The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 08, 1938, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
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BKOAD STREET ? PHONE 30 D?KALB STREET ? PHONE 130 |
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Women Visit
Historic Charleston
Ninety-eight Home Demonstration
club women from Kershaw county attended
the annual short course held
this year at The Citadel In Charleston.
Much year a place of Interest
Is selected to hold these courses by
the members of the twenty oluhs In
the county and The Citadel was
uanimously endorsed. The purpose
of the short course Is to give the tired
overworked farm women a measure
of recreation and rest from family
I
cares and responsibilities.
Included In this trip was a boat
ride, trip to Magnolia Gardens, Isle
of Palms beach over the Cooper river
bridge and walk through Hampton
Park.. Also a shorning trip. The
tours were conducted by Mrs. Nail*
son of the Charleston chamber of
commerce?in some Instance# assisted
by the secretary. The Battery,
City Hall, Museum, CUbb's Memorial
Art Gallery, Dock Street Theatre, St.
Michael's and St. Phillip's churches
were visited?not included on the
regular program, but visited also, was
the French Hugenot church, the old
mmm ' . ? ' ,
est In America, being erected in the
early I700's. On Wednesday morn
ing an' address by General Bummerall,
president of The Citadel, was
given in the cadet chapel, followed
by an organ recital.
Wednesday evening In the gymnasium
Mayor Burnet R. Maybank gave
an address on "International Relations."
Following this talk the police
department's twenty-flve piece string
band, entertained with music. Yielding
to a request from Miss Neeley.
Piedmont district agent, they played.
"Turkey in the Straw," and an oldfashioned
square dance was given by
club members who danced.
Lancaster county accompanied this
county on the trip?making a total
number of two hundred and one wo[men,
which required eight, buses.
| State Patrolman Boatwright led the
procession into Charleston *hlcb
made an unusual sight, attested to
by the large numbers on the roadways
as onlookers.
These counties were met at the
college by Newberry, Fairfield and
[union. The return trip was made on
Thursday?a tired but happy group.
All tours and sightseeing trips were
led by a police escort In a patrol car.
As the procession twas In readiness
to leave for home o^ie lady remarked
"Officer, I've always longed^ to havo
a police escort with a siren screaming
.... as important persons sometime
have", "Will you?? "Lady,
| we'll see that your longing gets fulfilled
this morning,"?and he did.
The farm women of Kershaw county
are deeply grateful to the honifq^
agent, Miss Margaret B. Fewell, who
made this delightful trip possible.
antioch nb^vs notes
Camden, Rte. 1.?Mrs. J. L. Meyers
and Bon, J. L. Meyers, Jr., of Charleston,
visited their aunt, Mrs. H. N.
Barnes, the past weekMiss
Eleaine Galloway visited relatives
In Columbia the past week end.
Mrs. Frank Barnes and children
from Columbia, visited Mrs. Barnes
mother, Mrs. Bessie Cooke, recently.
Mrs. Louise Greene and daughter,
of Shiloh, visited Mrs. Greene's mother,
Mrs. F. A. Atkinson, the past
week.
Mrs. G. R. Funderburk, Mrs. Raleigh
Marsh, Mrs. Harvey Davis. Mrs.
George Munn and Mrs. F. A. Atkinson
attended the short course at
Charleston, June 27 to 30.
Misses Mildred Marsh and Rebecca
Raley were visitors to Charlotte last
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. James McKenzie
spent the week end in Columbia with
Mrs. McKenzle's brother. Goldie Sinclair.
Miss Vistula CAgbman, from Hickory
Hill, is visiting Miss Elizabeth
McCaskill.
Miss Reavie Player, from Columbia,
visited her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Z.
L. Player the past week end.
a new club organized at the library
known as "The Pet Club." is making
steady progress under the direct supervision
of the librarian. This club
meets every two weeks and Is composed
of children In the community
from the ages of 3 to 7. The Pet
club has had two meetings.
fofTbetter pastures
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Clemson. June 25.?South Carolina
farmers are learning that labor and
money expended in Improving their
permanent pastures will give profitable
returns, according to C. G. Cushman,
extension dairy specialist.
It is as essential for pastures to be
fertilized as for crops, Cushm.?n points
out. Pasture plants respond well to
lime and superphosphate ?nd the covers
supply needed nitrogen.
