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Nobody's Business Written for 1'6? Chronicle by (it* MoQee. Copyright. 19X8. AROUND THSt TOWN IN OLD FLAT BOCK ..the football game which was to of houu h?U last friday betwixt flat rock and oedar'lane was called off onner count of punk wllkliis, tho wild-cats punter, getting his big too broke whilo potiKuin hunting, enduring a reoeut night when he got drunk and foil out of hla ford. ..miss Jennie veovo smith, our tluo Mcholl principle, had us her weak-end Kuest from friday thru monday, musdames winklefusB, a secunt cuxzln by inarrldge. she did not excite verry much cury-oaalty while here; she was : < lassod aB the ugliest Yttkitor In our midst since holsum mooro's aunt spent a week in. our city about 4 years ago. ..nearly everboddy has commenced to talk about xmaa. they will bo glad when It Is over as they have no tnonney In the community this fail except' w.p.a, checks, and othey hardly keep our soles and boddlos together. Wo have found out that oil cotton and c40 corn mought mean bread and meat to us, but they do not moan rail cash dollars and cents, bort skinner has returned to the chaingang to serve out his'8-year sentence after a parole, ho can make a better llvving there than he can on a farm, so he says. ' .. whoever stole yore corry spondent'a two fine hens and three roosters had better return the same to their henhouse at ouCe, uj tlioy will bo took to law, that is?$ they have not been killed and et. we know who stole these fowls, bill and Joe, so don't bo bashful about comming acrost. the poleesman allso has yore Anger prints which you left on the duck which got away. n& questions will be asked if these roosters are crowing in our back-yard as usual sunday morning, but if they are not there?get reddy to meet the law. . ,mr, art square has got a govvernient Job at last, he will not be a bench warmer at the citty hall where he has been setting almost constant for 6 years, his two darters married not long ago and are now working! and making a Uvving for their hus-( bands Instead of their daddy, hence art's new move, his wife told him what was what, nv?d he chose what J at a rappid gait, he enjoys eating, and a job means that he can keep that up as long as his job keeps him tied to same. yores trulle, mike lark, rfd, corry spondent. A WEDDING OF WIDE INTEREST 18 ANNOUNCED ..mrs. art square gave a big announcement party at her home last friday night and all of the guesses present enjoy-ed theirselves to their harts content. ..the announcement was about her darter, lizzie sue, who hopes to marry Jim junkins of the countyseat as soou as possible, it was no Becret about the approaching nuptials from her point of view; she had alreddy told nearly everboddy. . . jim has proposed to her, so she said, but the wedding day has not been set as yet, but it mount be this month ??r next month -or month after next. In* wants to make another down payment on his ford, which will make 3 down payments on same, befoar the knot is tied ansoforth. ..lizzie sue thinks that she can break jim from drinking and has promise^ ma and pa she can do so in 3 lessons . . . but the publick doubts her ability to cure him. his pa "was married with the same stunt in view by his ma, but he is still reddy to lift the cup to his lips. .. the announcement landed in the middle of the floor from the loft where little minnle moore had hid herself and Jumped out amongst the guesses with a big plack-card. pinned on her back which read as followers: "lizzie sube la going to git married, llssle sue is going to git married." .. as soon as mrs. square finds out for certain that Ji? Junkins aint going to fool h6r darter again, she will have sevveral showers like she had 4 yr. ago when everthing was set for the wedding and he dlddent show up. crackers and russian tea and Bardlne Mandwitches were served, mrs. square la a fine host when ehe wants to be, but a poor one if her liwer is out of f.x. yores trulie, - mike lark, rfd, - . society eddltor. Japanese soldiers at Wuchang, China, attacked Dr. Dogan H. Roots, American missionary physician, when the doctor found Japanese soldiers driving Chinese refugees from St Michael's church, The soldiers tore an American flag and threw acid at the doctor, hut Med to strike him. The United state* consul made a protest to the Japanese consul general, who made no fepiyfL' , ".. Last Of Bad Gang I Goes To His Death Michigan City. |mf, Nov 17.?The federal government throws an electric switch