Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?? Esso Baseballers Are.Hitless Wonders WbUe i*?? Bwo te*m 01 the Cttm" L? municipal softball league trulls J teams In batting itrength with a * m figure of .087, the team is right 1? the heels of the first plaee Ken!>jl Mills team, batting average .311 ?d leaders In the pennant race. 1 Tbt, "hitleas wonder" team Is the jy outfit In the league to have dented the Kendall Hornets since the ltart oi the second half. The team batting averages of the tber teams In the league, Including * 't0 lust week end, are: Merchant's |(S; Sinclair# .249; and Wolves .236. The' leading stickers of the several (earns are: Kendall Mills: Hicks .571, rCaulder .438, Moore .429, E. Reeves ,jl; sinclalrs: H. Mopre .600, Sowejl 400, Bell .376, Gasklu .333, Der! . k 312; Merchants: Oliver .666, T. . ? flttt I OilC ---? ?P. I" "*~ ~ *" " Dywell and Bryant .260; Wolves: Z. | cierksou .400. Halle .364, Clytmtn i 533, b. llruce ,333, und Halsall And i Woolen 266; Essos: ^almond .456, i C Jackson .333, Mays .283, Caulder ! .154. - rnc schedule this week calls for^ the Essos to meet the Kendall Mills Monday night, the Wolves and Merchants Tuesday, and the Kendall ; mh|9 and Sinclalrs on Wednesday. Thursday the Esso team of Camden ?|?va t hp Columbia nn ?)io local'diamond and on Friday the Wolves and the Essos moe^ In a league game. | CAMDEN DI8TRICT 80FTBALL TOURNAMENT IN W1NN8BORO Clarkson Rhame, district commissioner of the Camden district of the South C'araollna Softball association, announced Monday that the district tournament would be held In Wlnnsboro August 16, 17 and 18. Deadline for entries , will be midnight Saturday, August 13. The tournament was transferred to Winnsboro due to the fact that plans for the lighting of the Camden field this year failed to materialize. Maurice Frew of the Winnsboro Mills will assist Mr. Rhame with the tournament. The Camden district is composed of Chester, Fairfield. Kershaw. Sumter, Chesterfield, Lancaster and Lee counties. It was announced Monday In Chicago that the national tournament this year would be held In Chicago September 7 to 12. The South Carolina state champions will be invited to this tournament and will receive a $100 prize from The State newspaper to assist In the payment of expenses to the national tournament. Other district .tournaments are scheduled for Charleston, Spartanburg. Florence, Columbia and OrangeI burg. All will be held the week of , August 15 to 20 with the state tournament in Columbia on August 25, 26 and 27. Rain 8top8 Game A "heap big wind" and a veritable -cloudburst brought an end to the softI'ball quarrel betwen "the pssos and the Kendall Hornets At the league pastime area Monday afternoon. The game came to an end Just as .the third Inning was getting under way with the Kendall Mills team leading 4 to 2, by reason of a four run splurge in the first inning. RHAME HURL8 GREAT BALL A8 WOLE8 WIN Clarkson Rhame staged a comeback Tuesday evening and in a game played under lowering Bkles and periods of drizzling rain let down the Merchants with five hits, to win an 5 to l victory and put the squad in third place in the league race. Rhame'g performance was all "the more impressive because he had given up a quantity of blood at a transfusion during the day. Although weakened as a result, he played a fine game getting a run In the second franir: and clipping the apple at a 333 gait. Th. Wolves played easily and without the tension that has causdd tbcm a lot of grief since the second Period opened. They proceeded to pgt th* tame away fn the.Jflrst Inning I *hen two hits and a walk gave them two runs. In the second they added a run on two hits and an error to raise ibe total to three runs. At tbla juncture the .clouds?opened and the habitual afternoon downpour ?f rain made its debut. The game was called but In ten minutes when the Ibwnpour had lessened the teams reamed play. Neither side scored in ibe third but in the fourth the Wolves mixed up a potpurrl of two hits, two errors and a walk to score three runners. The Merchant# spunked up in the fourth to chase # run home but that the extent df the scoring. The Solves fattened their count in the *lh by adding. t*r*? hit#, a walk and an error. The Merchants, altho trailing in race and rannlng up agaln*^* ^nd half to date,plaTed 'without rancour. The retail gang has showed some real sportsmanship throughout the season, taking it on the chin without crabbing or alibi. The score of the Tuesday game R H E Wolves 8 11 3 Merchants 1 B 3 Batteries? Rhame and Nettles; Haynes and Oliver. E88O PA8T1MER8 CLIMB UP IN PENNANT CHASE That Horatio Alger outfit, known as tpe E8bo Oilers, soared Into second place in the league race last Friday when they nosed out the Sinclairs, 5 to 4, after the teams had offered several hundred spectators one of the prettiest exhibitions of pastlmlng seen on the pastime pasture this season. | it was a game which saw the Essos come from behind to score the winning run after two were down in the last Inning. It was Charley Salmond's drive to right that put Caulder, who had reached second on a double over the second baseman, over the