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[society news Telephone 100 W, Bride-Elect Honored JJ Mi9I) nylon Pooser, who Uf* bo -wried lu tho Lyttletou Street Methyl church Wednesday, August 2, been the honor guest at many jovely parties alncd.the announcement ,*r her engagement to Clyde Uvlng* stou StutW. of OibsOTh and Laurel Hill, N C. Ml8rt pooser, who formerly made her home at Gibson, was honoree at a miscellaneous shower given Friday evening by Mrs. H. R. Odom at her home at Gibson. Mrs. Berta Adams, 0f Columbia, aud Mrs. I^eila Mclnnis, of oibson, assisted the hostess in entertaining. Au assortment of gifts wa8 presented the bride-elect. Saturday afternoon, Miss Joanna Gibson entertained In honOr of Miss Pooser. There were . six tables arxanged for matrimonial progression. The bride-to-be was presented a gift of crystal and high score prise was wou by Miss Agnes Gibson. D. A. R. NOTES The last meeting for the summer of the Hobkirk Hill Chapter, D. A. R.. was held at Mrs. E. C. VonTresckow's home on Greene street. The regent. Mrs. VonTreaekow, gave a report of the first board meeting held in Columbia, the uewly elected state regent, Mrs. Tom Allen, of Charleston, presiding. o Group three will hold their meeting In Camden on October 13, under the leadership of the third regent, Mrs VonTresckow. All organizations of Camden will be Invited to prove our city's hospitality to the visitors. The officers reported a successful year. Hobkirk Hill chapter won first place in number of re-instatements, and a prize given by the regent of Ave dollars. We were second In number of Junior Citizenship Clubs formed in the schools under Mrs. J. L. Guy's chairmanship. I The chapter was on the honor roll I one hundred per cent. Four certiflIcates were given to the winners In I Camden, Bethune, Baron DeKalb and I Midway In the Good Citizenship Pil* I grims contests and the two D. A. R. medals in the Camden schools were I won by History pupils. The most Important work of the I Chapter is among the youth in our whools?where Americanism is being stressed. B'/th great regret, Mrs. VonTresc /<?* resigned as regent. KIWANI8 NOTE8 E We were delighted Tuesday with the attendance of thirty-one members and la visitor, Mr. Moseley, of the Sumter club, was with us for luncheon. JohnBuy Hagen was taken In as a new mem her. We are delighted to have you Johnny and we trust that you will like our crowd. The meeting was in charge of Dr. Brunson who introduced as the speakBer for the day, Dr. Maurice Clarke. Dr. Clarke gave a very interesting talk on his opinion as to why EngBland took the attitude they did reBcently in the European situation. He explained that England was Just a ^ little larger than the state of North Carolina, with eight hundred people to the square mile, whereas the popBulation of North Carolina is about sixBty people to the square mile. We are Hsure that everyone enjpyed what Dr. Bciarke had to say and we trust that he will be with us again soon. B Afternoon Paper For Florence Florence, July Melvln Purvis, former G-man who was the nemesis of John Dillinger, announced today he would begin publication of an afBternoon dally newspaper here about ^ A igust 1. Purvis said that J. A. Zlegler, forBmer omploye of the Florence Morning ^ News, would be editor of the new newspaper. SERVICED AIRPLANES WITH FREE OAS ON AIRCADE HERE j K. H. DeTrevllle, who has the Gulfj gas and oil agoucy iu Camden, ser-1 viced the Florida airmen with gas and j oil for tholr ships when they stopped in- Camden on both of their recent tripa here. Thla service was free to ; the Florida flyers. Mr. DeTrevllle is In receipt of a letter from l>irk Fell, who Is the Gulf aviation representative at Washington, D. C., and accompanied the Florida alrineu to Camdeu. His letter follows : ^ "This is to thauk you for your very excellent cooperation in assisting us ] in handliug the Florida tour. The I promptness with which you and your 1j men gassed and oiled the ships In theL tour was very much appreciated by I all concerned. The splendid reception! at Camden was one of the high spots I , of the tour." Tennla Team To Hartsvllls ( The Klrkwood Golf Club Tennis I team will go to tyutsville for a match with the Cresswood.Country club on Sunday, July Id. Sunday, July 2,1 the Hartsvllle team defeated the Cam- J den team by a score of six to two. The matches Included two men's singles, three men's doubles, one ladles' I doubles and three mixed doubles. Camden was represented by the following players: Miss Lois Khuino, Miss Emma Villeplgue, Mrs. James , Porter, Billie Pitts. Bobby Marye, Bill Nettles, Ancrum Boykln, Jr., Zander Clarkson and Jack Haile. I The Hartsvllle players were: Miss Ethel Young, Miss Hilda Ingram, Miss Louise Pennington, Budd Smith, Freddy Atkinson, Harry Frampton and I Buddy Goudelock. ! After the matches the visiting players were entertained at a buffet supper at the clubhouse. Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the president, sailed from New York late last week for her annual visit to her sister, Mrs. Dora Delano Forbes, who lives in Paris. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the president's wife, was at the pier to see her sail. 1. Mrs. Shannon Hostess Mrs. Willia mShannon gave a bridge luncheon Wednesday morning for the members of her club and among other guests present were: Mrs. Foncie Hay, of Charlotte, Mrs. Edwin Muller and Mrs. Tucker Boykin. Many lovely midsummer flowers decorated Mrs. I Shannon's attractive new country home near Camden where the party was held. A delightful luncheon was served at 1 o'clock. High scores were held by Mrs. Hay and Mrs. A. S. Dav-I ldson. J Entertain Sons of Legion j Twenty-five members of the Sons of the American Legion, recently organized under the leadership of Marvin Reasonover, were given a fish supper and swimming party Monday evening at the 4-H club house. Among those who assisted Mr. Reasonover at the outing were: Mrs. E. L. Moseley, Mrs.J S. M. McCaskill, Mrs. M. M. Reasonover, Rev. Bryce Herbert and B. P. DeLoache. i Celebrated Anniversary I Mr. and Mrs. Lee Mays, who celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary Thursday, were honored with a party I given by a group of friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Clark at Hermitage lake. A fish supper was enjoyed and each one present brought a gift for the honor guests. Honor Visitors j Mr. and Mrs. Pete Mackey, of Atlanta, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mackey for two weeks. Since their arrival several small, Informal supper parties have beon given in their honor at the Mackey's cabin at Hermitage lake. Mrs. Bruce Hostess Mrs. Basil Bruce gave a bridge party of two tables at her home Friday afternoon. A prize was given at each table, winners being Mrs. Joe McKain and Mrs. Elliott Sheorn. Personal Mention I Mrs. J. I*. QlUls Is on u two week's I visit to her sister In Greer. II Miss Sophie Garrison, of Florence,II Is visiting Miss Gertrude Qlllis. I Donald Clyburu is visiting Marlon II Schlosburg at Myrtle Beuch Mrs. J. P. Montgomery speut the II week end in Marlon with her father. II Mlaa Sarah Steadman has returned I from a visit to her sister in Charlotte. I Miss Kachael O'Dsuiel visited her I parents in Clinton last week end. Mlsa Martha Gettys Is attending a I house party in Montreat, N. C. I Misses Sara aud Emily Sheom left I last Thursday Tor Cleveland to visit I friends. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Heese, and son, I Jack Reese, aud John Partlu are at I Ocean Drive for a week's vacation. I Mrs. E. D. Mobley and Mrs. H. D. I Nlles attended the Buie-Bartlett wed- I ding in Lancaster Wednesday. j Mrs. Robert Taft has returned to I her home lu Charleston after a visit I to her mother, Mrs. H. S. Steadman. I Mrs. Kathleen B. Watts and Miss I Clam Hough leave Saturday on a trip I to New York and to the World's Fair. | Mrs. John T. Mackey, of Greenville, I Is on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Dan I Mackey. I J. C. Giilis and C. E. Davis left on I Sunday for a two week's trip to Hot | Springs, Ark. j Miss Celeste Mumford is spending I the remainder of the summer in Hen- | dersonville. I Mrs. R. Seldon William? and Mrs. I N. L. Lilly have returned from a visit I to Asheville. Miss Phyllis Karesh, is in Colum- | bia, for a stay with her aunt, Mrs. I Sam Wittenberg. ! Miss Frances Rhame Has gone to I Darlington, where she is the guest of I her aunt, Mrs. J. N. Kirven. j Miss Elizabeth Kennedy, of Lugoff, I spent last week in McCormlck and I Augusta. I Douglas Montgomery, of Washing- I ton, D. C., and Frank Montgomery, of I Rome, Ga., spent last week with Mr I and Mrs. J. R. Montgomery. j Mrs. Sam Wittenburg