Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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KbERSHAUJ ,T~ I MISS WELCH CARSON, Representative I Copy for these columns must be In the hands of the correspondent not later than Wednesday morning to Insure publication In current week's Issue. \5: Kershaw Personals Mrs. E C. HraBlngtott and daughters, Miss JOdltli and Mtas Mary Evana spoilt the holidayH with Mr. and Mr* Jack Hock ha in In Shelby, N. 1'. | Miaa Nancy Dempster, of Aaheboro, N C. spent the holidays with rela-; 11vch and frienda in town. Mr and Mra. Q. A. WUUford and Hon, Quay, Jr.. have returned from a virtit to Mra. WUHford's mother, In HurtavRle. Mr. and Mra. H. D. McDonald and daughter, Hetty Sue, are vlaiting Mra. McDonuld'a parents, in Orangeburg. Mr. and Mra. John M. Dempster and daughter, Mra. Heulah Hicks, of Camden, vlHitod Mra. Doinpater'a slaters, i Mra. Heulah Cosby and Mies IajuIoo [ Henton on Huturduy and Sunday. Mr. and Mra. Ralph Houaer, of Charlotte, N. C., were week end guests of Mr. and Mra. Hoyd E. Young. Mr. and Mra. Herman Hubm, of Asheboro, N; C., apent the puat WOek with Mra. Pass' aunta, Mra. Heulah Coaby and MIhh Loutee Henton. Mra. Hurry Hell and son, Hobby, of Camden, spent the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Hoyd H. Young. Mlaa Louisa Hunks, of Quminerton. is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Jamos Carson. Mrs. Copelund Maasey, of Camden, visited at thp home of Mr. and Mra. H. E. Young Monday. Conrad Filler, of Lancaster, was the guost of Mends in town this week Mra Ralph Martin, MIhh Mildred Pace and Mrs. James Carson were vlHltorH In Camden Tuesday. Mr. vgnd Mrs. C. R. Hlakeney and daughter, Virginia, were guests of Mr. Hlukeney's parents, in Lancaster on CUrtsttnas day. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cluthrle, of Charlotte, were the gueHts of Mrs. Guthrie's ' mother, Mrs. H. W. Pace, Sr., Christmas week end. Little Mac Carson, son of Mr. andMrs. James Carson, Is now ablo to be out again after an lllnesB of ten1 days duration, | Miss Nancy Tompkins, of Lime- < Htone college, is spending her vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mra. j Robert Tompkins at Wll a-Wanna Lodge near Kershaw. j Fire Destroys Building Tuesday night, December 2N, the building on .Marion street, occupied' by Hilton's lhtrber Shop and the Kershaw Radio Store, and owned by the K. L. Sowell estate was completely; destroyed by fire 'rht* contents of both shops were to such a degree, that they are a to-j tut loss. The building and contents were only partially covered by insurance | Lovely Christmas Party ()no of the loveliest of the Christmas parties wuh given last Wednesday afternoon t?y Mrs. Karl Perry when she entertained at bridge at her home on south Hampton street.Christmas evergreens were UHod throughout the house as decorations. The score prizes were won by Mrs. Ralph Martin and Mrs. it. 1), McDonald. Hefreshinents carrying out the Christmas color scheme were served. KERSHAW CHURCHES ANNOUNCE SERVICES Methodist Church Hev. Ij. D. Hamer, pastor. 10 a. m. Hunday school, D. M. Gibbons, super* intendent. 11 a. m? preaching service with sermon by the pastor. Wednesday, 8 p. m., mid week prayer servise. Presbyterian Church llev. C. M. llrown, pastor. Sunday school, 10 a. m., H. U Clyburn, superintendent. Church Bervlce, 11 a. m. Young people's society, 7 p. in. Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 7:80 p. m. Baptist Church Rev. Davis M. Sanders, pastor. 10 s. m., Bunday school, M. F. Nawthorne, superintendent. 11 a. m. and 8 p. in., preaching Bervlcea, sermons by the pastor. 8 p. m., Wednesday, pruyer service. The pastors of these churches extend a cordial welcome to the public to attend the services. STATE THEATRE KERSHAW, S. C. Beginning Friday December 31. j FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31. I "LANCER SPY" With I>Qlor;e? I >i I Rio SATURDAY, JANUARY 1. "SMOKE TREE RANGE" ( With Ruck .Innos Wurit! h'va J Late Show?10:30 P. M. I), "CHAN ON BROADWAY" With Warner Olnnd ? Boris Karioff MONDAY and TUESDAY, ' JANUARY 3 and 4 "BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938" With Robert Taylor ?Kleanor Powell WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, JANUARY 5 and 6 "LIFE BEGINS IN COLLEGE" With Ritz Brothers?.loan Davis Admission: Mstlnes and Night 25c. Children 10c. Expert Auto Body Rebuilding and Painting DEPARTMENT Burns Chevrolet Company KERSHAW, S. C. COOK and LOVE Heavy 3c Fancy Groceries Fertilizers ? Cured Meats Farm Implements KERSHAW, S. C V * * 0 Bethune Charge Elect Officers All officers of the Bethune Charge of Bethel and Shiloh Methodist churches have been duly, elected and are taking a vital and active Interest In the spiritual and physical welfare of the Kingdom of God. The pastor is deeply grateful for keen Interest that is being manifest In all the