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Cruising ij .. Around :; with The Skipper !1 > ' i Out tilde of listening to basebball games via radio while on a motor Jaunt, one of the moat interesting things one can do to pass the time Is to scan the roadside for odd-reading signs. Ou my recent Jaunt up to Wisconsin I traveled some 2,100 miles up and back and had a chance to see many thousands of roadside bill boards and the like. The comedy relief which every good Republican has been seeking assiduously for the last seven years is available In one of tho Illinois counties through which we drove. It takes a strictly Republican sense of humor to appreciate the subtle implications of a couple of road signs which appeared side by side along the road. M One sign read, ''Roosevelt Road. And the other, Just below and a little to one side warns, "Danger?Travel At Own Risk." j ? And that isn't all. The road is a new one and is mighty rough and rocky. It Is sharply downhill from the position of the signs. And within a few yards whatever lies ahead Is obscured by a sharp left turn and a big bluff. I guess I mentioned last week that I saw a double-header between the Yanks and White Sox and I am still | in a daze as to why and wherefore the Yanks lead the American league^ Jimmy Dykes, the little baldheaded guy with the stubby cigar, has beeu haunting pawnshops, rummage sales and sheriff s auctions for the last Ave years picking up manager's discards of broken down baseball talent. Out of this worn and broken down-galaxy of pickups he has put together a machine with baling wire and grocers string which performed the amazing feat that week of defeating the Boston Red Sox and * New York Yankees'in five consecutive games. Dykes seems headed for fame as the greatest trader baseball has ever known. Joliu McGraw was a shrewd operator; Clarke Griffith was called the "old fox" for good reason; Roger Hornsby, by trading sows' ears Into silk purses for the ^St. Louis Browns earned the name of "Trader Hornsby," but the market maneuvers of Dykes has eclipsed them all. With practically the equiHvont of used tires, broken furniture, cracked spark plugs and chipped Chinaw&re, he has built the Comlskey family a ball club which is making a belligerent effort to oust the Red Sox from second place. All the big shot sport writers admit that if Mouty Stratton, the White Sox pitching ace of last year, hadn't got careless with a shooting iron last fall, the league might present the startling spectacle of Dyke's patchwork outfit arguing with the Yankees (or first place The rest of the league had better keep Jimmy from laying hands on any Grade A baseballers, Judging b> the tricks he does with salvaged relics. t ? * k Stepping off the sport griddle for a minute or so, wonder If some of you Camden folks, who knew Polly Warren Palmer, blonde socialite who was d 'w:i in our midst with her first hubby Potter D'Orsay Palmer, season before last. Is planning a Florida divorce from her second hubby, William Watts Rose. I Polly was divorced from Potter Palmer December 1, 1938, and a few days later Palmer married a girl who was a waitress In a Sarasota, Florida roadside stand. Later Palmer died after a brawl following a drinking bout. His papa and mama did not like the little waitress widow and in order to a widow's share of the estate of the former playboy, the little gal has had to start legal action. Polly Warren surprised her parents and friends by marrying Willie Rose last March, the wedding taking place at Iy^Hsburg, Kentucky. They settled down to live happily ever after, but it lasted only a few weeks. Then Polly went -home to mother. Then th?j couple tried it again in a hotel suite but that didn't last either. * XI * Polly gar* up a ftSO a week lifesettlement frog) Palmer when she married Rose. V Our tbfhkagraa for this week Is "Women may hays the lsst word, but It's fortunate their cannot hear what *. i -gab* the husband says to himself." When I wandered into the office after my return from the north I enI countered good old pinch-hitting Donald, who was very busily and slowly writing a letter. "Sah," sez Don, "D9n't bother nie Skipper, I'm busy writing a letter." "But," sez I, "Why are you writing so slowly?" "Well," quoth Donald, "This guy I am writing to can't read very fast." The baseball boys tell me that Jup Pluv has been most unkind to the state league games, some three being rained out here while I was away. Tough luck, I'll say. ? ? Oh yes, lest we forget?that all-star