Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r"V '' ' " ?? *> ;-?r, , '- - r - U Cruising Around ^ , ; "Skipper" ' ~ J " '1 Hey ho! Kveryody! You probably noted the squib by the boss man that thin department went a bit haywire last weeK when Old Man Flu Jlokled our bronchia] tubes-enough to put us on the shelf for Ave whole days. m m * Hut the weather Is brighter, Old Man Boreas has skedaddled back to Medioine Hat and we're going to h^ve hotter going for the winter crowd from now <4tu : fi ?' f Well, put anqther log on the fire, pull up the old arm chair and let's talk baseball. ^ * s Some one stopped us last week and wanted to know how come the Chamber of Commerce rauffed up the return of the Syracuse ball club for this spring. New ain't that something? U;t me say brother that the Chamber of Commerce, the city of Camden, In fact, any grotip of Individuals In this man's town didn't muff anything po far as the Syracuse club Is concerned. The return oL the Chiefs to Camden was predicted upon Rochester of the International league locating In Slimier and Columbus of the American Association In Orangeburg. Rochester went to West Palm beach, Columbus of Hollywood and So Syracuse decided on Fort Lauderdale. And Fort Lauderdale cinched the bargain by posting fifteen hundred slmoleons as a bonus. Regarding the Birmingham Barons; a farm team of the Cincinnati Reds, Camden hqd the team in the bag, but failure to Secure suitable hotel rates for the team, sent Frank Lane, Cincy business manager scurrying to Sumter. And so the Barons will be at 'Sumter. M The next team Contacted was the Springfield. Mass., team, but It seems that the management of the Washington senators, having some kind of a working agreement with Springfield had already decided on Greenville as a training camp for the New Engenders. ~ ? . *: ?. .7::? Through the c&urtesy1 of Connie Mack, venerable'leader of the Phllly Athletics, thll department was able to contact the management, of the'wil-j iianisport club of the Pennsy league. The management was interested and wired for data. The last we ,heard was that the management was heading down this why to look over our baseball park. So that,-my fi lends, la the story of the actual transactions Involving near major league, .baseball teams coming to the Camden baseball park. This department has followed every lead in an effort to get a team. It is a matter of chagrin tljat Camden, the first city in the Palmetto state to have a double A team locate here for spring training, Is out in the cold so far this year. You know the facts, so write your own ticket. _ . Regarding the ballyhoo that has been in the press of late regarding 'he organization of a Class D league the state, let It be said that this department has not been asleep on the matter and we are bending every effort to ha^e Camden included in the loop, which contemplates Newbeiry, omiMrHon, Greenwood, Florence, Sum"*; and Camden. It is going to be a distinctly night' baseball proposition, ;v filch means an ivestment in equipment for a lighted fl??ld..?The salary limit would be $1200 per month, which' vith some other $500 to $600 for other xpens^s, would make the monthly "xpenao Item about $1800. After our ' xperience with the Palmetto league) :'st season, if anyone thinks the baseball fans In Camden and vicinity will turn in 1800 smackers each month, they Are entitled to the diamond-studded badge as a champion optimist. I have the same doubts regarding Florence and Newberry. V I * The only way, as I see It, that Cam Lubrication of pins In the closed car doors once a month makes It unnecessary to slam them, with the attendant danger of breaking the glass. - The United States Biological Suiv vey estimates that 3,0d0,000 bats fly out of the Carlsbad, Caverns, New Mexico, every night during the sum-, mer* According ' to estimates, there are 40,000 violins, cellos ,and kindred stringed Instruments in use In America. don could bo a part of thin Clang D baseball project, would be to have nemo upper bracket league team place a farm club here. And that, folks, would ho just ducky. They had Karl Frlpdull, manager of the Cumden airport, dead us a doornull luet week. We Were oven think' lug of having the Moral compuny Mix ua up a nice set piece showing a broken propeller. Bo you may understand our delight and relief when Karl called us up by phone to tell us about his trip to Florida. He admitted he was qu^te surprised when he returned to tlnd ho was dead. Some wise bird started the yarn and it spread rapidly. Karl had to make a forced landing on hi? way back from , Miami, but there was nothing about it to occasion any excitement. > ? Over one hundred planes enroute north