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> L_ _ i hib i n r Reviewing 'Thlrty-Nins liy Roger MUls Rloe in OhatfoU* Observer Looking backward o'er 'Thirty-Nine here's some of the things we AuU:? British Royalty paid ua a call, but didn't discuss debts at all. The year revealed in a generous manner, the crooked deal* in Loulsl_ una. (Hover Rergdoll returned at laat, to make wnend* for a cowardly past. ? Bailey's agreeihg with the President. wwf another Thirty Nine evont. v Bifsineea" that we thought was "a goner" flualiy came dashing arouud the corner". ? Lindbergh's role as 'diplomaticmesser", failed to make Unole an aggressor. Vivian l^eigh lu the role of "Scarlot", was the' year's outstanding starlet. Charlie McCarthy, in earnings no doubt, led we dummies the year throughout. In the fistic world the boxers clover, found Joe Louis as tough as ever. ' " - , Wrong-way Corrlgan took* the vow, his tiraHnate's acting pilot now. Death, the grim reaiper, Wan rather hold, taking much prominence in its toll. -4 - 0 * J Floyd . Gibbons, the beloved Zane drey, and the Mayo brothers passed away. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, the noted Dry, was assigned a place on High. j. Ham Lewis and Ohas. M. Schwab, left to take a Heavenly Job. Col liuppert, of baseball fame, witnessed his last earthly game. Hitler, escaped Death's grim reach, by merely cutting-short a speech. The war continues 'twixt Lewis and Green, no chance of peace has ither seen. The year brought crazy styles in sandals, and gave us doughnuts made with handles. Perhaps the year brought increased gout; Judging from the toes that out. London's noise and Joys abated, when all the children evacuated. Hitler, quenching his bloody thirst, In' vaded Poland September the First. The year's most astonishing act, was Germany and Russia signing a Pact. The Graf Spee died with acute coldfeet, when cornered by the British Fleet. ~ The Russian bear, that demon of might, proved to be more grawl than bite. We found, when all is. said and done, two Thanksgivings is better than one. Frankfurter and Douglas took the Bench, capturing another Conservative trench. They dually let-out Thomas Mooney, since they couldn't drive him "loony." After ninety years 'of "staying-athome" the Pope visited the King at Kome.. / ^ " Pies finally beat into our heads, the fact tha/t we have too many Reds. A few more thousand conceived the notion, that they'll perfect perpetual-motion. Real-war deepened the nervous scars, made by "Those llttleinen fronl Mars". Winding four World's Series in a row; the Yanks made history, as you know. , insanity must have shown an increase; or, among the hat-designers at least. The Presidential bee inserted on sting; and Garner gave his hat a fling. 1 The year ended without Roosevelt saying, whether he'd move or keep-on staying. Since the end of the World W> , nearly 4.000,000 new homes have been built in England and Wales. STATE THEATRE KERSHAW, & C. Telephone 98 FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 "BARRICADE" With Alice Faye?Warner Baxter SATURDAY,. JANUARY 21 "THE ARIZONA KID" With Roy Rogers?Gabby Hayes LATE SHOW-~10:30 P. M. "HEROJJdR A DAY" With Anita Louise?Dick Foran MONDAY anil TUESDAY JANUARY 29?3D "THE ROARING TWENTIES" Wltlh James Cagney Humphrey Bogart ^ WEDNESDAY, JAN. 31 "MISSING EVIDENCE" With Preston Poster? Irene Harvey THURSDAY, FEB 1.. "charlie McCarthy too2nh?*f. gn?W 1 -I .J...Ill Nobody's Business Written for the Chronicle by MoGee, Copyright. 1928. < Goings On in Good Old Flat Rock inra. holsum moore, sr., hud a right bad axcideat last thursday p.m. while cutting stove-wood to cook supper with, (note: her husband had went off on bisness to the county-seat and did not obme home in time to help hor with the chorea unsoforth as uaual ) a peace of wood flow up and contacted her on the aide of her head and the axe atruck her on her bod-room slippers and it looks like her left big toe will be a total loss. mr. art square has decided pot to offer his good name for the u.a. seunate at the next election. \ he Is afeared that they mought give him a oflia on the third floor and that would force him to cliiub stairs, with his roomy-tism he simply could not do It. he mought ofTor for the state legglslaturo next summer, that is;?If the publick looks like they think the time has come for good men to run.' he is willing to be drafted if needcesaity desires him. he can read and rite and use a telly-foam: miss Jennie vefeve smith, our aflficient scholl