Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CITATION The State of South Carolina County of Kerahaw (By N. C. Arnett, Probate Judge) Whereas, Joseph Robinson and Fannie R. Wilson made suit to me to grant to A. II. Collins betters of Administration de bonis non of the Estate and effects of Mittie Robinson. Thoee are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said Mittie Robinson, deceased, that they be and appear before mo, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Camden, S. C., on March 8, next, after publication hereof, at il o'clock ih the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 21st day of February, Anno Domini, 1939. N. C. ARNETT, .Judge of Probate for Kershaw County TAX RETURNS Notice is hereby given that the Auditor's Office will be open for receiving Tax Returns from January 2nd, 1939, to March 1st, J.939. All persons owning real estate or personal prop-, erty must make returns of the samej within said period, as required by1 law, or be subject to a penalty of 10! per cent. j All persons between the agc3 of 21 j and 60 years, inclusive, are required, to pay a poll tax, and all persons between the ages of 21 and 60 years, inclusive, are required to, pay a Road' Tax, unless excused by law. Alb Truestees, Guardians, Executives, Administrators or Agents holding property in charge must return same. Parties sending tax returns by mail must make oath to same before some officers and fill out the same in proI per manner or they will be rejected. This is the year all real estate I should be returned. B. E. SPARROW, Auditor Kershaw County. Annual Meeting Of Library Association At the uunual mooting of the Cant* den Library association lost wook the* librarian showed iti her report tho large increase in books added, circulation and borrowers since her first report aa librarian in 1933. Since that time the membership has Increased from 302 to 1,008. There are 672 children and 336 adult borrowers at present. In 1933, there were 3,900 books accessioned for a period of fifteen years, an average of, 216 books per year. In the last five years 4,660 have been added, making a total of 8,560 and au average of 932 yearly. During the year, 8,843 books were circulated and 606 magazines. Among the gifts the library received were three lovely water colons sent by John Morse, of Sfiugatuck, Connecticut, who last visited Camdou lu 1909. i Those sketches are of tho o|4 court house, the Witherspoou home now occupied by Nero Heed, and the spiral stalfc'aso at the old MoKae place now owned by Ward C, Belcher. The largest single collection yf books came | from the estate of the late Miss L. S. | W. Perkins?a collection that iucludi od books of all classes. Others v/ho I gave books wore: Mrs. W. I^Wrlght, Mrs. George W. Brunson, MVs. ^Jtnuol Russell,'Mrs. R. B. Pitts, Mrs. George ! H. Cook, Mrs. W. D. Whltaker, Mrs. ' E. C. Stout, Miss Helen Harman, Mrs. M. F. Charlton, Mrs. Connolly, Mrs. H. G. Marvin, Mrs. R. W. Pomeroy, Mrs. E. H. Ehrenclou and Dr .Maurice Clark. 493 books were gifts. A report was made of the first annual bridge touruument, given at tho Court Inn last spring, and the spirit of cooperation manifested by all those In charge. Prizes were donated by: F. D. Goodale, Mrs. John Mullen, Corner Book Store and Catherine Goodale's Shop. A table of books, magazines and pamphlets displayed the variety of material to be found In the library. Not only was there a large increase in the number of books borrowed and books added, but a most gratifying report was the largest percentage of teachers using the library. r?" Many precautions have to be taken with airplanes which operate in tropical climates, since excessive moisture found In these regions" causes rapid deterioration of aircraft. UjHJHIIlG^n "EUljAk Thursday 1 Introduced a Bill, H. It. 4240 to provide relief of the Catawba Indiana. The Bill la similar to one introduced by me In the last (76th) Congress, and authorizes a contract between South Carolina and the Federal government, whereby the latter takes over responsibility for this tribe. The Catawbas are "State Ward" Indians and the Federal government has donled responsibility for the welfare of "State Ward" Indians from George Washington's time to this. The Bill was killed last year by Budgot Commission opposition and iukewarmness on the part of the Indian Bureau. Secretary Ickes of the Interior Department, In a talk with the writer last year, expressed approval of the purposes of the Bill. The history of the Catawbas la that they have always boon friendly i land kindly disposed toward the white jnan. They fought with the early 