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All Joined In singing the project song for the month, "Joy to The World." Then the roll was called and the minutes of the previous meeting read by the sec' > retary. Scripture for the afternoon was read by Miss Jaunlta Watklns, after which all members Joined In repeating the Lord's prayer. The meeting was then turned over to Miss Fewell* .jvhoso subject for the month was "milk ' She made a very interesting talk on milk and Its care. She told us how we should keep the cow's stall clean and free from odor If clean and wholesome milk Is produced. Hefore each milking we should brush the cows sides good, wash and thoroly dry the udder. After milking wo should cool the milk as soon as possible to keep down harmful bacteria . us they develop rapidly In warm places. We should always milk with clean, dry hands. Never milk with wet ones. This tlltly practice Is tho perfect source 'OTTnilk contamination. After the discussion on milk Miss Fewell gave each member a very Interesting booklet "The Family Dairy Cow." The meeting was then turned over to the hostesses, Mrs. S. P. Watkins and Jaunlta Watklns. While refreshments were being prepared two interesting contests on "Christmas'" were enjoyed. Thoso winning prizes wore Mrs. Ruth Jones Parker, Miss J Fewell and Miss Elizabeth Munn. Af-| ter delicious refreshments were served the meeting adjourned to meet ( next time Jointly with the Sunday I school classes and have a Christmas j tree. On December 1, the TlmfOd club sponsored "Jack Tucker and His! Sandy Mountain Boys." Due'to rain| the crowd was not as large as expect-J ed. Those present enjoyed a delight-: ful evening oV entertainment. Four of the Timrod club members attended the county council meeting on November 11, at the Mt. Zoin duo: house. Four of our members rooelv certificates-for their club- work him.I-. one received a diploma. Met With Mrs. Smyrl The DeKalb Home Demonstration club met at the home of Mrs. O. J. Smyrl on December 1- for theli annual Christmas social. 1 ho lovely setting added to the other details, made this an enjoyable social meeting. Many good ideas for using evergreens and holly were combined to give a desirable holiday effect. Tho meeting was called fo order by the president. Mrs. C. E. Ogburn. -Joy to The World" was sung, after which Mrs. L. J Jordan conducted a ver> appropriate Christmas devotional ' The minutes of the last- meeting were read h> the secretary members answered to the roll call. A short business session was held The club voted to buy Christmas seals. The president then read her Christmas message, in which she- c.i.irn ou, minds to the ;.?< t !h.?t w.- >..oii..l t?. very happy that war clouds are not hovering over us and *:i.r i ...d thank Cod for the g:f' <> ' .?nd for our conn11 > and n- -'e\ ::\no M, s C It Hu.-b. e i h..: man of music and re. ron: i. a !: f.'-l us In playing game-' and ko:rc?, = . after which site git v.- present a gift from the !>. a If.tu d-fOt ated Christmas tree. i nrj-'inas carols were SI111U. Mrs. Smyrl ?w.-d fruit and candy. A souvenir wo- gix.n each one piesent. The n. x' meeting will be held at the home <>?' Mrs E H. Ixirlck In J a nuarjf. Hjulmar Pr-ocope, Finnish minister to tho United States, was asked the other day what he though about re ports that his countrymen had trap pod 20.000 Russian troops. He replied: "What are wo going to do with 20.00< Russians?" The Agriculture department's flna crop report for the season shows tha farm production during 1939 wa* near ly four per cent better than the as Lerage of the 1932-33 "pre-drought per iod," despite a considerably imalle acreage harvest. COMMENT* ON MEN AND THINGS (B. Spectator) Happ; New Year I May It brtnf ? -?* h ?t y?u P#*c? 'n I your heart* and many durable satisfact ions. SpadU ? Kroots tbo u?.*W year resolved to " y?11 what hu, thinks with cando The editors who i use Spuctutor are m.