Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE TOWN CRIER (BY FRANK H. HEATH) Big 8how Starting lt is almost here, 1 .inline and G?uy^iflien?almost here. The show you Jill i?ave beeu waiting for. We have warn the' Orange festivals, Azalea feauvula and what-not festivals, but now we are going to offer you the greateat bhow of theiu all?the Raspberry festival. Days utid days. weeks ami weeks, months and months of blah, blah und hooey, all presented by the greatest galaxy of caudid candidates ever offered the KUllllble American public.! Hig men, little men, wizards, freaks ami take-your-pick. See the World Best and the Heal Things. The show Is about to start. ' No long waits. Get lu line and see the biggest show on earth. No expense has been or will be spared In staging this great pageant of politics. You will see honest-togoodness congressmen In the flesh. There will be bigger and better bally-, hoo. Climb right up on the band wa-j gou folks and go for a Hide. Not one platform folks, not two platforms, but scores. Yes, hundreds of them. All different and again all alike. The trick friends, is to tell 'em apart. They'll build up right before your eyes and you'll laugh until your sides ache as you watch the candidates gallop madly ubout steal-i jug planks from each othenYou'll see political clowning such as you never witnessed before. You'll laugh, you'll scream, you'll howl as you watch the candidates trying to carry water on both shoulders, tear up eath other's fences, get in each other's hair and go through other comic routines. Ilring the family arid spend a happy hour on Raspberry midway. Every-] body plays. Everybody wins. Pay your money and take your choice. 1'ry your luck at the political shell game. Guess which shell the little pea is under. Watch close friends for you know the hand is quicker than the eye. Guess right friends and it may mean a nice job at a fat salary for you. Guess wrong and you'll be sunk for years. i See the great Free Acts. Our rig-1 lire and fact jugglers will amaze you. I Our balony slicers will astound you. Mud throwing contest, bull-throwing contests, fire-eaters, G-r-r-r. Come on in folks?the show is about to start, i * * i Well, sir-e-e, it certainly is interest tog to scan the box scores of the roajor league games and note the fine performance of one's friends in the big time. Take for instance, Forrest "Tot" Pressnell, Luke Hamlin, Chet Laabs, ' Jenny Keltner, Rudy York, Stir.e, Rensa, and a dozen others. They are putting on the big show in the major loops right now. * It seems but yesterday that I used to wander over to Sherman Park and watch the industrial leaguers battle Sunday mornings. Chet Laabs, now with Detroit; Ken Keltner, now with Cleveland; Rudy York, Luke Hamlin and many others were playing In the Humllot leagues then. Luke Hamlin is now the number one heaver for Burleigh Grimes and hl? Dodger gang, having superceded the great Mungo in effectiveness ho far this season. Koltner has set the Cleveland fans agog with his brilliant work In the field und at bat. Cbet Laabs and Hudy York are going great guns with Detroit. Henna Is with the Chicago White Hose; Stlne is with New York; La masters Is with Phllly. Yes. sir, gents, that fatuous 1936 Brewer machine, winner of the double A pennant and victor in the little world series, has given some real atarH to the big loops. 9 Had a letter from an old friend, Milton Stock, manager of the Macon club of the Sally league. Milt wants tho dope on a certain high school player around this part of the state. Getting down to some local dope, let's pass the pudding to Alderman Nettles. The high school baseball group owes a big debt to the energetic councilman from the third ward. They have a baBoball purk started and it was this Mister Nettles, who put on the pressure to make It possible. * * * Considering the short time available real progress has been made at the fair grounds. The field needs some ironing out there being a number of mountains and valleys that should be disposed of, but Home was not .built In a day, so what can you expect in the construction of a baseball plant. Another year you'll see a good layout. And speaking of baseball, that game Friday between Camden and Newberry, looked for by the fans to be a real battle, In view of the close margin of victory at Newberry, had to be called off because of the grounds being a sea of mud. The sun came out at noon but the mischief had been