1 " V/C?C 2.1pgtkfvi u w * \.a*Ks ?? i<x|u^?U| lies In the French and Indian war, and then in the Revolutionary struggle. In 1711. they fought with Col. | Barnwell of South Carolina when he put down the Tuscaroras, and when' Washington went south to win back southern Indians, alienated by the I French, he was received cordially by1 the Catawbas, even to the extent that he wrote Speaker Robinson of the House Burgesses of Virginia: "Bullen, a- Catawba warrldr, has been proposing a plan to Captain Gist to bring In the Creek and Chickasaw Indians. If such a scheme could be effected by the lime we march to Fort Duquesue, It would be a glorious undertaking worthy of the man." After this ran a series of treaties between the state and the Cataw bas, j one by which, In 1764, signed at Augusta, Georgia, the Catawbas were given 144,000 acres of land on the Catawba river. In 1782 Congress recommending to the South Carolina to take steps for the "security of the tribe." Washington's conference with chiefs of the Catawba nation in Lancaster, May 27, 1791, resulted in his writing in his diary that they "seemed under apprehension that some attempts were being made, or would be made, to deprive them of a part of the 40,000 acres which was secured to them by treaty." Then followed a hectic and trying period for the . Catawbas who were raked and diminished by the ravages of small pox, destitution and gradual decay as a race. In 1840, the. South Carolina legislature ratified the treaty of Nation Ford, whereby the Indians were given land, representating by a plat survey, 15 miles square "on both sides of the Catawba river 4n the districts - of York and Lancaster, South Carolina, or to purchase for them 300 acres in Haywood county In North Carolina. Some of the Indians went to the Cherokee nation, but did not assimilate the Ideas of their former enemies, and then wandered back to York county where the reservation had been pared down to 652 acres. Later the state placed the Catawbas on a small pension, and despite repeated efforts of Governors Richardson, Ham-.; mond and others, the plight of the Catawbas grew worse. The story of the Catawbas Is an epic that Is woven into the history of the Carolinas, because they have figured prominently in every struggle for Independence that South Carolina has endured since the first white settlement was established in 1662. Once one of the most powerful of the twenty tribes of South Carolina, the little band of people now living on the banks of the Catawba river, hard hit by the depression and unable to replenish their fortunes with the return of better times, Is all there Is left in the state of the red men whose warwhoop once rang through the South Carolina forests. Hardly a day passes In Rock Hill that old men and women are not seen on the street corner selling pottery, clay pipes and other articles th^t they have made by practicing the ceramic arts for which they were once famous. The only creation that the Catawbas have to feast their eyes upon as a reminder of their pristine greatness and prowness is In Camden, Kershaw County. Mounted on the town clock on the city Hall, U a large figure of King Haiglar. the Catawba's most noted chief, with his bow and arrow drawn to typify his defense of the white man. The four-eyed minnow, found in ri ers and lakes of'tropical America, hal an upper and lower eye on each side of 1U head. j Whan an automobile Is traveling silty milea per hour, the pistons go np and down fifty times a second, t.OOO times a minute. ' '1 William S. Nelson Dies In Columbia William S. Nelson, 58, a leader at the bar, died at 8:80 last night at his, home. 110 Gregg street, of bronchial pneumonia. He had been ill a week i Mr, Nelson, head of the firm of' Nelson, Mulllns and Grler, had a dia l tlnguishod record as a lawyer and in U>80 wus made president of the slate bar association. While his love was the law, and he devoted himself closely to the practice of his profession, he found time for other interests also, both civic and social. He ut one time was president of the Alumni association of the University of South Carolina, lie was a former president of Kidgewood club and a former prosi-. dent of the Columbia Cotillion. Mr. Nolson was born Janu&ry 10, 1881, at Hobkirk Hill, Camden, the son of Patrick H. Nelson, 2nd, and Henrietta Willie Shannon. In the schools of Camden he received his early academic training and after being graduated front the high school there lu 189l> he entered the University of South Carolina. Deciding to follow In the .footsteps' of his father, who wub a noted lawyer and who wus president .of the