*n who are not, afraid of the truth. !n our Jjtate <?ro( ! too many tlmwsorv- *. men who are, all thing to all''wan for their own | political or persona! sain. I have no personal axe In this r<?lumn. When* twin1 I feel a special j^.;rsonal Interest I sign my name. Bpei .Kor la not an organ; It Is an Indep, mlent column and I re-dedlcate it t?< >ou and to our State. We may not agree, * )>ut between honeat men differences i?i<- pormlaslhie without reaentment. 1940 ia here The hooka <?f 1939 are closed; the record Is made, now lot's go forward. Spilled milk Is good for nothing; worry (doesn't, help. Ask yourself "Can iNt^o anything to make conditions better?" If so, do it by ull asaaoa. But U 1W9 Is Muiutytfeh'M you can't correct, why not start 1940 with your head up and your spirits buoyant. Merchants "take stock" to know Just how things have gone with tin*in. Let us take stock of ourselves. How's your health?, by the way? Are you eating or drinking Imprudently? I take notice occasionally of "new gasolines", higher compression motors?and all that. We don't live In the same condition as our fathers, and grandfathers and our well-being depends In large measure on our physical vigor and mental alertness. The men of a former generation walked; we ride. They used their legs and exercised their bodies; we sit under a wheel and suck cigarettes, cigars or pipes. The older generation may have drunk liquors, but worked hard and lived In cold and heat, working off?In some degree?the effect of tobacco and liquor. Hut we take no exercise and expect a \yeak, flabby body to overcome all the strain we ask of it. A nation on wheels are we, truly, but a nation of men losing the snap of a former day. 1940 might well mark a time of personal physical and mental stock-taking. Simple diet, reasonable physical exercise, emotional and intellectual calm. Instead of excessive movie exhlleratlon. We cannot keep ourselves tense all the time and expect to live the peaceful, tranquil life of our fathers and motheYs. John N. Garner of Texas, Vice-President of the United States, announces his candlcacy for the presidency. The announcement has a manly ring and savors of tfiat sort of Americanism that is refreshing and carries us back to the good old days when we didn't have so many wise-acres and smartalecks strutting about and looking important. The presidency does not belong to Mr. Roosevelt or Mr Farley, or Mr. McNtrtt?or anybody els**.--Nov-4#-4fc t to be bundled.- about by the long-haired squirts who have cauglit Mr. Roosevelts ear and made a game of great national concerns. Spectator does not declare himself on the Garner wagon, or on any o Iter wagon. He isn't looking for a job; 'nor does lie wish to appear as a gnat political figure; he does declare that he Is ready to do his part to defeat ! any of the -royal favorites who may aspire to the presidency. Ali 1 ask of Mr Garner is that be declare his purpost to restore a government of law, fair law, in the place oi this personal rule whit h ha.- filled Hie nation with 1 uu, ,iia; \ .iii,| which is converting us in 11 ,i i..t i i >n ,- * opbants. bang, ,{.'p. ml.and weaklings. M - nis tiS lie a plain tn.m. and h>>.\ ?i- need a plain man ,:i . inor. ju-t a plain man of hardo ,:i? :i>, native honesty and aiiiit' rward purpose to re-oatab* i.- , p, a< and confidence and to let i . i ative energies of the people : :.d lull scope. >* .Warly every paper does a bit or editorial crowing once in a blue moon, so Spectator wishes to strut hi* stuff by way of calling attention to his pre* ; diction in September that cotton would ' advance. The reasons given then are valid today. Cotton Is advancing bej cause the British and French must buy for the shortest and best protect led route. Unfortunately the most ' "needy" farmers have sold their cot ton at prices around eight cents. By j the same token, it is true, hogs ami j corn should advance?but when. eh. ' j Not till I sell my hogs I The old-time political orator woult " have cussed out Wall Street and thi Republicans for this condition, bu alas! We Democrats are In powei ^ and we have curbed Wall Street llki Samson shorn of his locks. 