but also make It possible ,
for farmers to sell logs frorrt their I
woodlands at fairly good prices which
previously were used only as fuel, j
More general acceptance of dimension
stock where It can be used In place of
long, wide lumber will be a forward
stride in the conservation of hard-1
wood, timber and will aid In stabilising
many secondary wood-using Industries.
the Forest Service says.
Dimension stock may be cut directly
from large or small logsf short
bolts, round or square, edged timber,1
Jthe siding and sawmill waste.
| Tho hardwood region of New Eng-,
; land is providing most of the dlmen-^
islon stock at present, due to local de^j
J mand a from manufacturers of furi^i-^
ture, sporting goods, toys, tool haa*i
dies, wagons and other products.
Gua Olivia, who at one time coupt- I
ed hia personal fortune at $4,600,006, r
turned up In San Francesco the other
day with $L20 In hia pockets, a patch p
on hie pants and facing a? charge of <
theft. Ha dsaiee the charge and 9*y
mer friends win raise funds tot hfel
j
forests of the Muterland. Then the
coast sprang bft<* aw* we wsaln floated,
u gray object In a gray mint, over
the inylalble sea. On the forenoon
of the fourth day we were over American
territory. Boston passed below
us, hidden in the mint.
Everyone was excited. The passengem
packed and collected their papers
for their passport examination.
The stewards removed the bedclothes
and piled them at the end of the cor\
rldors. They arranged the baggage
In the stair hall,
For an hour the Hlndenburg cruised
over New York. We were high, and
In the mist the skyscraper* below u?
appeared like a board full of nails.
Then the sun for a short while dispelled
the mist, and we flew so low
that we could See the photographei s
on the top of the Empire Btate Building.
The viaducts and highways were
in relief as in a model, and in a filigree
of steel the bridges swung across
the rivers. The Statue of Liberty
could be seen, small as a porcelain
figure.
A short time later we passed low
over the field at Lakehurst. The landing
crew had been ordered for 4 p. m.f
but thunderstorms, which crowded
around the airport like a pack of hungry
wolves, caused the ship s commander
to move on. This was a bitter
disappointment. I saw automobiles
parked around the edges of the
landing field and peoplo waving to us.
I knew that among them were two
brothers whom I had not seen for 30
years.
We were riding south along the
storm wall, from which slanting bolts
of lightning leaped. We did not hear
the thunder. Above the sea-like
mouth of the Delaware, the Hlndenburg
turned about. The storm had
subsided, and at, the airport landing
conditions were now favorable. A last
threateningly, while with lowered j
nose and high speed we pushed]
through a last rain curtain. The han-J,
gar came into view, the sliding doors (
wide open.'
vTho Hlndenburg turned in a sharp \
^urve In order to head into the wind, i
Water ballast went splashing earth- l
svard to prevent us from landing too ,
fast. From a height of 150 feet, two ,
ropes fell from the bow. Two columns
Df landing crew seized the ropes and
pulled the ship toward one of the
movable mooring masts. <
With my wife I was leaning out of i
a window on the promenade deck.
3uddenly there occurred a remarkable
stillness. The motors were silent,
and It seemed as though the whole
world was holding its breath. One
heard no command, no call, no cry.
The people we saw seemed suddenly
stiffened. I could not account for
this. Then I heard a light dull de-.
tonation from above, no louder than
the sound of a beer bottle being opened.
I turned my gaze toward the .
bow and noticed a delicate rose glow,
as though the sun were about to rise.
I understood immediately that the airship
was aflame. There was but one
chance for safety?to jump out. The
distance from the ground at that moment
may have been 120 feet. For
a moment I thought of getting bed linen
from the corridor in order to soften
our leap, but in the same Instant,
the airship crashed to the ground
with terrific force. Its impact threw
us from the window to the stair corridor*
The tables and chairs of the
reading room crashed about and Jamwed
us in like a barricade.
' "Through the windowI" I shouted
to my fellow passengers, and dragged
my wife with me to onr observance
window.
Reality Skased with one stroke, as
tho\igh fate in its cruelty was yet
K^mpassionate enough to withdraw
from its victims the consciousness of
their horror. I do not know, and my
wife does not know, hoyr we leaped
from the airship. The distance from
the ground may have been twelve or
flfte&f feet. I distinctly felt my feet
touch the soft sand and grass. We
collapsed to our knees, and the impenetrable
darkness of black oil
clouds, shot through with flames, enyeloped
us. We had to let go of each
other's hands In ordeT to make our
way through the confusion of hot metal
pieces and wires. We befit the
hot metal apart with our bare hands
without feeling pain,
x We freed ourselves and ran through
I Nit of Are. It was like a dream.