principle, spent her xmus holidays with her ritch aunt at the county-seat and it seems that she enJoyed herself a right smart. hrir aunt staphs verry high in society and that gave her a change to meet some of the best people in the county, she was lnterduced to the sheriff arid the county treassure and the probit judge and the ice-factory owner and a cashier in a bank and the cheef of police and a big sody watter bottler, she is right stuck up over her entry iuto society, so the homefolks say. the 8ma 11 grain crop in our commu-l nity is still verry small but fall turnips are plentiful, and high, hen eggs are skace but low enough In price to be et once a day. home-raised corn licker can be bought for 1$ per Jar. w?lch Is exactly the amount of the I state, county and fedderal tax on shipi ped-in goods. It has a powerful kick , at this riting, according to mr. slim chance, Jr., who sobered up last night and this morning, the peoples cash stoar In flat rock, paid his two clerks a bonnus: he had not paid them anything-muoh as a regular sallery, hence the bonnus. come down, mr. eddltor, and see our new town pump. yours trulle, mike lark, rfd, corry spondent Hail, Hall, The Gang's All Here a nice play was hell at the scholl house on friday night last, and It was put on by the boys and girls of the 1940 gradurating class. # it was entitled?"hail, hall, the ggng's all here." the play was rote enduring the world war, which is now called war number 1, but modern musick and songs were used In the program, the most popular hit of the evening was the singing of?"o, Jhonnie, o, Johnnie" by the twins of mr. and mesdame slim ch'&tfcff, "J?: the theme and scheme was laid out in great brittan. everboddy was dressed as brlttish tommies and brlttish lassies, and riverboddy had to talk brlttish bo's noboddy could understand what they were saying, the brlttish language Is supposed Just like the english language, and it Is when the words are rote down, but when they are sftoke by the furriners of england, it might as well be the dutch or the italyans or the turkeys for all we can understand. miss Jennie veeve smith conducted the play, she is a experienced actor and has thought of hitting the hollywood trail,,but has kept putting it ofT till she can reduce from 184 to about 124, but she says it is hard to work off 60 pounds of fatness, she applied to mr. warncr for the place of scarlet in "gone with the winds," but he nevver did ancer her letter, she says should she not of got scarlet, and had benn ofTered in minor roll, she would of took that Just to break Into the limelight ansoforth. this play, "hall, hail, the gang's all here", lasted nearly 2 hours, but that Included the side acting ansoforth. everthlng went along pretty well till one of si. skinner's no account boys flung a rock thruAhe wlifder and tapped miss bailie veeve smith on the head and knocked her ouL she was the one who told everboddy what to say when they forgot their lines, she had a big JobNon her hands: everboddy, seems to of had stage fright and could not think of nothing, and that's where she come In. it was a fine effort. yours trulle, v' r ^ mike lark, rfd, corry spondent ? v 1 " P. Nearly 20 per cent of traffic accidents are due to carelessness or Improper signals being given by motor; lets, or to complete failure,to indicate , Intention to stop, turn, or slow down. ; are^ difficult to remember^ We use S* ? ; "NeVi5SVicrWftl But Encounters Difficulty Sir Richard Paget, inventor of a. machine that talks, seems to have confu^d for a time his inventive genius and his ultimate goal; but out of his works may come in the end an improvement in methods of human speech. His machine feeds air through a tube to various mouthpieces, and by pressing the bellows with his foot and placing a thumb before the orifices he makes the apparatus utter a few simple words, 'says the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. All right so far; but it is the hardest way to talk ever demonstrated with success. On the ot^er hand, Sir Richard philosophizes that, culturally, human speech is thousands of years behind the times. He notes that speech is the natural result of gestures of the mouth and jaws, capable of 144 variations, but that the upper arm, forearm, wrists and fln< gers together can make 700,000 gestures. To complicate speech by sign language would generally annoy all except tourists in a strange' land, but the talking machine has a mission if finally perfected. Radio, for example, would become more popular