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_ ,11,i..1 rrii ' J.'-tUJ'J.. ? ' I' ! '! This 6-Foot McCormick-Deering Combine Is a Great Buy There are a lot of farmers around here who need a combine to cut and thresh their small grain, soybeans, etc. The low-priced, 6-foot McCormick-Decring No. 60 gives you big combine sturdiness, threshing efficiency, and long life in a machine that doesn t carry a pound of needless weight. Stop in and let's talk over this International Harvester Quality Product. WHITAKER & CO. Rutledge Street Camden, S. C. THE TOWN CRIER (BY FRANK H. HEATH) I (loud morning folks. This week, ltj is going to be a regular potpurrl?I 1 might say hash?because it will be a little bit of everything from spelling bees to sport news. * * * * You probably know the British casting company is sponsoring a series of 3peliing bees with the idea of encouraging uniform spelling of English words. The thing we want to know if?what chance could an Amerh an have in these contests if he followed tht? -American dictionaries. * * The spelling of English words in England Is one thing and in these Enited States It is another. The English continue to use vigour, centre, manoeuvre, programme, cigarette, barytone, pyjamas and the like. PhoI iodic spelling has followers in this country whereby phonetic is fonetic and dropped is dropt; through is^ thru: thorough is thoro and so on. Recently in Charleston a contestant was eliminated for spelling knockkneed without a hyphen and the correct spelling must have a dash where the hyphen belongs.- And the only difference Is that a dash is just twice us long as a hyphen, If you notice litI. lb* tilings like that. > I In tlie north the school teachers I declare there alnt no such a word I as "aint" and In the south it is a I word that is universally heard. And I so we ask "Who is right?" I dunno. I ? I Donald, the boy friend who always I has a wealth of funny tales to unfold I tells tills story, the tale of a cat with I a wooden leg. "This guy who owns I the cat," sez Donald, "found him I cue day last winter caught in a trap I with his right front paw frozen stiff., I He amputated the frozen leg and later whittled out a pussy peg leg and hrted it to the cripple meow. One day when I was calling on this guy a big rat came into the room. The peg leg cat went into immediate action. He made a dive for the rodent and landed squarely on Its back- Holding the j rat down with his left shoulder the cat?believe me folks this is true? brought up his wooden leg-and actually pounded the rat to death." ? Well now for some race hoss dope. You know, for over a year they tried to get War Admiral and Seablscult on the same track at the same time. And just when they turned the trick there came a great race In which a nag named Pompoon turned in a mark that made Admiral and Seablscult look rather crestfallen. Pompoon in winning the Dixie was faster than cither of the co-champions had ever oared to be. And on the other hand' Pompoon was beaten three times by j the Admiral and once by the Biscuit. But that was way back when?and you can't convince the Pompoon boosters that Pompoon can't beat the select field today. t A word about Dizzy Dean's right i arm. Whether the futnous old flipper has lost its cunnitiM is a question. Diz is a coloi ful figure in baseball and there Is no question that when ho is right, he Is the greatest pitcher in! the game today. The Chicago Cubs I paid a big price for him and Owner Wrlgley hopes that his investment j will bring dividends. Knowing Hill Wrlgley personally, we do not believe he paid that fortune for Diz unless he was ct rtain the hurling ace was in good condition. Well, this season will tell the story. Abe Fennell, sport editor of The State has a lot to say about the "softball sport down in Ocala. Fla Whi'h will be sweet music to Friend Horace Smith, of the Marion County Chamber of Commerce, and one of the t!:i- j est chaps the secretarial world. 0 ? ? Ocala has a population of about' 7,000. Abe sez they have a recmat j ional plant with lighted fields for hard . hall, softball and football. Abe and ; some of the other North and South j Carolina sport scribes saw a softball j game at which 3,000 people turned cut to watch. * O. K. Abe. If Camden gets a lighted softball field you'll see a couple of thousand fans watching our teams in action. Here's an interesting sport item. The Chicago Bears, one of the best of the professional football teams, Owner-Coach George Halas wielding the pencil, are marking down to bargain prices the Ail-American tags which so many ^college grid heroes carry into the national professional football league market. * For more than a decade the bears have taken comparatively unknown college platers and developed them into stars in the