1 t Only one competent man In a na <? tlon of a hundred and thirty milliort *. people! That Is appalling. Yale urn *- Harvard, Johna Hopklna and a hui r dr?d other unlveraltiea taavfe labor# In vain, and the thousand college ' - *" * ' f which stuml on ?very 'bill--they, too, have (ailed us woefully. It la , even i worse than that: ? ten thousand high tchooU have disappointed the' Just ipectatlons of the uxpaytty. In* tod, the free processes o^(T$n)ota?cy 'V? not trained a inun capable of -< 'vlng aa President . ao thul Mr. i: mevelt may retire to the ease and < iw>yment of hia magnificent uuceau.i mansion on the great eatate of In another. No nation should insist that one shall wear himself out In |iuservice. After all, Mr. Roose* v?-. however robust, cannot live forcv? i no we might aa well lay the bin u* i' on lome one else next year Willi* Vfr. Koosevelt la still vigorous ho i hai if the new man should fail mlscranijr we could call Mr. Roosevelt back u? redeem the nation. A din'ingulshed man of our state recently ngld that the State should spend iiioi* on the schools. Why? Why. What hope have we in the schools If up to now they hove not produced i wo men capable of serving as Presidentt" I ' % i The sober minded of the country must be sick and tired, utterly disgusted. at the helping of a group on the public payroll who are talking all the time about drafting Mr. Roosevelt for a third term. Are we so com^ pletely without brains In the Democratic Party that We must renounce a traditional policy'in order to establish a high and not|la order of bootlickers? The presidency Is not necessarily dependent on any one man and it should be conferred on some capable man not now connected with the National Administration. 1 readily conc ede that there, arc able men-1 -In the administration and do not make any point against them except that the presidency is the nation's commission and a nomination is a Party's ( call. In neither case should we have heirs to. jioinlnations. or to the presidency. For that reuson I should like to eliminate every man now holding' office by appointment of Mr. Roosevelt. The Clarendon ladies showed what could be done with sweet potatoes. They took the humble yam and served it In thirteen dishes, ranging from the old-time pone of the plantation "Maumas", "Mammies" and "Aunties" to the souffle with raisins and nuts. Potato bread and sweet potato chips were "ire w to me, low-countryman though I be and raised on Raters, specially the big. syrupy Rliew.s . which 1 used to pull from the pan under the ^stove,'1 and Custard pie. You c&n'r delights your palate more wholesomely than with potato pie. Of coui^se the candied slices of sweet potato can make old men have visions and young men dream dreams, but that souffle!?Boy howdy. The ladies made a doughnut of the iodined apples of the earth (as the French call potatoes) and good it was. Fried slices are old friends of mine and were frequently on my j J] mother's table. A man skilled In the art of barbecuing pigs was there with the tefapthig dish. In such quantity as made me think of what I used to read of the great meat dishes in the baronial halls of old England?in the spacious times when men lived by the strength and skill of stout arms and after riding horseback all day could eat great platters of beef. Men were men in those days, buddy, not just mild imitations, sucking a little orahge juice and thinking that nourishment for a vigorous body. I saw a couple of my friends of well proved ability at the table. If those ^birds had been built