Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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11a Follows Mother Country SoptT 10.?Canada today u.clai-?d war on Germany. p. m. the office of the Prime l(a, kwiule King sent a copy iul trillion of the Canadian containing this Infori he Canadian Proas, la ration of war la effective ifpiember 10?today, inatla followed Great Britv,.t.k to the day in going to |* Germany. ,nt last night approved the diet's course in following cilon. , of .tho war proclamation veil luter by the cabinet and morning It was cabled to or the signature of King in his capacity as king of ier dominions. New Zealand alia, preceded Canada . in art ions, and South Africa t.n off relations with Geras considered automatically ar with the Nazis upon Englaration. the first time that Canada ed war. In 1914 the Cana nment merely published the ar declaration in the Ca?aproclamatlon read in part: by and wtth the advice of council for Canada, we have nir approval of the Issuing jchimatlon In the Canada clarlng that a state of war Jerman relch" exists and has a dominion of Canada as 10th day of September. herefore, we do hereby deproclaim that a state of war German relch exists and has our dominion of Canada as 10th day of September, iclamation was Issued in the iinlster of Justice Ernest La1 over the printed signature Minister W. L. Mackenzie iclamation was issued under of Lord Tweedsmulr, goveror General of Canada, in the name (King George. fcimo Minister Mackenzie King is ipeeted to make a statement In the of commons tomorrow dealing Ith detailed arrangements f(?r pro>cutlng Canada's eftd of the conflict. irs. blanche allen roger8 dies at home of daughter Rembert, Sept. 11.?Mrs. Blanche illen Rogers, widow of the late T. M. toger.s, died at the home of her auchter, Mrs. Pearl Stokes, In the 'isgah neighborhood, of a heart atack last Tuesday night. Mrs. Ro;ers was 68 years old and had spent ho greater part of her life in this omnumity and leaves a host of relates and friends. It-sides Mrs. Stokes she is survivd hv Mrs. Leon Stuckey, of Remert; Mrs. L. A. White, of Dalzell; Irs. Alec Livingston, of North; Mrs. #Roy Rogers, of Rembert; Cecil Roers. of Rishopville and Mrs. Carl Baer. of Rembert; eighteen grand-chllron a:.<l one great grandson, also )ur sisters. Mrs. Alice Ensminger, of olumbia: Mrs. Alida McLeod, of emiM-ri, Mrs. Bertha Hutchinson, of luincy. Florida, and Mrs. Theo Mcaa, of Columbia. Etinoral services were conducted by er pas*<.r, Rev. J. T. Llttlejohn, of lUhopviile, at 5 o'clock Wednesday fternoon. rotective association doing good work in this county The work of the Kershaw County 'ores: Protective Association lnI'uJl-s t o- protection of all forest inds m . liin tho boundaries of Kerhaw k< ",!Mty outside of Incorporated ?i's The total land area of the oumy ;s 429,440 acres?of this area T1.10C acres or 63 per cent !s classed s * Oud.and*. Murine the past year ending June lir'.'.v ;i total of 181 fires burned TP' 2>*l 4 acres of woodland in the ourr.y c r .98 of one per cent of the J'ai w -.odland area of the county, lit a . crage burned per fire was 14.8. bur;: g tho past year we had a total ' ?3.". volunteers In suppressing fires.; ^ greatly appreciate the support lT?n as by the landowners In the mnuy during the past Are Beason ?d hope to get th,elr support In the niure. ?aya W. C. Perry, Kershaw ouruy Ranger. British airplanes laid down another l4rri?gt of propaganda leaflet* over xrmany Tuesday and the <> British sent another German - freighter 0 the bottom. The ministry of laonn&tion disclosed that a wcond 1JKbt of British planet wat imade r,er German territory to tell the Qerpeople that the war Is not against Jem but agslnet their Natl leaderMot a single German plane tried 10 interfere, the Brltlah tald. Nobody's Business Written for The Chroulele by o ? McUee, Copyright. mg. TO THE FAIR BY AIR ..There Is nothing new to tell uboul* flying. Everybody (or ueurly lVt?rybotl> ) 1? flying places tiow-a-duys. lea us Halo up In the clouds us li is on Hm ground . . in a ear or oil u iruln or Just walking to and fro. Hut wo don't always fool that a way when wo a.e being Jolated abput by the wind while cruising along a mile or so above terra (iriua. . ..It might be well for me to explain, in the beginning, that I live in Anderson, B. C., and thai 1 am a married mau and have one wife and two children, also a sou-in-law. Our firm gave (ourselves and) its employees a week's vacation. We had only a few days to rest up in; we chose to go to the New York World's Fair by plane so's we could get back before we overdrew our time aud our bank account, but we failed in both of these efforts. ..We chartered a 5-passenger (local) Beechcraft plane for this trip, aud likewise used the owner of the said plane, Lieut. Howard S. Behr, as our pilot, and when it comes to handling a plane under any and all conditions, Lieut. Behr knows his air current. We left home Monday morning at 6:30 The weather was bad, the celling was low, the ground was wet, and we were scared. But we took off Just the same. We had to fly so low for the first 30 or 40 miles I am sure that we got some pinetops and oak leaves In our running gear. ..We found it necessary to fly higher, so we drove thru the clouds and tried it for 30 miles more, but we knew we couldn't make