from the Miafni meet, stopped at the local airport on Wednesday and Thursday; Again Jack Nettles was on the Job and this time he was Wishing up hot coffee and doughnuts. It is au Interesting fact that Camden was the only airport between New York and Miami where the flyers were given gratis refreshments, and! perhaps you don't think the airmen appreciated it. ? ? Outdoor sports have been more or less a minus equation the past several weeks. On several days there was a growing belief there might be a chance to stage a hockey game or an Ice carnival. In fact, one northern gent looked out of the window of his hotel room one morning and - immediately thought of his snow shoes. * I By the way, wo read in one of the 1 state papers that several gents over in the legislature would repeal the auto Inspection law. Do you suppose i they are In the junk business and . want to unload sbmo more brakelesk, lightless and otherwise useless Jolloples on the public and let them add up^the death toll on the highways? m * ? Wouldn't you like to see a cage : scrap between the Camden High girls, State A champs and the Monetta high girls, Class C title holders. Monetta claims to have won sosfie 200 games ' with but one defeat. Wonder why they will not listen to a home and home program with the Camden girls. Must be sorta skeered. ,It is interesting to note the manner in which the fans are beginning to sit up and root for the local cage teams. That idea of Jack ^fuller* in having season .tickets printed was Just the right kind of a wedge necessary to get the fans started. ? Seems sort of odd not to see genj ial and smiling Casey Jones on the police beat these days. Casey is laid up with a bad attack of flu. ? baseball suit, a football suit, a soft* ball uniform. Informal business dress and In soup and fish, but for extra super sartorial effect, he is superb in the garb of an officer of the law, protector of the weak and an example of Camden's finest. . It is Thursday as we rattle off fhese lines and we are crossing our fftigers lest the weather man turns off the sunshine valve again. ? A wee bit more of warmth and we will extend our widest and happiest grin at the guy who dishes up the weather. Chief of Police Alva Rush, Mrs. Rush and Junior Rush are Arm believers that trouble comes in bunches ?just like bananas. The entire Rush family have been down with the flu the past week."' .. . Which has DUt the operating of the minions of the law under the capable direction qf Assistant Chief George Cooley. t??5w *'^4 r*r "" T7" r - - ! r- r : < Sample One-Way Fare* Sum tor t... .. $ .60 ^Charleston 1.75 Savannah 2.46 L 8.08 , Charlotte 1.10 Knoxvllle 3.60 Columbia .60 Augusta 1.60 AfVitifa -... 3.46 New York SJO. Big EXTRA Savings on Round Trips , ' , > Greyhound Terminal EaA PeKaJb Street . .Phone ?t ^ ^V;Jy5pr '" .* :^\'rFr *$**'" V~;/*???: t <2?r.?-r #irw-fr r *r-*rfrr: ?^rWi Vfe^>T?* 1 Census Man To Be Real Kind The feeling? of Mr*. John Q Public of Camden, who 1? u bit wary about revealing her age will he snared as delicately aa possible this decktiu oy the contlng^U of hell rlngera who start seeking HhefXWO- ceuaua answers In April, Instead of a blunt "Are you Mury Jones and how old are you?' calou-| luted to aend the moat fearleaa of houaewlvea back into her ahell, the cenaua-taker will address the lady of the house in the third person, asktu* her "How old Is Mary Jopes?" . The feminine attitude on the age question being what it Is, it remained for un astute C-inan to realise the need for diplomacy In ascertaining aocurate ago returns from Woineu, It la expected that the new method will break down every vistage of reti'cfence on the part of the lady of the houae and will secure a correct and unernbarraaaed "47" for an answer Instead of a more forgetful "30". With the feminine angle settled, census-takers still face tv^> big un* certalntlea?babies under one year of age and persona who think they are one hundred years old. Many householders, apparently forgetting that in-, fants are "regular persona", fall to report them. A large number of people in the nineties either are hazy abou? their exuet age or like to boast of being lone hundred. Consequently it is be-j | lieved that a goodly percentage of the 8,900 who wore reported centenarians in 1930 had not attained the one hundred-year mark. | Mr. and Mrs. Public will answer the( ^ biggest set of questions eveV to be fired by Uncle Sam In April. They will ' have to state whether persons have Jobs, are seeking jobs, how long they have been at work and what kind of work they do, salaries, wages or oth-1 er income and the source, whether homes are owned or rented and their value, school attendance