done by the almost torrential downpour of the night and morning. ? ? Getting into the fun column let me state that any nation that can produce?and survive?the hats our women wear, chain letters, yo yo tops, jigsaw puzzles, the lilg Apple, puzzle contests, six day bike races, dance marathons, the clothes our bathing beauties don't wear, sidecars, galloplng"partfes,"Treasure hunts, wrestling matches, will eventually be able to overcome the depression or recession In spite of the politicians. * * * * European diplomacy, says a commentator, upon current events, is In the hands of a lot of ham actors. Unfortunately, this isn't an accurate appraisal of the situation. It would be better to state that European diplomacy Is in the hands of a lot of bad actors1. * * * ? Fellows that you don't see once In a coupie of years are here, there and everywhere, when the election pot begins to boil and the candidates go into action. Bethune Schools Honor Roll Grade 1?Margaret Braswell, Betty Joe Hilton, Joyce Fowler, Georgia Mil'1 red Squires, Virtie Mae Otulaw, John N? 11 Huckubee, Thomas Bowers, Elizabeth Smith, Clarlne Sullivan, Irene Vinson. Grade 5?Carolyn Bethune, Oren Pleti ht-r. Ermine Floyd, Evelyn Hammond. Grade 6?Wayne Blackmon, Carlisle P*1 o\c] Lore Munn, Eva Josie Ratcliff. Grade 7?Tressie Mae Davis, Sara Gordon, Sara Margaret King, Catherine Cole, Dempsey Maynard, Jesse Fletcher. Grade 8?Margaret Eubanks, Vera Horton, Sadie Mae TIdwell, Dorip _ / Lane, E. W. Tolbert. Grade 9?Blanche Edna Brannon, Drucllla Ratcliff, Alvo McCaskill, Frances Helms. Grade 10?Myrtls Mungo, Margie Jones, Loutee Hlnson, Annie Maej Campbell, Joseph Moinler. Grade 11?Jean Bethune, Lorene Blackmon, Geraldlne Davis, Dorothy Horton, Eva Horton, Katherlne Foster, Iris MeCasklll, Margaret McLaurln, Lula Nevsome, Nell Ratcliff. No Japanese army officers are held ( prisoners In case of capture. In the event of capture or near capture, they commit hariklrl, in accordance with the century-old custom of disemboweling themselves, or shoot themselves. Gates Ford Girl's 4-H Club Met The Gates Ford Girl's 4-H club met Wednesday at 1:15 o'clock at the Gates Fof^l school house. The president, Edith Gaynor, presided and opened the meeting with the singing of "Carolina." Myrtle Gandy read**the devotional, which was followed by the Lord's prayer. Secretary Elsie Hlnson read the minutes of last meeting, which was approved by club members, and called the roll. The meeting was then turned over to Miss Fewell, the county agent, who talked on "Breakfast Planning." First, she said that breakfast is an important meal, and should nev#r. be omitted unless we were ill, or be eaten hurriedly. It has been a long time since the last meal and sufficient food is needed for work of morning fatigue, which often causes a bad disposition from lack of "breakfast food. Poor school work is frequent from i.ie results of a poor breakfast. She told us some of the foods to eat tor breakfast, telling the Important factors of each in building our bodies. Miss Fewell told us not to use beverages, but to use milk or cocoa, made of milk Instead. Milk contains minerals which are needed for body building and beverages do not. 8he told us in planning breakfast to measure ingredients used in making breads, muffins or biscuits. Telling us the abbreviations that are used in measurements and their equivalents. All measures given are level. The straight edge of a knife as spatula is used to smooth the surface of dry ingredients. The next point "vm general dtrectlons Tot work. Some of these were: Wear hair back or held in place by headband or hairnet; wear clean wash dress or cover dress with apron; wash 'hands thoroughly; clean finger nails; ' wear no Jewelry; keep a hand towel [and holder near; read recipe through; I plan work and assemble necessary Utensils and materials; have fire ready; table neat and In order; clean as the work is being done by putting dishes to soak and wash them as there is time. This talk was enjoyed by all the clnb members present. The nieeting then adjourned to meet [in Kay.?Contributed. Camden Garden Club Neighborhood Party Around one hundred member* of neighboring garden clubs found a good fruit punch on their arrival at the Grace Church Pariah house, Friday, April 22, at 2:30. Miss Leila j j Shannon and Mlaa Fannie Fletcher, greeted the guests The program, in three pHrta. waa all about old times. Miss ladlu Shan non spoke charmingly