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I SCHOOL SUPPLIES (except text-books i I I I New Goods at low prices See our assortment Good Fountain Pens 25c up I I I Zemp's Drug Store both prescription stokes City Drug Company 8 I "Red" Lynch Is On The Way Back (Hy Tho Skipper) Eric the Ked" (Wallace) Kynch, sensational Caimlen hl#h school pitcher In 1U37, who astounded the baseball fan# hy oatttbllahlnK a 17 strikeout per game average for the season. Is definitely on the road back. "Ked" really had the fans sitting on the edge of their seats during 1936J7 and 3S when he was the leading mound artist for the local highs. In IMG ho led the team to a district title and Into the playoff for the lower state championship. In 1?87 the team went through a brilliant season and was defeated in a close game for the state title by Olympla Highs of Columbia. In 11*38 tho firetop was again In the spot light by keeping the team up In the riu'? 'or honors. This year the boy began to slip. His work with tho Highs, the Junior Legion and the Palmetto leaguers was mediocre and it looked as If the amazing youngster was due for oblivion He went to Hock Hill, pitching for the Bloachery Cuba in the mill league that prevails up that way. Because of being out of condition Lynch failed to stick with the Cubs. About this time his father stepped Into tin- picture, took Ked home to Croat Falls and put him back Into training. I When a few days ago the Kock Hill Cubs came to Great Falls to play they were amazed when Lynch walked out on the mound for tho home team. Their amazement grew In leaps and bounds as they watched a rejuvenated pitcher mow them down with clocklike precision. And when the game was over Lynch was credited with a one-hit performance and that lone hit was a scratch affair. Not a Cub bad crossed tire ?pluxu, Big league baseball scouts undeistand baseball talent and some of the gentry vlsioned splendid possibilities In the red headed bov. A New \ ork Ciant scoi.n offered Lynch a tidy sum to sign a Ciant contract and offered to get him on the stall of one of the Clan* Class 1> latin teams Lynch however dei lined to sign at present. -K. ?| |,y tu h was a .sensation as a high school pitcher, especially in 1Mb and I7. Perhaps the fact that he h;(l| ,t lie ids i atrher to handle his offeline may ha\?* been a factor, for Kim:; Reeves had an uncanny ability to w rk the batters And In the inHeld and outfield tho pitcher had a well ItulaU1 ed and sweet performing fcroup back of him We mention such lads as Doug Lynch. Wilburt Williams. Ceorg. West. John Hammond. Jack Marson 11. Kmerson Bratihain and Kdward Crolley. It was the baseball of 1M7 and IMS tliat Lynch his background. With lus support ( In king beautifully and guided by the fine judgment of his coach.,11 A Small. Ked ' really went to town When the boy left high si hool and w cut into semi pro ball on his o\s n. he lost his effeet i\ t rt? ss Now that Ho- t. mperutm utal rnb Jl, ,|i J i ? \\ 11 11 it;- ! .1 t d V .Old k ?' p'. tig k.io.i hours. .-."ending s'rh tly to the 1 ,||. - of good tug. h. is on the :' a l b.t, k iiuh -- we a *' ate uus'aken. and will go a long way :i pt o ba-' oa;? Whtie speaking >!" ha--bail. C.uub r in p: o a- : i-'ti n- \t y . a ' Bubb? r' h.ls .Oi.lthi r pit. he; \\ Jl" W.h be S < '(*11 M,,,, a t:;. I cols' .i- : Jo I' i! n Co ; .,g ".h! Hi- past A - :. b "! ., ..'tcra.o bv r ' .,' ! ( ! i \lici-t. I'll' ?le ' . 'o'-iki. as he he aw.,1 H x v:p" Camden Pa! J *; ' .ill at. ' hi ig.t t toil ' .. -n Wl'll -Jl" Chi- fs It as i -p.c-e.g "> Mo.o - pa. ' At. >:h. - Camd-Ii V-r T,:'g. si a wli - w-il i- nr w.," httig i; Rich:.rd ID!' s-'. >;. Pr,'sb> c i :ai colb'-i-e star w ho was wi .. tin t hi. f this season ImBOSe pitched beii'lti fnl btil ' a medloc: e ciuli. Had h< had n team bark of bun 'bat boastm a few good hitters he would have beet the sensation of the last month of 'h league race. The immediate reaction in Spain t news of fighting between Polish anGerman troops was that the natiot would maintain the strictest neutral jty Newspapers carried editorial urging that Spain take all necessar; steps to remain neutral In the con