game is listed for Friday, August 18. Wotta game boys, wotta a game that wifl be. All the old stars back in harness, and gamboling on the turf And the drug store owners smiling happily and congratulating themselves that they will be wise enough to stock up with liniment. We-dislike to voice criticism, but It Just has to be done. Better regulations, more business-like conduct of affairs is a crying necessity at the Camden ball park. The practice of small boys climbing all over the top .of the home-team dugout, racing about In the area between the base lines and bulkhead, playing tag in the grandstands, and the like, is just a few reasons why some fans stay away from ball games. We suggest to the baseball club management that arrangements be made to hare a police officer be on hand to personally- eliminate the above mentioned nuisances. esse We believe Camden is entitled to have regulation at athletic events | What happened last Thursday is jost j plain tank town stuff. And yon and I and the rest of the gang w!H slap anyone down who pats Camden in (that kind of a classification. ... _ iff, L - ? . Camden Secures Improved Service Minorca uu tho pu?i of tho local chamber of commerce to secure better mall service bet weeu Camden and Columbia and also an Increase In service frequency between Sumter and Camden have come to a dead-end, according to advices received from the post office authorities at, Washington. The request of' the 'Camden chamber was made the subject of an Investigation by a field official, the report discloses: it appears from this report that the advisability of establishing a star route service between Camden, and Columbia, leaving Columbia at 10 a. m. and arriving in Camden at 11:30 and leaving Camden at 4 p. m. and arriving in Columbia at 5:30 p. m., was carefully considered but the quantity of mail that would be handled would not justify J tlje cost. Au actual couut tor any day disclosed that ouly 164 pieces of all classes were available for Camden and Columbia over the proposed route. The report further states that tho postmaster at Columbia states that mall received at bis office after 1 p. m. Is not delivered that day by the city carriers, so mail arriving after 5 o'clock would be of little value so far as delivery is concerned. The question of Increasing the frequency of service on the star route between Camden and Sumter was also considered, says the report, but the postmaster at Sumter advised there would be only a small amount of letter mail available for dispatch at 2 p. m. for Camden, Columbia and connections. While Camden failed to secure au Improvement in the service Involving Columbia and Sumter, it gained a big victory when the government announced the putting into service of a star route between Rock mil and Camden, which will result lu a fifty per cent improvement in the matter of mail service from northern and midwest points. Mail that now arrives after 1:30 p. m. will be here at 10 a. m. and there will be a mail truck out of Camden with mall for the north at 1 o'clock dally. Georgia "Victim" Of Lynching Found Savannah, Ga., Aug. 4.?Listed as Georgia's sole victim of a lynching thiB year, Charlie Williams, 33-yearold negro, was found at work at a Savannah fertilizer plant. "I heard I was lynohed but didn't, pay any attention to ft' 'cause I knew I I was living," Williams told Detective Sergeant E. A. Fitzgerald yesterday. In it's semi-annaul report made July I, the Tuskegee Institute reported Williams was lynched by a group of white men at Coolcliffe, Ga., March II. A negro newspaper first carried a report of the purported lynching. Fitzgerald found' Williams after a diligent search, made at the request of the Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. J. Herbert Moore Is Scholarship Winner Hiwcial lo The Chronicle Charleston, S. C., Aug 10.?Colonel Clark Williams, of "The Collars ami The Piues," Is making a last lug contribution to the future of Camden, b> making possible college educations for three Camden youths. Cadets William Wannamaker ltates, Jr., and John Carl West, members of the rising junior and Sophomore classes, respectively, at The Citadel, hold the first two of the coveted "Camden Scholarships" at South Carolina's military college, and Joseph Herbert Moore will enter the college as a freshman September 4 as the beneficiary of the third of these scholarships provided by Colonel Williams. Holders of these scholarships are limited to graduates of the Camden high school. Selections of beneficiaries