Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cruising Around : 'I ii with !; The Sklppor * V AN op*. TO 8UMMER ? (jav young men 'da?hli>g about Hither and yW with their shirttatls i O U t jn colors that make of Joseph's coat A garmeut as drab as the hide of a goat. shirts with pictures of cocktail glasses Shirts with pictures of Mount Parnassus . Across his chest are Tffra'a Halls While down his back pours Niagara Falls. Oversized women in undersized slacks Higgling girls in suits without backs Litter the beaches, all shapes and classes The girls squeal shrilly while the boys make passes. Let Europe brood 'neath the thunder's ,oar ,, ^ Let the shadow of war sweep all before The tramp, tramp, tramp of marching feet, Can't drown out the thrill of the rhumba's beat. Open her up?what makes her balk Only 70. Let's get out and walk Across the seas the skies may be gray But it's summer time in the U. 9. A. Our thinkagram for this week. When the wife looks at advertisements of fur coats It's well for hubby to talk of hard times. , I've learned two new dances That put the Big Apple in the shade One's "Slapping the Skeeter Twostep The other "Dodging the Gnat Parade. ? ? Folks?epeaking of baseball. I'm sorry to say It, but do you know there were Camden people in the Sumter stands last week during those Legion playoffs who have neve!- been at a ball game in Camden this season to the best of my knowledge. Which is just another reason why baseball will be about as dead as a ?ioilo bird around here another season. The Palmetto league will carry on but 1 have a hunch Camden and Ker.<>>: w will be out of the picture. ft- V.M1 hav4 to take your hat off to the Sumter baseball fans. They cof operate. And what a swell, well maintained park they have. And better la*- a.at. Istand Is a shaded stand. # I n;* -.- ,v* a**i lights out at the Camden basehal'. they will have to rebuild th*> Put the grandstand over iu the n . tliwest corner, split the bleachers and put them south and east of the stand.-:, li will not be much of a job to turn the whole trick and believe me. you'll find people will patronize baseball in greater numbers. Frankly, its asking a lot of any human being to sit out iu the present sun stand, gaze into the sun glare for two hours and then go homo with a heck of a headache. * ? I've been in hundreds of baseball parks but Camden is*the first one to penalize t*lie spectators by building a grandstand where tne afternoon sun i:iake> a Turkish bath parlor. And >ou imagine Just how comfy the d .-out of the visiting team must be on a sunny day. ? * * * The'"annual benefit grid scrap is * v* r and as a result of the performan e staged by former Camden Bull?. gnd luminaries on the turf at the football stadium, the coffers of tie* Ou to the Mountains" fund was Increased by several hundred berries. The two baseball events presented at the local pastime lot last Saturday were good demonstrations of nice baseball?so far as the actual play was concerned. But the delay in keeping up In the parade of baseballs was > >:newhat tiresome. buBose and Stoddard really put on a pitching show In the first game as did Moore and Coker In the second. By agreement each game was scheduled as a seven Inning affair, fn the first game Stoddard and DuBoae each gave up five hits. Stoddard had an edge in that he had three strikeouts to none by DuBose. DuBoee walked two and Stoddard one. In the second game Coker gave up four hits, fanned five and gave no free ticket. Moore gave four hits, fanned three and issued one walk. *' Cf While we have been a Clncy Red fan for two years now we sure did get a shock Monday morning when we read of the double defeat handed our favorites by those pesky Gas House gangsters from out St. Louis way. That was some slamming the Hartsvllle lads gave Chester last Saturday, I4y to 0. Somebody must have fed the Cards knockout drops. ? Well folks, we picked those "ltschky" lads from up In Berwyn, 111., a busy suburb of Chicago, to win. that Sumter tournament We confess 1 that In the final game with Little Rock It looked bad for the*- Illinois group, hut they lived up to their previously reputation of never admitting defeat until the final out la made. That was some sensational eighth and ninth Inning finish. I At nUaUtw Himy of dmkM, ttMUf pala umI wfftr- ; I Id*. todlfMttet, blliou attack*. MfcM, aUaplMMMH, fcllgH WM tf Hf M? MWfff POW O LIH wiB whM? tkta ?m41iMfe* Palmetto Race Sizzling; Finish PALMETTO STATE LEAGUE W L Pet. Hartsvllle 16 6 762 Sumter IS 5 722 Chester IS 6 683 Lancaster 12 11 522 Camden 6 18 260 Kershaw 1 IS 050 Saturday Results Sumter 3-1, Camden 2-1; Lancaster 6-3. Kershaw. 