if all announcements were broadcast by a robot voice. All would sound alike; no peculiar hates would be attached to voices under general classifications of silly, raucous, nff&al, flippant, ^guttural, stomachic. Elimination of vocal personality cannot be attained by transcriptions, but a mechanical voice could do the trick. On the hustings a good, durable mechanical v voice could be fed a speech covering all issues, which could be sent from town to town spreading the argument without injection of any personal element. It could be used to speak unpleasant sentences in court, answer the telephone when one wants to report himself not at home, and for. othen purposes to which an individual voice is not fitted or from which it shrinks or grows hoarse. Tiny Animal Aids Study Of Cell's Regeneration A new discovery in cell regeneration, a leg-making factory in a small animal which grows 12 or more legs every time one is cut off, was reported recently at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The leg-making was described by William Balamuth of the University of California. He found it in a very complex, tiny animal, named stylonychia. It has many legs, usually about a dozen, all primitively formed by combination of Cilia, which are hairs of living protoplasm. When one is lost, the factory makes an entire new set, there being no organized nervous signal system to inhibit overproduction. The "factory" produces the materials for new legs. These substances seem to migrate to the sites of legs. There the old limbs dry up and the new ones sprout. The same "jfcctory" does the same thing for the lashing hairs which the animal uses to sweep food into his mouth. The discovery shows there probably is only one mechanism capable of doing this kind of work and - scientists do not- know- how - to oreate one. *. Seagoing Aviary A seagoing aviary, built up over a period of 20 years by Capt. John Stamperius, visited Seattle aboard the motorship Delftdyk of Rotterdam. The 40 specimens in the cages that line the walls of the lower bridge were rescued from probable death by the kind-hearted captain after they tired while flying over the sea and alighted on the ship. Normally they would have starved to death or died from exhaustion. The collection includes Japanese thrush, saffron finches from Colombia, a Holland blackbird that is a fine singer,'two Cuban doves, several kinds of canaries, two Clarke's . crows and other species. The crows ; are a puzzle to ornithologists as | well as the captain. They landed on the Delftdyk in the middle of the Gulf of Tehuantepec, off Lower California, where the weather is tropical. Meanings of Colors Each of us has a preference for some particular color, but not all of us know why. A slight knowledge of the meaning of color will help us analyze our likes and dislikes. It is wise to consider the characteristic properties of individual colors before we proceed to change the color combinations in our homes. Red, for instance, symbolizes vitality, energy, power. It is highly stimulating. Blue signifies tranquillity. Psychologically, its influence is quieting. Yellow symbolizes light, cheerfulness. Green soothes, yet exhilarates.: "? ' " t ~ Elephant 'Fish* Story The game department of the ^Uganda protectorate in East Africa confirms, in its annual report, a strange bunting accident in which three elephants were killed through the firing of a single bullet. While standing on s steep slopp, No. 1 was shot, fell and Started to slide downward. An instant later, No. 1 stepped directly in the way and was swept off Its feet. Both tailing animals then struck No. 8 and all went twnhHng to dexttr in the valley be io-I Weekly News letter From Liberty Hill, liberty Hill, Jan. 23.- -At the j byierlan church Sunday moriilng, t ho j 11 o'clock service wan conducted by Elder L. 1*. Thompson. Sunday school was in charge? of Superintendent 11. C. Jones. A congregational meeting was held and matters of ohurch Interest wore discussed. The church is still without a pastor and the committee, consisting of Elder K, C. Jones, hud N. S. Richards, were requested to continue their uuiest for a suitable unemployed minister and the congregation is hopeful that the services of a pastor may soon be secured. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Thompson and sons, Pat, Jr., and John, visited Hev. A. M. Mol-auohlln on Saturday eveDing. , t ' The Woman's Auxiliary of the Presbyterian church held its January mooting with Mrs. F- 11. Floyd Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Heriot and-their daughter, Suzanne, of BUhopville, wore Sunday guests iu the home of Mrs. C. E. Richards.