and son, I Phillip, of Columbia, were the guests I this week of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ka- I resh. I Captain and Mrs. James William I Clyburn aud children, of Columbus, I are guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cly- J burn. . I Dr. and Mrs. Maurice Clarke leave Sunday for Kauuga Lake for a week's stay, where Dr. Clarke will give some lectures. i Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Brown have as I their guests their daughters, Mrs. ( Thelma Lewis, of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. J. D. Gates, of Merita, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Li M. Staley and son left today on a visit to relatives ill ' Harrisburg, Pa., and while away will attend the World's Fair. Mr. and Mrs. Melicue McCoy had as their guests last week Mrs. McCoy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. TIdwell 1 and children, of Macon, Ga. Mr. add Mrs. Donald Team, William Auetin and George Buchanan, of Fort Bragg, visited friends and relatives here last week end. Wheeler P. Thomas and two daugh- i ters, Misses Bettie and Jane Thomas, < arrived this week from Burbank, California, for several week's visit. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chewning and son, of Red Springs, N. C., are here 1 for a visit to the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Chewning. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Klne and Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Nettles, Jr., left last Friday on a visit to Mrs. Kine's parents in Lancaster, Pa. They will also attend the world's fair while away. Miss Dorothy West, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. West, of Cassatt, is visiting friends in Chicago and from there she will go to New York City to the World's Fair. Mr. and Mrs. Marlon Smith spent last week end at the home of the latter's parents in Black Mountain, N. C. Mr. Smith returned home Monday but Mrs. Smith will remain there for about two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Salmond and Nellie Salmond, of Charleston, West Virginia, are'visiting Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Kennedy at Bettyneck Plantation. Mrs. Salmond is pleasantly remembered as the fofmer Miss Betty McDowell, of Camden. Mrs. Carrie M. Davis had as her guests during the week Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Williams, Miss Nancy Jo William* and Thomas Williams, Jr., of Columbia; Carl Hall, of Mooresville, N. C., and Thomas Myers of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Sheorn and daughter, Catherine Sheorn, Blair DeLoache and Louise Blakeney have returned from a visit to Mr. and Mrs. | Stanley Watklns in Savannah. Miss Margie Watklns accompanied them home for a visit. The following attended the funeral of R. W. Reiger in Beaufort last Thursday afternoon: J. C. Blakeney M. B. Burns, A. D. McArn, J. H. McLeod, R. E. McCarty. D. O. McLeod, W. C. Perry, Misses Sarah Crawford and Barbara Zemp, Mr. and Mrs. DeLoache Sheorn, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Staley. M. C. McKinnon, of Beth tins, and Walter W. Woo ten, of Charlotte. 1 Lancaster Defeats Camden i Lancaster, July 8.?In a long drawn out Palmetto league game here today Lancaster won from Camden, 12 to 7. Phillips outlasted four Chief pitchers. Nivens led the hitting with five for five for the Roses. Camden 7 17 4 Lancaster 12 15 lj Sumter Wins From Chester f Sumter, July 6.?Sumter shellacked three Chester hurlers for seventeen bits here today to win a Palmetto Stkite league contest, 15 to 5. ! The Gamecocks spotted the CardiInala" three runs in the first, but over* came the deficit by the third and went on io win with ease. Hugh Stoddard j gave up but seven hits, three coming in the first and three ifi the eighth.' He retired the Chester batters in one,' two, three order except in the first, fifth and eighth innings. He struck out seven. Two Sumter errors set the stage for Chester to score in the first' and another miscue helped the visitors in the eighth. Each Sumter regular got at least one hit and all but two connected' for two safeties each. 8impson, Ma-J thiB and Evans knocked in a total of eight runs. Chester 5 77 Sumter 15 17 2 Thompson, Durham, D. Cooper and Ernandez; Stoddard and Wilder. An Intensely New Dq/I i There is no authority to call