plate with the run that won the game. .The game found Artie Robinson, tne one-armed dinger of the Oilers, winning his second game in as many starts. Derrick, the big handsome lad did the hurling for the Sinclairs and he pitched fine ball, giving up but five hits during the game. ? It looked as if the Sinclairs, who have been in a batting slump since the opening of the second half, were about to blast the Jinx and score a one-sided victory. They had gone down in one, two, three order in the first but in the second, Beck Russell paced his mates with a screaming single to right. Babin laid down a nice sacrifice and Russell scored on Ray Moore'B hit between first and second. Moore rhced to third and Nolan was safe at first when Simpson mussed up an easy roller. Gaskin singled and Moore came in, Nolan racing around to third from where he scored on Hendrlck's fly to deep left. Plyler retired the side by rolling to Mays, who made a pretty peg to Jacksoif at first. Esso got one of the runs back In, the last of the second when Simpson singled and scored on Caulder's hit after two had gone down. The Essoes tied up the game in the fourth .when Maya jgh&. had walked and Jackson who had gained a life on Babin's error, registered. ( The Sinclair* broke the tie in the fifth, when Hendricks came in from second on Derrick's drive through the; pitcher's box. Esso again tied up the count in the sixth. With one down Golf was safe on an infield error and scored on Mays' double to right. The Sinclairs went down in order In the first of the seventh, but the IDssos after two were down, pushed over the winning run when Cauldfer doubled and scored on Saimoud u single. The Essos played almost perfect ball, only one error being chalked against them, while but two were listed by the <?lnclalr?. , Billy Reeves of "no-run, no-hit fame handled the indicator with Jake; Haynes tailing 'em'on the basee. both of .the boys doing some gplendid officiating. , r) The fcore: c s 1 jiiOi .? a a Sii/clairs .. s-T tss Batteries: Eaaoea, Robinaon and Salmond; Sinclair*, D*rrkfc and Ply-, ler. Sweet Potatoes Bring (iood Prices This community Is heading for fame as oue of the outstanding awoet potato Centura In the south, according to the latest figures available at the office of the county ugent. Thlf. statement Is made ill view of the fact that the awoet potato program la less thuu a year old. Following a meeting held iu Kershaw county by the Kxtension Service of Clemson college, several Interested farmers planted the latest strain of the "Louslana Sweet Potato." Many of these potatoes are being harvested now, and people who pride themselves on their eplcurian skill, declare them to bo exceptionally hue eating. Oue truckload, representing the yield from one acre, was sold at Charlotte this week for $132.25. Several of the latest type of curing 'nouses are being erected by those who are going iuto the sweet potatcf Industry. With these curing houses in use, the fariper will be able to supply the choicest kind of potatoes at any time during the year. There are some two hundred acres now growing the Loutsi&na strain potato In Kershaw county. This means a yield of some 20,000 bushels. The success of the farmers this year Is expected to find treble, If not quadruple, the number of acres given qv?? to the potato crop next year. The Camden and Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce has issued an appeal to every housewife in the county, calling for the Kershaw sweet potato at their local grocery stores. "Kershaw Sweet 'Taters for Kershaw Folks," Is the slogan. Ford Opens Soy Bean | Demonstration Plant j j Saline, Mich., Aug. 3.?Ceulor of interest for farmers within a radius of ( 200 miles, Henry Ford's demonstra- j j tion soy bean factory fronting the, Detroit-Chicago turn-pike a half-mile west of this charmlug Michigan town, j has just begun operations. The factory group oompriaes two buildings. One is the historic Schuyler grist mill which has been converted into a cleaning and storage plant. A uew frame structure back of the grist mill houses soy beau flaking and oil extraction equipment. Power is supplied by a hydroelectric plaut fed by water brought by mlllrace from a dam built acroaa the Saline river along the right-of-way of the DetroitChicago highway. More than 700 farmers within a 200-mile radius of the Saline nlant are now growing soy beans on 22.588 acres from seed furnished by the Ford company. In addition, the Ford company has 16,624 more acres seeded under contract. The total yield of soy beans for tho season is expected to be 312,480 bushels, at the rate of twenty* bushels per acre. Under the arrangement between the Ford company and the farmers to whom seed was advanced, the farmers will return the seed from the new crop at the end of the season. Thev are then at liberty to sell the balance of their crop to Ford at the market, or dispose of It to other buyers. Most of the crop, however, Is expected to be delivered to the Saline plant. The cleaning and flaking plant at Saline, together with those at Tecumseh and Hayden Mills have a capacity of 300,000 bushels a year and are expected to be kept busy through