The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 11, 1939, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
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Au?- B.-^The house lust
k l)y au overwhelming vote panned
r0u,nlbu8 anti-alien bill.
The bid ?? ? virtual one-package odl0f
the most drastic provisions of
!l moro than one hundred alien bllla
? have been Introduced lu this aesVyj
0f Cougrees. It la apeclflc and
K, those aliens who advocate overthrow
of government, those guilty of
al turpitude, and those who be*
e public charges within Ave yeara
,/ter entry. One of the definitive aecdouB
elaborates on these claaaiflcatlpaa
in one sentence that is four
pages long.
peporiutlon la provided for aliens
fho enter the country Illegally, who
-gage In espionage for a foreign govintent,
who carry weapons illegally,
f)jo teach, talk or write any advocacy
4 overthrow of the government by
torCe( or who advocate illegal destruens
of property, and those who have
sentenced for crimes Involving
#oral turpiude and those involved In
prostitution and the white slave trade.
The bill would require Immigrants to
be fingerprinted in their native lands.
Another section Imposes penalties
rsnglng up to ten yeara in prison and
(10.000 fines for aliens who counsel
members of the armed forces to disobey
orders.
The House on Thursday by a vote
of 191 to 170 defeated the new $3,800,000,000
spending lending program and
refused to consider the senate-approved
$800,000,000 housing bill. It seems
that the House believes that the billions
already appropriated during this
lession is enough for one year.
A far wider margin against the
Housing bill had been Indicated in
earlier polls, but Intense pressure and
trading between urban and farm b.oc
members on proposed restoration of
the (119,000,000 deficiency hill cut in
Commodity Credit corporation funds
apparently weakened the opposition.
The house of representatives has
treated a five member committee to
Inestigate the National Labor Rela-^
Kiw-board:?Thts^lnvestlgatidn is ex^
petted to determine whether a new
Avd should be created to administer
tk act and what effect the board's
tilings and practices may have had
m employer-employee relations.
The Senate passed a measure broadening
and continuing the municipal
bankruptcy act, which permits municipalities
to file voluntary petitions in
bankruptcy upon consent of creditors
holding 51 per cent of municipal obligations.
The bill would continue the
act from June 30, 1940, to June 30,
1942, and would make it applicable to
counties and parishes.
The Senate sent to the White House
a bill which would give Spanish-American
war veterans an advance in the
rank at which they were retired from
the army. This advance covered all
grades up to the advancement of
colonels to the rank of brigadier generals.
The House passed and sent to the
iVhite House a measure authorising
instruction of a spare set of locks
!or the Panama Canal, and the Senate
ipproved a final appropriation bill,
tarrying $73,993,021 for defense purges.
The additional locks are to
Wure that the vital artery would be
>Pen to the fleet in event of war. More
ton five millions were added to the
leficiency supply bill In the Senate
or defense needs. The senators reared
a $2,675,000 cut made by the
Jouse in the Civil Air Pilot training
irogram, designed to provide a "blackof
partially trained airmen for
wo hi emergency. Allowing $5,675,W
for ie program, a total of 16,000
allege students will be given flight
wtruction this fall if the House
frees to the addition.
The Senate, also, added $2,5?0,000
?r purchase of two merohant vessels
to their conversion as naval auxillarM
It eliminated funds, however, for
instruction of a naval dirigible, advance
by the House.
The way congress?the ljouse printed?went
after the president's
?<ilng-spendlng bill reminds us of
o* Louis' tactics when the dusky
tompion is in the peak of form and
Wermined to have it over with in
tort order. Item by Item was reject*
or forced down, with final dlsmls1
of the bill for the session, climax*
hy refusal to consider the addi^>1
$800,000,000 for 'housing and
to? clearance! Seemingly TV t h e
c*le? have dropped from the eyes of
01frossmen at last, and they perthe
real plight the country is in
* * result of the wild, extravagant
*4 wasteful spending; The next
,r??14ent?if he Is a practical, farman
and not^^rthmer or viscertainly
going to have a
014 hu hands td clean up the rubReporter.
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Cabinet Makers' WorkJflL
From Cradle to^^Tfin
The scope covered by the work of
Chester county, Pa., cabinet makers
was literally from the cradle to the
coffin. The daybooks are filled with
orders for these two articles, which
with that other symbol of man's
recumbency, the bed, seems to have
been the most popular furniture of
the day. In between, of course,
were the various articles which a
man used and from which he drew
a large measure of comfort during
big earthly existence, writes David
Stockwell in "American Collector."