do partments of the church. The loyalty and faithfulness of the members is indeed inspiring. The officers elected for the year 11)37-1938 of Shiloh Methodist church arc as follows: Stewards?.1. A. Young, chairman. I (I. K Crowe, H. K Kirkley, L. E. I Wchnrdsot): ? [ Trustees?J. 11. Crowe, chairman. B A. Brown, J. B Kirkley. Chairman of Missionary Committee ?Mrs. L K. Kirkley. The Official Board of Bethel Methodist Kpiscopal church are as follows: Stewards?Mrs. I). M Mays, chairman, Lorlng I lay is, secretary-treasur-1 er. Mrs. A B McLaurin, M. G. King, .Mrs. \V. 10. Davis, B \V. Best, .Mrs .1 L. Klng( C M Graham. Alvin Cly-j burn. | Trustees?J I,. King, chairman. .1 M. Clyburn. Loring Davis District Steward. M G King; Charge Lay leader. Mrs I) M. Mays; secretary of church conference, luring Davis; president of Young I'eo-1 pie's division, Miss Jean Bethune; superintendent of Church School, J. L King; president of Woman's Mis-I sionary Society. Mrs M K Helms; chairman of Church Board of Christian Education, Miss Ethel Turbevllle The above are members of the Quarterly Conference. Church school?General superintendent, J L King; superintendent of adult division, J C. Foster; superintendent of young people's division. Miss Ethel Turbevllle; superintendent of children's division, Miss Mary Arthur; secretary and treasurer, lyoring Davis; pianist. Miss Katherine Foster. Board of Christian Education? i'astor. C. S Floyd, general superintendent. J. L. King; superintendent )f adult division, J. C Foster; superintendent of young people's division, Miss Ethel Turbevllle, chairman; superintendent of children's division. Miss Mary Arthur, vice chairman; representative from young people's dl-' vision, Harriet Mays, secretary; representative from board of stewards. Mrs. A. B. McLaurin; representative from woman's missionary society, Mrs. W. E. Davis; representative from church, Mrs Frank l^e, Mrs J L. King, Jr. The above board meets on Tuesday after the fourth Sunday. Woman's Missionary Society?President, Mrs. M F. Helms; vice presl dent. Mrs C. S Floyd; secretary. Miss Mittie Davis; treasurer. Mrs J. |L King, Jr. The above society mee*s on Tuesday after the first Sunday. Certain corporations have spent $10,000,000 for spies, munitions, and strike-breakers in the last three years, the senate civil liberties committee estimates. In a report submitted to the senate by Senators La Follette, Progressive of Wisconsin, and Thomas, Democrat, of Utah, the committee aaid spying upon laboring man and their organisation* was an almost universal practice in iotfuatry. 0 / Prepared *>y the National Ocofraplilo HoclOtp, Washington, D. C.-Wfftj Barvlo* WITH warmer weather gripping the southland, vacationist* fee) the appeal of northern climes. Knch section of the country has its cool spot. Many easterners are lured to Maine, which I* noted not only for Its tnvlgorutlng summer climate but also for its historic background. The name of Maine may or muy not be French; It certainly is not Indian, like Massachusetts or Connecticut. Of the sixteen counties, five recall the mother country, being named for English shires; live others honor Amerlcau personages of the colonial or Revolutionary periods, and the remaining six retain the Indian names of the rivers within their borders. As for the other names which have received specific legislative sanction for something over 400 cities, towns, und townships, the larger part are simply descriptive, or repetitions of towns In other Now England states. Of the rest, so far as the origin of their names Is known. 00 bear Old world names, so that In that delightful tale by Laura E. Richards, "Narclssa, or the Road to Rome," the roadside signpost plight have pointed to Vienna. Relgrnde, or even China, and kept within the jurisdiction of the County of Kennebec. Proprietors and first settlers are known to have given their names to r>8 towns; governors, generals, and Presidents to 10. 12, nnd 0 towns, respectively ; while Indian names, which so plainly tell their own origin, number only 2.1. An Interesting touch of Idealism was the selection of such distinctive town names as Harmony. Amity, and Hope; i Freedom. Liberty, and Fnity, these j ljml 1 l> ? ??.' IwUnf nei "liltoi'M III Will tip _ county. ~Ct From the beginning the economic; life of Maine was founded on fish, fur and forest. These three furnished powerful Incentives for exploration nnd the chief rewards for settlement. The fisheries of (lie <!n)f of Maine wore even an Issue between king and parliament early la the Seventeenth century, when the English fi-hermen won their light for free (Filing along the Maine coast, despite the monopoly .chanted by James I In his patent to iHe eonnyil of New England. Fisheries a Major Industry. 