of Colonel Williams' scholarships are made upon the basis of general worth and personality, force of character and leadership, physical vigor and scholastic excellence. The maintenance of a high stand at The Citadel may be expected of young men so chosen. Colonel Williams' keen Interest lu young men Is an outstanding characteristic. A graduate Qf Williams College, Massachusetts, he has done much for that Institution, but through his association with General Charles P. Summerall during and since the World War, he has been drawn closely to The Citadel, to which he has sent his several beneficiaries. Colonel Williams' admiration for South Carolina and Its Institutions, especially Its military college, Is marked by enthusiasm which he freely expresses. Joseph Herbert Moore, a graduate of Camden high school with the class of 1939, and a son of Mr. and Mrs. Stoney Moore, of this city, has been awarded the four-year Colonel Clark Williams scholarship at The Citadel, the military college of South Carolina.! Moore is the third Camden high school honor graduate to receive the Williams scholarship?the others being William Wannamaker Bates, Jr., and John Carl West. Moore will enter The Citadel as a freshman this fall and there Is every reason to believe the academic and athletic prowess that featured bis Camden school affiliation will be continued at Charleston. Herbert Moore has the enviable mark of 95.6 for the eleven years he attended the Camden schools. In the first grade his average for the yean was 96.5, second year 95, third year 95.5, fourth year 95, fifth year 95.9, sixth, year 94.2, seventh year 94, eighth year 97.2. ninth year 94.4, .tenth year 96.1 and eleventh year 94.8. Moore tried nine district contests and won eight of them. In 1937 he won honors in the algebra contest. In 1938 he took first in geometry and In 1939 he was first In history, English, typing, shorthand, senior algebra and general scholarship. He entered eight state contests and won flvtf-^-they being: geometry In 1938, history,'^typ* ing, shorthand and senior algebra in 1939. Moore was not only an exceptional student from the academic standpoint. He also excelled In athletics. He played football in 1939, basketball in 1938 and 1939, being team captain in 1939? played high school baseball In 1938 and 1939 and Junior Legion baseball in 1938 and 1939. Popular among his school associates ?he was vice president of the junior class, home room president in 1937; president of future teachers club In 1938 and 1939; president of the Beta club in 1939; was typist of school paper in 1938; member of the French club In 1939; president of the commercial club In 1939 and home room editor of the Gold and Black. Moore never missed the honor roll during his eleven years of school and was never more than third from the top of his class every year. Selections of beneficiaries of - Colonel Williams' scholarships are made upon the basis of general worth and personality, force of character and leadership, physical vigor and scholastic excellence. ^ Orangeburg's Fli?e*-Bale Brings 22.5 Orangeburg, August 2.?Auctioned off on public square here this morning, the first sale of Orangeburg county cotton of the 1939 crop was bought by M. K. Jeffords, Jr., local cotton buyer, for twenty-two and a half cents a pound. It graded middling, weighed about four hundred pounds, had an Inch staple and was wrapped In cotton bagging. The auctioneer was M. K. Jeffords, manager of the Orangeburg Cotton Marketing aeeociatlon. The bale was-from the farm of Wesley Berry, negro; near Bowman, U was ginned early Tuesday at the Wilkes ginnery here and put on the cotton platform before 6:30 o'clock that morning. This Is thought to be the first bale ginned In South Carolina. Times Square In New - York City has buildings whose electric sign space earns a larger fsntal than all [the interior space combined. * **. Ij,?? ?