^ .Jimmy L. Joues. whu is doing work.. orfwEdlsto island, was here for the .jwtlek end. Mrs. Jones and two little sons, who have been spending a while with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Z. Hilton, returned with ihim. Miss Johugy Richards, of Chester, spent Sunday at the home of her partmts, Governor and Mrs. John G. Richards. | Misses Clara and Louise Johnston spoilt Sunday In l^ancuster, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Williamson. E. J. Ounnirtgham spent Sunday evening with his nephew, James Cunningham and wife of Great Falls. W. D. McDowall and sisterH, of Knights Hill, stopped over for a while on Thursday, returning from a visit to Rev. A. M. McLauchlin, of Chester county, who has been quite sick with pneumonia. They report him improving. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Cunningham of Florence were week-end guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Cnn- ' ningham.* Mrs. Marlon Richards Hodges of Sumter visited her mother, Mrs. C. E. RichardB on Sunday. Miss Annie Mae Cureton of Bishopville, spent Sunday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mtb. A. C. Cureton. Mr. T. P. McCrae has gone to the > Santee-Cooper project where he has a position. Cold weather is still holding our state in its Icy graspf January 1 brought a three Inch " fall or snow, followed soon by the heaviest freeze for a number of years, and another snow; the cold continuing with a low of fourteen degrees, and today (Tuesday) another snow blankets the earth to a depth of near three lnchfes. Three snows and one freeze for January, so far, reminds us of the winter of 161718. Snow fell then about the middle of December and was followed by other falls so that the ground was eorerMmost' of thtf lime" "*tll ; l?te February. j .... Music As Science' An orchestra consisting of 65 scientists is delighting concert hall i audiences in Moscow, Russia. , - v? Belgian Congo The Belgian Congo is appro*- , imately the size of the 15 southern states of the United States. Canada's Nickel Canada supplies approximately 90 per cent of the world's annual production of nickel. Lions Protected Mountain lions and other preda- j tors are protected in the national parks. ,f Moon Craters Thirty thousand craters are visible on the moon. $ Snappy Programs Wanted Bright and cheerful prog rums, rather than tragic or gloomy drama or musio, are preferred by Austrian radio listeners, according to a recent survey conducted by Ravag, Vienna i publication, with the co-operation of the University of Vienna. Fully 50 per cent of ?he 110,312 listeners who responded to questionnaires tune in between 7 and 10 p. m. only and stated they <J? not want *? be de- i pressed by dreary music or heavy italks. Jazz is preferred above j waltzes in the country, and evenopera is greeted with indifference. Plays are liked, however, if they are not too serious. Very few listenI "ere showed any appreciation of instructive lectures. Origin of Custom Many centuries ago it was the belief that the heart was the center of motion and that a vein connected the heart with the third finger of the left hand. Thus it became the custom td wear the engagement and wedding riqgs on the finger closely connected with the heart. * ^Tbe blood-sucking vampirs bats hire such small gullets that they cannot swallow solid food. . ^ The water In th? North tea la leaa ; aaltr that, that in the Atlantle ohoan. _ .. J~Jt r v #.; > - >V. V- ' *r i > jt i> 1.1' -T Author Unknown 1 The author of *'Count that day ~ lost w&bie low SSSSRBOQEOnOBE viewi from thy hand no worthy action> done" la unknown. The earliest instance of the use of the lines is traced to an autograph album of David Krieg, dated December 8, 1697. Sands of Time Ten miles below Washington, N, C., there are hoofprints which have been there since one Sunday in 1813, when a horse ridden by a drunkard threw his rider. The old people of the community said it was a warning to stay sober and not to race horses on the Sabbath. Poisonous Venom The quantity of venom injected into a victim when bitten by a poisonous snake depends upon the size of the snake, the length of time the poison has been accumulating, the depth of the fang thrust and the location of the bite. Bacteria Tests Tests show that certain types of bacteria or tiny organisms present in anthracite gangway waters and sewage have the ability of readily consuming hydrogen and carbon monoxide from, gaseous mixtures. 