tonight to complete oxioruiiuatlon or the A1 Beady gang. which* Head t;man J Edgar Hoover once culled the "most vicious" criminal group in the I'lilted Suites. James Dulhover, diminutive triggerman or the gang, dies in the electric, l 'liUr 1,1 Hie Indiana penitentiary j shortly after midnight to finish the J Jot) which federal agents started when! they hilled his two pals at liangor. Me , u little more than u year ago. l>alhover's death sentence was Imposed for the slaying of Paul V. Mill lie man. Indiana stato policeman. Mtnnetuan was shot down from atnhush May 2.?, 1937, after the $2,500 robbery of the Good la ml, Ind , state bank. Because the bank had federal Insurance, the federal government took jurisdiction and pressed anew the hunt for the Brady gang. Early tho morning of October 12, 1037. federal agents surprised A1 Brady. Clarence Lee Shaffer, Jr., and Dalhover in a Bangor sporting goods store. The gangsters were after ammunition. When the shooting was over, Brady and Shaffer were dead and Dalhover, slightly wounded, in handcuffs. Returned to Indiana by airplane, Dalhover pleaded guilty to murder and a federal court Jury fixed the death sentence. Ho appealed, but lost. Only today tho United States supreme court refused to sttfy the execution. Federal jurisdiction of the case gave United States Marshal A1 Hoslnski the unaccustomed role of executioner. Dalhover, one-time Madison, Ind., farm boy, Joined Brady and ShafTer in forming the gang in January, 1936. Their lirst "job," government records show, was a $320 store robbery at Robinson, 111. From then until their final brush with federal agents, they robbed banks, jewelry stores, groceries and theaters in the Midwest and East. After his capture at Bangor, Dalhover confessed, Indiana Detective Captain Meredith Stewart said, that the gang, In addition to killing Mlnneman, had slain Edward Linsey, Plqua, Ohio, grocery clerk, in March, 1936, and Police Sergeant Richard Rivers in Indianapolis in April, 1936. Charles Gelsklng, once a member of the gang, is in prison in Ohio. MYSTERY IN THE ACTIONS OF A CHESTER MAN V^ELL KNOWN Many York county people know Z. Vance Davidson, of Chester, candidate for congress in this district several times, and occasionally orator at public meetings. Lately, he has been a magistrate at Chester, appointed on the recommendation of the state senator there. For the last thirteen months, he has omitted to make his routine reports on his financial transactions. During that time he had presumably taken in several thousand dollars, and had paid over only a few hundred dollars. When an audit of all the county offices was made, he failed to allow the auditor to inspect his books and accounts. When the auditor reported this, the county obtained an order from Judge Featherstono ordering him to appear in court and show cause why he should not furnish full record's and facilities for an audit of his accounts. He did not obey that order, and the grand jury made a committee to audit his accounts and report at the next term of sessions court. But thoy found only Incomplete books and scraps of records, of the office of the magistrate, making an audit difficult; If not Impossible. Also, those officially interested have not been able to find Davidson anywhere. But when the court order on him was issued the sheriff reported that he was unable to find Davidson, to serve It, and later search failed to locate the well known magistrate. It has been suggested that he may have been stricken with amnesia.? Yorkville Enquirer. Jobless May Obtain Benefit Pamphlets Free copies of "How to File Claims For Benefits," a pamphlet for Jobless persons recently issued by the South Carolina unemployment compensation commission, may be obtained at the state employment service office here In Camden, officials announced today. As soon as all employers subject to the South Carolina unemployment compensation act have received a supply of the pamphlets, they will be asked to give a oopy, along with a wage and separate notice to each worker they lay off, either totally or partially. The employment office here la Camden is located In the city court room and is open on Tuesdays Copies of the pamphlet may also be obtained by writing to Informational Service, South Carolina unemployment compensation coram is slonr-Columbia, S C. ~ OLD CITY BY THE SEA Charleston Being Rapidly Restored From Damage By Tornado Charleston. South Carolina, famed for li* architecture and beautiful Hardens l? rapidly emerging from the ftlttbrls left 111 the wake of tho violent tornado that recently damaged some of U? historic building*. 