toughest of all grid circuits, and Halas said today that owners generally are paying more $nd more attention to small schools for new players instead of waiting to sign up highly-touted collegiate stars. * "Many players with great reputations fail to make good because they can't stand the pressure of playing with cool veterans in their first year. Also, many can't stand publicity and Join the team with the wrong attitude. But players who were good at smaller schools but never received recognition come to the big league with a 'do or die' spirit which makes them the kind of men we're always looking for. They're anxious to earn the headlines they didn't get in college and play with that old college spirit." Halas thinks George Musso, who came to the Bears an unheralded player from Milllken university In Illinois, now ranks as the greatest guard In the league. Another "unknown" starring for Bears Is Ray Nolting, former Cincinnati university player. Coming to the Bears next fall will be John fwu-i? J. -MggjgMW Softball Games Drawing Interest With ttie close of the weekly schedule4' Friday night (lie Kh?o Oilers uro leading the Camden Municipal softbull league with u clean slute of three victories and no defeats The Hindu! res are in second place with two wins and one defeat and promise to tie up the league ruA? oil Monttuy when they meet the leaders on the new baseball Held. I be Merchant's team, kicked about ') the leaders In the first two games, i versed their jittery form and spankd the Kendall Mills 10 to .r> in the . >,? m upset of the season to date, he Wolves, a team of bank officials ml ccttcn brokers, rated as one of he best in the league, will attempt 10 overtake the leaders this week .v hen they battle the Kendall Mills x.ud Esso Oilers on Tuesday and Wednesday. iiasil Bruce, Wolves, leads the league In hitting with a percentage io dale of GG7. W. 1/. Jackson, a recent addition to the Ksao team is tied with Bruce, while Stuart Clarkson, another Wolf is third with GOO. Lynch, Nettles, C. Hlrchmore. of the Merchants are all tied with f>?)0 averages. Interest in the softball game ia j growing rapidly and the evening games are attracting many hundreds of people to tho stadium daily. If rho city council acts favorably upon the. request of the Bureau ot Recreation for installation of lights at the playing field It Is believed that the games will attract between l,f?00 and 2,000 people. Essos Defeat Guards The Essos defeated the Guards last Friday by a 8 to 2 score in a game that saw Screw Ball Hasty add a three hit game to his already line list of pitching performances On the other hand Chuck Russell. of the Guards, was touched for six Mows, whhh with mixed with eight oners gave the Essos one run in the first. I three in the fourth and four in the fifth There was only one extra base knock in the game, that being registered by West, of the Guards, in the s< venth inning The Guards scored the second oil a walk, error and a single and in the seventh on West's double ai*l a single by Sanders. The score: R H El Esso Oilers N 6 1 I, Guards 2 2 8 ( Batteries?Hasty and Shirley; C. Pussell and Stein. v Lynch Stars For Merchants Led by Wilber Lynch, star third sacker of tho Merchant's team in the City Softball loop, that gang smeared the Sinclairs 9 to 4 in a Monday evening frolic and roared up to a tie for t second place behind the then leading l Esso Oilers. 1 Lynch gathered a double, triple and two home runs in four jaunts to the 1 rubber. Beckham Russell's best as- I sorted slants held no terrors of puz- I zle to the eminient laddie from Milltown and the way he landed into the apple caused the Merchant fans to crow exultantly. The entire Merchant gang, smarting under several early season larroplngs, went after the Sinclairs with blood of the reddest brand in their eyes. Three runs in the first frame, three more in the third, one in the fifth and two in the sixth completed the counters. Jakie Haynes, the eminent basso of the Merchant's gang held the slugging Sinclairs to five singles and not any of them mixed, Jake carefully spacing them over as many innings. The Gas Gang gathered a run in the first on an error, added another in the third and two in the fourth. The game was played under a lowering sky that threatened to spill wa ter every minute. The score: R H E Merchants 9 14 5 Sinclairs ...... 