Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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VobOdy's Business w'\?*%?SSl!V good and bad news from FLAT RQCK dr. hubbert green,' our only local slcan-and surgeon, 1? thiuklng of ding a guess room to Ms house, pie of his patience who came to be Mted by Mm are not able to go t.k )lomo right away: wheu they mid the night at hla house, he has ?leep qn the aofy In the setting |)in, he Is gettlug tired of doing so, d his back is bent from same. lark familey Is vejry happy at rt riting. the followering members the househole have got back on , goyvermeut pay-roll, to wit: nld and mudd lark, w. p. a. cutte i and Jonnie lou lark, sowing-room; Id and dttdd lark, p. w. a: and the lerslgned, hon. mike lark, rfd, dtt relief.,It pays to have pull anaoth everything lopked dark last ck. liiss Jennie veeve smith, our afent scholl principle, had the misstune to get her tire puuctured enite to the county-seat last week to her check cashed, she hitch-hiked ride and had U. toed In. tQJ. ?i. "he thinking ot suelng the highway nmlsh for letting nails lay In the id so's they can be picked up by ?. her face waB verry red about it. ittle nary chance and wlllie square ide a bet last week which one of km could hold a flre-cracker In his hith the longest qf.ter the fuse was wlllie hell hls'n the longest and bned the dime, he will get out of p hospittlo In a few days but his p and nose and Jaws wont ever be h same. In fact?Mb face Is badly Ested from the explosion, the worst ng about it. wlllie says, was he bet creddlck and has not yet got his nn?y. (olllticks have begun to bile In flat k. the muny-clpple eleckton comes In may. a now mayor will be chose, ,o 4 councilmens. evorboddy has k up hand shaking already and a Ie vote will be polled, the preBsent ought to be purged, so some citii are saying, mr. holsum moore run for his Job. he thinks he has n taking bribes from certain prists ansoforth. yores trulie, mikel lark, rfd, ocrry spondent \t rock 8chool enjoyed father'8 night w other's night was hell by miss Jen:veeve smith, our schpll principle, the scholl house last frlday night everboddy enjoyed hlsself a right irt. early everboddy who had boys and Is in scholl was on hands to pare of her festivities except mr. art iare and mr. torn head, they were of town on the fedderal Jury, so heard. E-freshments were served by the , a. consisting of crackers and tea a little splosh of some kind of ad dressing, allso cake was passed und which was sliced verry, verry i ansoforth. kiss Jennie veeve auqg the followig songs accompanied on the ptan"who broke the lock on the hen se door;"- "when. L -and. you WCrft.. ng maggte;" the marking bird," J "till we meet again." ddle and banjo muslck was f urnid by the lark string band and a >e harp In the mouth of the underied. everboddy was thrilled with manny new tunes that were waftout over the audience and Into the 1, cold world. in scholl house was deckerated h pine bushes, creeping vines and ?w wild flowers scattered here and re. the Japper-neea lanterns which, e left over from the xmus tree tc allso used Mo?? with fl punkina m hallow-oveen. [fter a brief talk by miss Jennie ^ve smith, and a song by hon. mike jk, rfd, entitled?"don't forgit me [en 1 am gone," the meeting was Journed. then everboddy went dlit to the all-nlte caff and got theirves a hot dog and a cup of coffee, yore trulie, mike lark, rfd, staff reporter. Negroes Cut In Fight Two negroes were cut in a free-forflgbt at Pisgah crossroads SaturY night "and a warrant. was taken t charging three negroes with the a ck. ; Jrover Robinson and flamson Bradd ware the two negroes Who ware shed, but their Injures are ndt cAhered serious. %urU> officer Emanuel arretted Ceis Wells and expected to arrest t* Wells sad Jhck We^s during ?L. ? taster Itsto. P. H. Reynolds Died Saturday The community was shocked, when On Saturday afternoon, l'earley Houa ton Reynolds died at liiu home. Ills death was midden lie had been in declining health for some years but no one was expecting his death so suddenly, lie was fd> years of uge. Deceased had been a rural mail carrier and retired from ihe service soverul yours ago after serving the required time of thiry years for retirement. He was also interested iu farming, having moved tQ Bishopvllle from his furm some years ago. He had a quiet disposition and was generally liked by his fellowmen. The following members of his family are left as survivors: His widow, Mrs. Lou M. Reynolds and the following daughters and sons: Mrs. Lillle Mae Reynolds, of Bishopvllle; Mrs. J, P. Hlanton/ of Nichols; Miss Lina Franfa es Reynolds, a sophomore at Winxhrop College; P. H. Reynolds of Pittsburg, Pa.; Juliau A. Reynolds . and James F. Reynolds, students at the University of Bouth Carolina; Carroll W. Reynolds and Henry Reynolds, of Bishopvllle. Also surviving are a sister, Mrq< Albert Windham of Lynohburg, and two brothers, Leo Reynolds, of Lamar, and Newton Reynolds of BiBhopville. LETTER8 In this age of typewriters, telephones, telegrams, dictaphones and all the other grams and phones, the once great art of writing letters has been sacriflc-ed. When one considers that some of the priceless