There were chairs, tables for dining
end other purposes, chests of
drawers for storing his clothes,
desks for his accounts and letters,
tall clocks to measure the passing
of time, and sundry items that filled
the home of the Eighteenth and
early Nineteenth centuries. All
these were made, and made well, by
the cabinet makers of Chester county.
According to the records, however,
it was late in the Eighteenth
century before any craftsman of.
this section actually styled himself
cabinet maker. The reason is not
far to seek if one remembers that
Chester county had no large centers
of population at the time.
There was no courthouse in
Goshen and the town of West Chester
was not only unincorporated, but
consisted of a little group of houses
at a crossroads known as Turk's
Head. Through the hills and hollows
of the county, every township,
hamlet or tiny cluster of houses had
its own group of artisans. These
were a cobbler, a tailor, a potter, a
wheelwright, a joyner, a whitesmith,
a blacksmith, and possibly, if the
farmers were prosperous enough, a
I silversmith and a cabinet maker.
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Washington Still a Forest
When First Congress Met
Washington still was just a forest
on the Potomac "some place between
the mouths of the Eastern
Branch and the Connogocheague."
The United States was a government
on paper. It had a Constitution,
freshly ratified, writes Robert
C. Albright in the Washington Post.
It lacked a President, a legislature
and a judiciary, all duly provided
in aforesaid document.
In New York a small group of perplexed
gentlemen impatiently were
trying to muster a quorum for the
first congress under that Constitution.
The quorum wouldn't muster.
It looked as though it never would.
It was in fact, March 4, 1789, a
sizeable span back across the arc
of years that have since linked 75
congresses in unbroken progression
and cemented a loose confederation
into a power among nations.
But the gray dawn of that day in
1789 was not an auspicious start for
a daring young government. Faint
words penned into a faded old journal
tell the story of that first meeting
of the first congress. ?
"The number not being sufficient
to constitute a quorum, they adjourned
from day to day?"
Out of 22 elected senators only 8
were present. Of 59 representatives
but 14 were on hand. From "day
to day" stretched into weeks. It
was 27 days before the house could
count a quorum. It was another
six days before the senate could
proceed.
Canada's Status
Canada, like Australia, New Zealand
and South Africa, is a selfgoverning
part of the British empire
or Commonwealth of Nations.
She pays no taxes to the mother
country and is not bound to render
her military help in time of war.
Her governor-general is appointed
by the king on the advice of the
Canadian ministry, and has a theoretical
veto power over legislation.
The supreme judicial authority of
the British empire is the judicial
committee of the Privy council in
London, before which appeals may
be brought (in the form of a petition
to the crown) from consular
courts and courts of vice-admiralty
and from the courts of India and
every British dominion. India has
a limited amount of self-government
with two native legislative
chambers. Other portions of the
empire consist of crown colonies
and protectorates.
? Fox-Squirrel's Diet
The diet of the fox-squirrel ranges
from crow's eggs to muskmellon, although
it will live almost exclusively
on various kinds of nuts if
they can be had. Cutting down of
nut-bearing trees has helped crows
by limiting the squirrel population.
When squirrels become too plentiful,
they will at times raid truck
gardens and cause heavy damage.
It is better, according to the National
Wildlife federation, fdr hunters
to harvest the surplus of any
species of wildlife, thgn fox it Jo increase
beyond the limits of its natural
food supply.
- Most Famous Stoic
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher
who lived approximately
between the years 50 and 120. He
was born a slave in Phrygia, banished
from Rome by Domitian and
taught philosophy in Epirus. The
nobility and moral earnestness of
the ffcan and simplicity of his style
hare made him * ****** with
many net ofMrtler tattrested In
thesubjtct which )*e taught and of
which he wrote*
-crAi. -ry,v "-7.Z/ ' ~ . "
Pisgah News Notes
PUgatl Auk. 8.?John Marlon Shi
ver, of Rembert. spent lust week here
with Arthur James.
Supper KUtjsta of Mr. and Mrs. W
F. Baker last Thursday night were
Mr. an<J Mrs. Harold Hatfield and
daughter. Dot, of 8umter; Mrs. Carl
Black moil and children, Dorothy, Ann,
of Chappells; Mrs. Virgil Harvey and
little daughter, Peggy Hoy. of Elliott;
Mr. and Mrs. Uallllard lamolr and infant*1,
daughter, of Horatio; Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence McLeqd and daughter.