4 5 5 Batteries?Haynes and Williams; Russell and Oliver. Kendall Trampled Wolves A furious last inning rally netted the Kendall Mills team four runs and a 7 to 4 victory over the Wolves Tuesday evening. Up to that fatal seventh, Clarkson Rhame of the Wolves had yielded but three hits and the game looked safe for the Wall and Rutledge street plutocrats. An infield error which gave Twitty, first up for the Millers, a life at first, paved the way for the four run rally that followed. A. Reeves followed Twitty by hanging out a neat single Then after Moore had lifted an easy fly to third and Reeves had gone down on a roller to Rhame who tossed to Halle at first, Bo Hicks walked to fill the sacks. With the count three ahd two on Taylor, the Kendall third sacker poled a long double over second and Twittyv and A. Reeves scampered home to put the Kendalls to the front, 5 to 4. Then when Bennle Robinson dropped a single lrjto right, Oelerlch, triple ^threat back from 8t. Ambrose academy of Davenport, la. w(?nnck'* Apolskis, of DePaul university, Chicago, an end, and lineman .? ; . "L.. . ! " 'a. ^ w - iJl'-li __j. - . Frank Ramsey, of Oregon State Tick# and Taylor scored tv i>wike the count, 7 to 4. Baker retlrou the s.de by (lying out to Uruce. The gatiie was one of the heat of the season to watch Rhame was unuhle to |dtch Ills usual tine brand of ball because of an injury to his right hand It was Ills wildnoa$ In the third that paved the way for the Millers' two runs Three walks alter Twilty had fanned loaded the bases and an error at short allowed two run nets to cross the pan 1 he Wolves opened the gume h> grabbing two runs in the first Inning Singles b\ Stale), Hilly Nettles aud Khaine put two counters home. In the third after '/. Clarkson had singled. Staley poked a drive to right which got Uy the outfielder and Staley circled the sacks lo add two runs to the total. After that third Inning Ho Hicks or the Millers tightened up and the Wolves never threatened. The score R H E Kendall Mills 7 '6 2 Wolves 4 S I Maltcriea Hicks and E. Reeves; Khame and H. Nettles. OFFICIAL SOFTBALL K08TER FOR REMAINDER OF FIRST HALF The official team roster of the Ceinden softball league for the remainder of the tirat half of the race, which extends tip to and Including July I, Is as follows Merchants- -Birch more, J. Hay ties. W F. Nettles, Jr., T. Hruee, Moseley. Williams, Sheorn, McDowell, n. l. Chburu, Bryant, Salniond, W. I lay ties, I'usbpe, Hammond, H Wilson and l.ynr!,. (16) Kersha-. Guards?C. Ruast'.l, F Sunders, Yates, MoLeod, Row II. L. Price. W. Sanders. J. Price, Watts. H. Brown, Stein, Qoodale, A. Sanders, L. West, Jenkins and John Nettles,! 116) | Kendall Mill s?Robinson, A. , Reeve*. M Threatt. 11 S!)i ley, W. llecvi s. J I bail tils. U. C. Twitty, Hen-, i) Threatt. CT>tSe Baker, 1. T. Taylor I! iieeVes, Jack I .ingley, Bo Hi k- J SchelTield, W Moore and W. Rows. ? 1 6 I Sliaii.r? B. Russell. Rabin. Light-, to,;, (diver, MeNinch, E. 1.. Plyler, J.j Sow ell, G Shelieen, Derrick, Hen-j ill-it ks. Nolan. Bell, E. Shebeen. Greg- j ary, and Gaston. (!.") Es.su -Hasty, Liney, Mays, J. JackBo:i. H. .Jackson, A. Thomas, R. Shirley. \Y. L. Jackson, B. Shirley, A. T. Simpson, W. H. Johnson, L. Rose, O. Cioff, P. Shirley and J. Hough. (15) Wolves?C. llhame, C. Kirkland, Haile, Z. Clarkson, B. Bruce, W. Clyburn, R. Pitts, F. Wooten, J. Nettles, B. Nettles. T. Hay, Jack Russell, E. Wooten, L. Staley, and S. Clarkson. (15) ... The bracketed numbers after each Leain roster indicatos the number of players. Each team Is permitted sixteen names and under the rules, all the names appearing in the above lineups must continue in the respective rosters during the remainder of I he half, beginning with the game of Monday, June 6, is as follows: June 6?Merchants vs. Wolves June 7?Kendall vs. Esso June 9?-Merchants vs. Guards. June 10?Sinclair vs. Wolves June 13?Merchants vs. Ebso June 14?Guards vs. Wolves June 16?Sinclair vs. Kendall June 17?Wolves vs. Esso June 20?Guards vs. Sinclair June 21?Merchants vs. Kendall June 23?Esso vs. Guards June 24?Sinclair vs. Merchants Juno 27?Kendall vs. Wolves June 28?Guards vs. Kendall June 30?Sinclair vs. Esso. July 1?Wolves vs. Merchants First-Aid Saves Young Boy's Life Greenwood, May 26.?First aid treatment by Boy Scouts saved the life of Thomas Hipp, 'Jr., 15, flrBt class scout of Ninety-Six, from drowning in Wilson's creek near NinetySix yesterday afternoon, according to report today by W. D. Waller, scout commissioner. Hipp, with three other Scouts, Young Collins, 16, David Highsmith, 15, and "Skeeter" Hand, 14, rode their bicycles to the creek two miles from town and plunged into a swimming hole ten feet deep. Hipp failed to come up. After several minutes divng in turgid waters the boys located him on the bottom and succeeded in bringing him out, apparently deadCollins put Smith on his bicycle and sent him scurrying to town for a doctor while he and Hand put Into practice all their scout training. After 30 minutes ffley saw signs of life and when the doctor arrived Hipp was sitting up blinking his eyes and asking what it was all about. The heroic work of the boys has been reported to Dr. James E, West, chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America, for a writeup on his p?g? in the Magazine Boy's Life and Mr Waller, itt making his report of the incident, says he believes the Nation a! Council will award the scouts lifesaving medals. 