4-0; Hartsvllle 14. Chester 0. The Palmetto Slate baseball league will sail Into port next Saturday afternoon after a tumultous voyage that started early last June. While ltarisvtlle holds a lead of one and a half games over the fast-cllmblng Sumter Gamecocks, games to be played this week may mean a pennant for either Hartsvllle, Sumter or Chester. If the Hartsvllle team plays the line brand of ball that has featured their performance this season, right up to the i finish line, the pennant Is already ! hanging from the Hag pole of their park. Sumter, by reason of a win and a tie game with the Camden Chiefs in the double bill here last Saturday has a half game lead over the Chester I Cards for second place. Lancaster fans are pleased over the fact that the lted Roses have climbed over the 500 mark. The Roses have a regular game with Quinter at Sumter on Thursday and at the clip they have been going the past several weeks may prove a headache for the Gamecocks. Chester has one or more games slated with Kershaw and should win. Hartsvllle takes on Camden at Hartsvllle and should record a victory. Chester and Sumter can be depended upon to try and play as many postponed games off as possible this week in the hope of piling up wins enough to overtake the Hartsvllle team. "What about 194.01" > * question being aBkeft by team managers and fans around the circuit. At this time it appears certain there will be changes In the league personnel anothe^ year. HartBVllle, Chester and S*mthr are certain to be In the field again, but there are doubt about Lancaster, Camden and Kershaw, where the support of the fans has been negligible this past season. Florence and Darlington with Pageland or I>aurens are likely towns for the Palmetto circuit. MAN FACES CHARGE MURDERING ONE OF HIS FOUR WIVES DuRant, Okla., Aug. 21.?County Attorney Bill Steger asserted today he had an "airtight case" against John O. Story, 60, charged with murdering one of his four wives; But, after ten hours of steady grilling the sullen, stooped soap peddler held to his statement that the death of his third spouse in a burning smokelast August 23, was "Just an accident." Story was arrested at DeQueen, Ark. after neighborhood discussions had called to the attention of authorities three other tragic "accidental deaths in his family. A son, Joe, 15, died in a hunting accident near DeQueen last June; another, Frank, 10, drowned March 8, 1937, while fishing near Gainesville. Tex.; and a third. Charley, was killed by a train at Peoria, 111., twenty years ago. Steger said Story collected more than $1,000 insurance on each of his sons' death and $2,460 on his third wife's death. After neighbors had tried unsuccess-^ fully to open a stuck door and freei the third Mrs. Story from the flaming smokehouse, the husband appeared. and said he believed a latch had caught when the victim entered the structure. A verdict of accidental death was returned by the coroner. ^ "We've picked his alibi to pieces, , said Steger. "We have evidence which places him near the smokehouse shortly before the fire was discovered and those people heard Mrs. Story s screams." DR. JAMES HARVEY ROGERS PAN-AMERICAN PLANE VICTIM - ' " ' Society 11111, Auk 16.?The wires told on Monday morning of the sudden dentil off the const of Brazil of Dr. James Harvey Rogers, professor of Political Kconomy In Yale University. Dr. Rogers was u passenger ou a Pan-American plane which collided with a dock crane in Kio do Jauerl harbor and cracked up. Of the sixteen members of the passengers and crew, only two persons survived the collision. Dr. Rogers was born in Society Hill, September 25, 1886, and attended St. David's academy for his elementary education, going from that institution to the University of South Carolina, entering the Junior class. He won his bachelor of arts degree in 1906, and Ills master's degree in 1907. loiter he attended courses at Yale and at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and then becamo professor of political economy at the University of Missouri in 1916. In 1930, he was made professor of political economy in Yale, which position Jie has held since that date. During the years 1926, 1928, 1930, ho lectured at the! Geneva School of International Stu?