The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 18, 1938, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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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.
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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
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Getting into the matter of sporting
events. The Camden Country polo
gang certainly missed Carl Lightfoot
Sunday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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* 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.
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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
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Investments Insured Up Tp 15,000.00
__ Compare This With Postal or Bank Savings ^ ;
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