'City of flowers and guns, of hard cash uud tender sentiment. Charleston has for years played the role of custodian of a valuable exhibit of churches and other old structures of such rare historic value that they are national treasures," says a bulletin from the Washington. 1). C. headquarters of the National - Geographic Society. "Any other Jobs she has undertaken, such ns tho manufacture of fertiliser or spools of railroad tires, are arranged so as not to Jostle the showcase of historic heritage. For here was tho cap 1 to I of that extinct civilisation, the gracious and elegant culture of southern rice planters." It was a chip on scrappy Charleston's shoulder that precipitated the American Civil war, ut Fort Sumter in the harbor, on the bluck day of April 12, 1861. Charleston also found now ways to make peace supremely enjoyable?new I comforts, i\ew beauties, new ways to grow wealthy. The gardens in Amer(lean buttonholes today owe their. I name to early South Carolina botanist, Dr. Alexander Garden. When Joel Poinsett was made United States minister to Mexico, he brought back to his Charleston home on Kutledge avenue, tfte exotic name-colored flower n&w named for him, tho poinsettia. Other developments in which Charleston had a pioneering hand Include the Introduction of vaccination and licensed prescription pharuiaucy Into the United States, tho organization of fire insurance companies and Masonic Scottish Kite, and operation of early snubmarines and railroads. Historians credit Governor Thomas Smith with introducing rlco culture from Madagascar into South Carolina about 1693. By tho end of that century, bumper crops supplied cargoes for Charleston to export?prizes ghat pirates chased. For more than a century, dikes and canals criss-crossed the productive Low Country of the tidewater strip, like tho ntlniature Netherlands. When malaria followed water into tho rice plantations during the three periods of "flowing each crop, planter chose to spend tho "sickly months" away from their soggy green acres, they took advantag-e of Charleston's better sanitation and social life. The rule of rice gave Charleston three features still dominant in the city's landscape: a town house architecture designed for summer comfort as well as year-round beauty, crowded docks for the export of plantation and forest products, and the Gullah negro. Tho typical old Charleston mansion is long, tall, and thin, with a narrow shoulder turned to the street and a 10-foot brick wall masking its averted face, Behind the wall, each story of the house wears a whalebone collar or basking above a garden's green seclu-i sion. Charlestonians later accepted Georgian homes than boldly face the street. The ricd fields of the Ixjw Country around Charleston, still visible from highways, but abandoned to marsh grass and herons, supported a cult as wnll as a mltuiu. Charlcntonlans 'acquired a reputation as "American Chinamen, who worship their ancestors and eat rice." Dining rooms saw rice served daily?usually with gravy? anruuy boiled" t(S Tbtain the flavor of white or gold Guinea variety, of salt tide or fresh water origin. The heavy silver rice spoon, over a foot long, was a feature of Charleston silver services. Rice first gave Charleston a place in world trade and high rank among American seaports. In 1775, among a profusion of lumber, Indigo, tar, barrel staves, and deerskins from the Ind.an trade, the port shipped 140,000 barrels of rice. The only import to balance in value with exports was slave labor for hand-cultivation of rice fields. After the Civil war, rice planting" dropped &way almost to a memory. Now Charleston's hinterland produoss less than 1 per cent of the American crop. South Carolina ranking fifth among eleven rice-raising states. But Charleston had already writtena prescription for its own rice-sick trade. In 1784 a bale of cotton was shipped from the port; now it is acclaimed as the first exported from the United States to Europe. Soon Charleston wharves were deep In drifts of that "snow of southern summers, and cotton still is king. Charleston slave,, quarters were stocked by preference with natives of Angolo, Portuguese hunting ground on Africa's west coast, "Ngolo or Gullah descendenta have a strange language? a negro dialect ot Shakespearean English?and some even stranger superstitions. The "Catfish Row," of which DuBose Heyward wrote _in