names, but there is a case of a 1939 graduate of a South Carolina college that la the moat unique exhibition on record. A bright young fellow's well-to-do father paid all the college bills aa sent In. When he asked the boy how much he wanted for pin money, he answered every time?"nothing." He made this by sundry little odds and ends, and of his own accord. He did, it as he went along, and with hlghj standing in his class. Every one that we hare heard about always kept the old man scratching hia head over the boy's demands and appeal*.?Calhoun Times. Spiders do not allow dew to remain on their webs for long. They pluck at the foundation lines and set the web to vibrating, which shakes off the dew. Mrs. W. C. Oandy, dt Hartsvllle, and lira. Ony Pitta, of Clinton, returned to.their home# this week after a visit to their daughters, Miss Miriam Candy and Mlaa Cleone Pitts at the Conrl -T?*w 8afety Rules ( South Carolina, one of the safest ' states In highway matters on the Fourth ... and the National Safety _ council has asked the state highway patrol some Information on what the state was doing In safety for its pe- < destrlans. ' < The following safety rules, heard J orer the radio, sound good to us?al- < though in sereral of the cases, it's Just the opposite to what we would hare done under similar oondltkms; for a skid, turn the wheel in the direction the car is skidding; when going around a curve, put one foot on the brake and other on the accelerator ?this makes the car hold the road; for a blowout, Increase the speed five miles more; for a turnover, keep on the ignition, this prevents gas spilling and catching on fire; new tires, should be put on the rear wheels, It Is safer . . . What wonld yon have done under similar conditions??Columbia State. Scientists contend that women are ' superior to men in those mental tasks which require quick thinking and at* tentlon to details. Says Hotel Closed By Untrue Gossip Myrtle Beach, July 11.?City Recorder H. T. Willcox today quoted Carling Dinkier, head of the Dinkier hotel system, as saying the recent closing of the Ocean Forest hotel here was due to "underhanded and unfair reports" circulated about health conditions at this resort and not to lack of business. operating and personnel expenses are enormous/* said Willcox, "and Mr. Dinkier felt apprehensive as /to t?e continuation of operations In the face of numerous imagined stories from the wagging tongues of the gos-. slpers. The hotel did an excellent business in Jine. | "All other operations at Myrtle Beach are normal, many business homes reporting an Increase In Income orer, last year. "Health conditions here are ood* lent -and there Is not * stalls case of infantile paralysis, and Myrtle Beach is not auarantld|^^9fr e I You Are Invited TO THE COOKING SCHOOL CONDUCTED BY Miss Camille Beauchamp ? HOME ECONOMIST Westinghouae Electric and Manufacturing Co. SPONSORED BY THE LADIES AUXILIARY CAMDEN M. E. CHURCH HOME FURNISHING CO. (YOUR WESTINCHOUSE DEALER) - THE PLACE: ' WIMBERLY HALL TIME: 3:30 Friday Afternoon, July 14,1939 SILVER OFPERINQ RECEIVED FOR BENEFIT OF BUlUMNQ FUND m . . ' ? -- - - - 18 th Anniversary Sale We are again reducing prices on our entire stock of Dresses which consists of 220 Dresses?Street, Sport, Evening. 33 Dresses, Values $ 1.95, Final Price $1.00 43 Dresses, Values $ 2.95, Final Price $1.50 37 Dresses, Values $ 3.95, Final Price $2.00 20 Dresses, Values $ 5.95, Final Price $3.00 22 Dresses, Values $ 7.95, Final Price $4.00 36 Dresses, Values $10.95 & $12.95, Final Price $5.00 29 Dresses, Values $14.95 & $19.75, Final Price $8.00 220 Total?Every dress included and on sale - * J Special Lot of Wool Bathing Suits Values $2.95 to $5.00 Final Price $1.00 Entire Stock HOUSE COATS Values $1.95, Final $1.00 Values $3.95, Final $2.00 Values $5.95, Final $3.00 v- I LADIES SLACKS - $1.25 values, Final Price 50c Colours?WHITE, NAVY and BROWN The Fashion Shop (INCORPORATED) ' OPPOSITE POST OFFICE CAMDEN, S. C. Shoes! Shoes! PRICES REDUCED-CUT AGAIN We Must Sell Every Pair Regardless of Price Special Lot Values $2.95 ! Final $1.00 $2.95, $3.50, $3.95 Values Final Price $2.00 $5.95 and $6.95 Values Final Price $3,00 AIR STEP, BUSTER BROWN and BROWN BILT 25 Pairs OVERSHOES, $1.50 Value Final 75c (FIR8T QUALITY HOOD RUBBER) 1 THE FASHION SHOP, Inc. SHOE SALON ; Opposite Post Office Camden, S. C.