the twelve months. The extraction plant In the rear of the grist mill here has a capacity of 140,000 bushels a year. A similar amount will be processed at a new plant now under construction at Milan, Mich. The balance of the crop will be retained for seed for use In the spring of 1939. The historic old grist mill already has become the mecca for farmers for many miles around Saline, and It promises to become the show place of the Ford soy bean operations In southeastern Michigan. Soy beans brought to the plant are delivered at the rear. There trucks dump their loads into a hopper, from which the beans are hoisted by conveyor to cleaning equipment on the second floor and thence to storage bins on the upper floors. As the beans are required for processing they are carried by conveyor to the new building in tho rear. There they are delivered to a hopper from which they are transferred to a flaker and then by conveyor again to a distributor which feeds the flakes intp the oil extraction mills. The oil. which comprises 18 per cent of the soy bean flake, Is extracted with bexane, a liquid solvent, and then recovered by evaporating the solvent. The extraction process takes place in a large insulated tube set at "an angle of approximately 30 degrees erates ipslde the tube, carrying the bean flakes from the bottom toward the top as the solvent pours down. The solvent carrying the oil Is drawn off from the base of the tube and run through evaporators where the solvent passes off as vapor and the oil remains. The solvent is used over and over again. The oil is used in the manufacture of car finishes and in binding foundry cores. _ The meal, from which the oil has been extracted, is carried ofT from the top of the mill and Is bagged for use in manufacture of plastic parts for Ford cars at the Rouge glasB pi^nt. Aside from the hydroelectric plant, power also will he 'available from a standby steam plant. Cull And Dispose Of The Non-Layers . The best time to cull the average poultry flock is in July and August, for then the good hens are still at work while the loafers have stopped for the saason, according to County Agent W. C. McCaMey. Records have shown, however, that it does not pay to keep a cull hen over a period of time in order to receive a higher "When a hen stops laying she usually starts molting," Mr. MoCarley explains. "The later a hen lays In the summer and fall the greater will be her past yearly egg production, so that the high producer Is the late layer and hence the late molter. The early molting hen Is the 'short-time' or poor layer, for most hens cannot grow feathers knd lay at the same time. Contrary to general belief, the ^arly molter does not make the early winter layer." Two men attempting to escape from the Jan at Green Castle, lad., cracked a water pipe and had to can the sheriff to come to their aid and kesp them frost being drowned. I TRUE SOUTHERN COURTESY Shown By Eipht Candidate* for Governor In Their Campaiyn. The candidates for state offices have allowed the trio of candidates for United States senator to take the limelight away from thttfn. the candidates for governor by being polite, careful of the amenities, arguing calmly, and having some social featuros promtneut in their series of campulgu mooting*. * At Bennettsville, the home of Candidate Bennett, he gave the traveling caravan a feast of iced watermelons. At Burnter, the home of Candidate Manning, he gave the other members of the ambitious, oratorical aggregatlon a big lunchlon which was a very pleasant affair. At both places, the others gave little preludes to their set speeches, saying nice things ubout the native candidate, courtaoualv a.ud artmitlv. In each case, a pleasant time was had by a^U, during thq social amenities. With throe of the eight candidates for governor hailing from Columbia, the meeting in the capital city promises to be a veritable love feast of aspirants for the privilege of living In the mansion in Columbia for four years. One candidate had the pleasure of the. state campaign caravan going to the town named for his own family, when the meeting was held at Manalog, In ClaieuuO.i county, the day heTore It closed tho week at Sumter, his home town. This week, tire trek of the candidates for state offices, eight foi governor, and a half doaen others foi other offices, moves upstate, toward the important Piedmont. Here lu the Piedmont part of South Carolina, the state offices campaign will really get Into high gear, and may lose some of its easy going, courteous characteristics as the caravan reaches the part of the state where the most voters abide. Twelve counties in the upcountry, including Richland, have half the votes in South Carolina. So the Piedmont has the balance of power in any statewide political campaign and political prognosticates will keep a close watch on developments during the next three weekB. !audiences have continued to be for the state office campaignen with the loud speaker truck , but the octet running for govhope larger crowds will greet icreafter, In the Piedmont part state, during the rest of their om county seat to county seat, addition comes to the lesser ire