Our bodies had no weight. They flbatf~Alf
at onoe I had * ftftllng that mf
wife was mm li?T by mf Hie. I
IW^'HuflMiii iTi if if
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turned about, and the flames and poisonous
amoksyapora, struck me.
squarely In the ' I ta%W
stretched out full imtotfQMNI Motionless
90 the ground. I fl<^|pdL^b her
and putr*l her upright. I gave her a
push anil Mw her rOnnM JfcjMe like
a mechal^l toy that baa beisn woupd
up. The violence of the push threw
me on my side. T lay Oh the Git-,
drenched, burning ground, and I had
the, feeling of well-being to stretch
out and uwait death that the thought
did no frighen me. Then I lifted my
head to see if my wife waa safe* and
saw her, half blurred, running through
the smoke vapors. That gave n?e a
new start. I Sprang up aa though electrified
add hulled myself after the
phantom of life.
All at once .my scorched throat
again breathed air. 1 stood still and .
turned around to the ship. Behind
the thick smoke the sky-ship that had
carried us across the ocean blazed
like an Immense torch. Something
drew me' toward It; I cannot say
whether It was the feeling that I must
try to save others, or that demonlike
urge of self-deBtruction which
drives the moth into, the flame. My
wife called to me, called more urgently
and ran back to me. She spoke ;
persuasively; took me by the hand; '
led me away.
We walked along the firewall and
stumbled over the body of one of the 1
landing crew. An ambulance that ,
canle tearing to the scene took us to 1
the small airport hospital. ItB rooms 1
swarmed with excited people llk^ a
disturbed ant heap. In the corridors
on tables, stretchers and chairs lay
the seriously wounded. An ambulance
orderly with a morphine syringe the (
size of a bicycle pump ran about and j
wanted to give everyone an Injection. 1
In one room a, dying young mechan- j
Ic called from his stretcher alternate- t
ly for his bride In Germany and a
by. He was badly burned and hung
more In the arms of his companions
than walked. Men with bloody burns
strode searchlngly through the rooms.
In the next room we entered, Cap-i
tain Lehmann was crouched upon a
table. He was half unclad and sat
bent over. In jumping from the gon-;
dola he had broken his back. None!
of us knew at the time the gravity;
of his condition. I went to him.1
"What caused it?" I asked. "Light-;
ning," he replied. These were the
only words we exchanged. What
could we have said to each other M
the face of disaster, which brought
death to him? We looked Into each
otter's. ?ye?: when I could no_ longer
contain myself, I left. Outside, the
airship was still burning.
The cause of the disaster has been
thoroughly discussed by the Investigating
committee. The main point
remains tjhat, in future inflammable
gas must not be used on passenger
airships, V England's R101 and Germany's
Hindenbiirg are warning
enough. If, in the future, German
and American ships filled with nonexploslve
gas safely make their way ]
across the ocean, then our sufferings
have not been in vain.
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SUMMONS
State of South Carolina
County of Kershaw
(in the Court of Common Pleas)
Fidelity Building & Loan Association,
Plaintiff ^ V ^
against k .>
Lemuel Smith, Lassie Jenpings, Hen- "
ry Jennings, Isobel Bridges, AUen
Jennings and Jetty Byrd Johnson, "
Minor, Defendants.
To the Defentjants Above N&pied:
You are hereby Sumibohed and required
to auswer the complaint in
this action, of which a copy is herewith
Berved upon you, and to. serve
a copy of the answdr to the said complaint
on the subscribers at their office
in the City of Camden, S. C.,
within twenty (20) rdaya after service
thereof, exclusive of the day of
such service, and if you fall to answer
the complaint within the time aforesaid,
the plaintiff in this action will
apply to the Court for the relief demanded
in the complaint.
KIRK LAND & deLOACH,
Attorneys for Plaintiff
November 16th, 1937
To the Defendant, Allen Jennings:
Notice is hereby given that the
original Summons of which the foregoing
is a copy and the original Com~
plaint in this action were duly filed
In the office of the Clerk of Court tor
Kershaw County on Jhe 24th day
of November, 1937.._:__ ?
KIRKLAND & deLOACH,
Attorneys for-Plaintiff
November 24, 1937 " 37-89sb
GOLF
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and,ou? attractions!
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