a trip like that, so we turned back, and finally found a hole in the clouds about the size of a battleship, and we "drove" into it like a rat dives into a crack in the floor, and we landed safely back home, and there we waited for Old Man Weather to change, which "he" did in 3 hours. We took off the second time and flew low for about 200 miles . . . and then we ran into better flying conditions. We passed thru thunder-heads and had we cared to do so, we could have reached out our hands most any time and picked up a bolt of lightning. We Just ambled along at about 175 m. p. h. till we landed-aX Greensboro, N, C, There we gassed up for the next Jump. We also took on a sandwich and a bottle of soda pop. .. On leaving Greensboro, we flew at about 8,000 feet elevation. It was cool and comfortable,"apd we soon forgot that we were Just common, ordinary poorfolks; that might have been caused by the realization that we were "looking down" on nearly everybody, but nothing better could be expected of us as we were up in the air. For beauty and industrial activity, surely the Piedmont Belt leads the world: and to make things look Just right, all of our smokestacks were smoking. Our world was at work, CIO notwithstanding. . .1 sat by the pilot. Up to now I had not noticed all of those gadgets and things on his dash. Then I began to worry; he kept himself busy pushing this lever and pulling that lever: turning this wheel to the left and that wheel to the right: lifting one handje and mashing down another handle: pressing one button and fumbling with another button, et cetera. I soon became terribly frightened because I was afraid that the pilot would touch the wrong thing, and down we'd go, but he knew what he was doing and I didn't know. ..We stopped In Baltimore to say "Howdy do" to some friends, but we were soon off again. I wasn't so comfortable while sailing along over Chesapeake Bay, 'cause our plane didn't have any bateaus swinging under It. While passing over large towns like Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City, we bad to take many, many bumps. They say that these bumps are caused from hot air currents coming up from the cities, and I suppose the hot air in question is caused by (ft) politicians, (b), lnsuranqe agents, (c) real estate agents, (d) and wholesale and retail merchants doing the "group" advertising ^tpnts. ..After a ride of 4 hours and 51 minutes, we landed near the World's Fair grounds .... at Flushing Field, We had traveled out of course considerably on purpose, and thus had made about an 800-mile trip. We parked plane, took a subway to New -York, arriving there in time for early dinner. We didn't go to the Fair the afternoon we arrived, but took In shows, etc. We went to one 26-cept movie and vaudeville and band show for 88 cents. We couldn't get a seat on, the first floor, so we kept climbing peat the first and second bsloony and landed at fee third balcony and eat down behind some poets that would square 80 inches. We had to look straight down on top of the show. C^is'ng [| Around j with i j jt "Skipper" | This is worth u chuckle. A sign j on the highway near Columbia "Air; Conditioned Chicken and Steaka." t * Lest we forget?a few words of tribute to a doparted friend?Isaac Kngllsh. Uncle Ike, a barber tor over a half century was likc<l by all who knew him, white and colored. He was a power for good amongat the people of hia race. We cannot atreaa aa the emphasis of the city popa revialng the xoniug ordinance to put a atop to the erec-! Hon of tin and wood shacks in tho fire zone. The erection of one of the cheap-looking bulldlnga on Broad street adjacent to the post office area provoked a storm of comment last week. Investigation disclosed the police were helpless to halt the building operations because the fire chief had granted permission for the erection of the shack; aud the fire chief said the construction was according to the city provisions and he was without power to override the ordinance. ? Unless something definite is done to provide stricter zoning requirements, Camden is going to be littered with tin shacks. Had a letter from Mayor McCorkle from down Georgia way, and also a page from a newspaper In the bailiwick the mayor is visiting in. The popular executive never passes up an opportunity to plug for Camden. , Who will be queeii of the cotton festival? That question will not be answered until the day of the festival when the lucky young lady who is chosen for her poise, personality and charm will appear in the big parade and later hold court at the coronation ball. Well, all we can say Is that we do not know any more than the alley cat who is to be the fortunate miss, but we 'are certain whoever is named, will be a fitting representative for our fine city. , * The grid experts and brain trusters are back with us after spending sev * oral week.