Porgy, is,,identified as the town's Cabbags Row. Charleston occupies a tongue of land between the Cooper and Ashley rivers, which unite to form a threemile-wide harbor. The approach from the north crosses tho Cooper river bridge, long span that swoops ud In a graceful roller-coaster arch high city, still only G7.000 inhabitants strong, presents a line of uniformly high roofs, broken by such landmarks as the 192-foot steeple of old St. Michael's church. Elected In Philadelphia W. Washington Rhodes, a former colored eitisen of Cainden, was elected as a representative from Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, in the general election recently held there. Rhodes left Camden a number of years ago to malte his home in the north. As a young boy he was employed by the late Baum Brothers company in Camden. He la a nephew of Rev. J. W. Boykin, of this city. Since going to Philadelphia he has acquired control and is now managing editor of the Philadelphia Tribune, one of the largest colored publications in the eastern states. He is a former United States district attorney, with law offices at 526 South 16th street. Cotton Quotas For Next Year Explained Columbia, S. C.?With the referendum on cotton marketing quotas for 1939 scheduled to be hold on December 10, every cotton grower should understand clearly what a marketing quota la and how It effects his farm, Btates R. W. Hamilton, administrative' officer of the AAA In South Carolina. Marketing quotas for cotton are provided In the farm legislation nqw In effect, to he used by producers when tho total supply of cotton oxceeds the normal supply by 7 por cent. Normal supply 1h considered to be a normal year's domestic consumption and exports plus 40 per cent , of that amount as an allowance for a normal carry-over. To bocomo effective the marketing quotas must bo approved by two-thirds majority of tho cotton producers voting In the referendum. If quotas are voted Into effect, Mr. Hamilton explained, the quota for an Individual farm will bo the actual production or the normal production, . -.sr* whichover Is tho greater, of the farm's cotton acroago allotment, plus the Ji amount of cotton which the farmer has on hand from a provious crop which would not have been subject to penalty If marketed In 1988. While tho rule of figuring the amount of the quota Is the same whether the farmer plants within or exceeds tho cotton acroage allotment, the practical effect Is Quite different. Farmers who plant within the cotton acreage allotment In 1939 will not be subject to any penalty unloss they market thg 1939 cotton which would J. have boon subject to ponalty If marketed in 1938. Consequently, producers who complied with the acreage allotment In 1938 and 1939 will not be subject to any penalty, and noncooperators in 1938 who cooperate In 1939 will not incur a ponalty unless they should <T have excess cotton from a previous crop which Ihey curry over and markot in oxcobb of the 1939 quota. In a year for which quotas are In :i effect, a farmer who overplants his acreage allotment will bo subject to a penalty on any cotton that ho marketa In excess of his farm's quota. Three Age Groups Where Tuberculosis l akes Heavy 1 oil Babies under one year are safer today from tuberculosis than was the case in 1928. Ten years ago, 1,300 Infants less than one year old died of tuberculosis in this country, while in recent years the annual toll has been 670. The disease Is not inherited, but young children uro liable to bo innocent victims if they are exposed to persons who havo active tuberculosis. Christmas Seals are enabling parents to learn more about tuberculosis, thoreby protecting their children. Young girls aro particularly suscoptlble to tul>orculosls. Intensive efforts, financed by Christmas Seals, are directed toward turning back the threat of this disease from young people. Many schools and oolleges throughout the country recommend tuberculin testing and X-raying to discover whethor or not their students havo tuberculosis. Out of 200 poisons who dlo overy day from tuberculosis In the Unltod States, 33 are botwoen the ages of 15 and 26. I While more women than mon are > victims of tuberculosis up to 30 years of age, the toll among men 40 to 65 years of ago la approximately twice that among women of the same age. Medical authorities emphasise the tmportunco of parents being free from t tuberculosis in order to reduce the dangor of Infecting their children. 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