and' highest grade completed, change of residence in the last five years. NThe answers to the questions will be woven eventually into analyses designed to help government, business, agriculture and labor in their perennial struggle with economic problems.. These analyses will provide comprehensive information concerning 132,000,000 people, 25,000,000 homes, 3,000,000 businesses, 170,000 factories, 7,500,000 farms and 12,000 mines and quarries. Figuring that 200 questions will be required to get information regarding every member in e&ch of 36,000,00(T families, the enumerators will ask a grand total of 7.000,000,000 questions. Census officials, familiar with the average citizen's dislike of snooping are banking onxthe ironclad secrecy of Individual returns to obviate any pronounced public reslstence. . Not even J. Edgar Hoover's G-man or Uncle Sam's income tax sleuths have aco?8? the census burea! A1 Capone's report is as inviolate as Franklin D. Roosevelt's. Moreover, should a census-taker tip off thej Browns to the amount of the Smith's j t income he would be flirting with a prison term. , ""Experts have already figured that ^ the 1940 population count will show about 132,000,000. Special interest will j be attached to the population shtft of the last five to ten years. Droughts, and - eoonomic upBets have driven many persons away from old homes, j The 1930 census showed a heavy farm-to-clty trend during the twenties. It is believed, however, that city pop-j ulation made little or no growth from 1930 to 1935 due to the movement of jobless urban dwellers to the country. I Gates Ford Club Meets The Gates Ford Homo Domonstra-; tion Club held its -monthly meeting at the club house Wednesday after-; noon, January 8. The president pre-j sided with twelve members present. The meeting was called to order by j all singing the month's song, "Carry Be Back to Old Virginia." The Scrip-' ture was read by MrB. Chevis Mouley and all Joined in repeating the Lord's; prayer.. The minutes of the last meet-j ing were read and the roll called by the secretary, Miss Dorothy Horton.; The financial report was given by Mr?. ErngBt.JWilliam?. Everyone was pleased with this report. After the busines? routine the meetihg was turned over to Miss Powell. The subject of her talk ^ras "Gardening for Home and Market." Every family should have a good garden the whole year round. The garden should be planted early so aa to have enough vegetables for the table?should can vegetables for fbe winter and sell the surplus to the market... Crop rotation is very important in preventing insects and diseases in the vegetable garden. Delicious refreshments were served by Mr?. L#. M. Klrkley. ' The neat meeting will be held February 14. at 7:10 o'clock. This will be "Ohttook Meeting" for both me* and women. Mr. MoCerley will be present to give a talk to the men and Miss Fewell wni UOOl to the women.- AU the community is invited to attend. Raid Results In Rig Capture When you see a plane sailing around over Lee county. It need not be taken as a war.nlaue, for simp do not often come over this way. Again. ; it nVod t\ot be taken for a pleasure aircraft bent on taking in dollars fiv rides, because planes are now used aa scouts on the lookout for Illegal distilleries as is evidenced by the; fact that last week a plane was seen by many aa it flew hero and there inj this section of the county. It waa a! coast guard plane that' Spotted a rummaking outfit not ao very far from the capital of Lee county. Federal Investigator S. 8. Sligh, Governor's Qfficer George Graham' and l^eroy Shealy, two coast guardsman and Investigator Nollle Hobinaon made six arrests. The still was one of the largest ever uncovered in South Carolina, was seized Wodnosday afternoon by federal officers about one mile north of tho Ashwood project III the Manvllle section of Loo county. Four negroes and one young white man wore lodged In the Sumter county Jail. (At.the preliminary hearing held in Sumter before United States Commissioner Frank Clarke, it wns disclosed that the following was seized and destroyed by the officers: One 1 h, p. upright boiler and connections, one 120 gallon wood steam distillery with a 200 gallon capacity, 500 gallon fermentersi 5,000 gallons of spent mash, 50 feet of fire hose, one 60 gallon whiskey barrel, 2,000 feet of vat lumber, a large number of implements such as shovels, buckets, cooking utensils and carpenter tools. The following were seized: One 1940 throe-quarter ton pickup Ford truck, 12 two-bushel sacks of bran, 211 cases of half-gallon Jars, 49 two-buBhel sacks of corn moal, ninety-flve 100pound sacks of white Hershey sugar, valued at approximately $471.25, and 24 ^pounds of yeast. The men arrested were Lucius Franklin Bell, 18-year-old white man; Ruff Brunson, 45-year-old negro; Ernest McCain, 16-year-old negro; LeRoy, Charles, 20-year-old negro, and Jesse Washington, a 29-year-old negro. All except Weshlngton are out on $500 bonds and he is out on a $600 bond. Warren Slater, a 39-year-old negro was arrested but was released after the preliminary hearing. Police acting on the instructions of Premier All Pasha Maher in Cairo, have arrested a number of Germans Jn Cairo, Alexandria, and Port Said, Egypt has severed diplomatic relations with Germany and stands pledged by treaty to give all possible aid to Britain. Antloch 8chool News An Interesting program was given in the chapel last Wednesday, January 10, presented by the pupils of the eighth grade. The subject was "A Mock Teachers Meeting." The characters were: Milton Raloy as Superintendent J. A. Kinard; Qolda Weathers, Miss Virginia Oilchrist, Mageleue Polsom, Mrs. Dan Murchlson, Dan Pate, L. C. Boy kin, Jr., Alice, Truesdale, Mrs. Preston Rivers, Lucille Marshall, Mrs. J. A. Kinard, and McLean Marsh as Mrs. Elmore Drown. Our school yards are being greatly improved by the WPA. We are planning to further beautify "them by planting giass. The basketball girls played the Midway girls last Wednesday. The team was defeated by Midway 20 to 18. There will be a basketball game between Central aud Antlobh at the Antioch school, Friday, January 19. The Antloch Four-H club held its regular meeting Monday during the fourth period. The following program was carried out: Scripture by Dorothy Melton; song, "On Jordan's Stormy Banks"; your horoscope, by Doris Stokes. Secretary's report and roll call by the secretary. The program was then turned over to Miss Fewoll, and she talked to us on "Money," and the ways in which to spend it. The meeting then adjourned to meet again next month at the regular time. The shell of a snail Is an e*ample of a curve known as the logarithmic spiral. No matter how much the free end of a # curve is lengthened, the whole always retains the same shape. SUMMONS FOR RELIEF State of South Caorltna County of Kershaw (Court of Common Ploa$> K. P. Trueadale, Plaintiff against ' Mary Jane Carter, Thomas Carter, Henry Carter, Agnes Carter Owens, ' Lucy Carter Richardson, Frank Car> ^ ter, Annie Hell Carter,-the unknown ? *J heirs, devlBees or usslgns of Pautv^Nl Dempaey, and also all other persons' unknown, herein collectively designated as John Doe, claiming right, title, interest in, or'llen upon, the roal estate described iu the complaint herein, Defendants. To the Defendants Above Named: You are hereby summoned and r?*vv quired to answer the complaint In . v * this action, of which a copy la herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of the answer to the said plaint on the subscriber at his office In the City of Qamden, South Carollna, within twenty (20) ^yf aft^ ' 5 service thereof, exclusive of the day rif such service, and if you fail to an swer the complaint within the <tlme aforesaid, the plaintiff In this actlofe will apply to the Court for the'relief demanded In the cOmplaint. , HENRY SAVAGE, JR., 1 & Plaintiff's Attorney ' Camden, South Carolina December 27, 1939 ' v;?-giB| To the absent and |or non-resident Defendants, and all other persons named as Defendants herein, collectively designated as John Doe: 'Notice is hereby given that the original summons, of which the foregoing; , Is a copy, and the original complaint ^ herein were duly filed ln-the Qffide,of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw Count ty, on the 16th day of January, 19 ^ HENRY SAVAGE, JR., Plaintiff's Attorney Hummingbirds can oome to a stop in mld-alr. 1 I ' JOE MACHADO 11 I ELECTRIC SERVICE CO. I I Domestic Commercial Refrigeration I* I HEATING SERVICE - B I Oil Burners Stokers B||B I AIR CONDITIONING ,2| H" ' Camden, South Carolina j | PHONE 26 ' ". y::,j I ' : - - 1- - r: - - : -"' ' - r -J I | . I I I II I _j jll Tremendous public accept- i ? once of thf . . has brought in the finest stock J of dsed cars in ail hiitsty. I 6^64^43^1 ^RpV^I^P yKIVPi^ I Your \ CHEVROLET DEALER Y IS NOW FEATURING THE V GREATEST USED CAR AND TRUCK YAIUES OF THE YEAR! , < t "? ~K .t" frii * . ~- '.L s.\ ' * fTVl RIASONf WHY YOU SHOULD ? UY YOUR USto CAR PftOM YOUR CMVROiVT DEALKRI > IYour Chevrolet dttltr offer* the fineet eelectton of need ? car* and the beet value*. 2 You can buy your deed car from your Chevrolet dealer with confidence. 3 Your Chevrolet dealer ecu* ploy* the beet recondltioef U( method*. 4 ***! <*?* n# inlli? \ Cbenetei heeler* are lluhleRii V Car OifiD TRUCK Velvet I ?V' fittTTTTi?1,1:1 |; - ' N- Broad St Camden, S. C.