Mary, of Hembert.
Mrs. .1. T. Wataon, Xfto. Ernest McMautis,
Mrs. Hoy Baker and son. l*e
land, spent Friday In Camden with
Mrs. Clarence Hough.
Mr. and Mrs. James Shlvar, of Columhla,
were week end guests of Mr.
and Mrs. C. M. Shlvar.s
Clifford Smlt^, of Columbia; Mr.
and Mrs. J. J. Dean, of Sumter, spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. HatI
field, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins Watson and
daughter, Suzanne, of Orangeburg;
Mr. and Mrs. S. G. l^enolr, and little
(laughter, Juanlta, of Horatio; Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. Baker and children spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Watson.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McManua were
supper guests Sunday night of Mr.
land Mrs. B. B. McManua.
I Mrs. Carl Baker and children, Carl,
Jr., Bettle and Roger, have been visiting
Mrs. T. M. Rogers.
Little Miss Bettle Ann Hatfield, of
Sumter, Is visiting relatives here.
MT. ZION CLUB DEDICATES
NEW COMMUNITY BUILDING
The people of the Mt. Zlon section
assembled at their new community
center on Thursday afternoon, July
27, t,o celebrate the completion of
their new building. The meeting was
presided over by the chairman of the
building committee, Mrs. Paul Brown,
who extended ,QU behalf of the community,
a cordial welcome to the distinguished
guests, the former residents
of the community and friends
from over the county.
The meeting began with the singing
of "America," after which Mrs. Brown
gave a brief history of the movement
which led to the erection of the building
and of Its purpose. The Reverend
Bryce Herbert, pastor of the Camden
Methodist church, made a very Impressive
talk on what Buch a center
can mean to the social, cultural and
spiritual life of the people. In a beautiful
prayer he dedicated the building
to the service of God In the upbuilding
of the community.
The home demonstration agent for
Kershaw county, Miss Margaret Fewell,
was then Introduced. She had
Just returned from a trip to the World
Conference of Farm Women in London
and a visit to the Aorthern countries
or Europe. She gave a short
talk on her travels and then presented
the head of the home demonstration
work in South Carolina, Miss
Lonnle Landrum. She brought greet
ings from Winthrop and congratula
ted the people upon their fine commuj
nlty spirit and the realization of their
I 8?al.
The county farm agent, W. C. McCarley,
introduced Mr. Stewart from
! Clemson College, who has been working
In the county for a cooperative
rural electric line. He told of the
campaign to bring this great convenience
and necessity to every farm
home In areas too thinly settled for
the commercial line to serve. j
Mrs, Brown then introduced the
speaker of the day, Mr. Lear, of the
extension service at Florence. Mr.
Lazar made a splendid talk on what
cooperation can accomplish, saying
that he could take twelve men and
twelve women with unity of purpose
and accomplish anything for a community.
Winthrop was very generous on
that occasion, for not only was the
state demonstration agent present but
also the assistant state agent, Miss
Harriet Layton. She also brought
greetings and congratulations.
In introducing the Hon. L. C. Clyburn,
representative from Kershaw
county, Mrs. Brown expressed the
gratitude of the people for the aid
given by the county delegation to
complete the building. Mr. Clyburn
spoke of his pleasure In being able to
further the development of the rural
sections of the county. He praisedthe
building and said that he could
not see anything that he would wish
ch Mfce?- _J
_ Mri: iathleen Watts, county super-j
intendent of education, was presented
as one of the outstanding women
of the county. 8he told of her Jiiterv
est in rural projects and of her pleas-,
ure in seeing the dreams of the community
become a reality.
After the singing of "Auld Langj
Syne," the meeting adjourned and a
bountiful picnic supper wae eerved.
The people of Mt. Zlon are Juetly
proud of their community center and
truftt that In the years to come it may
contribute greatly to the welfare not
only of the community but of our
|?onty and state.
j Caterpillars breathe. through "portholsi"
.along their aide?.
