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mri ?v.. . "I " * ; l~ ' !. - 1 ? JgBgg HAIL INSURANCE While you are making your plan* for the 1938 growing season,/don't forget to provide for one of the most important things ? HAIL INSURANCE. This insiursnos is just as important as fertilizer or any of the other things that go into the cultivation and har^ . vesting of your money crop. May we suggest that you call at our office and securo full Information. C P. DuBose & Son INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE Crocker Building Telephone 43 . THE TOWN CRIER I |BY FRANK H. HEATH) "Anyone who whistles ia a moron," declares a professor of psychology. Vea, or an optimist, which la about the same thing. Ordinary citizens knowing Utile about either battleships or combat planes, can only sit on the sidelines while the experts thrash out the arguments. Either way it goes however, we will be privileged to pay. A famous fiction writer says that a well-dressed man should have about twenty-two suits. The only place that anybody in Camden might have twenly-two suits would be in a Justice court. I think that of all the fool laws I ever heard about is the one up in Wisconsin which permits snoopers going around and arresting dairymen for selling milk that is "too rich." It is just as silly and damn foolish to arrest farmers for selling "too rich" milk as to arrest storekeepers for selling underwear with too much wool or moat without not enough gristle. Some of these political nimcompoops that are at largo In the country ought to be put to work on a farm or woodpile to eam a respectable living. Nothing gets beyond reach so rapidly as a brilliant future. Modern trallers~TTave "just about~air the comforts of the modern home, even to the mortgage. I An educated person is one who can j pronounce "Comparative" and "Comparable" correctly. Among the things that cover a multitude of sins are charity and a nice, fat bank account. Reports from abroad show that a paper hanger who grows crasy with power is a greater menace than a Kaiser who claimed he was Ood's partner. ' Getting around to Bports?talked with a couple of chaps who, motored over to Aiken Sunday to attend the polo game. They said that there were about two hundred people watching the money bags riding about on the pouies. The game lacked excitement such as features the games here in Camden. "We'll stay right at homo after this," quoth one of the wander-1 ! .* Getting into the matter of sporting events. The Camden Country polo gang certainly missed Carl Lightfoot Sunday. ? The funs like this hard-riding and accurate shooting player as evidenced by the inquiry coming from eight different people Sunday as to why Carl was not in the lineup. The publicity sharpshooter over at Aiken Is seeing things. Those caipacity crowds that gather at the polo j events down that way are figments of I maginative genius. j j You have to come to Camden to see ! a real crowd at a polo game. 13y the way, just a suggestion to i the Camden polo club. We saw a 'spectator take a nasty fall while com| ing down the steps of the dinky grandstand at the No. 1 field Sunday. Had he been injured the polo club i would have had an unpleasant dami age action on its hands because the ,step that gave way under the weight of this man was in rather bad shape. Our suggestion is that a few dollars be expended In making some repairs .around the diggings. The railings 'are about ready to pop off and some of the other steps are in a dangerous condition. bles took revenge on the Camden All I Stars last Friday, trimming them 9 | to 5, in a game at the Fair street pasttime pasture. Infield errors by Camden mixed with Yankee sharpshooting decided the issue. The way that polo game Sunday ended was a real thriller. The final whistle had blown and the ball was being pounded around in the Camden defensive zone. Suddenly Dick Floyd took a healthy swing and the willow flashed between the uprights. Score, New York 0, Camden 5; and the Creed trophy race was all tied up. A | third game next Sunday. . * t * I Speaking of exercise?did you ever go to the Camden theater and try to enjoy the screen play when some dame in back or right in front of you is going to town with a gum-chewing act. Will some one explain why it is necessary to chew gum with a tom1 my gun effect. | I Talking about a cow chewing its cud. The bossy Is the essence of si ence in comparison with Borne of I hese