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I Play Was a Success Tho faculty of the Baron DeKalb school, assisted by Mendel Gay, Aiex Etters and J. B. Brasiiigton, agaiu drew a capacity audience of five hundred people with their annual dramatic presentation entitled "Silas Smidgo From Turnip Ridge." The play was highly entertaining throughout as was evidenced by a most attentive and orderly audience. All characters gave most creditable performances and the contributions of the musicians and committees added much to the success of the venture. The play was under the direction of Miss Eucile Hewlett, English teacher, who worked so diligently and persistently to make it a success. A Japanese submarine, with 81 offlceril and men aboard, sank in Bungo channel, in 330 feet of water, 400 miles southeast of Tokyo. A report of the first of the week told of the rescue of six of the men on board. DeKalb News Notes Weatvllle, Fob. 14.?Mr. and Mrs. Nye Workman and family and Miss Minnie Breedioye were the guests of Mrs. N. B. Workman on Sunday. Mrs. Mary Hunter, Miss Mildred Hunter and Floyd Cobb, of Spartanburg, were the week end guests of Miss Ida Young. Mrs. Claude WJse and young son, Claude, Jr., are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. George Truesdale. Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Williams, of Camden, spent Sunday with Miss Elizabeth Holland. Miss Garris Vincent visited her aunt, Mrs. Will Brasington, this week end. We are glad to have Melita Baker back at school after an illness at the Camden hospital. Mrs. Carrie Sweatt, Misses Dora Sweatt and Thelma Atkinson, of Mc-I Bee,; also Mrs. Luther Jones, of Dillon, and O. W. Stewart, of Kenly, N. C., were visiting Miss Gertrude Sweatt here Friday afternoon. They also attended the faculty play, "Silas Smldge from Turnip Ridge" that night. Miss Ethel Bruce, a teacher in the Winnsboro high school, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Shelby Truesdale, the past week end. F. N. Culler spent the past week end in Swansea. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Young and Misses Nina Young, Lucile Hewlett and Ellen Bell spent Sunday with Miss Janie Castles, of Winnsboro. The Skipper Will Court Disaster Illy Ike Skipper) Well folks, wo have lmd a now one handed to us this week. We're going back a few years and renew some of the cheer-leader community sIuk dlrrector stuff that we used to sUgt> down In Florida. Yes sir-e-e-e. At the llobktrk next Sunday evening at 8:30 o'clock and we want you all to come over and Join In the singing. RellglousK patriotic and col logo numbers, with several novelty features will grace the com munlty sing period. So If you like to gather around In an Informal group, the same as they do up at Soth Park! or's at Jonesport, drop around Sunday ! evening and lift your voices. No mat' ter If you cannot slug and your beat efforts are "flat" failures, don't let that keep you away. Think of me. I^an't slug, but Manager Moldenhauer thinks 1 can stage a comeback on this sing loader stuff aufl If I am game enough to try. certainly you can come over and get a big kick out of It. laist Sunday evening over one hundred people gathered In the Hobklrk dining room and listened to a flue orchestra concert by Theodore and his; Continental Musicians and then Joined in a rousing community sing. Opening with the "Student's March" by Lake, the melodlers uudor the direction of Maestro Tod gavo a stirring rendition of Maacagnl's "Cavallerla Rusticaua," followed by Bob Delmonlco and his magic violin, playing "Speak to Me of lxjve." Then came IvanovlcTs "Danube Wave Waltzes," a request number, "Moment Musical and "To a Wild Rose." The orchestra j program closed with the playing of a Bitter Sweet selection by Coward. To Continue Drive To Raise Quota For several years the negro citizen of Camden and Kershaw county have been trying to raise for the tuberculosis program among their people an amount equal to one cent per capita. The sum needed to accomplish this is $176.44. When the final report on the 1938 Christmas Seal Sale was made up, It was found that $155.98 had been contributed by Kershaw county's negroes. This Is only $20.44 loss than what it takes for Kershaw county to be listed with other counties that have raised for tuberculosis work one cent for each of Its negro citizens. In 1937, the counties making this record were: Darlington, Charleston, Dorchester, Florence, Greenville and Lancaster. Professor P. B. Mdodana, who acted as county chairman for the 1938 Christmas Seal Sale drive, is so pleased with what has been accomplished that It has been decided to put on a special drive to raise the $20.44 needed to bring the report up to one cent) per capita. Rev. J. W. Boykin, Rev., W. E. Houston and Rev. J. P. Gibson I met In a conference on Monday, February 13, to talk over plans for putting on the drive. Miss Marie Thomas, the tuberculosis nurse, explained to them what la being done In communities where there are negro families In which there are cases of tu| berculosis and In the schools where there are children who live in homes where there are cases of tuberculosis. She was asked to see other ministers and leading workers who could not aQfmd the conference because it Is felt that people throughout the county will want to have a part In helping to place Kershaw county among those counties having a one cent per capita for the negro population. emergency relief workers must prove citizenship Columbia, Feb. 14.?Lawrence M. Pinckney, state administrator. Works Progress Administration, announced that under the recent ?