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New Study of S'iu S->o*s
Detailed in Publication ;
Popular conjecture as to the importance
of sun spots to Inhabitants ;
of the earth is Just so much wihl
guessing until scientists learn mote !
about sun spots themselves. Among ;
other astronomical centers where ,
widespread study of sun spots is be- |
Ing carried on is the University of i
Michigan observatory at Ann Arbor, j
Discoveries of the last few years
have made possible the prediction
of latitudes of sun spot activity
throughout an 11-year cycle. This I
fact, together with evidence that regions
of maximum and minimum
sun-spot activity recur with each 27day
rotation of the sun about its
axis, led Michigan astronomers to
believe that further studies might
reveal the basis for predicting the
longitude of sun-spot activity, as
well as its latitude,
After three years of intensive
study of the problem, Dr, Hazel
Marie Losh, of the Michigan observatories,
has published the results of
her observation of the distribution
of sun spots in longitude, indicating
strong evidence for the belief that
sun spots follow regular patterns in
their distribution across the face of
the sun, as well as they do In distribution
up and down between the
solar poles. Most striking among
Dr. Losh's findings is the tendency
for opposite sun-spot activity to ap-t
pear in the northern and southern
I hemispheres of the sun at any one
longitude. While occasionally similar
atftivity areas were found at the
same longitude in both hemispheres,
by far the most common situation
was the finding of maximum activity
in the northern hemisphere, accompanied
by minimum activity in
the southern hemisphere.
Refute Used in Bricks
Tells Story of the Hopi
Watermelon and cantaloupe
graced the tables of Americans in
the Far Southwest 300 years ago
and perhaps before the first white
settlers arrived at Plymouth. These
delicacies, not native to either of
the American continents, made their
debut in what is now the United
States as early as 1629, says Volney
H. Jones, University of Michigan
anthropologist, the r.tory of
whose research story appeared in
the New York Herald Tribune.
Evidence that American Indians
Included these melons and other foreign
foodstuffs in their diets at this
early date is provided by, of all
things, the bricks of a Spanish mission
in the old Hopi Indian village
of Apratovi In northeastern Arizona.
In Mr. Jones' research waste food j
and other refuse was separated
from the adobe bricks of the mission.
This refuse, M*. Jones explains,
was used as a binding material
|n manufacturing the bricks.
Because records give 1629 as the
-date for the building of the mission,
the Introduction of these foods by
the Spanish is known to be not later
than this date. In addition to the
melon seeds found in the bricks,
fruit pits, grain and straw also indicate
that the Hopi people were
cultivating wheat, peaches and either
plums or apricots at this time.
The Information given by the bricks
indicates that there have been no
important changes in the climate,
vegetation or animals of the region
in tfte 300 years since the mission
was built- .
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- # - Jumping Beans
Mast Mexican Jumping beans
come from the province of Chihuahua;
they are the seeds of various
members of a family of swamp
trees listed as euphorbiaceous
plants. When the plant is in blossom
the moth (Carpocapsa saltitans)
lays an egg in one part of
the flower. The hatched larvae bore
into the growing beans but do not
attain full growth until the beans
are hard and ripe. The larva inside
the bean moves it by coiling up and
then suddenly extending itself. Later
in the season it cuts a circular
door through the bean and changes
to a pupa, then when the pupa is
transformed to a moth it escapes
through this door. Close examination
of the bean will show this means
of exit.
About Cans and Canning
The "tin can," in which so much
of our food comes today, is made
of very thin sheet steel, coated with
tin; and the American canning industry
has grown to such proportions
that it now uses more steel
than every other industry except
automobile manufacture, taking a
greater tonnage even than the combined
railroads of the country or the
nation's building requirements.
American can producers now
make more than 12,000,000,000 containers
annually, 60 per cent of
which are used for the canning of
food and 40 per cent as containers
for tobacco, paint, oil and other
commodities. Laid end to end and
side to side this number of cans
would cover an 80-foot highway
from New York to San Francisco.
4 New York Constitution
The original constitution cf New
York state is oldor than that of the
United States for on July 6, 1776, a
constitutional convention met in
White Plains, N. Y., to set up a substitute
for the royal regime in the
province of New York. In April,
1777, tha constitution was adopted at
Kingston without submission to a
popular vote. The United States
Constitution was adopted on 8ap'
tasnbar ITr^1787.
PRELIMINARY BOOK LIST OF
CAMDEN CITY SCHOOLS 1939 1940
First Grade 1
No books to bo provided before
opening of school, September J). 1939.
The first price is the purchase price
and the second price is rental.
Second Grade
Header: Friendly Stories?
Trips To Tttko $ .41 .14
Arithmetic: Fun With Nutn *
hers 40 .14
Health: Building My House
of Health 63 .21
Spelling: Spelling for Everyday
Use 21 .07
Work Hooks:
My Word Rook
Third Grade
Header: Treasure llox 48 1G
Arithmetic: Champion Arithmetic
40 .14
Language: American Language
(third year) 45 .15
Health: The Hoad to Health .06 .22
Spelling: Spelling for Everyday
Use 21 .07
Work Hooks:
My Word Hook
Essentials of Everyday
English.