8o if came that the earliest sites of permanent settlements were chosen not for mildness of climate, hut by reason of proximity to the cold waters where dwelt the fish that could ho converted into a profitable export, without license fee being paid to any patentees of the crown. The fisheries continue a mnjor Industry. The value of the state's fishing products as marketed approximates six million dollars, the two largest Items being the plebeian herring nnd the aristocratic lobster. Along with the ancient business of fishing n place must he given to the popular sport of nngllng, for which Maine offers unsurpassed inducements, in the lakes nnd strenms and nlso offshore. Last yenr 3N.D00 fishermen nnd fisherwomen from outside the state, nnd nearly five times that number of residents. obtained licenses. The fees rereived went directly to hatching, planting nnd protecting a new crop of game fish. The state maintains 36 fish hnteh' orles nod rearing stations, nnd from | rhese last year went 17,000.000 trout, togue. and salmon for stocking the brooks, streams, and lakes. Nearly hnlf of these "planted" flsh were ahorp legal size, and 10,000 weighed from 3 to 6 pounds each. The policy of protecting wild life Is enforcer! hv a corps of 100 gsme wardens. who seek to he big brothers to the youth of the state In training them to be good sportsmen. In the severe winter of 1034. airplanes were used to locate deer yards nnd then cedar trees werp cut to feed the starving deer confined there by the deep snow Moose are far from hving extinct Thcv can he shot ontv with a camera; tmt deer continue plentiful. 18.033 hav Ine Keen killed legpMy In 10"3 More hears are killed ?n \t Ine than In nnv three other state" nrouse woodcock, and docks complete the game ofTerlne with pheasants promised na a future attraction The Early Explorers. As early a* l6tF> <?pt. George Way mouth and his companions on -thwj Archangel?many of them world tmv < elers for that day?wsro deeply stirred . fey their Brat views of a Maine river j which the captain named St Gaorgt'aj (now St Georte) | ^ At sspltraimrr ^trip^taisivd jtovjrj 1 hills, convinced Ihem of the "beauty and goodness" of the laud, au recorded by Hosier In his True Relation of thur "most prosperous voyuge." And the author boldly affirmed St Ueorgq's "t< he the most rich, beautiful, large and secure harboring river that the world nffordeth." A few years later (1014), Capt. John Smith wus less attracted by this eastern purt of the region he named New England. Yet he saw fit to say of this coast, "Those barren lies so furnished with good woods, springs, fruits, fish and foule, that it makes uie think though the coaSt be rocky, and thus uffrlghtable, the valleys, plains and In terlor parts may well (notwlthstand lag) be very fertile." So moderate a statement must hav? been exceeded by other testimony of that day, since only a dozen year.later another explorer on the Maine coast. Capt. Christopher Levett, a member of the Council of New Kngland. felt It necessary to "debunk" certain other travelogues, not preserved for the mpdern render. In reporting on his voyage of 1023-4, he remarks: "Nor wlil the Deare come when they are called, or stnnd still and looke on a man, until he shute him, not knowing a man from a beast, nor the fish leape Into the kettle." And he continues: "But certainly there Is fowle. Deare, and Fish enough for the taking If men be diligent." which equally well describes the Maine of 10*23 and 1033. The discovery of this part of the North Atlantic shore/Is usually credited to John Cabot jf Bristol, on bis second voyage In 14i|K. The honor of mailing the first detailed contributions \o accurate geographic knowledge ol^^Malne must, however, be shared by n^Frenchman lain and the aforementioned Captain, Waymoutli. In 1005 both Champlajn end Wnymouth were sailing along the Maine coast. So near did they come to meeting that in midsummer Cham plain heard from tin Indian chief on the Kennebec of the presence of an English ship ten leagues to the eastward, which was undoubtedly Captain Waymouth's Archangel. The race was on between the French and the English; and the Maine region was destined to be eventful borderland for a century and a half in the contest for control between New England and New France. Settled by Sieur de Monts. The first settlement in Maine was made by Sieur de Monts, who In 1003 bad obtained from the king of France a trading concession for Acadia, then defined as extending from Cape Breton Island to the latitude of Philadelphia. With Chaplain as his lieutenant, De Monts set sail for the New world fully equipped for his colonization venture. Some three months later, on .June 'JO. 100-4, a smnll Island In n sheltered river was selected as best adapted for n fortified settlement and trading post. This Island was named Saint Croix and was not far above where the river now bearing the same name empties Into Pa8samnquoddy bay. - Here, on what Is now also known as Docket Island, was erected a group of dwellings In part