^ct of congress, all workers who are paid with funds appropriated under the Emergency Relief Appropriation act will be required to sign an affidavit proving that they are American citizens or owe allegiance to the United States. , The affidavit forms will be distributed Immediately by the Works Progress Administration. It is necessary , that the oath be administered by someone authorized under the law of South Carolina to administer oaths. Mr. Pinckney Is appealing to all who are authorized to administer oaths In South Carolina to probate these affidavits without cost to the project workers: - As the law specifically states that no one can be paid out of these funds lafter March 5 unless the affidavit* I have been filed, officers authorized to j administer oaths will toe rendering a great service to those In need In complying with this request- = Great Brltath Is reported as planning the building of a big avmy base la Palestine, as headquarters for a large etending army to be stationed H MHOrt, taad for eloeer protection rot the Saes canal. I Woe is im\ woo is uuv Whoii will those rainy days ho over so wo can Kot thut ball park in shape? v- The will, tho dotonninution and the moans for making the baseball plant an ideal layout are all there, but Old Jtlp lMnvius has a heart of granite and the way ho hud been pouring his tears down on mother earth Is disheartening. The calling off of the Washington Birthday racos was not unexpected and has real merit. No one wants to see tho pontes strut their stuff at tho * * * expense of broken logs. What we advocate is a program for the last week In March that would have some form of sport activity for seven dayH culminating with tho Carolina Cup race. Say what you will, we believe February 22, is too early to start the raco program. Seasons seem to he changing and for several years now. it has beon problematic whether a program could be put on on Washington's birthday. But Just the same, Camden Is going to have a real program of sports for February 22. Gymkhana events, featuring mule polo, mule races, bride and groom race, polo pony sweepstake. greased pig contest and a balloon race are but a few of the intorI esting events promised. Then there will be the Camden Atlanta polo game. And mebbe a band for morning and afternoon music. An open npte to the high school cheering group, "Why not some organized cheering at the basketball games ?" Abe Fennell. of tho Columbia State, A has gotten back of us In a program for a state baseball league. Sumter and Orangeburg are keen for the venture but for some reason or other baseball is deader than a mackeral on ice at Union, Florence, Newberry and other places listed for membership in the league. Do you remember 'way back when hotels had "no smoking allowed" notices on their mezzuuino floor so wo roughnecks wouldn't offend the dig nity of the weaker sex who then abhorred tobacco fumes? * ? Quickies of this week. It's all lu knowing how to do it. You uevei hear of a shoemaker swallowing a tack. A man's severest critics usually arc the people who would give a year ol their lives Just to be in his shoes. * What's in a Name? Ben Woodhead is the proprietor of a lumber company in Beaumont, Texas, whtle Dauber Jaegar is a sign painter at Fond du Dac, Wis. ? Seen on a Columbia Shop window, "Infant's Wear Corsets." * One of the survivors of the Cavalier airliner to keep afloat threw away his pants containing his money and all his papers. Two hours later his pants floated back. Wouldn't it bo ureal If the same thing happened to folks who have managed to keep their heads above water during the depression recession. # ? And in closing this first week of February efforts at Wlnchelllsin may we offer the following little verses. It Is entitled "Forget It." Here it goes: When people tap you on the back And praise your almost every act Or honors seem to come your way in everything you do or say Forget It. i When things don't turn out as you planned And all you get is reprimand Or trouble seems to follow you In everything you try to do Forget It. When you have read this little thing And learned the lesson that It brings? Forget it. ? ? I Sallie. of Old Nantucket, called up J l to Inquire if we knew how long it took to build the pyramids and how l many men were employed. She said she had been watching some WPA workers on Broad street and just got > to wondering. Somebody's screwey. According to a tavern damsel over in Beaufort, she saw Clark Gable and Allan Jenkins la the tavern Sunday night, ^.nd that same night Mister Gable or his ghost was on the air from Hollywood, California. This is a great age for speed. ? When a young lady friend of mine asked me If the rumor that her boy friend was considered penurious, I told her, "Confidentially ho stints." Wow, spring Is near. My Scotch friend threw away his Christmas treo last week. * * * Thoso songfests, community -sings or. whatevor you call them, held every Sunday evening at the Hobklrk have certainly struck a popular chord. Mine Host Paul Moldenh&uer has asked the author of this column to do a Major Bow's next Sunday night. Of course we want a crowd but please friends, loave all the tomatoes, cabbages and eggs In the lobby as you oome in. Honest folks, Its a lot of fun and believe It or not we are working up a Doctor Qui*, True or False, etc., for some evening in the near future. OFFICERS SUSPECT MURDER IN DEATH OF GEORGIA YOUTH Vienna. Ga., Fob. 13.?A coroner's jury decided early today foul play was Involved In tho drowning under a railroad trestle of a 10-yoar-old honor pupil, whoso body was found with a sweater turned upside down. Sheriff C. Vinson said the boy was Albert Leo Christmas, Jr., son of a fanner, who last saw tho boy alive in Vienna Saturday night when he gave him money to buy a sandwich. The body was found Sunday halfsubmerged In a stream under the trestle, after an all-night search. The neck of the boy's sweater was fastened at his waist, tho lower part was around the head. "It looks as though ho were murdered and thrown Into tho water," said Sheriff Vinson. 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