Fourth Grade
Arithmetic: Strayer-Upton
(fourth grade) 33 .11
Header: Magic Hour 69 .23
Language: American Languago(
fourth year) 38 .13
Spelling: Spelling for Everyday
Use 23 .08
Geography: At wood-Thomas
(fourth grade) 66 .19
Health; Health by Doing .. .61 .17
Work Hooks:
My Word Book
Essentials of Everyday
English
Other work books to be selected.
Fifth Grade
Reader: Pleasant l^ands 76 .25
History: Estill's History ... .60 .20
Arithmetic: Strayer-Upton
(fifth grade) 33 11
language: American language
(fifth grade) 41 .14
Spelling: McCall's Speller
(complete) 30 .10
Geography: At wood-Thomas
(fifth grade) 73 .25
Work Books:
My Word Book
Essentials of Everyday
English
Other work books to be selected.
8lxth Grade
Reader: Golden l^eaves 76 .25
Arithmetic: Strayer-Upton
(sixth grade) 33 .11
Language: American Language
(Blxth grade) 41 .14
Geography: Atwood-Thomas
(sixth grade) 76 .26
History: Slmms* S. C. History
87 .29
Spelling: McCall's (complete)
.30 .10
Work Books:
My Word Book
Essentials of Everyday
English '
Arithmetic (to be selected)
Olher work books to be selected.
I
9eventh Grade
Readers: Studies in Reading .74 .25
History of American Progress
1.00 .34
New Day Arithmetic . 37 .13
Our English (seventh grade) .48 .16
Atwood-Thomas Geography
(seventh grade) .".. .73 .25
McCall's Speller (complete) .30 .10
Work Books:
Arithmetic: Lennes Drills
My Word Book
English Work Book.
Eighth Grade
Payne's Speller 38 .13
West: Short History of
Early People 1.88 .46
New Day Arithmetic 37 .13
McKltrlck - West: English
Composition 92 .31
Literature and Life (Blue) 1.55 .52
C. & C.: Introduction to
Science 1.46 .49
Ulman & Henry: Elementary
Latin 1.05 .36
Gregg: General Business
Science, Pts. 1 .& 2 1.29 .43
Wells-Hart: Modern Algebra 1.18 .40
Ninth Grade"
Payne's Speller .38 .13
Webster: History of Mankind 1.83 .61
Wells-Hart: Modern Algebra 1.18 .40
MoKltrick - West: English
Composition 92 .31
Literature and Life (Book
II) Blue .1.66 .56
Arnold: Cooperative Citizenship
98 .33
Baker-Mills: Dynamic Biology
1.48 .60
ogy 1.48 .5 11 s. .2..;
Ulman & Henry: Second
Year Latin 1.20 .40
Gregg: General Business
Science, Part 3 87 .29
Tenth Grade
Chew: Speller 43 .15
Webster: History of Mankind
t 1.83 .61
Bruce: Plane Geometry 69 .23
Tanner: Correct English ..^.21 .41
Literature and Life ('Book
III) Blue 1.73 .58
20th Century Bookkeeping,
Introductory Course 90 .30
20th Century Typewriting, 1
Year Course 96 .32
Gregg: Shorthand Manual .. 1.29 .43
Gregg: Speed Studies 1.04 .36
The New Chardenal 1.55 .62
Vermont: La Belle France .. 1.04 .35
Eleventh Grade
Chew: Speller .43 .15
Latane: History of American
People 1.72 .58
Wells-Hart: Modern Algebra,
i Second 1.07 .38
Literature and Life (Blue) 1.90 .64
L, F. it 8.: Introduction to
Economics 1.25 .42
Hessler: First Year Chemistry
1.32 .44
I>a Voyage de M. Perrlchon . .69 .23
20th Century Bookkeeping,.
Two Years 1.26 .42
20th Century Typewriting,
Two Years 1.26 .42
Tanner: Correct English ... 1.21 .41
The New Chardenal 1.56 .52
Vermont: La Belle France .. 1.04 .25
Gregg: Shorthand Manual .. 1.29 .43
Gregg: Speed Studies ...... 1.04 .35
There are one and a half million
guitar* in a*e in America,
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Wells Paints
Dark Picture
London, Auk 3.~- H G. Wells. gloomily
Hurvaylng civilization In a new
book published today, surmises that
"the universe is bored with man" and
that humanity, "which began in ft
cave, will end in the disease-soaked
ruins of a slum "
The llrltlsh man of letters who popularized
science and made history ft
best seller bases his possjmism on
a concluslan that:
"New powers, Inventions, contrivances
and methods are not the unqualified
enrlohment of normal *i*u
that we had expected. They are proving
dangerous and devastating in our
eager but unprepared hands."