1^'. C. Walts is scoutmaster of the Ninety-Six troop. MIKE LARK WILL POSSIBLY BOLT THE PARTY hou. phi Hup laffulletlu, Wisconsin, wis I deer sir:? I nods hy the papers that you are | planning to start a new party I am J rlttug to tularin you (hat you tnought put my name down as a follower 1 am reddy for a change from head to foot the time is ripo to act, so hurry things up and Keep nie hostel. I mis pose you will Keep the \v p. a II Is o. k. If you have the right man at the head of same In Hat rock 1 rockor-inend my secont son, scudd Lark, as a district hoss for this territory. he has hull up his part of overthing, but thoy let him off as timekeeper last week without cause. If > oil will get up a new a. a. a the undersigned, lion lijiko I/ark, rfd, would like to get the Job of measuring land that will be rented to the gov varment he Is experienced In figgem. hawing run a saw mill for 5 years near his childhood, ho got n tough deal from the new ileal not long ago, and he Is fed up and washed | out with them, they turned down his, old ago pension. as to the soli erosion, naturally you will want that plank In yore flatform 1 you will need It to hold the farmers j vote, my third son, husky Lark, an ex-soldier without a compensation or gassed lungs, hereby applies for chief soil oroser in this county, he hope to' lay on terraces anu ounu wutterways: with them up to last week when they turned him off without cause. It was i!e first time lie ever got drunk on duty and struck his supervisor. keep all of the good planks of the new deal In yore party, allso keep the best planks, if anny exists, of the republican party, and you will be fixed up to a tee ansoforth. promise to reduce taxes, but don't promise to cut down spending. nearly everboddy likes that idea but the income tax | payers and the big bondholders. if you need somebody to help > ou stump the south, rite or foam the undersigned by return mail and send a check for 40$ for traveling expenses, also a nice ford. mr. torn head will jine us; he lost his f. h. a. Job not long ago. mr. slim chanco will lose his as soon as they ketch up with what he is doing in regards to fixing workers on a commission basis, so you can count on him later, we are willing to be a progressive and the south will be sollid for you if you can got our jobs re-Instated, yore friend, mike Lark, rfd, no. 342,543,234 80CIAL NEWS FROM FLAT ROCK ..news In flat rock has been verry skace enduring the past few days, the marrldge of the widder llnfords and square dickerson was not a surprise, as coartlng has benn going on betwixt them for 15 yr. after merging their families, there will be 11 different mouths to flll( but he Is on the w, p. a. . .mr. holsum moore was ketched drivving his ford under the influence of fruit-jar corn, but he came clear on a tecker-alliclty. he proved an alibi because the warrant said It took place on the highway on frlday when It should of benn Saturday, he was sober on friday, as per manny witnesses who was drunk with him on satturday ansoforth. ..the wreck betwixt torn head's truck and dr. hubbert green's tennant's waggin was not as serious as first reported. torn got only 1 leg broke and not 2 as stated, only 2 shoulder blades were cracked instead of 4 as was reported. only 1 of the mules died, and not both of same and it was the mule which got killed and not the driver; ho only knocked his head sensible Ion a rock and is still unconscious, but he Is fairly well insured. ..the cok-bunkie on miss Jennie veeve smith's na<ke was lanced on thursday and now she can bow to her friendB when she meets them on the street. I she can allso look backwards at whoever is coming without turning plumb around as per last week, her appetite has returned back and she has gained herself nearly to normal In weight, she had our hartfelt sympathy while Inflicted. ..since sen. pepper was eleckted In floridy on the new deal ticket, some of our candy-dates and potential candy-dates have changed a few planks in their flatforms. bert skinner is now in faVvor the labor and hourB bjll, poor chance, the son of slim chance, is now clamoring for the 7 billion dollars relief bill, which he fought till pepper took place, and all of the others are leaning strongly towards roseyveltlsm. . a big building boom has started in flat rock, two new filling stations are going up on our last 2 street corners, and 4 other filling Stations are being repaired and painted, and the 10 othei filling stations are putting In new pumps and sweeping out their front yards and sqraptng off their grees< Summer