A minimum of one ton of agricultural
lime and 600 pounds of superphosphate
per acre, as used in improving
pastures on farms in the Sob
Conservation service areas, is recont
mended. Some farmers also apply staj
ble manure and some use side appli|
cations of fertilizer.
Proper fertilizing and mowing help
to control obnoxious weeds. Terraces
pmi contour furrow* help W rote in
water on the land to provide moisture
for pasture grasses.
Cooperating farmers have found
that extreme care must be exorcised
not to graze pastures before they become
well established or while the
land Is wet. Once a pasture it well
established, a moderate grazing will
produce a well balanced sod ot grasses
and legumes in the mixture.
Moat of the rivers of eastern North
Carolina went into flood, aUges the
first of the week, follosHBg four days
of rains over much of the state.
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The Fashion Shop
(Incorporated)
CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA
1 7tK Mid-Summer Anniversary Celebration now
in full swing. We are Re-Pricing and fye-Grouping
the merchandise for the final wind-up, starting
Friday morning, at 9 o'clock.
Barbizon
S p ec i al\
I1 L ^_?L\
I CREPEtor
-1(2 \Vi SATIN
^10 WL?w X
First tune we have evej^dold a'slip of this
quality at sXtew~a?j!rficel Fine opportunity-,
to indulge }\ur enthusiasm for Barbizon
slips and stock up while you save oireach
onel (Who ever had enough in Sumrtier?)
The famous BRYN MAWR patented design |
that moulds to the~figiore.. renown Barbizon \
tailoring and seam strength .. luscious puSte
silk Crepe Gartiere. (with panel) or Satin [
Gartierel We expect a sell-out so if yaju
can't come in, telephone. Opportunities
like this are few and fa* between! Nlu
Mediant and Short ?Rcgolax |
and Half Stxei-llnth or Whifto
Good Farming Hints
ForJuly Attention
Clemaon, July l.-*-Better( farming
suggestions for Ju,y by WS
ctallsts show no let-up for the goo
farmer:
Agronomy?When field work slacks
up, haul In grain straw, leaves.
Bwamp grass and other Utter fo? to
compost heap. Sow peas, soybeans
or velvet beans now and they wt
make growth to turn under for soli
building. If you do not think the
acreage of prospective yields of corn
and summer forage crops Is sufficient
(or farm needs, plant additional acreage
after thorough preparation of the
sell. '
Horticulture?Remove all broken
and diseased limbs from fruit trees
immediately after harvesting. Pull
sweet corn shortly before meal time;
It loses Its sugar rapidly. Place fruits
and vegetables In the shade at once
after harvesting, to hold their Qua
lty. Make plantings of tomatoes for
a fall crop.
Insects and Diseases?Spot cotton
fields where wilt losses are present.
Control tomato Insects and diseases
with Bordeaux-lead arsenate spray.
Remove and burn corn plants infected
with smut. Examine banded apple
trees every 10 days and destroy codling
moth larvae. Control Mexica
bean beetle with derrls dust or spray.
Destroy dodder in lespedeza. Watch
out for screw worms. Requeen bees.
Agricultural Engineering Have a
trench silo when silage is ripe. Waste
erankcase oil prevents rust when
used on plows, discs and other bright
parts of farm machinery. Plan to install
water system and other farm
conveniences. Set sweeps on plows
and cultivators for shallow cultivation.
Investigate possibilities of small
streams for irrigating gardens and .
truck.
Animal Husbandry?Keep hogs
grazing on green forage. Arrange to
turn hogs on corn when It Is in the
glazed stage. Reserve some permanent
pasture to be grazed by beef
cattle in late fall and early winter.
Feed the workstock three times a
day. Change pastures for livestock
If possible. Provide shade and fresh
water for all classes of livestock. Observe
the livestock for screw worm
infestation and give treatment, If necessary.
Dairying?Mow pastures frequently.
Destroy breeding places for files and
use skim milk-formaldehyde poison (3
gallons of skimmilk, 1 pint of 40 per
cent formalin, 1 pound of sugar) in
shallow pans to kill flies. As milk
production falls off. supplement pasture
with balanced grain mixture.
Feed up to two pounds of grain ddily
to growing stock to maintain normal
growth. Keep milk or cream sold for
manufacturing purposes in barrel or
tub of cold well or spring water. If
retail milk producer with surplus at
this season, dry off all low producing
cows that are bred for fall freshening.