-? Old Land Marks "The Blue House" (By Sadie Kennedy, von Tresckow) So hidden In the mists ot the year* U the history of "The Blue House." that It is almost a tradition today. ( Vet. uo house In Cuindon has more right to be remembered, and tho spot upon which it stood should surely bo marked. For It was here that the brave Baron DeKalb, after tho liuttlo of Fainden, August 16, 1780, "mortally pierced with eight wounds of bayouets and three musket balls after his horse had been shot from under him," according to his aide-de-camp, the Chevalier Uu-' Huysson, and taken prisoner by the| British, lingered two days, attended by l)r, Isaac Alexander, and closed his eyes in death, * As further proof of the above, "The Camden Journal" of July, 1830, stated! that "DeKalb died In what was called ihe 'Blue House' in the town, a day or two after tho Battle of Camden"" or tQum Swamp), and at that date many who had taken part in the bat* | tie were still alive. From its portals he was borne to his ilrst resting place' midway in the held behind the old Presbyterian church, which stood at the Junction of Church and Meeting streets, near the Ancrutn and Nixon enclosures, not far from the grave of Agnes of Glasgow. Joseph Kersnaw In his will (1788) gave these two lota to tho Presbyterian congregation and near them was the site of the Quaker Meeting House, now enclosed in the Camden cemetery. The site of DoKalb's first Interment' is now Included in the Evergreen' Nurseries, owned by Withers Trotter. The lot on which the "Blue House"] stood was originally owned by William Ancrum, of Charleston. In 1798, he deeded it for three hundred pounds] to Gayetan Alguier, of Charleston, who must have moved to Camden. It then' became the property of Mrs. Margaret Adamson Alexander, wife of the famous Dr. Isaac Alexander. 1802, Mrs. Alexander willed It to her son-in-law, Henry Dana Ward, in trust for her grandson, Henry Dana Artemaa Ward. In 1807, Zebulon Dudolph, the grand uncle of Mrs. Lucretia Garfield, the widow of President Garfield, was the owner of the property "situated on lot No. 65 near the corner of Broad and Meeting streets." In 1816, he still resided In the "Blue House" and the home of Robert Mickle was on the opposite side, east. They then being the most Southern residents of Camden. In 1818, Royal Bullard, who was Intendant of Camden in 1820, became the purchaser. Then, all trace of ownership or destiny of this historic house is lost in oblivion. An Interesting print of the "Blue House" was presented to the Hobklrk Hill Chapter D. A. R., and was framed and hung on the walls of the old court house, which the Hobklrk Hill chap| ter purchased from the county rather} than see it sold as old brick and de-J mollshed. Tt was used as a chapter house and relic museum, and this print was hung there by the then regent, Mrs. K. C. von Tresckow. In February, 1933, when the D. A. 11. felt they could no longer afford to keep up the old building it was turned over to the city to be kept as a musoiiflh. Unfortunately, it was used for a mattress and coffin factory to employ relief workers. Tho relics were not removed and have dlsappoured. Most of them like the print of the "Blue House," were valuable, irreplacable, and any trace of their whereabouts will be appreciated by the Hobkirk Hill chapter. The small brass cannon that marked j the intersection of Broad and Bull streets (where the four public squares were), also disappeared and someone must know its fate. It had been dug up when the streets were graded. Finally the city with the consent of the D. A. R. agreed to lease the building to the Masons for ninety-nine years. Irately with the consent of the committee In charge of the old court house building, the D. A. R. (Hobkirk Hill chapter) have placed a marble marker above the original monument erected to Baron DeKalb by the citizens of the town. This original monument was found by Messers. Kirkland and Kennedy in the basement of the Presbyterian church and was donated to the D. A. R. and placed by them in the wall under the stone stairs leading into the court house. Much confusion in the minds of visitors to Camden arose from the fact that the remains of DeKalb were said to rest under the monument In front of the Presbyterian church and yet picture postcards also allowed his monument under the old court house steps. Therefore, the Daughters of Hobkirk Hill chapter stopped the sale of the false postcards and have now placed a marker to show the true history of the slab. MYRTLE BEACH SWIMMER NABS FISH WITH HAND Myrtle Reach, Aug. 5.?C. H. Goldsmith. of Greenville, while swimming In the surf, caught a two-pound flounder with his hand. The tlsh slapped him on his legs with lightning like rapidity and Goldsmith reached out and grabbed It. Several women near by witnessed the piscatorial capture. One of the "mermaids" said another flounder hud brushed her. A young boy also caught a threeI pounder with his hand south of Ocean | Plaza pier. A mother and son caught ninety fish within four hours time. A party of three or four guests of Dr. and Mrs. W. T. 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