The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 17, 1937, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
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II at 25 cents per pound in ones, twos
H and fours. You'll like it.
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j cake slices easily and does not crumble. A regular 75
cents quality for only 50 cpnts per pound. Guaranteed
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Phone 429 DeKalb Street
(SPORTS SENSE... . >, I
AND NONSENSE I FRANK ?. heath
After Santa haB used TfcBr~cftiinney
for twelve consecutive years In - a
child's life, the old fellow just seems
to go up in smoke.
The move for paper money printed
In different colors seems superfluous
with so many budgets already in the
red.
Did you know that Hollywood dancing
girls pickle their feet in brine before
work. Perhaps that explains
thy so many movie muaicales go
'sou r.'
Business means jobs, Jobs means
Camden Theatre
FRIDAY, DEC. 17.
Final showing of
"THE LIFE OF
EMILE ZOLA"
With Mr. Paul Muni
SATURDAY, DEC. 18 .
Dick FOfan In
"BLAZING SIXES"
. Also ' "The " Painted Stallion"
Oswold Cojmedy and Cartoons
Lets Show, Saturday,
December 18, 10:30
lack Holt and Mae Clarke in "OUTLAWS
OF THE
ORIENT" j
Efrfrssoaoooooo?^oo?ooo?oo<
MONDAY and TUESDAY,
DECEMBER 20-21 <
The most hilarious romance that
ever came out of Hollywood!
"STAND IN "
With Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell
and Humphrey Bogart
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 22
John Barrymore with Lynne
Overman in
"A NIGHT CLUB
SCANDAL".
A,'ded: "Christmas Comes But j
Once a Year."
THURSDAY, DEC. 23.
John Wayne ,and Louise Latimer
"CALIFORNIA V. : ~
STRAIGHT AHEAD"
business and there -1b no prosperity ,
for business, labor or government un- ;
less all three get along together. I
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By the way, when he learns how ,
the poorer classes live, what in heck
will the Duke of Windsor do about it?
President Roosevelt is lucky. When ]
he gets disgusted with congress he J
can pick up and go fishing. But that's
more than the country can do. .
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Japan says-that the Chinese refused f
to see the handwriting on the wall, J
even if it was inscribed with water- .
cooled typewriters.
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The Casino in New York, a place *
featuring nudes, has closed shop evi- j
dently?hert use nomeone was losing ,
his shirt. '
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- With the gearshift lever out of the
new cars, the front seat should ac- j
commodate at least two more sweet .
young high school gals.
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A doctor up in the midwest says f
this world is suffering from a "typi-. ,
leal. - manic - depressive psychosis," f
which my friends, to put it plainly 1b >
"nuts.'* i
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If I am ever called on to MC a vodvil
show in these diggings*,' re is
one act that I certainTywill see is 1
offered the connoisseures of dramatic *
art and that will be Beck Russell's .
offering of the death scene in Romeo '
and Julet. "AH American" gave us
a lurid portrayal of how Billy Shakes- 1
peare- would have liked it. I darn
near swallowed a roll.
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A1 Sanders sat next to me at the ^
football dinner the other night and f
said that he noticed Florida newspa- *
pers had changed its column headings r
from Births, Marriages and Deaths i
to Yells, Bells and Knells. Which r
brings to mind the usage of some
other papers in "Hatched," "Matched"
and "Snatched." i
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What a heck of $ mess we would g
be in had Landon been elected and &
the country gone to war and we had I
to waste good minutes by A1 insist- 8
ing on adding a syllable to "attacked"
The Seaboard Air Line has placed 1'
its crack Orange Blossom Specials p
in service between New York and n
Florida, the first of the deluxe trains c
going through Camden last Friday. C
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An interesting fact in connection tl
with the Orange Blossom Special that
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Traffic Notice \
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Effectire December 16th, until further notice, the
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one hour parkin# ordinance will be enforced daily in- J
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stead of on Saturdays only. _ V . ' 1 ?