fllct. France Enters With Full Force Paris, Sept. 4?Fraiiffc opened land, sea and ale "operations" today ugalust Geniumy. Tho war mlnlHtry announced the nation's full forces went Into action In u campaign to relieve German presHure on France's eastern ally. Poland. On the western front, It was reported In corridors of the chamber of deputies, a French land offensive was concentrated In tho Belfort region where the Burgundy gate cuts across tho Khlne Into the relch, Just north of the three-cornered border between France, Switzerland and Germany. The Burgundy gate Is a valley running northwest between the Vosges mountains and tho Alps into Gor inany's Blac k forest. Details of any planned attack to crack Germany's vaunted "westwall fortifications across from France's Maglnot line wore withheld. The alrforce was understood to hi cooperating with land forces, while the fleet held battle positions in the western Mediterranean. Authorities started emptying hospl tabs for military use. The first night of France's state of war with Ger many had passed without word on the firing of u shot. The communique came as the firs Indication that France's g.UUU.OOU-niar military machine had gone Into ac tlon. Shortly before 11 a. m.. French heavy bombers flew low over the cap Ital. heading eastward toward the German Frontier. The weather, dismal during Sun day's final flurry of ultimatums, and declarations turned favorable to mill tary operations this morning. The sun broke through and dried out the terrain for the movement to ward the Rhine frontier. The official Journal published a short notice which was sent to the foreign powers" yesterday in con for mlty with a Hague convention recjuiing notice of the opening of hostilities. Following the aggression directed by Germany against Poland, thy notice said, in part, "a state ot war exists bet ween France and Germany from I September 3. 1039, at 5 p. m '11 a. j in . K S '1' >" Britain and France k | Join With Poland Loudon. Sepi t ?Great Britain and France were joined with Poland today in war against Germany ? a war that within its first 21 hours saw a British merchantman sunk at sea. The British niinstry of intormation said the ship was torpedoed with 311 Ftiitcd States citizens among the more than 1.40?> persons aboard her. Victim of the torpedo was tho | Donaldson Atlantic liner Athenla which, sank about 200 miles west of tile Hebrides, off northern Scotland. , before daybreak of the second day of I warfare between Germany and Brit! a in. I i:n.in> too. apparently was to feel fihi' might of Britain's navy as its 'i fit si t.isr.. el warfare with the nation wlic-'- s<'.ipower was overwhelming in XVor! I War - > yours ago I"ho |l:"itlsh home fleet was in full ; i.iii and sis ships at their 1 ; stations, evidently to enforce a blot kado of Germany 1; Briti-h admiralty for control of < on' tr.it'.1:1 ! atid s.-arches of -hips indicato,| |t: train's b;o? kade of Germany was jjit.) -orce quit k!> following 'he .i> ? .a; a ion t>f Prime Minister ( hamhefla.n \'-sterd.?> tha' a state ot war ,x .. rw . ti Britain ami German> ' 1'he -ta'e of war began at 11 a. m , , ni KST i. w hen a British xi 11i1 inaiutn to Germanx to call her arnr.es ,u- of Poland expired without an ans ' w.r from Berlin Se\en hours later a similar Frencfc 1 ul>imat um to Germany expired Thus Biitain and France were join '* cd again as they were in 11*14. rbh "'.tunc ill fulfillment of their pledges tc ! help Pol a ml defend her Independence 'l ' Plans, carefully made against th< ' fateful day that Chamberlain sab J could tie no longer avoided. wen rushed into force ^ I Bowling greens established It ' Southamton. England, in 1S>29 an 1- still in use. 9. An average of 7.000 people a da; . have received raise increases In Kng y I land this year A Saxon pocket sundial was dug ui in Canterbury, England. i Fire Towerman Is Winner in Contest Tim sixty-two men who man South Carolina forest fire towers do not have lonely Jobs far away from their fam Hies a a do the towermen In the high mountains of the far west. Each of the South Carolina towermen has a ten acre area which Is fenced and upon which he farina during'such