| dies and served as statistician of the Couucll of National Defense in 1917 and 1918, At one time he was monetary udvlsor to President Roosevelt. I>r. Rogers was a son of the late John Terrell Rogers and Florence (Coker) Rogers, of this place. He Is survived by William Coker Rogers, John Rogers, Thomas Rogers, Florence (Coker) Simpson, Hannah (Rogers) Shepher, brothers and sisters of the deceased. The handsome family home of the Rogers family is known as '/Belle Vue" and belongs to the ante bellum group of houses that adorn our hills. Dr. Rogers never married and was the only single member of his family. He was possessed of a singular charm of manners and always greeted his acquaintances with a smile. His place will be hard to till and a gloom has nettled over the community which will not soon be lifted. The interment will take place as soon as the body of the lamented professor arrives from the far away South American metropolis. Archie Schiffley Heads State Legion Columbia, Aug 22 -Archie Schiffley of Orangeburg, was elected department commander of the American legion today at the annual convention. Schiffley was elected over James j C, Hush of North Augusta and Cecil Morris ot Greenville on the second ballot. The Legion voted to hold its 1940 state convention at Charleston and (ho 1941 meeting at Myrtle Beach. George L). l^evy, of Sumter, was reelected national comniltteman, with S L. Latimer, Jr., of Columbia, as alternate. Y. W. Scarborough of Charleston, was elected vice commander for the lower state and Malcomb Shirley of Honea Path for the upper state. Elected district comiuaxMers were E H. Poulnot oT Charleston, L. 11. Krgle of Sulnda, Tillman Pin son of Greenwood. Marvin M. Reasonover of Camden and John Nichols of Columbia. Other officers elected Included H. !1>. Newberger of Spartanburg, hlstorrlan; the Rev. John J. Johnstoue of Marion, chaplain, and Quay Hood of Umeastor, statu service officer. The convention was welcomed by city engineer W. S. Tomllnson and Governor Burnet R. Maybank spoke briefly. The response was by John G. Galbraith of Spartanburg. James O. Sheppard, of Edgefield, told of the work done by the 40 and 8 and J. Mouroe Johnson, assistant secretary of commerce, spoke. The grand voiture of the 40 and 8, meeting yesterday, elected J. Earle Bethea of Dillon grand chef de gare to succeed R. E. McLeod of Columbia. Other officers elected were Alden Paul, Beaufort, grand chef detran; Ralph M. Caldwell, Spartanburg, grand conductem; Harvey Johnson, Spartanburg, grand advocate; George Perclval, Union, grknd historian; Waldo Lever, Landrum, grand atnnonler; LeRoy Bowman,. Columbia, grande garde de la larfe; W. R. Turbeville, Columbia, grand commls voyageur; Dr. John B. Setzler, of Columbia, grand Medlcin; R. E. McLeod, of Columbia, chermlnat natiouale; and Dr. ' E. I. Johnson, of Spartanburg, chermi nat national? alternate. Elected as grand chonilnots wore Frank Barnwell of Florence; Herbert D. Black of Hock Hill; J. D. Capple. man of Beaufort; Calhoun Hays, of Greenwood and D. E. Peterson, of Chester. Mrs. Lillian Nash Raymond, a prominent Long Island, N. Y., clubwoman, was slain early Sunday at her home at South Nyack, by her husband. Ralp Raymond, 58, who following the murder Inflicted throat and wrist wounds with a razor on himself, In an attempt to suicide. Police summoned by neighbors, broke In the bath room door and found Raymond unable to glvte a coherent account of the episode. He is not expected to live. i ???? Aged Negro Dies Hampton, Aug. 17.?"Undo Stovo Robertson," a nogro whose age can bo traced back 105 years, but who was thought to be nearer 110 passed away at his home near Varnvllle last Tuesday, August 14. Coming to Varnvllle as u mere child when his parents moved from Barnwell county. Uncle Steve was known as a "white man's negro." Being a former slave and one of the negroes who stuck to the white men. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at Antloch church and burial was in Davis cemetery. . Farley denies split with President Roosevelt over the Issue of a third term. Sale of Estate Property IN ORDER TO PARTIALLY SETTLE AN ESTATE, WE ARE OBLIGED TO DISPOSE OF THE FOLLOWING: ONE LARGE LOT WITH SIX ROOM DWELLING ON MILL STREET, NORTH OF DeKALB STREET. EXCELLENT CONDITION, NOW RENTED. BARGAIN. ANOTHER BARGAIN ? LOT AND DWELLING ON YORK STREET, BETWEEN MILL AND FAIR STREETS. RENTED. GOOD CONDITION. FIVE (5) ROOMS, BATH, RUNNING WATER, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, METAL ROOF. HOUSE AND LOT, FORMERLY HAROLD PROPERTY, COLORED OCCUPANCY. NOW RENTED. CHEAP. TWO (2) BUILDING LOTS, COLORED SECTION, AT GIVE AWAY PRICE, NEAR ABOVE. WE INVITE INQUIRIES AND BIDS. SALES MUST BE FOR CASH. 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