4 ? Thanks a Loti ?-For donating nearly $900 to the Siamese army for the purchase of a machine gun, Sathier Nutaradashna, a prisoner in the Bangkok jail, has been thanked by the government for his "patriotic action." Coffin Weighs Four Tons Buried in full dress 3,000 yeare ago, a chieftain has been discovered recently in a tree-trtink cqffln weighing four tons, pear Castlcton, England. ' .... 1. Montana's Rome The city of Butte, Mont., has 10 times as many underground passages as it has streets. The tunnels are in copper and sine mines. Another Fish Story . .-William Hashing and Frank Coon* ; of Caldwell, Idaho, caught a .400pound sturgeon in Snake river after a six-hour battle. Ravens and magpies ,can be taught ..J L.^-LUJ At lOskimo dinners, guests are re* quired by jMlquotte jo carry away the leftover food to show that Ufe^enjoyed the meal. It is said that four-legged animals are much more killed by lightning than ure human beings, <. --'y Watch the date on your label. MASTER'S SALE Notice is hereby given Unit in oordance with the terms and provisions of the Decree of the Court of . Common Pleas, of Kershaw County, In the case of J. C. (Hills, Pontiff, against Virgil Halley, Mary Jaii'e Halley and Kershaw Production Credit v Association, Inc., Defendants, I w!U sell to the highest bidder for cash, before the Court House door at Cathden, S. C., during the legal hours of salo on the first Monday In February, 1940, being the fourth day thereof, the -w following described real eBtgte: All that certain parcel or Vact of - ? land, situate, lying and being In the state of South Carolina, and County of Kershaw; on the waters of Swift 1, -3 Creek,. known u? the Kjigabqtb Dixon place, containing forty-two (42) acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: on the north by Swift Creek; on the south and east by lands formerly of ? T. P. Saunders; ahd on the west by *** lands of Bakei\ The above described tract of land -~V ls the same conveyed to me by W. M. 1 Cameron, by deed of date November 29, 1919. This mortgage is given to secure a portion of the purchase price advanced by mortgage. All that tract of land in DeKalb Township, in the State aforesaid, containing forty-two (42) acres, more or less, known as the OiUls place, and bounded on the north and east by the., lands now or formerly of J. A, Deas: on the south by lands of John Cam*** eron; formerly of Baker: and on the ? west by lands of the estate of Mrs. B. H. Boykln, and being the lands purchased by me from Alllls in 191K Terms of Sale: For bash, tbb Master to require of the suocessful biddor, other than the plaintiff or the defendant herein, a deposit of five (5) per cent of his bid, sama to be forfeited An case of non-oomplianoe; no personal or deficiency Judgment is demanded and the bidding will not JNun&l&-Opeh after tfceaalebuieeu plance with the bid may bp made immediately. , W. L. DePASS, Jit., ^ Master for Kershaw County WAIT * FUNDBRBURK, Plaintiff's Attorneys 3(3 ;,sCr - ii j n'TiTi i BImi in'i ?i i i inrniTr-wwwn?m 11 n.i. irnrrrr?rn \% Penalty ' ' On and after January 8 there will . .. ; , / ' ''-mm be a one per cent penalty added to all ! unpaid City Taxes. An additional penalty will be added after January 31. LOUISE W. BOYKIN, /? City Clerk and Treasurer |J| City of Camden, Camden, S. C. ; ' . :; ,. .. , - < i. ri-yx r.j . "/^r:p ;?" ".->*? ? .*. a&li ^ A I , j ^biv/ biiu o?n.Ut ?BP.'/ Uuiivuetii v'iOVO Notice To v-ic ->- (<> ._..._ 4 . ..- j&RS^R Delinquent Taxpayers | * , : _ ,-. i ? ^..K-',; " ' Saia i '.'] SbBB * ?Mgj IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW, THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL'S OFFICE HAS INSTRUCTED MY OFFICE TO MAKE COLLECTION IN ALL DELINQUENT TAXES IN KERSHAW. COUNTY DURING THE FALL AND WINTER; AND IN ALL CASES WHERE THE TAXES ARE NOT PAID PROMPTLY, 1 AM REQUIRED TO LEVY UPON AND SELL THE PROPERTY OF THE DELINQUENT TAXPAYER FOR THE TAXES. MANY AU TOMOB1LES HAVE BEEN ESCAPING TAXATION. MY DEFINITE INSTRUCTIONS ARE TO SEIZE, LEVY UPON, AND SELL 'SUCH CARS. UPON WHICH TAXES HAVE NOT BEEN 1JAID, UNLESS PAYMENT OF TAXES BE MADE PROMPTLY. ' ; I HAVE NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER, AND I HOPE THAT THE TAXPAYERS WILL COOPERATE WITH MY OFFICE, SO THAT THE TAXES MAY . BE COLLECTED WITHOUT LEVY AND SALE, WHICH WOULD NECESSARILY INVOLVE MORE EXPENSE TO THE TAXPAYER. J. H. McLEOD, V*' ^ , ^ KHi'i Sheriff of Kerthaw County