portion of the ,year when he 1b not on duty on the tower. Each year the i State Commission of Forestry gives a prize to the towerman who has done the most outstanding work In the upkeep of the tower, the towermau's residence, the barn and" the tower grounds. The winning tower during the past year was the Corbln tower which Is located in upper Greenville County right on the North Carolina liua. It may be reached by turning off the Greenville-Brevard Highway and many visitors drive to this high point to visit the towerman. The tower Is 3020 feet above soalevel. During one month there were visitors from 28 states and the greatest number of | visitors during any one month was 911. Walter Wfttzl Is the towerman on duty and he reports fires occurring In South Carolina to the personnel of the South Carolina Forest Service, and j those occurring In North Carolina are I reported to the North Carolina Division of Fire Control of the Department of Conservation. The coldest weather experienced on the tower was on December 1, 1.937 when the ternpperature was one degree below zero. I'sually 50 per cent of the visitors are from South Carolina, 25 per cent are from North Carolina and 25 per cenC are from other States. Some of the visitors have been from China, England, Guatemala, Canada j.nil Puerto Rico. One of the most distinguished visitors was the son of scientist Einstein who visited the lower during the autumn of 1938. The towerman records a tremendous amount of data; number of visitors, weather conditions, etc., and during his spare time developed many ingenious adjuncts to the instrument he uses to locate woods fires. Among the activities of the towerman in addition to his fire detection duties were the raising of 18 bushels of Irish potatoes on three-quarters of an acre. He also raised cabbages, beans, okra, carrots, beets, peas, corn, tomatoes, turnip greens and cucumbers. He canned 30 quarts of vegetables and set out 30 ever-green trees and shrubs, principally pines and cedars. He planted rye in his garden in order to have winter coverage and also raised a 300 pound hog. butchered it and smoked tlit* meat. During the year he constructed a chicken pen. fenced the chicken yard and raised 21 chickens. He built a small shed, hauled earth and rock to improve the tower grounds painted the tower and repuitied the windows. He (lug a cellar under the house as a storage place for vegetables. This cellar was dug by hand, and all of the dirt was moved from under the hou>e by hand using buckets and was spread around the house to improve I tin- appearance. During the previous year he wired the houso and being far removed from a power line he installed a wind-charger to provide current for his radio and lights. Naturally the hog had to have a pen and the ! towerman built a hog pen. Towerman Watzl was awarded first j prize for his activities which were c.it tied on under adverse conditions, particularly his farming which was a rocky mountain top, and no livestock was available to assist him. All farming labor was done by means of hand tools. Just between times Mr t Watzl kept up the twisting mountain road which connects his home with the outside world, and also maintain t ed the telephone system by which he reports forest Tiros to the fire sup - presshm forces and landowners in *1 North Carolina and South Carolina "5} The Atktns tower n?-ar the town ol Atkins in 1 c-e County is manned b> ? I Frank Hill and this tower won second II prize in the (ontest. The towermar - planted two apple trees, one peat tree, three grape vines, two dogwoodt and an abundance of flowers, holly \ and approximately 100 evergreer shrubs. f The towerman maintained the towei " building, grounds In excellent shape and on his ten acre subsistence farrr [> has one cow, TO chickens, two hog! a it it two pigs. "e raised 75 bushels of corn lust year as well ua eubbages, tomatoes, onlona, beana. peas, okru, turulps, cucumbers, 20 buabela of aweel potatoes, Irlab potatoea and winter turnipa In aufficienl quantity to feed hia family, which conalats of bla wife and four email children. In addition they canned 20 quarts of vegetables. Mr. il111 drained