state bar in 1911, Mr Nelson entered the law school at the university lit the fall of 1900 and got his L#L. 11. lu 1902, immediately being admitted to practice. However, tho following year he took a post-graduato logal course at Columbia university and then returned to Columbia to bepome a member of Nelson, Nelson and Gettys. At his father's death in 1914, he became head of the linn. A specialist in corporation practice, he was recognized as one of the outstanding lawyers in South Carolina. He was very careful in tho preparation of his cases, was a determined lighter for the rights of u client and was successful in trial work as well as in offlco practice. He was a man of courage, both moral and physical, and carried Into his professional life the same high ideals that characterized his private life. He was a man devoted to his family, a man of unI usual closeness to his children, a person of intense loyalty and deop foeling. He was a delightful host and I | enjoyed entertaining. He had served on the supreme court as special justice and on several oc casions had boon a special Judgo. During tho World war Mr. Nelson was a member of tho lllchland county exemption board, performing tho difficult duties of this work with Impartiality and sound judgment. In recognition, ho was made a member of the Focus club, which was composed of ex-service men and which was in existence for several years after the Armistice. He was one of only four or five civilians selected for mom borshlp. December 28, 1904, Mr. Nelson was married to Miss Nina Geddes, of Spartanburg. She survives ' as do two daughters. Mrs. William Weston, Jr., of Columbia, and Mrs. Dwight Andrews, of Charlotte, and one son, Patrick Henry Nelson, who was asso dated with his father in the practice of law in Columbia, and three grandsons, William Weston, 3rd, Shannon Weston and William S. Nelson, 2nd. Mr. Nelson was a member of Chi I'sl fraternity, Oinrlcon I>olta Kappa fraternity, Richland lodge of Ancient Free Masons, the Columbia lodge of Flks and was aetivo in ali York Rite Masonic bodies through Omar temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. For a number of years until his death ho was chairman of the South Carolna Klks' educatlonl loan fund.?Sunday's Columbia State. Farmer Brown: "If things got too bad we can eat our foreBt preserves." City Slicker: "You've nothing on us. We can eat our traffic Jams." I Can't keep the "Road I j Hog" off the road, and I ! ' I It it then wise to have I | us service your lights j I To make them meet I | I you? J ! Carefully and safely at I j night. I Drakeford's I | | Camden, S. C. I "SODA" MEANS STALKS STALKS MEAN CRAIN One stalk of wheat , oats, rye, or barley can bear only one head of grain, but one plant can produce many stalks. Top-dressing grain with ARCADIAN NITRATE OF SODA doubles and trebles the number of stalks per plant, with each extC* stalk an added producer of plump, heavy grain. The time to top-dress is in the late winter or early spring?just before active growth starts. Give each acre 150 to 200 pounds of ARCADIAN NITRATE OF SODA. You get immediate results. Growth is quick and vigorous, the plants stool out well, sending up many shoots to become seed-bearing stalks, which are loaded with extra bushels of good grain at harvest time. When spring top-dressing with ARCADIAN NITRATE OF SODA has been balanced with good fertilizer treatment the previous year, farmers find that lOO pounds of ARCADIAN means 10 to 15 extra bushels of oats or 6 to 8 extra bushels of wheat. Plan now to harvest extra yields of low-cost, highquality grain. Top-dress with 150 to 200 pounds of ARCADIAN per acre and get it on before spring growth starts. Be sure to tell your fertilizer man you want ARCADIAN NITRATE, The American SODA. These three together GROW GRAIN NITROGEN, PHOSPHORIC ACID ud POTASH?Moh Ku Its Job to do in growing groin. A oomploto fertiliser bmilt for grain should bo oppliod otoooding tino in tho foil?and thon top-drooo with ARCADIAN NITRATI OP SODA 0*17 **rly, boforo growth ?oris in tho spring, for biggor yioldo of botftor quality groin. 5m your rfnifiztf Men, THE BARRETT COMPANY SM I'INI AMERICAN , | NITRATE OP 1 f SODA BETTER CROPS FROM BE1TER FERTILIZERS . . . Representing six of the leading fertilizer manufacturers of the South?goods made for Southern soils. We are in a position to save you money on your needs for the coming season?see us before buying? lets talk it over. ^ xr ?* k m m xx xx xx a x t V. M A 15 L D Hi A U NITRATE AGENCY CO. MUTUAL FERTILIZER CO. REED FERTILIZER CO. LOGAN-ROBINSON CO. 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