gems of literature have been preserved In the form of letters, the loss is a sad one. Nowadays, with ever facility for writing a letter at one's disposal?any small store In any small town can supply the necessary equipment at a less than reasonable cost ? few people take advantage of their heritage. In olden times (the Egyptian for Instance,) If a youth wished to express his sentiments to the. lady of his choice, he first had to Journey to a quarry and hew out a block of stone. That done, he didn't backup a station wagon, and put aforesaid block thereon. He himself toted It a few miles. On rachlng his home he had to devise methods of Inscribing on the stone the desired message, and when that feat had been accomplished did he merely hall a passing postman? On the contraray, he took "the letter" in person to its destination. Surely, we live In an enfeebled age. However, there are some seats of learning in existence where the " young are compelled to acquaint their nearest of kin every Sunday as to their welfare. Should one take a stroll thru the malttr hall of any one of such edifices on a Sabbath day one Would see rows and rows of aforementioned young, with corrugated brows, endeavoring to revivify this heretofore great art. The following letter, written by a boy of some nine or ten summers, and published in England fifty-odd years ago by The Spectator as "a genuine letter from a school boy to his mother," deserves an airing, if not for its educational value, certainly for Its appeal and subtlety: "My dear Ma: - ? J "I wight to tell you I am very retched and my chilblains Is worse again. I have not made any progress and do not think I ehail, I am very sorry to be such an expense, but I do not think this scule is any good. One of the fellows has taken the crown of my best hat for a target,' he has now borrowed my watch to make a water wheal with the works but it won't act. M and him tried to put the works back, but we think some wheals are missing as they won't fit. I hope Matilda's cold is better. I am glade she Is not at schule. I think I have got consumption. The boys at this place are not gentlemanly but of course you did not know this when you sent me here. I will try not to get bad habits. The trQueer.ft_.have worn out at the knees. ? think the tailor must have cheated you, the buttons have come off and they are loose behind. 1 don't think the food is good but I should not mind if i was stronger. The piece of meat I send you is off the beef wo had on Sunday, but on other days it is more stringy. There are black beadles in the kitchen, and sometimes they cook them In the dinner, which can't be wholesome when you are not strong. Dear Ma, I hope you and Pa are well, and do not mind my being so uncomfortable, because i do not think I shall last long. Please send me some mora monsy a#-X o 8<L if you cannot spare It i think I can borrow it of a boy who is going to leave at the half quarter, and then he wont ask for It back again, but perhaps you would not like to be under an oblirffctton to bla parent#, aa they are tradespeople. I think you deal at their ahop. I did not mention it but t think they could put H down on yonr-bm. ^ ?h "I rrauia jour loTin* bat retched oa." V " ' Radio Talent To Be Given Tryout o> Has Camden any radio talent? That question will be answered on Friday, February 3 at eight p. in. in the high school auditorium when a tiro up of Camden talent will have a public audition. Tills program is to be conducted by Uncle Qoorge Fulenwlder, sales manager of the Southern Bearings and Parts Company, Norge Home Appliance distributers of Charlotte and announcer on the Norge Young American program from station WBT. The audition will be under the sponsorship of the Junior class of the Camden High School and the class will be assisted by the Howard Auto and Electric Supply Company, dealer and co-sponsor ui Lne " i oung America" show in Charlotte. Uncle George will contribute several illustrated chalk talks to the program, submitting such pictures as "A Numerical Head," "How to Gain Weight," "Some Chicken" and otherB. All children who desire to enter the audition contest will register with Miss Myra Small at Howard's Auto and Electric company or wtlh Miss Miriam Gandy at the high school. Entries may consist of songs, dances, musical instrument numbers or other acts that can bo broadcast over the radio. The winners of the Camden audition will appear on the air over Station WBT where they will compete for weekly prizes and grand prizes of trips to the New York World's Fair. Parents of prize winners will be awarded their choice of a Norge Rollator refrigerator, electric range or home laundry outfit. "Young America on The Air" is now the oldest program on Station WBT, having been lit existence now for over three years. Talented children under seventeen years of age are given a chance to appear before the radio audience. Several of the children who have made appearances on this proQryQ fx} o vo n A W OT1 inviH St ft 1 UPTflHVincome by reason of stage and radio opportunities. L. B. MAS8EY APPOINTED PIEDMONT DISTRICT AGENT Clemson, Jan. 23.?Larry B. Massey, whose appointment as district agent for the Piedmont district has been