*. up near Tuxethn. \ C . ami from now i>ii until the horses take* the spotlight of tlie local .sport drama, there will ho the umiuI daily huddle over the t-eoond table from the front in Slick Zemp's drug store It won't be long now Exactly one week f t'otu today and the Bulldog* will tangle with the Florence Orphans at Zemp stadium. As to the outcome of }hi.s game, put it down in the win column for Camden. Received a tine letter from Harry 1). Klrkover, who says he will be back in Camden about November 1. * A national motoring club writes to ask our opinion as to what effect the European war will have on the 19391940 tourist season In tile midsouth and south. There are two eventualities. There is no Question but that the war will keep the American tourist on American soli and If he must travel and have?h^s winter of recreation and sport, he>111 take It In the good old U. A. ,'On the other hand there Is , the question of money. If the war, causes people to tighten up on their purse strings, the resort sections will suffer. Otherwise we can look for a) big season. In a few weeks Camden streets will look different, with the new yellow traffic lines and yellow ami t>lack parking signs. All of the old homemade black and white signs are to be i replaced by metal affairs designed and approved by the national safety council. The new traffic lights at Itutledge and Broad streets were placed In operation last week. The standards are to be painted in a regular traffic yellow which makeB them stand out against the store fronts. | The National Safety Council, after extensive research on color combinal tions for effectiveness In traffic control, found that black on yellow stands out over any other combination of colors. ! ?. By the way, who boasts of the largest family in Kershaw county?or in the state of South Carolina? Better take stock folks, and find out how many there are In the family brood. The Cotton Festival committee will offer a purse of silver coins to the largest family attending the festival. Registration may be made at the ^Chamber of Commerce anytime up to festival day. - \ When we speak of "the - largest family," we do not mean that the roster Include grandpappy and grandma, Uncle Sim or Aunt Mln, CoubIu Jake and Jennie and the family dog and cat. In plain IChglish It will mean "Pa, Ma and the Immediate children." Milt Smith of The Klrkwood, may be down here sometime In the next few weeks. We Imagine Milt has a yen to scan the new gt*eens on the Klrkwood golf course. Camden will draw a lot of fine publicity from the visit here next Sunday of the South Carolina flyers club. The stato airmen Intend to organize a state unit at the meeting here. Some big-wigs In aviation circles will be present from Washington, D. C. The Camden meeting will be' exploited tn words and pictures In tho aviation mags. "Patriotic" shoes made of whale skin, are being worn In Japan. William M. Weit Dead. William Matthew West. 81, died at his home Monday night after an illneaa of bIx years. He was a retired merchant and had been making nia home in Camden for forty-threo years. He was born in Kershaw county, the son of W. J. West and Mrs. Ferma Tolbert West. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Alice West; three sons, Joe West, Kirby West and Henry West, all of Camden; five daughters, Mrs. Ktta Montgomery, Mrs. Sallie Sanders, Mrs. Mae Boyce and Mrs. Beulah Thomas, all of Camden and Mrs. Tira Robinson of CaBsatt; and one brother, R. W. West, of Rock Hill. Funeral services were held at four o'clock Tuesday afternoon at Hermitage Baptist church, conducted by Dr. A. 8. Ix)ckee. Interment was in the church cemetery. Letters carried by airplane in the United Kingdom totaled 118,760,000 in. the last year. r When vou buy a Cole, you arc pelting the lowest cost heat in America due to the savings you will make on fuel. Cole heaters do create a very definite and guaran* teed fuel economy. In the first place the Hot Blast feature effects perfect combustion. In addition, a Cole remains air-tight as long as used because it's made without the use of bolts, rivets, cement or putty. For that reason it will hold fire from 24 to 36 hours, and fuel waste is eliminated. Millions of Cole heaters are now in use. Millions of owners are saving money through Cole economy. Why not make your next heater a Cole? HOME FURNISHING COMPANY Phone 46. ?? | IJLMILUJ??? SAVE MQNEY ... on Good Uted Chevrolet*, Ford V-IFs, Plymouth*, Oldsmoblles, Lincoln-Zephyrs, Pont lacs, Dodges, Bulcks and many models off other makes. See us today I I Geta7$atyaM~7hic&#Ziied I ANNUAL USED OAR CLEARANCE SALE (STEP UP TO A FORDV-8 It costs no mors to snjoy aightcyllndsr?V-typs Ford parform nco. Sao tho bargain-priced Usod Ford V?8's In our stock ? rsconditlonod for thousands of mites of economical "now car" driving. Never before have we had such a wide choice of Used Car values I Come in today and choose just the car you want. You'll find it at an unbelievably low price. Our prices are real bargain prices, set to sell these cars fast. Our Used Cars have been put in A-l condition. We really mean to "clear out" the big stock we hgve on hand. It's your opportunity to save money. Buy now! LIBERAL TERMS TRADE-INS We'd giv? you a blgfar trade-In allowance I Probably your preeant ear will cover the down payment on a Good Ueed Car. You pay the balance In eaey monthly installmente. I THESE ARE TYPICAL OF THE BARGAIN-PRICED USED CARS IN OUR STOCK j r 1929 Ford Tudor t1?C Good Shape 1935 Ford &OOA Truck 1938 Chevrolet Coach 1933 Ford tlQC Coach <|)1j9 I J 1934 For Coach Good Shape .. $L*L*D ; * / 1926 Ford Model T Touring. Bestin^^jthe State $ ID + ~t% t _ .,7 , a > REDFEARN MOTOR COMPANY I SALES SERVICE W?tt DeKalb St. Camdon, South Carolina Phono 140 ?- - - - - - . .." - --- ' ~ , .-. <> * l??