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Poultry?Keep mash before laying
hens; it helps to keep their bodies
cool and stimulates egg production.
Reduce feed cost by culling pon-layers
and not by reducing feed. Keep
a grain feed before the pullets and
don't start feeding a laying mash until
the birds are at least five months
old. If troubled with roup or chicken
pox in past years, vaccinate pullets
when two to four months old.
Two Camden Drivers
Draw Gold Emblems
The v Carollnas Motor club has
awarded gold star memberships to
j)r a W. Humphries and Mrs. J. R.
Belk. of this city, according to announcement
by the chamber of commerce.
Gold star emblems are available to
these two people while membership
certificates are on hand for: W. 8.
Porter. D. L. Wallnau, J. H. McLeod.
N. C. Arnett. W. M. Cox, Jr., J. 3.
Rev. "BrJTce Herbert. J.
Team Oettys. Dr. T. B. Bruce. II. W.
r DeDoache, W. Cooper McCarley,
Ames Cooper, G. S. Rhame and H F.
Speaks. ? _ .
These awards resulted from a safety
campaign carried on here by the
motor club and the chamber of commerce.
the drive ending with a safety
meeting last Friday night. *.
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abend.
Clyde Bird Dies
At Mt. Pisgah
Kershaw, July 3,?Clyde Bird, 27,
of the Mount Pisgah section of Kershaw
county, ended his life hy ehooting
himself with a revolver while sitting
on the porch of his crossroads
store and filling , station shortly before
12 o'clock last night.
Mr. Bird had been in 111 health for
a number of years but was able to
carry on his business.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Mae Bowel!
Bird, and a thtree-year-old son, he
Is survived by his father, R. O. Bird;
his mother, Mrs. Lula Bird; three
brothers and two slsterB, Melvin,
Frank, Clifton and Miss Ada Belle
Bird, all of the Mount Pisgau section,
and Mrs. Jack Lowery, of Jefferson.
Funeral services were conducted at
Mount Pisgah Baptist church this afI
ternoon by the Rev. J. B. Caston, pas'tor
of the First Baptist church, at
Camden, with interment in the
churchyard.
Sandy Land Farming
Success in Lexington
I^exlngton, June 25.?James J.
Clark, Lexington county farmer, has
found that farming even on poor sandy
land can be made profitable. He
has made a study of his soil and he
attributes his success to constant personal
supervision over the farm and
to crop rotations and the liberal use
of fertilizer, according to County
Agent R. R. Mellette.
In 1937, Mr. Clark produced an average
of 30.8 bushels of wheat per
acre and 500 bushels of sweet potatoes
per acre. The potatoes he sold
at an average of 75 cents per bushel.
On his cotton crop, in the face of the
heavy boll weevil Infestation, he averaged
about three-fourths of a bale of
cotton per acre.
This year the sandhill farmer, having
seen the possibilities in sweet potatoes,
has planted twenty acres of
the Louislania strain of Porto Rlcon
potatoes. The plants he grew himself
in six home-made flue-heated hot-,
beds. Columbia offers him an adequate
market for sweet potatoes,
many bushels of which will come under
the strict requirements of the
Sugaryam label.
A firm believer in diversification,
Mr. Clark grows watermelons, sweet
potatoes, wheat, corn and cotton.
Thus, he has several cash crops besides
such crops as are neded for farm
and home use.
ROTARY CLUB NOTES
The Camden Rotary Club held its
first meeting of the new term at Hotel
Camden Thursday. July 7. John K.
deLoach, the Incoming president, presided.
The program was In charge
of T. Lee Little, who called upon the
chairmen of the various committees
to make short talks.
Doug McArn, chairman of the vocational
service committee, stated the
purpose of his committee was twofold.
First, to be an lnepiratlon to club
members, to maintain the highest possible
ethics In their business, and second
to work for Improvements in all
vocations In the community.
John Villepigue, chairman of community
service committee, said that
his committee should particularly
look out for the young men and women
graduating from schools without
jobs and help them find employment
either here or elsewhere.
Reuben Pitts, chairman of the attendance
committee, stressed the Importance
of either being present at
club meetings or to make up attendance
at other clubs.
Dr. John W. Corbott, chairman of
club service committee, said that his
committee was primarily to keep the
club machinery moving smoothly. He
then presented the code of ethics to
John Glenn, the newest member.