Jn a 330 page volume called "Tl?3
Fate of Homo Sapiens" Wells somewhat
glumly concludes, however, that
the salvage of mankind is "still Just
possible" by a "wilful and strenuous
adaptation by re-education of our
species now? forthwith" to fit It for
a kind of universal democracy. This
education would be along a more International
and more widely understanding
scale than ever yet has been
conceived.
Wells added that "today catastrophe
is well on Its way . .. . But education
seems still unable to get startod.''
He dealt in this fashion wiht European
leaders:
Hitler?an "unqualified horror."
Mussolini?"Vain, rhetorical and Immensely
energetic . . . Often, sb school
boys say, a bit of an ass? which Is
much more endearing" (than Hitler).
Chamberlain?"Essentially Ignorant,
narrow-minded, subconsciously timid,
cunning and inordinately vain."
Stalin?Not of "overwhelming Intelligence,"
but "honest, strong and human.",
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8ON8 SERVED A8 PALLBEARERS
FOR MR8. JULIA 8. DoTREVILLE
Funeral services for Mrs. Julia 8.
DeTrovllle who died Saturday morning
at Walterboro was held from the
Walterboro Presbyterian church Sunday
afternoon. Mrs. DeTrevllle was
the mother of R. H. DeTrevllle. of
Camden. She was the widow of James
C. DeTrevllle, of Walterboro. Her
eight sons served as active pallbearers
and elders and deacons of her
church as honorary pallbearers.
| Mrs. DeTrevllle died at the EsDorn
hospital, where she had been a patient
for two weeks. Prior to her last 111ratfes,
in which she developel pneumonia,
she had been In" good health despite
her 83 years.
She had spent her entire life In Walterboro
and was well known and highly
esteemed by a wide circle, of
friends. She was long an actlv^'and
outstanding member of the PresbyterIan
church. Her Interest centered In
her children, her home and her
church, and she loved the people of
Walterboro and Colleton county.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Hat- tie
Peoples, of Charleston; Mrs. Johnnie
Jones, of Augusta, Ga.; eight sons, '
Richard DeTrevllle, of Camden;
George DeTrevllle, Morgan DeTrevllle,
Ellis DeTrevllle, Julian DeTrevllle,
Jesse DeTrevllle and James DeTrevllle,
of Walterboro; and Alfred DeTrevllle,
of Thomasvllle, Ga.; three
daughters, Mrs. Bethea, Miss Marie
DeTrevllle and Miss Catherine DeTrevllle,
all of Walterboro; a number of
grandchildren and one great-grandchild,
also survive.
CURTAIN FALL8 LA8T TIME
FOR FORMER CIRCUS CLOWN
Gastonia, Aug. 5.?There was no
sound of the calliope, no smell of sawdust,
no tint of grease paint, no big
top atmosphere around Morgan .Poole,
75, when he passed off the stage last
night
For many years Poole was a circus
clown with several of the larger circuses
of the country. He died within
the grim and cheerless walls of the
county home at Dallas, where he had
been an Inmate for some time.
Final rites for the ex-clown were
conducted this afternoon at a local
mortuary and his body was laid to
rest In a local cemetery.
Quitting the sawdust ring some 25
years ago, Poole, had never been under
a big top since.
For many years Poole lived as a
"squatter" on the Southern Railway's
right of way a few miles west of Gastonia
on the Gastonla-Bessemer City
highway. He cultivated here a-little
truck patch and rah a roadside shack
where he sold fruits and vegetables.
He lived in the shack which he had
built himself. Life passed him by but
he was not a sulker. His wants were
few and the little profit from his roadside
stand provided for them. He
rarely left his little acre by the side
of the road. Many pedestrian* and
not a few autolsts stopped and bought
from the old man and frequently engaged
him in conversation. He talked ,
freely and Interestingly of the old
circus days and the Joys of a circus
life. ' 1 " ;
But passing years left Clown Poole
unable to make a living and ha finally
found himself in the Oastoa county
home where last. night after a brief
OMm, ke died.