Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Oee McUee, Copyright. 1928. EXCERPTS fROM FLAT ROCK'S SOCIAL SLATE some talk Jius bona going on ainonsatt he w. p. a. workers about jren hugh s. Johnsou who was farmer ly a dlnnnerorgt. tome suy he is hired t,\ the republicans uml some say he belongs to,the llbberty league while ' others suy that he talks with his ,?ourh a great ileal Just because he enjoys hearing hls^elf blow off it is not true that ho wlimed the hog cull iig contest In Iowa a few years ago. but hp would be good at that, he Is fine for soreheads ausoforth. the spending program of the new deal has? not yet reached ftat * rock, tne signs of It are Just around the i or tier. nu\ slini chance says ho has read in the papers where the govvcraifnt has bought up a surplus of 11.000 tons of cabbage and other truck, but U has not bean scattered In our midst so far. the way to keep down big surplusses. according to our poltssman la to forbid folks from growing so much of same, in other words, lock the barn door before the bull yots out ausoforth. ..that was a verry "hot race at the beginning in floridy when senator popper was returned back to Washington, other races over the country will tell the tale of the new deal. dr. hubbert green would like to see a third or fourth party: the pressent one do not fuit him a-tall, as it is glvvlng out free medtson and shipping It from outside of flat rock, there Is much room for improvement, we have got fed up on so inanity different kinds of taxes and It looks like a hoovertype depression is gradually settling ('.own over our boddies and soles, a change Is desired by torn head allso. ..our local pollitics are warming up. our inuny-cippie election will be hell in august. our pressent mayer has henn in oftis 6 times and gets eleckted from year to year without much trubble. he newer talks much, makes no promises, fills none If he do make them, keeps taxes down,' don't collect the few taxes that are railly due, says the folks need their monney worser than the citty do, puts on low fines, keeps good order on sunday, prays in publick hisself, shakes hands without so mych gripv la free with his chawing tobacker, does not drink to excess, and is a fine hoss-shoe pitcher. ..the all-nite ^garrage has put in a new tire-pumper, a feller who is out of wind can drive into this place cither day or night and fill own tires without bothering annyboddy. it is set not to blow out weak casings and rings a bell when a feller gets as much wind pumped in as he can hold, this is a big help to the trav. Iling publick. the garrage close at 7 i). m. and lots of folks have wanted air later on and could not get same, lie has benn highly spoken of. the down payment of 4$ has benn nrode by check. ..no preoching will be available at ichober next sunday. the pasture, rev. will waite, has a breaking out (.n him. "he do not know where he k'-uhed it, but he prceched at cedar lane 2 Sundays ago and spent the night down there with his wife's cuzzin. he can't stand long enough to preech a sermont. his doctor advises him to stay at home till further notls. it is allso on his face, but is not pizenoak. he hurts in some places, sunday sell oil will be hell as usual tho. everboddy come. don't let the church go backards onner count of the pasture's breaking out. , yores trulie, mike Lark, rfd, corry spondent. HELP WANTED seeker-terry of the interior, Washington, d. C. deer sirs: ? is there annythlng you can do about this daylight sawing time foolishness? a law ought to be passed outlawing it, or a test case against same ought to be fetched up and carried befoar the suppreme coart. make like it was a new deal idea, and they would declare it unconster-tutlonal. since we have the 40-hour a week labor schedule and 14,876,999 peeple out of work, It ought not to make anny differences now whether the folks who are actually working loaf in the morning or afternoon, another thing?it has ruint the - radio programs altogether. it takes a good mathematician to flgger out when and where a certain program can be located with this new time in effect, the few programs we used to railly enjoy now come so early in the evening that stattlc makes it unpoasible to hear them. we tried to kdep our 3 clock* reggeriated to this old time, but we failed, the clock in the front room was set for sensible time, meaning eastern sUndard ^me, and the goinglo-toed clock was pnt on central stand ard time, while the kitchen clock was started off on ^aylight savvinga time. this arrangement made us get out of bed 2 hours too early, breakfast was 1 hour late, and when we finally got down to our offia,. the help had already benn to the drug stoar and got their morning dope, was the feller > rr-r-f? who got this up In or out of the aaylum, and was there annything wrong with him except in his brains, If he had anny? ) holsum moore saye there mought hare benn some excnse for daylight sarrlngs time back yonder when nearly all of the people actually workk: r- *' . ' _ _ }[. ed all day, 6 days week, and half time on Sunday, but since the w. p. a. and the p. w a. and the 40-hour a week stuff took effect, daylight savvings times ain't nothing hut a pain in the nake ansoforth. if it was national, it mought not be quite <ro lddy-ottic, but when it is local to only a few places, it's the bunk ansoforth. plese ! kill It at once or send and get our radio. yores trulie, mike Lark, rfd, corry spondf nt. | High tariffs reduced the United States export# to Mexico about 60 per cent in April, says a report by the commerce department. - ' t < J ' - > t - r- , - . >r^V Weds In Naw York Mrs. John William Clark announce* -n| the marriage of her daughter, Helen %; Elizabeth McLeod, to Adolph William _ V Helm us. on Saturday, the twentyeighth of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight. The Little Church Around the Corner, New York City.? 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