of Camden's early gardens. Of the early formal gardens only that at Green Leaf Villa remains. The redwood and chestnut loaks across the street are all that is left of the grounds laid out by Ctamer, the English landscape gardener, for Anthony Kennedy. A lone Juniper in frout of the present court house Is the sole remains of the garden about the house in which Lafayette was entertained. In 1824 the exodus to Klrkwood began and gardens sprang Into flower on that dry and sandy ridge. Mr Salmond's "Goodie Castle," now the home of Mrs. Carroll Hassett, and "Holly Hedge," now the homo of Ernest L.! Woodward. Timbers, a Virginia mu-j latto, built and bossed "Holly Hodge." He dug the pond, constructed the terraces and laid out for young Mr. Johnson on the cast end of the property, the place called "Mlllbank," now the home of Mrs. Samuel Russell. The magnolias, cedars of l.?ebanon and other exotics were brought in tubs by flat boat from Charleston as far as the Wateree was navigable and then transhipped by cart to Kirkwood. Col. Wm. Shannon's place, now the Hobklrk Inn, was famous for Its roses and for its exotic shrubbery. John Mcliae about the same time built the terraces and pools at "Horse Branch Hall," now the residence of Ward Belcher. Mr. McRae was an engineer, and by a ram he forced water jets in his fountain and irrigated the vineyards on his broad I terraces. Hamilton Boykin began "Piano Hill," now known as "The Terraces, a spot of rare beauty In which still survive some of the first azalea plants brought to Camden. "Lausanne," "Upton Court", or the "Court Inn," was begun in 1818 by McRae for his nephew. The history of the place is dramatic reading. Major John deSaussure?planted 50 yeards of pleached cherry laurel, known as "Lovers Lane." The gardens have always been open to the public. "Mulberry," home of the Chesnuts, now owned by David Williams, was laid out by a Scotch gardener. Mrs.--John Devlne-read -a?dtdightfnl and Informative paper on the early naturalists of the Carolinas. Europe, curious about newly discovered America, sent us collectors to bring back useful things such as the potatoes, maize and tobacco. These collectors introduced into European gardens, curios from the new world: the pitcher plants, rubber, then considered use less," and the "poison" tomato. Herbalists found cocoa, <iutnine and sassafras, known aa the ague tree and ieu-, side red a specific for chills and fever I ^Linnaeus gave hi* passion for collection point and ineanlnK by bis syatern of classification. Hla collectors sent and brought him plants from all over the world. Mark Catesby came frout lxmdun to tliu Carolina* in 1722. His map shows our south boundary some miles below Augusta and the western is mentioned as the Pacific Ocean! His monumental work of plates and text, treating birds, fish, reptiles and plants is without classification or Index. John Hurtram, u Pennsylvania farmer, got excited over a daisy, took up the study of botany, became a collector for the dukes of England and for Frederick the Great. His trip south yielded the first muguolia glaucas, the pawpaw, the ground cypress and the sensitive pea. The Frankllnia. now the lost tree of the Carolines, he established In his arboraetutn near Philadelphia. He was a frequent guest of the man for whom the gardenia was named, Dr. Alexander Garden, of Charleston. William Harton, son of John, and probably the first white man to see the fiaino azalea in bloom, carried on his father's work. Andre Mlcheau, the French collector, used Charleston, as his base for his explorations. He discovered the shortla In 1790, a plant lost and not rediscovered until 1877. Mlcheau brought us the tea plant, the camellia, the tallow tree and the alblzzia called mimosa. He was lost lu a storm off Madagascar. Wilson probably never worked In the Carollnas, but Audobon was many times here collecting. He had a room at his friend, Dr. Bachman's, ill Charleston, where he worked on material collected from his famous Florida trip. His two sons married daughters of Dr. Bachman. Mrs. VV. ?. Kainsford prid humorous tribute to our grandmothers In a short paper called "Did O.t Grandmothers Garden?" Review i.i tho dress of Victorian and Edwardian days?the bangs, buns and bustles, the rats, pompadors, hoops, stays and veils to avoid sun-burn; the obvious conclusion is that they did not?that their gardening was done by gardeners or by hired men. Their gardens were created for