with refrigerator features I Bhould have though they were storing food for the whole winter. I took on a cargo of tater delicacies myself. Say, how would a mixture of potato and banana taste? Henry J. Ratcliffe Dead Henry Joseph Ratcliffe, tlfty-one, tlied suddenly at his home near Bishopvllle, Monday, December 4. Funeral services were conducted at Concord church Tuesday afternoon, December 5, by Rev. J. T Littlejohn. f He is survived by his wife, Mary E. Ratcliffe and five children, Hebron Ratcliffe, Conway; Mrs. J. A. Catoe, Charleston; Thomas, Ralph and Doris Ratcliffe, all of Bishopville. ?r Bishopvllle Messenger. * Watch the date on your label. i ' -L Kershaw 8tudenta Home The following college students were at their homes in Kershaw for the holidays: Miss Josephine Hough, Miss Doris DulTie, Columbia college; Miss Dorothy McDowell, St. Mary's College, Raleigh; B. M. Ellison, Jr., and Bob Lendenzweig, The Citadel; Miss Abbie Sue Stokes; Coker; Miss Estalyn Croxton, Miss Jessie Lee Mobley, Limestone; Miss Carolyn Perry, Miss Carolyn Croxton, Robert Gregory, Reece Truesdale, Uuniversity of South Carolina; Leroy Croxton, Wake Forest; Miss Lois Mae Turner, Wingate Junior college; O. H. McKagen, Edwin McDowell, Welton Catoe, Melvin Gay, ClemBon; Billy Punderburk, Lewis Croxton, Robert Lewis Mobley, Furman; Miss Mildred Gardner, Miss Dorothy Neal, Miss Margaret Mackey, Doris Taylor, Miss Mary Sowell, Miss Doris Faulkenberry, Miss Emily Jones, Winthrop; Bill Clyburn, Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Va.; Morris (Knoxie) Jones, Bill Fletcher, Hugh Floyd, of Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Qa.; Miss Cornelia Dye Truesdale, Quee.isChicora college, Charlotte, N. C.; and Miss Vera Lee Blackmon, of the Woman's College of Furman University. The Estonian steamer Uko was sunk last Tuesday in the North sea by a ^German plane. The crew of fourteen passengers was taken to Copenhagen Wednesday by a Swedish steamer. * ,i , " Kershaw Teachers Home The following teachers have arrived at Kershaw from various points to spend the holidays at home: Miss Lillian Trusedale, of Marion; Miss Mary W. Davis, of Georgetown; Miss Annie Ruth Davis, of West Columbia; Miss Dorothy Truesdale, of Clio; Miss June Blackmon, of Gresnvillo; Miss Charlotte Shaw, of Mt. Ulla, N. C.; Miss Verda Mobley of Heath Springs; Miss Blanche Culvern, of Bishopville; Miss Emily Magill, of Bishopville; Miss Margaret Floyd, of Great Falls; Miss Nancy Tompkins, of Green Sea; Miss Ruth Parker, of Hoboken, Ga.; Miss Copnie Catoe, of Walhalla; Miss Edith Brasington, of Rock Hill; Stewart Clyburn, of Great Falls; and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Truesdale of Mt. Ulla, N. C. NOTICE The annual 'meeting of the shareholders of The First National Bank of Camden, Camden, 8. C., will be at four o'clock Tuesday afternoon, January 9, 1940, in the Directors room or The FirBt National Bank of Camden, Camden, S. C. S. W. VanLANDINGHAM, 39-41 Cashier. NOTICE The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Catnden Loan & Realty Co. will be dield at five Ojclock Tuesday afternoon, Jtwuary 9, 1940, in the Directors room of The First National Bank of Camden, Camden, s c. S. W. VanLANDINGHAM, 39-41 Treasurer. THANKS for YOUR Patronage 1 We appreciate it and propiise continued SATISFACTORY SERVICE and FAIR PRICES for same during the months to come. f Remember we operate TWO FIRST-RATE DRUG STORES & 1 1 ' ' " 1 11 ? " I 11 I I . Zemp's Drug Store City Drug Company / W. ROBIN ZEMP, SIDNEY T. ZEMP, ' Broad Street , * DeKalb Street PHONE 30 ~ PHONE 130 I BOTH PRESCRIPTION STORES . . d - ' I ll II II : b I ? ? ^aamuiuii .a ... . a gB D g ,,| New Year's Dance j HOBKIRK INN I Saturday, December 30th. " to ? J' -j. . ?. L/r ~ | Favors?Noisemakers J ; ;4 _L_ Sunrise * Breakfast Served After Midnight I : Script $1.50 '1 ReTOrv?tiotWi|:r^ IW