gum chewing addicts that ineat the Camden quickie palace. "The wheel that does the squeaking is the one that gets the grease. I That's an old saying. Paraphrased. It might go like this: "The firm that does the best Job of letting people know where it is, what It is, and what it has to sell, la the firm that gots the business." I The same goea for cities, 110 one of I which ever became prosperous or famous by keeping its whereabouts a secret. Camden might well have several large sign boards on all tho main highways going through the city. I * We have in mind Highway No. 11 and also No. 521. These are the main highways and thousands of tourists use them yearly. It is very true that [ -nrany of the?tmrrtets?who?use thcoo highways are in a hurry to get to their destination and probably wouldn't stop over in Camden no matter how many attractive signboards are put up. 1 * j But not all are in a great rush. Many, noting the many things that make Camden famous, might decide to stay weeks and some, liking the place, may stay for months. And oth-l erB might become permanent resl-l dents. I J In any event, whatever the percent-1 age that would be induced to stopl >ver and spend a little time here .the .dvertlslug certainly wouldn't do this community any harm. We are not suggesting any municipal appropriation to erect such signboards. The needed funds, we believe should come from these who profit most the commercial Interests. It would seem a good idea for discussion by the As.ociation of Commerce, the Rotary lub and the Tuesday luncheon club. We doff our hat to the folks ove; at Sumter. As a result of concerted cooperation between business men and city officials that progressive community will have one of the most modern baseball plants in the state. Sumter has secured a WPA loan of $11 291 and will erect a baseball stadum to cost about $23,000. It will be up to date in every particular, with smooth turf outfield and diamond, grandstand and bleachers and a club house beneath the grand stand. The new ball park will be used for high school games, American Loglou team games and if a central Btate semi pro league is started, the Sumter league team will hare this fine park to operate in. The tentative WPA project involving the building of a new polo field and ball park here In Camden Is still up in the air, so far as any progress is concerned. If the project goes , through, let us hope that the base-j ball field will be built right, with the , right kind of outfield and infield sur-j facing, a grandstand with club house' provisions and all the other- thingsj that go to make up an honest-to-goodness bail plant. * * We could say a lot more as to why a baseball plant like this will benefit Camden to a greater extent than any port program ever put over here, but tOT Obvious reasons, we are signing off. ?* f . ~~ ' ..?I a'^gy. .." i,'jinin.Tnml|iAinHm"Hii rx^~ \ Operates Typewriter At The Age Of 99 (My Frank H Heath) Oscar heighten. u guest at the Hobkirk hotel, traded an old typewriter of (he vlutuge of 1916 for a lulu mod el This business trade, on the hare statement of facts, fulla completely to offer anything of a neway substance, hut when one learns that Oaear heighten ia just a few weeks from be lug 99 years of age, the element of the unusual In news pops out. For there are few men who reach the age of 99 years and fewer still who can operate a typewriter at that age. Hut this veuerable patriarch dglly types Interesting letters to friends la the north. And perhaps most Interesting fact regarding | this man is that he does not use eye glasses, his visiou being almost perfect. Oscar heighten, poet and writer, comes from the Isle of Shoals, off the coast of New Hampshire. He was born June 30, 1839> at Portsmouth, N. H.f but when a small l&d, moved with his father to the Isle of Shoals, where his father became keeper of the lighthouse. In 1843 his father erected the llrst hotel on the Isles and operated It as the Appledore House for fifty years It was a largo rambling live hundred room building and became the tnecca of men and women famous in the world of art and literature. Oscar heighten visited with such notable poet a as Hawthorne, Lowell, Whittle!