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cooperation of the Public is respectfully re- u
quested in-order that more parkin# spaces may be t
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DeKalb News Notes
WrstvllJe, Dec 16.?The Christina*
spirit pervades (he air hi DeKalb
School will (lismlrtH on next VYedues
i day ft r the holidays, resuming .'an
imr\ so announces SuptMlnteudcm
Cyril n Umjbeo The 1* T A. pre
gram Thursday evening featured n
( hrlstinas playlet under thc< capable
I t]<re(tiou of Misses Mai v Wells Stp
| vett*ett and A unit? I<?e fe>mi(h, pi hiiary
it arhers
Mrs. Dewey Hay and two duimh
tern, Unilse and Joan, of Ulveis.de,
visited relatives here on last Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. J N Truesdaie, of
near Camden, visited parents of Mrs
Truesdaie here Sunday.
A lovely miscellaneous shovver was
given Friday afternoon at the homfe
of Willie Mae Peach, with Annie Cox
urtNoeiuto hostess, honoring Oberla
Youiik whose engagement to William
Est ridge, of liethune, was announced
recently by her parents, Mr. and Mrs
Walter A. Young.
A mother-datlghter banquet w?8
given in the home economics department
Wednesday evening under the
direction of Miss Minnie Hodges.
Teacher. The banquet room with its
decoration of mistletoe and other
Christmas green including a miniature
tree was a pretty Bettljtg for the
excellent foods served the mothers
by their student daughters. Invited
to attend as guests were state supervisor
of home economics, Lillian C.
Hoffman, of ColutUbia, and Mrs. Kathleen
11. Watts, of Camden.
. Mr. and Mra^ Cyril B. Busbee bad
as guests Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. W.
J. Busbee, of Wagner, parents of Mr.
Busbee.
- Annie Cox. suant. the week end visiting
her grandmother, Mrs. A. Ey
Cox, in Hart^ville. f
Included on the community sfck
ffst this week are Dotty and Helen
Ilroonie and Mrs. Vermin Williams.
McKay Brabham spent the weekend
at his home in Bamberg.
Superintendent J. B. Reynolds, of
Lancaster county schools, last 'lhursday
demonstrated two projection machines
to the Baron DeKalb school,
oi^ of which we hope to purchase to
passes through Camden Sunday morning
was the presence on board of the
largest gorilla in captivity. The gorilla,
weighing 500 pounds traveled on
a first-class ticket?but .was being
kept in the baggage car to avoid
"alarming" the phsBengers. As an
added precaution the jungle boaBt is
confined in a big chilled Hteel cage.
Mr. Gorilla was enroate to the winter
headquarters of the Rlngllng Brothers
and Barnum and Bailey circus
at Sarasota, Fla.
From Gorillas to the species that
pick all-star football teams ,is a long
lump. I wonder.
We note that some "picker" down
n Florida picked an all-southern high
ichool football squad and placed.some
>f the lads from Columbia, GafTney,
Ureenville and Spartanburg as mem>ers.
The entire list includes fortysight
players, the alleged cream of
?he crop of scholastic players from
L2 southern states. Those from South
ZUirollna. are Klmbrell. of Columbia;
gtrain, of Gaffney; Payne, of Green.
Mile and Tlnsley of Spartanburg.
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Oh hum! We know of a few nearer
lorae who would have fitted into the
>icture just as nicely, in fact, better.
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"Watch the typewriter rattlers on
?ome of the sport sheets in the
lorthern, part of the state bang out
lome sarcasm at our expense since
ye wrote that letter to Dr. SifTord.
Well, we can take It?but can they?
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Tskf Tsk! and Tut! Tut! The
nake-up man on the Columbia State
nust?^have been humming "Backward,
Turn feaajtward, Oh Time in Ypur
flight," for he affixed a December
i, date line to the November 12 sport
page.
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We dislike to say ft?but if we had
tot seen it with our own eyes?we
vould never have believed it. For a
act boy8, Percy Mays, the Kenesaw
(fountain I^andis of the Esso baseball
anks has his Ebso 1937 champions
n training for the 1938 softball league
uckus.
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And believe H or not, they are trainng
on a diet of croquet?the battle
;round lying Just south of the Mays
;as station on Broad street, where
Jiy sunny afternoon you can see
'ercy putting his lads through the
;entle art of laying down bunts.
Schlager Max, the big Teuton, who
ly our opinion is heavyweight champion
of the world, had a nice breather
t expense of Harry Thomas, Chlago
boxer, *at the Madison Square
iarden in New York Monday night,
fax won on a technical knockout in
he eighth round.
Johnny Revolts, the dashing Italian
oy, who for many years waB caddy
laster and later professional at the
lilbourn Masonic country club In Milraukee
won the Miaml-Blltmore golf
hampionship Monday by sinking a
wenty-foot pntt.