Hazards On The Highways Carelessness and recklessness have caused thirty-five per cent of the motor vehicle accidents occurring In South Carolina this year, according to the I records of the Traffic Engineering Division of the State Highway department. With the opening of the vacation season on Juno I, every motorist and pedestilun should Observe cure to make his vacation unniarrod by trufflo mishaps. Traffic volumes on streets and highways will Increase, and in addition there are Hpociul summer hazards which should bo considered. Summer showers are often of; short duration, wetting the surface of Htroots and highways without washing off foreign substances. In many cases this forms a til in over the surface which Is very slick, and can cause skidding accidents. Danger from bees, Insects, and birds suddenly (lying into cars should bo noted. Serious accidents may result It the driver does not keep his head in the emergency. A stlug may bo less severe than a crash! Animals in the roadway present another dangerous possibility for which the driver should watch. Proper use of hand signals can minimize traffic confusion. Now that the weather does not require closed windows every driver can more conveniently signify his Intentions to .others on lite road. A large number of deaths and injuries have already resulted this year lu the stute to porsons riding on running boards of cars. This dangerous practice Is against tho law in some * states due to the great hazard. Two other safety rules to keep in mind are "Never jump or stop off of a moving vehicle" and "Never open or close a door of a moving vehicle." Ninety per cent of the pedestrian accidents in tho state this year are attributed to some fault of tho podestrlan Involved. 1 Every person walking on a highway where no sidewalks are available should be thoroughly familiar with, and observant of, tho South Carolina law regarding pedestrians, which is designed to bring the pedestrian greater safety. This act requires tho pedestrian to walk on tho left Hide of the highway, facing approaching traffic. That all pedestrians are subject to traffic control signals at highway Intersections is ulao provided in the Highway Sufety Act, and when crossing highways, the person on foot must yield tho rlglit-of-way to all vehicles upon the highway, except where traffic control signals are present. At night pedestrians are urged to wear somo light-colored article of clothing that will reflect light, and thus make them more visible to the driver. If this Is not done, use of a white handkerchief or a newspaper carried in tho left hand will help the driver to discern the pedestrian. Dairy Herd Tests Show High Honors _5 Clomson, May 30.?Among cows on test during April H. H. Brown's herd-of five Guernseys at Strother made the highest herd average, 70.41 pounds ? of butterfat per cow, as shown by records of R. L. Steer, in charge of . pg Advanced Registry testing for the South Carolina Experiment station. ; Glen Echo's Golden Starlight fn this herd was fourth highest individual producer with 81.66 pounds of butterfat. * Second highest herd average, 66.02 pounds per cow, was made by the ten Jerseys of Wheeler Bros., In Saluda." Design Lily of this herd was the sixth highest individual produced with 79.27 pounds of butterfat. The Pedigreed Seed Company's seventeen Guernseys at Hartsville won third place In herd averages with54.48 pounds of butterfat each. The highest Individual producer in the state went to Clemson's Forbes Colantha Hero Emblem, a Holstein, ^ which produced a total of 94.91 pounds of butterfat. Other herd placing, ? with owner# and production averages, were:* >? Fourth, nine Guernseys,. ,R. B. Caldwell, Chester, 64.03 pounds; fifth, fourteen' Guernseys, J. B. Guess, Jr., Denmark, 53.04 pounds;' sixth, sixteen Holsteins, Clemson College, Clemson, 51.39 pounds; seventh, thirty-five Hoi-- "";* steins, State Hospital, Columbia, 48.10 pounds; eighth, eight Gnemseys, E. Peek, Six Mile, 47.85 pounds^ I ninth, twenty-nine Guernseys, WareJU?|j Shoals Manufacturing Company, Ware1 ; jg Shoals, 46.97 pounds; tenth, -eight Guernseys, R. A. Burch, Florence, , jg| 45.62 pounds. SjJ Buddy, the first "seeing eye' dofe died at the feet of his master in Mor-^ ristown, N. J., Monday after s^e had guided her master for ten' yearm by | land and sea, train, subway and p'an# racks, hurrah for prosperity. r yores trulle, t mike Lark, rfd, * eorry spondent. : |j \T Be the f I OU Judge I What if the right price for a funeral service? You be the judge. Complete funeral pricee are marked on each casket in tihe Kornegay display and patrons are urged to make there own selection in keeping with what they can afford to pay* KORNEGAY FUNERAL HOME " A COMMUNITY 8ERVICE 8INCE 1MC Phone 103 Camden, 3. C. ' 1