- and many others famous In American literary history. And the association with these beautiful minds made a poet out of l*eighton. For over seventeen years Oscar heighten huB been a winter visitor In Camden. making bis home year alter year, in the homey, comfortable at mosphere of the Hobkirk Inn "It has been very inloruHllug to me to see the characters 1 knew here as | wee babe* seventeen years ago now | with babes of their ow n," he said Oscar lxBghton was a brother of Cella I.elKbton Thuxter, whose fame as a writer Is well known to the connoisseur of literature. Shu died in 1936. Up to just a few years ago Oscar heighten drove his own car, this in itself being a most remarkable feat for a man who has passed beyond the four score and ten span of years. When the writer, after au hour's interesting visit with this One old character, was about to leave, Mr. l^eighton pressed upon him a copy of his own poems, the exquisite little booklet, entitled "Songs and Sonnets." In the many gems of poetry In the booklet are sevoral dedicated to this community. "In Uaiuden Town," Is one written a few years ago and which reads as follows; "The Seabourd Air-Lino speeding down Leaves me again in Camden town. Proud land of romance and delight, Land of the hluejay's azure flight, Or curdinals on flaming wings, Where songs of lluavon the brown thrush sings! Through the (all zenith-reaching pines How beautiful the sunlight shines. Ami mocking-birds are singing, hark! That fluting was a meadow lark Dear cliildry^at the schoolhouse door Ciroet their old northern friend once more; With love 1 clasp each friendly hand Of comrades in this pleasant land." Honor Roll Bethune Schools tirade 11? Jean Bethune, I/oreno Blackmail, Gerry Davis , Katherlne Foster, Dorothy Horton, Eva Horton, Iris McCaskill. Margaret Mclaiurln, ml a Newsome. Grade 10?Alvin Kelley, Joseph Mo-i inier, Ulean Hunter, Myrtis Mungo.j Ixnitee Hlnaon, Margie Jones Grado ?Frances Holms, Alvo MeCaskill, Drue 11 la ItatclifT, Blanch Kdna It ran non. urade a?oona Lane, Janet to HinHon, Viola Huxley, Vera Morton, lOthel Deo Watkins, Atha Leo Mungo, Margaret Eubanks, Myitis Morton, Joo West, Nell Morton, Sadie Mao Tidwell, Dorothy Watkins. Grado 7?Catherine Cole, Tresste Mao Davis, Josse Fletcher, Sara Gordon, Hetty Hammond, Sara Margaret King. Dempsey Mavnard. Grade 6?Wayne Hlackmon, Carlisle Floyd, Bertha Mangutn, la>ro Munn, Ralph McCasklll. Grade B?Carolyn BetluTneTjT^f. Campbell, Oreu Fletcher, Ermine Floyd, Tola Gardner, Evelyn Hammond Sara Rebecca McKlnnon, Hobo McLeod, Eugenia Parker, June William a. Grade 4 ? Margaret Hraswell, Joyce Fowler, John Nell Huckabee, Vlrtle Mae Outlaw, Elizabeth Smith, Goorgla Mildred Soulrea. Eagles have been known to live a century. DID YOU KNOW THAT DIVIDENDS FROM Federal Savings and Loan Associations WERE EXEMPT FROM State Income Tax and Dividends Surtax? FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF CAMDEN DIVIDEND8 OF FOUR PER CENT PAID SEMI-ANNUALLY * J Investments Insured Up Tp 15,000.00 __ Compare This With Postal or Bank Savings ^ ; . . r 1 . 1, > ? ) , ' ' .7 ' ; ' ' ' - ' -- -- .?ft -r s -? T^rT~yi i tf tfe-* - ii; _ _? f . ^ ? - ? 7 * _ I FARM IMPLEMENTS I McCORMICK-DEERING INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO. I Fariuall Tractors Grain Drills Tractor Harrows Stalk Cutters I I Disk Harrows Mowers Plows Hay Rakes Engines Reaper-Binders Wagons We carry e large stock of REPAIRS for above I II machines. I Expert Mechanic at your service INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS IWHITAKER & CO. I Phone No. 4 Rutledge Street I A LOT OF GAR for a VERY LOW PRICE Tka Standard Tudor Sodom The Ford effort to make your dollars buy a constantly better car is well illustrated in the Standard Ford V-8. It has all the basic Ford advantages. It is built on the same chassis as the De Luxe Ford V-8. It gives you a choice of smooth 85-horsepower or 60-horsepower V-8 engines. But it sells at low prices, and includes bumpers, spare tire, cigar lighter, twin horns and other equip merit that make it a still bigger bargain. With the thrifty 60-horsepower engine, the Standard Ford V-8 is priced especially low and gives die greatest gas mileage in Ford history. Hundreds of owners report averages of 22 to 27 miles a gallon?or even more. Your pocketbook will approve of the Standard Ford in every way. And so will you when you drive it! 7HE STANDARD fQRQ y.g ' -'f -J' Mm,_,mhwmmmmmmmwmi^mmmhmmm mmm ??* mmm ?mmmmmm^mmm?i mmmmmmwmm-wnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmbmhi^mmm MMMMmmMMM ~ " ~ ^ REDFEARN MOTOR COMPANY 1 SALES SERVICE . ...J Camden, Sooth Carolina ... I . 1 ' ' 1 . .1-, .'JU- - I If