The following members were absent
this week: George Creed, W. T.
Rnrtfram, Dick Rleger, John Mullen
and Ralph Shannon.
Joe Stuckey, of Blshopvllle, was a
visiting Rot%rian. Other visitors
were Miss Jean Harris, of Camden:
Rohert Breck, of New York; Robert
Stevenson, of Atlanta; Elmer Watts,
of Bennettsville. ,
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Flashlights were used long before i
electricity was discovered. Fireflies,
placed in hollowed-out dishes, furn- i
ished the "batteries," and the light i
was extinguished by closing the boxlid.
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The Weevil Menace
To Cotton Yields
Clemson, June 37.?Reports received
from county agents, information
gained by talking to farmers and field
surveys made by W. C. Nettles, extension
entomologlft, indicate that the
boll weevil Is a menace to high cotton
yields In the Coastal Plains section
this year. Plants are too large
for early poisoning. A small percentage
of farmers are equipped to dust,
and they are cautioned to use calcium
arsenate dust sparingly so as
not to damage soil conditions.
Sentiment is strong for picking up
squares, and it is really surprising
how many farmers are following this
practice. Last week one farmer supplied
the following data on picking
up squares: One boy can cover four
acres a day, Actual checkups have
shown that a careful person by exerclsing
due care can pick up 9$. per
cent of the squares which" have fallen.
He plans to pick up squares at least
once a week for three weeks. Counts
showed that he was picking up 1,200 ;
live weevils to the acre, a large portion
of which would emerge be.fQr?.
July 4. " ^
Mr. Nettles advises farmers to ?lvs
immediate thought to picking up the
squares as a means of y^eevil control,
and suggests that the weevils should
be destroyed by burning or burying
under at least one foot_of soil.
17 CENT8
How a man not far from Laurlnburg
who thought the government
could help him with plans for building
chicken houses and pig pens got
involved in a lengthy transaction with
his Uncle Sam is told in the following
story: On the post office wall
he discovered several placards advertising
government booklets on how to
build chicken coops and pig pens and
what not. He selected several he desired,
because he was a forward-looking
farmer and anxious to improve bis
agricultural methods. Prices weie
listed and the total came to 26 cents.
So he wrote an order for the books
and enclosed 26 cents in stamps. Pret.
ty soon he received a courteous letter
thanking him for his order and saying
the booklets would be forwarded,
by the public printer. In a few days
he received another letter, Returning
his stamps and explaining the government
couldn't accept stamps, so would
he please send poBt office money order
or cash. r^Jhe enclosed a quarter
and a cent and sent them on to
Washington. And he got another letter
thanking him for his order and
saying the works in question would
be forwarded. So far, so good. But
a hitch arose, if hitches can arise.
Another letter informed him that only
one booklet was in stock, which was
being sent him. And he had a balance
of 17 cents. Would he order
more books. . By, this time he bad
loBt his enthusiasm for chicken coops
and hog pens and desired no more
books?and no more correspondence.
So he wrote Uncle Sam, requested
that his balance of 17 cents be returned
to him. In due course he recelved
a letter haying his 17 cents
couldn't he returned in sucn an o hand
manner. The bureau enclosed
a blank providing for -a refund o
said amount, but it required the at:
testation of a notary public. The 0
cal notary demanded 25 cents fee f?r
attestation. He, saw no nourishment
in paying out 25 cents to regain
cents, so he tore up the blank and
forgot It. Time marched on. And on?
day another letter arrived from Unc e
Sam. This one said' the hooks (no
the budget) was by way of being ba^
anced, and would the customer p
send in his demand for refund (wt
notary's signature) and relievo t e
government of an embarrassing b
uation. He tore up that letter, too.
Why lose eight cents plus three
postage? He thought the transaction
was closed. EvL_?lo! That 17
had the government^up^ft^tree^U? _
it was off the books the nation c?
n't proceed. 8o the Collector o
ternal Revenue was drawn into y
case. He was instructed by Wa8?"
Ington to send 41 deputy collector to
can on him, refund him his 17
and obtain an official receipt, to tni*
casino notary's fee would he n?ltn
isry. Bo the<Jeputy got on the tram
and Journeyed into the country, *** funded
the 17 cents and came bona
again. Transportation, snbsfstanoe and
Incidental expenses, .
There's nothing like belng-thorOttfu?Laurlnburg
Exchange.
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