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Johnny Is not only a good golfer hut
e's a swelllgant lad. I often met him
t Madera, a German restaurant in
[ilwaukee, and believe it or hot,
hose Rhineland boys had to fix a
eapingr dish ~ of spagettl to _ satisfy
ohnny's appetite.
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Max E. Nohl, a Milwaukee young
tan, using equipment of his own d?
Ign smashes the world record by divig
420 feet to the bottom of Lake
iichigan. That will remind some
eople of the stock? they own.
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Business, too, has been having an
Icerated tooth and intestinal'trouble.
.
Parisian fashion designers predict
jpless bathing suits for women by
940 and they couldn't mske the beach
x>k any worse than some of these
airy ape effects since men got the
ram ?
And Inst a word of oemtort to you
ten who worry about the Christmas
Mi situation, please remember that a
>u Ma-hand fa worth one In the trash
connection with visual pduca-1
1 tton.
| < Mr1' and Mrs J Carl Owens au?
I tlOUIlcv tlio blrlh of a daughter at the
.(Camden hospital Sunday, December
She bus been named Anna Car
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Frlfptd- of (1 M Anthony will b;>
pleased to learn of his improvement j
i in health a lei h lou^ *ioge < i lllne n
ii Mrs. 1. ( t'hburn, Jr. and the |
Mi-isu." l.i.lian llegler and Miu*I e. ?
Cumdefi h ihiiiiul uur&v-n IiaIuLIa[
school spt t.i Tuesday visiting Mi ftnir1
Mrs. W K lleglor In I aiuaswi j
, I V, ,L Anthony and Mr Jones, eon '
' (litdor on the Southern railway, v.?
' l ilod Mr Anthony's parents here In s j
'day.
I x Mrs. K. \N' Young, aceompanled by J
. Misses Mtunic Hodges, CJuru Lee Vct'
Comb, Annie Leo Smith and Dorothy.
Moffat, spent Saturday In Columbia. j
i A number of our folks attended the!
polo pinv played in Camden Sunday !
afternoon.
I Huron DoKalb baakotbull aouson
[opened Friday night with a double'header
played in the Rerahaw High
, School Uyui with Kershaw team us
opponents. . . I
I Coming as a complete surprise to
'friends was,the announcement of thu
marriage of Miss Kuby ' Br&r.non, of
I near Beth una, and Bert Hyatt, of Casaatt.
on November 20 In Camden. Miss
Brannon is Jho daughter of Mr. and;
'Mrs. L. C. lirannon, She attended,
Bethuno school. Mr. Hyatt ia a son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hyatt. They I
are making their home with Mrs J.
C. Hilton. Sr.
Members of thu board oi trustees
were entertained by the home econo- j
mlcs girls on tho evening of Decern-,
bar 2 with u banquet.
r ? Mius Ada liay had a visitor Men ;.,
day?Miss Gladys Tryesdale.
Mrs. H. L. Owens, of Bishopville,1
apent Sunday visiting relutives here |
Mr. ami tors. Bert Hyatt, Mrs. J.
C. Hilton and Miss I?la Halie Hilton,
of Camden, visited relntiyes In Lancaster
Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mobley, of Honth
.Springs, and daughter, Mrs. J. B. Spittle,
of Knnnapolls, N. C., spent lart;
'Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I
T. J. Peach. ' !
Mr.' and Mrs. Tony Jones and little
son, Tony Mac, of Hock Hill, spent'
! Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. An- i
thony.
Carnival Has Winter,
Quarters In Camden'
The Crystal carnival company, one
of the largest show troupes to appear
In this part of* the Country last summer
and fall, has moved into its winter
quarters at the Kershaw County
fair "grounds#here.
All of tho equipment of the carnival
1b here and In February a crew |
of sAventy-flve men will start a t\vo-|
months program of repair and reno- ?
vation to stands, rides and the like. |
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Read the label on v*i?r paper and \
watch the date. '
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John Nelson Rldgely Invited newsnen
to drop In and have "a drink
dth me," as he celebrated his 10f>th
drthday anniversary at Portland, Orgon,
Tuesday.'
Three bandits hold up a bank at
HaleyviUe, Ala., Tuesday and got away
with $2,500, after lining up I ho
bank employes along a wall at pistol
point.
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