built of timber brought from France, with n storehouse, dining hall, kitchen, and blacksmith shop. Hardens were lnid out, all carefully planned by Champlaln. The site of this earliest but shortlived settlement In Maine, which antedated Jamestown, Quebec, and Plymouth, was not wholly obliterated. Before the Pilgrims. In a speech In congress 100 years after statehood was granted to Maine, Representative Robert Luce of Massachusetts, himself Maine born, remarked that Maine might more fittingly be called the older sister of Massachusetts than her daughter. And the records of early settlement and trade well bear out this contention. On Capt. John Smith's map of New England of 1014. for example, the site which Is now York wus named Boston, thus locating In Maine, so far as ! maps go, the first New World Boston ?and nil this before the Pilgrims ever landed ! When the Pilgrims set foot on Ply month Rock, not a few Englishmen had already been sojourning on tho MnP'e const itv?P even had wintered there. The welcome of the Indian sachem Samosel was In the Pilgrims' own tongue, learned from the flaber-; men on the Maine const. Indeed, thirteen years before. In IfiOT, the Pnj> bam colonial* built a fort in "thMf r. northern colony" which mounted IS pkitm They alao erectel a chnrch^ soton prepa BEKfcT'a" PROTECTION OFF8ET8 FIRE DANQER8 IN DRV FORE3T8 Although weather conditions this year brought a serious forest tire hazard in many parts of the country, recent Improvements in flre-proteotlon service more than offset the ^indery dryness ofv most of the forest areas, United 8tates ForeBt Service records show. "The first few minutes," says the Forest Service, "are as important in controlling a fire in the forest as they are in a home or a warehouse." Effective fire protection depends largely on getting an adequate crew of Are flghte^j} to the blaze in the shortest possible time. Better trails and more of them, lookout towers and improved communication systems by telephone and radio, and the presence of work^ crews in the forests all contributed to getting men to Are lines quickly. From 1932 to 1936 the average acreage burned annually in the National Forests was nearly 338,000 acres. This year, up to the middle of November, only 99,348 acres had been burned, although the number of fires this year, 11,208, exceeded the average annual number of the five preceding years by almost 1,500. Of the more than 11,000 forest fires which broke out in the National Forests so far this year, all but 240 were controlled within the first 24 hours. More than 90 per cent were held to less than ten acres. CCC camps and other groups of temporary employees In forests provided a generally good distribution of men who could be turned to fire fighting when the need arose. The CCC workers hare proved to be willing and effective forest firemen. And the trails and roads they developed i LYN0N1NG8 IN Tuskegee. Dec. 27.-?According to the record a compiled in the department of records and research of the Tuskegee Instltutue there were eight persons lynched 4? 1937. This Is the same number eight as for 1936; 12 less than the number 20 for 1936; and 7 Iobb than the nnmber 16 tor 1984. All of ihe persons lynched were In the hands of the law; thrfe were taken from Jails, and five from officer* of the law outside of Jails. Two of the victims were tortured with a blow torch; then one was shot to death and the other was burned to death. There were 66 Instances in which officers of the law prevented lynchIngs; Ave of these were In northern states and 61 In southern states. In 61 of the instances the prisoners were removed or the guards strengthened or other precautions taken. Jn five other instances, armed force was used o repel the would-be lynchers. A to 'ij tal of 77 persons, five white men and 72 negroes, two women and 70 men, were thus saved from death at the hands of mobs. Of the eight persons lynched, all were negroes. The offenses charged were: Rape, 1; crime against nature and robbery, 1; murder, 4; wounding officer of the law, 2. The states in which lynchings occurred and the number in each state are as follows: Alabama, 1; Florida. 3; Georgia, 1; Mississippi, 2; Tennessee, 1. in most of the National Forests in the last few years helped to save the few minutes that in many cases make the difference between a small blaze and a serious fire. THE VYORLD'S GOOD NEWS will come to your home every tl?y through " THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR An International Daily Ne^i paper It record* (or rou ll?e world ? clean, constructive dolnc* The Monitor doe* not exploit crime or *e??ation; neither doc* ft Ignore them, but deal* correctively with them. Feature* for hu*y men end ell the lentily 7 inol ud tug the Weekly Mugaslue Section , The Christian Science Publishing Society One. Norway Street, Boston. 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