a low spot in hie field by digging a ditch to a nearby canal and planted many roeebushee around hie home. Mr. Hill ie to be complimented on hie excellent work both on the tower and in the matter of maintaining hie subsistence farm. Close competitors In last year's competition were R. R. McTeer, Adams Run tower, in Charleston County; J. M. Gettys, Camden tower in Kershaw County; J. K. Sml^h, Scotia tower in Hampton Coupiy; Abner Gilstrap, Sassafras Mountain tower at the highest point in South Carolina In Pickens County; R. M. McDonald at the Lane tower in Williams burg County; Clyde Harley at the Harnwell tower near the town of Harnwell and Floyd Hucks at the Rrltton's Neck tower in Marion County. The competitors foi the present year will be Judged sometime after September 1st and at a later date the prize winners will be announced. The S. C. Forest Service towerman subsistence farms are indicative of what farmers can do on small areas in the way of providing a living for their families. In many cases the success of the towerman's farms can be attributed to the advice and assistance re| ceived by them from the county agricultural agents and District Foresters of the S. C. Forest Service. A high official said' in Washington Thursday, that he believed that the federal government should not do any finajicing during^ September beeatrse of the existing European war. General News Notes James Clay, Shelby, N. C., youth, waa sentenced to serve tlve ?,lays ip Juil on a charge of violating the quar-' amine against infantile paralysis. l)r. Z. P. Mitchell suid he hatj ordered Clay quarantined for 2 after a case of the malady developed In a Patterson Spring* 'home where the youth had been visiting. On several occasions, he testified, Clay left his quarters and possibly exposed other persons to the disease. Sheriff Fred Patterson, of Sllverton, Colo., escorted two CIO union leaders out of town Tuesday night after 200 men broke up a miners' strike meeting. After they left, the 118 miners at the meeting voted to dissolve the CIO local, set up an independent union and end the strike, they had waged against the Shenandoah Dives gold and silver mine for seven weeks. They had demanded a reduction in hours. | Governor Clyde R. Hoey, o{ North Carolina, says he will proclaitn the last Thursday in November as ! Thanksgiving day in North Carolina and added that reasons advanced for the suggested change to a date a week earlier "are not impressive." I "After mature consideration, I have decided it would be unwise to change the date for Thanksgiving day," Governor Hoey said. Allen Shelton, 22, of Marseilles, 111., is being hailed as a hero for his brave but futile attempt to save two young J men and two young women trapped in an automobile which burst into flames after sideswiping his own car| on a highway east of Marseilles,' Thursday. Shelton was seriously burned while trying to save the four, occupants of the burning auto and' was taken to a hospital at Ottawa.' Burned to death when trapped in the' flaming machine were Miss Dorothy j i Brogan, 19; Miss Sue Klmak, 17; MTChaei Grutka, ?2; -&n?l John Titra, I Jr., 22, all of Joliet. ? ? . Dierf In Athens, Ga. 1 R. N. McLeod, formerly of Sumter ^ ' county, died suddenly early Monday morning, August 28, in Athens, Ga., B where he had made his home for a B number of years. He is survived by his widow, the ' former Miss Mamie Warren, Sumter; I j one son, Norman; a brother, D. C. j McLeod, of Tampa, Fla.; and a sister, : Miss Ethel McLeod, of Wysacky, in fl Lee county. Funeral services were conducted at Athens, Tuesday afternoon, at 5 o'clock.?Bishopville Messenger. 1 Camden TheatrP FRIDAY, SEPT. g Robert Montgomery a:ul Ann Sothern In > "MAISIE" >oooe?< ?<?opo?^?oop#oidoo< SATURDAY, SEPT. 9. Stuart Erwin anil Gloria Stuart iu "IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU" SATURDAY NIGHT~10;30 Anna Mae Wong and J. Carrol Naish In "ISLAND OF LOST MEN" >?ooooooooooo+oooo+ixnxn MONDAY find TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 11?12 Robert Donat with the lovely new Star, Greer Garaon, In "COODBY MR. 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