announced by D. W. Watkins, director of the Extension Service, succeeds the late A. A. McKeown. Massey, now 34 yeara old, 1b a native of Anderson county and a graduate of Clemson college in the class of 1927. After further study at the University of South Carolina he taught vocational agriculture in Fairfield and Aiken counties until March, 1933, when he was appointed county agent for Calhoun ycounty. In 1935 he was transferred to Orangeburg county where he has done outstanding work in promoting diversification especially with sweet potatoes, hogs and poultry, in encouraging the use of purebred, disease-free cotton _ seed, and other lines of progressive farming. Mr. Massey's headquarters will be at Spartanburg and he will supervise the extension work in the following fifteen counties: Oconee, Pickens Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg, Cherokee, Union, Newberry, York, Chester, Fairfield, Lancaster, Kershaw and Chesterfield. Addison A. McKeown, who died in November, 1938, had been for nearly twenty-five year's a popular and efficient extension worker, greatly beloved by all..'He was a Clemson alumnus and had served first as York county agent and then for eighteen years as Piedmont district agent. It was declared at a conference of the National Aviation association, held at 8t. Louis* by a spokesman of Wlnthrop Rockefeller, that pie aviator has replaced the cowbofr as the idol of American boyhood. Rokefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has partlaily completed a surrey which Also credited Interest in flying .with reducing the an"1*1** of crimes committed by persons between the ages of 19 end ? _ "Silver Meteor" is Train of Tomorrow 4 * WORKMEN hi the plant of the Edward Q. Budd Manufacturing Co., Philadelphia, completing the new Seaboard "Silver Meteor." Although thla train will be entirely made up of chair car equipment, the interior appointments are of the most modern and luxurious design. Reclining chairs are upholstered in spongy rubber to insure maximum comfort; each car has a different color schemers dining car oflfsri low p?iced meals. Other cars Include a tavern and observation lounge. Registered nurse attendants, radio and no extra fare are further features. A RTIST'S conception of the Seaboard Railway's new seven car stainless *teel streamlined train, "The Silver Meteor" which goes into all-electric service out of New York C.tv for rtorida, February 2. Dedication of this "Train of Tomorrow" is to be by "The Girl of Tomorrow,1' representing the World's Fair. Ceremonies, attended by Grover Whalen and other dignitaries are to-be at the Pennsylvania Railroad's World's Fair Station, February 2. The Silver Meteor will thsn leave for Miami, Florida, being the first streamlined train to leave the Fair grounds. The Silver Meteor will provide the fastest overnight coach service ever offered between New York and both coasts of Florida. All seats are reserved on this diesel-electric powered train, the first ever to be operated in the North and South service. News Of Interest In And i\ear Bethune Bethune, Jan. 25.?Mrs. Johnny Burton, -eL IU>a'noke Rapids, N. C., has been visiting her mother, Mrs. F. H. Beard. Mr. Burton Joined her for the week end The January meeting of the Bethune Chpater U, D. C. was held with Mtb. R. E. McCaskill. The historian presented a most Interesting program composed of the following numbers: Song, "How Firm a Foundation," "Lea At Gettysburg," by Mrs. L. D. Barr, "Stonewall Jackson," and "Jackson Killed," Mrs. R. E. McCaskill; "Life of Robert E, Lee," Mrs. G. B. McKinnon; solo, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," Miss Stella Bethune. A sweet course was served during the social hour. , Mrs Virginia Cain had as guests Sunday: Her mother, Mrs. J. L. Courtney, Mrs. Lambeth Askins, a sister, and hef little daughter, Barbara Cain, all of Lake City. Circle one of Hie Methodist W. M. S. met with Mrs. J. L. King, Jr., Friday afternopn, with Mrs. M. F. Helms leader. This was principally a business meeting and was followed by a social period. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Hearon visited their mother and daughter, Mrs. Love Hearon and Mrs. T. J. Burley in Camden, Saturday. Miss Cecelia King, D. M. Mays, Douglas Mays, Jr., and Robert King flailed Miss Harriet Nelson Mays at Limestone college and Robert Bethune at Wofford college last Sunday. Mrs. George Davis, of Bishopville, was a recent guest of her sister, Mrs. Loring Davis. Mrs. Virginia Cain is spending seveiai days this week with her parents, the J. L. Coureneys, of Lake City. Mrs. J. D. Crawford, G. B. King and son, M. G. King, attended an elaborate turkey dinner Sunday at the home of Mrs. Crawford's-grandfather, Enoch Smith, Columbia. The men of the Presbyterian church are having a meeting Friday evening, January 27, at the Friendly Cabin, in the interest of foreign missions. There will be a speaker and the ladles of the church will serve supper. John Nicholson, a freshmpn at Furman university, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Nicholson. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Jennings Watford announce the birth of a son, Jennings, Jr., at the Chester hospital, Wednesday, January 18. Mrs. Watford was before her marriage, Miss Miriam Smith, of Marion. .. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Mason and little daughter, Katherine, spent the week end in Columbia with the former's parents. On Saturday, Mr. Mason was a guest at a luncheon at the Jefferson hotel, given by the Seed Crusher's association. The Rev. F. R. Morse attended a meeting of the Congaree Presbytery in Batesburg Tuesday. Mr. Morse preached the presbyterial sermon. W. D. Watklns, of Lynchburg, visited Miss Mary Marshall Tuesday. The Presbyterian women will hold a study course Wednesday and Thursday ptternoops, February 1 and 2. at the Ohnrch. The textbook on foreign missions to be used is "Star In The East." by Darby Fulton. The three clrclfs will have charge. On the following Monday and Tuesday nights the son are Invited to meet with the ladlef at the church when the book will bo completed and an offering takJ. If. Clyburn, Jr., waa a visitor In Blood donations are asked for Harry Battershall, 66, a pat4ent In a Newark N. J. hospital, -who Is suffering from a plastic anemia, acrostic type, said to be the first case of the kind on record In the United States. The disease Is said to be caused by lack of marrow in the bones. Columbia Sunday, Mrs. Bill King and little son of McBee, are spending several days with Mrs. King's parents, the L. W. Wages. ' ' ' W * ' France has determined to stay out of talcing any part in the Spaniifccivil war, unless Great Britain Joins in the flght. Risk of a general' European war is considered too great. Frank L. Kluckhorn, correspondent of the New York Times, has been Ordered out of Mexico City. He left for the border by airplane Tuesday night The Mexicans didn't like his dispatches wan?r "?- S.tfi4ME &TISH ASSOCIATION Too often the pond-owner goes about the business of stocking his pond with just as many fish as he can posBibly secure, with very little or no thought of whether" he has sufficient water and food to support these plantings or not. Experiments carried on at Auburn are Just as applicable to South Carolina as to Alabama, so we reproduce herewith a recital of the results found by H. S. Swingle and E. V. Smith at Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn. Experiments on fish production in ponds have been carried on for the last four years by the Agricultural Experiment station at Auburn. Some of the most interesting results have been those upon the effect of the number of Ash in a pond upon the pounds of fish produced per acre, and upon the size of the flsh. Two ponds were stocked In June with bluegill bream at the rate of 6,500 newly hatched fry per acre of water, ''fhe following November the ponds were drained and the flsh were counted and weighed. It was found1 that they had reached an average slzej of slightly less than one ounce at the< age of six month, and that the total production was approximately 300 pounds of flsh per acre. These flsh were carried on for two years with the same number of flsh per acre and the ponds again drained when the flsh were two-and-a-half, years old. It was found that these | fish still weighed only about one oupce I each and thdt the total weight in the pond was still only about 300 pounds of fish per acre. Apparently these ponds produced only enough food to support 300 pounds of fish and the fish were unable to grow further after their combined weight had reached this figure. Two-year old bream averaging an ounce each were used In another series of experiments to see if fish production could be Increased by Increasing the number of fish in a pond. Three ponds were stocked In, the spring with 1,300, 3,200 artd with 6,600 bream per acre. In November, the ponds were drained, the fish removed and weighed-.^ Where stocked with 1,300 per acre, the bream had reached an average size of four ounces; where stocked with 8,200 per acre they had reached an average size of slightly less than two ounces; and where stocked with 6,500 per acre they had reached an average size of approximately one ? ounce. The total weight of fish produced was approximately 300 pounds per acre in each of the ponds. Increasing the number of fish in the pond did not Increase the number of ponnds of fish produced?it merely resulted in smaller fish. Where the food supply is unchanged, mbre fish in a pond means smaller fish; fewer fish mean larger fish. INSIST ON VITAMINS "A" AND "D" IN ANY COIBH MEDICINE TOD DDT ? a L-| 6T _ BuQd Up Resistance While Re* lieving Coughs from Colds. Doctors all 'agree, that cold coughs break down resistance. Scientists have pfbven1 that both Vitamins "A" and MD" are vital in building up that resistance. Mentho-Mulslon is the r- only ..cough medicine we know of that Is tortifisd with both Vitamins "A" ma nf and like n doctor's * , prescription contains gcu?iue Beech wood Creosote, Menthol and five other important ingredients combined in a base of pure California Fig Syrup, Go get a bottle of MenthoMulsion today. Note its immediate effect and how quickly you rid yourself of that cough due U colds. ; -^?1 M^htho-Mulaion is now recommended, sold and guaranteed by good druggists everywhere*?adv. iii* I i ?. n i,u -* yeeaiMwi