and not by women. Plants were introduced and hybridized and named by men and for men only. The grandmother sang, painted, entertained distinguished vlsitotfl^ supervised tho household from tne curing of hams and malting of can dlea; from the spinning, weaving and | tailoring of garments; the prepara1 tion ruM adtr'n'ofering of hcrbn simples to tiio education of her retainer's and her own children. She wore ringlets?no permanent w^ves then?j la starched linen camisolo, several j starched und fluted petticoats overj the Inevitable flannel underskirt. The wonder is that she survived. In gar-j don books of tho nineteenth century, how do women show up? Of sixty' garden books collected by the Garden; Club of America una published in j the eighteen hundreds, ten were writ-! I ten by women. Of these but two are' proper garden books, tho others are' on wild flowers or are Just sentl-j mental gift hook" The English Mrs J j Ixmdon. published the first woman's! I garden book tn 1841. She is careful to state in the preface that she owes all she knows of the subject to her husband! In 1872 our own Anna1 Warner, published "Gardening by j j Myself." She worked with her hands, snd knew her subject. With the turn of the century came Mrs. Earl's "Pot-! jxAirri From a Surry Garden"; "Eli-| sabeth and Her German Garden," and Mrs. Ely's "Woman's Hardy Garden." j Since then we have nil ever lnoreasIng stream of women's books on gardening and Kindred subjects. The physically emancipated woman has . developed the Garden Club, and the garden club In turn Is giving widor scopo to the emancipated woman. After the program guests were escorted by guides on a garden tour. The gardens of Mrs. Carroll Bassett, Miss Olive Whlttredge, Mrs. Ward C. Belcher, Mrs. Samuel Russell, Miss Ruth Richards, Mrs. M. F. Charlton, Mrs. W. S. Ralnsford, Mrs. John M. Villepigue, MIbs Jane Swords, Mrs. Klrklaud Trotter, Mrs. W. L. Qoodale, Mrs. McKee Graham and Court Inn were visited. Tea was served in Bix homes. . , Miss Ruth Richards entertained Miss Claudia Lea Phelps, president of the Garden Club of South Carolina, and her executive committee at lunch. At luncheon were Mrs. Leland Moore, of Sumter; Mesdames Henderson, Woolsoy and Pellew, of Aik^n; Mrs. Rurnett, of Columbia; and Mrs. Jones, of Batesburg-I^esvllle. Arrangements for the day were in the hands of Mrs. E. N. McDowoll and her able assistants. 1 -?s Hail Insurance for Cotton and Grain RATES Insured For Rate Per Acre ' $25.00 Per Acre $. 75 $30.00 Per Acre $. 90 $40.00 Per Acre ",*1.20 $50.00 Per Acre L $1.50 Maximum: Cotton, $50.00; Grain, $30.00 per acre In .full force 24 hours after signing application Two Thousand, Five Hundred acres of cotton in Kershaw county seriously damaged or destroyed during the growing season of 1937. Inaure When Your Cotton U Up to a Stand? Don't Delay and Be Sorry 1 | C. B. DuBOSE & SON INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS Crocker Building Camden, S. C. r. ' . ; . ' ' JL ^ ^ ^ J McCORMICK-DEERING INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO. Farmall Tractors Grain Drills Tractor Harrows Stalk Cutters I Disk Harrows Mowers Plows Hay Rakes I Engines Reaper-Binders I -9 Wagons We carry a large stock of REPAIRS for above Hfl I machines. . I Expert Mechanic at your service I INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS j I WHITAKEiR & CO. I | Phone No. 4 Rutledge Street f a ' """ a " ? a =ra i " i ? ^rI - ] UNDER AUTHORITY GIVEN ME BY THE HEIRS OF F. LESLIE N "j| ; A * j.:n ZEMP, DECEASED, I SHALL OFFER FOR SALE Jj I To The Highest Bidder 10 ? 5 i * ?9 At 11 A. M. on Monday, May 9th S 0 * . r ?-*y:u V!^> . ; vJ|j| AT THE LAW OFFICES OF HENRY SAVAGE, JR.. IN .THE . R 1? -t-? -v.*,- , CROCKER BUILDING, CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, THE FOL- , 8' " r^a 111 LOWING REAL ESTATE: Hi " t" ] | ; :, "All that lot of land with a two story store building thereon, known ? *'- VS-aH as 1031 Broad Street, and located on the West side of Broad Street of Camden, S. C., and fronting thereon 28% feet and running back West1 ward to a depth of 264 feet, and bounded on the North by the property of Mary McDowell, East by Broad Street, South by property of W. R. ? J Zemp, and West by property of the Little Estate." The successful bidder will be required to deposit 5% of the pur- , , chase price upon the close of the bidding, the balance to be paid id cash within 30 days thereafter. W. R. Z EMP fl