of the campaign circus today, rh&t effect remains to be seen. r Stone, injected into the midt the campaign, candidate for reasurer, wfll Join the circus tot Newberry, and says he will Lie with It until the end. became a candidate, when the is reopened by the state execu>mmittee, after the death of ColIpratt, of Fort Mill,, who was g a real contest for office with irer Miller, when he was tragistricken down in the middle of ihipaign tour. ?nel Spratt was given better an eYen chance of winning the. jratic nomination for state treasby neutral observers, before he himself was hopeful of success on the votes he was accumulatin account of his own wide acLance and record as a financier, certain areas of opposition to urer Miller. tie steps into his candidacy, but his shoes, by any means, with a different basis for^hls cam. Stone Is the man who has been g to newspapers, syndicated foreof elections in this state. iade a bull's eye In the beginaorne years ago, and on that itf to carry on as a forecaster, grtnore or less success. He says time, his investigations show Miller is due to be defeated, so itered at the cost of the $200 lo be his successor. BLt_is seeking office by -fltafltlca. ad of by qualification for the , and victory, if it comes, by weakness of tho opposition, and >y voters backing a candidate for jfflciency for the place. 8tone cash In on his own system of elecforecasting this time?but look at Literary Digest experience! e flumter meeting was the most fill one yet a COR in tjie grand of the state candidates. Five i girls marched to the stand, alL hidden by the big bouquets of era nrey hore, and presented all big bouquets to Candidate Manin : his home town. And that e town certainly gave Manning an ion. Blease was especially cour to "Manning there, seemingly gothe limit, when he said to the iter audience: ~ ^ /on cast your votes for Mr. Manning. I don't need them." The rift of the tats there was some heckling of Candidate Blackxnon, when h? criticised MaybanX' frat it was Ben n.t who tnrn?d th. Hm.Mghtto M.y fry nir and his- machine, vico-enconragthg politics in Charleston. *>nos Ben nett said: "Let yourselves decide whom you will vote for, and not gome friend' seeking a job on the Santee-Cooper." | "Now, you rural counties," he said, "If you want to see the city political machines of Columbia and Charleston in operation in your communities why you know for whom to vote." Blease also teferred to the political machine, called _ the San toe-Cooper. project, thru which a group of politicians plan to seize the state government for many years to come, the May.bank candidacy being the preliminary move. Blease referred to an absurd rumor about his own candidacy and another man being now out in front in the race. He added that lots of money and the promise of 3,000 jobs, coming out of Charleston, the seat of the SanteeCooper cabal, would not be enough to carry the election for governor, this time, and he himself wants none of that kind of help in his own campaign, but does want the votes that cannot be bought. THE BLOODY GROUND The murder mania has had a way of shifting from county to county. Kdgefleld was once the bloody spot. It later shifted to ftdgefleld's progeny, Saluda county. Greenville was never peaceful, but has slightly improved. Richland, Lexington and Charleston have had their fits, starts, and interludes. But down in the barbarous corner of South Carolina, known as the "Independent Republic of Horry," the guns pop practically every day in the year, and it is an old and incurable habit. We notice in the daily press that they are now slaying them The report on one of these is unusual, when viewed from a civilized twice a day in bloody Horry, standpoint. The victim and hlB wife( were returning home at night, presumably in an automobile. The gun-j ner and his son secreted in a tobacco| or corn patch, shot the man to death in a most brutal and cowardly manner. They then had the gall to tell the sheriff that they shot in self do-1 fense. Skulking at night* in a corn held J and afraid of a man riding home in the big road, with his wife at night* This sorry lie may pass with a backwoods Horry Jury, but it stuns, the intelligence of the average county.?Calhoun Times. Vacancies In Marines During the months of August and September many vacancies wjlj be filled in the United States Marine Corps, announced Captain A. d. Small, District Recruiting Officer at Savannah, Qa. j ( Young men between the ages of 18 and 26, ranging in height from 64 to 74 inches, single, white, without dependents, eighth grade or above in education and of good moral character will be considered for enlistment In the Marine Corps. Entrance examinations for service in the Marines are held at the Marine Corps Recruiting Station, Post Office Building, Savannah, Georgia. Applicants who are unable to apply in person will be furnished application blanks and full information upon request. All applications are given prompt attention. Rainfall last week In Richmond county, N. C., totaled slightly over 12 inches in a period of one week. ) ^ STATE THEATRE KERSHAW, S. C. 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