Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cruising Around 1 'i with "Skipper" Ql! Hutu! Our re8|>ecl for tho rue(>r<i of the Monetta girls cugo teams ^B has dwindled considerably aince we learned that Jimmy Wilson bus been ^B doing the officiating at the games in ^B which the team has participated. ^B We admit Monetta had it on Cam-j H (|en in several departments of the' H game, hut why not. The' Caintlen H nuirda were helpless under the whla tie-tooting activities of the referee. i hero was rto stopping Grace Kneece ^B as the official penalized every guard^B jug effort. We honestly believe that H he would have called a foul on a ^B Caniden guard if said guard had kissel ed the Monetta shurpshooter. W m The Monetta team is coached by a young lady named Norine Nichols, who has been at Monetta for three wars She is a graduate of South H Carolina University. And a mighty smart coach. * * ? ^B Among some of the bigwigs watch^B jug the game were S. J. Deery of ^B i.oris, chairman of the state basket^B ball committee. ,1. Albert Sims of South Carolina was the tall good-looking chap who ^B was on the floor as umpire. * When we lived in Florida we ex tolled the llfe-glvlng, muscle building H and brain quickening qualities of ^B Florida citrus fruit. There must be something to it?for those Monetta maidens consumed the ^B juice of a hdge' sack of oranges duriua: the evening. Every time there was ^B a time-out, intermission or what not, ^B they hit the orange route. # * N?\t. time we sit next to Coach Small, we are going to provide him with a bag of marbles and every time he feels like saying "Darn-it", he can drop a marble in his pocket. . Shame V en >ou Coach ? and on Good Friday i ; oo. Singjng Convention 1 h-re will be a singing convention V a: :h>- Free Will Baptist church, Uew-I H isviih'. near Camden, on Sunday,! A/arch 31, at 10 a. m. A special invi ion is extended to all choirs and singers are also urged to attend. An all day meeting will bo held. The public is invited to come out and enI Joy. this convention. I It is estimated that on one form or I another, about 300 pieces of rubber are used in the manufacture of motor cars... Healthy Looks Can Hide Tuberculosis When a person looks so 111 that peoply are aware that he has tuberculosis, the condition of the patient la serious Advanced tuberculosis Is hard to not rid of. Not ho early tuberculosis. Usually, early tuberculosis can be cured with comparative ease. People who have lived in the same homo with a case of tuberculosis may have caught It because of the close contact. What Is coughed up from the lungs of a person ill with tuberculosis is often full of the germs that spread the disease to others. A good doctor can be of service in finding tuberculosis early, because it is becoming more and more lite custom to use the X-ray picture as a means of finding out about tuberculosis both among those who have lived In the skhie house with a known case of the disease and among those suffering witli one or more symptoms of tubeculosis. Tuberculosis can be cured when it is found early. "The X-ray will show it before you know it." The Kershaw County Tuberculsls Association, always on the Job. stands ready to be of help to all needing their service dining tlie annual Early Diagnosis Campaign that is now in full swing. . Friend To Children Dead Iyester J. itivers, age 61, died early yesterday at a local hospital following an illness of several days. Mr. Rivers was a member of the Hurtaville Police department and was highly esteemed by the people of Harstvllle and surrounding communities. He will be partcularly missed by the boys and girls of the graded school, for every morning, ruin or shine, he was at the street intersection, near the building, guiding them . >ufely to tho grounds.?Hartsville Messenger. Will Meet With Timrod i <Tho B. T. I'. Rally of Kershaw AsI social ion will be held witli tiie Timrod Baptist church, Sunday, March i 111. beginning at li o'clock. All tlie churches are urged to send represen' tatives. ^ W. D. Kirkland Dies at Lugoff William Duncan. Kirkland. s:i. died at the residence of his nephew, A. E. Kirkland. Monday after an illness of five days. Ho had spent his entire life in the West Watoree section of Kershaw county. He was a member of Concord Baptist church where funeral services were held at 11 a. m. Tuesday with interment in the churchyard. Surviving are one sister-in-law, Mrs. J. L. Kirkland of Columbia; 15 nephews and 11 nieces. OLDEST AND STRANGEST SPORT IN NORTH AMERICA SOON OPENS Wast Jordan. Mich., March 9. Th6 oldest?perhaps the ?trange?l. sportsmen's attraction In North Amotion will be having Its 1940 opening In those partb before illAjny weeks j This event Is the first unquestioned sign of spring In currently snowbound northwestern Michigan and It Involves largu-aculu amateur halting and concentrated hilarity and horseplay. The cause of it all l? the smelt, a silvery little fish which the ichtryologists have burdened with the topheavy name of "Ofltnerus Mordax. The fun starts when the smelt begin their annual spawning runs up the streams in this region and, when I ho runs are at their peak, there may be us many as 25.000 persons lining the banks of the three most popular streams to dig up the little tlsh. It Is not unsual to have the smaller streams literally Jammed from bank to bank with tlsh. When this condition exists it is a simple matter to dip tlie tlsh out of the wator with a hand net, a dipper or any old pan you can grab. A fisherman who really puts his heart into the work can hullo up a bushel of smelt for himself on a big evening. Of course there's none of that lest of skill Which is required of trout fishermen, but the "smelters" contend that theirs is a grand sport just tlio same. Because the smelt do their stuff ut night the fishermen welld their dippers by the glare of huge floodlights, j which adds to the peculiar attraction , of the event. Officers of the state conservation department stand around to make sure that everything ts conducted according to rules. Best known of the many smelt runs are those which occur in the Boyne river at Boyne City; in Cold creek, at Beulah, and In the Jordan river here. In recent years large numbers of smelt have appeared in upper peninsula streams and there is a big run in the Ford river near Kscanaba each spring. Natives of this region sometimes are at a loss to explain the intense excitement caused by the smelt runs, or why they should attract visitors from such distant cities jus Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit and Cincinnati. They admit that smelt, properly cooked, "make mighty good eating," | and that a smelt run in full blast is sometimes worth seeing, but they wonder why outsiders take it all so se riously. The local residents, however, are noL averse to the excitement because anything which brings thousands of visitors into the home down during a week end is pretty sure to start the cash registers in the restaurants, hotels and tourist camps jingling merrily. I I'he exact dates for the starting of' the runs always is uncertain, * ultho close students of the little lish can approximate the time with reasonable a<cu.Ji>. Boyne City figures its run will be under way by March 3u; East Jordan thinks theirs will come a week loiter and Kscamba has fixed the date for April 11. Hast Jordan smelt specialists still are sniffing the air ami testing the water. It all depends on the temperature of 35* degrees, the smelt start moving upstream to llie spawning grounds. A few hardy pioneers may start the trek before that time, but not many. Northern Michigan fishermen still are chuckling about tho plight of the man who caught some live smell through the ice a few weeks ago and took them home to keep in his bathtub until he could Bend them to a friend. Before the little lish could be removed they had reacted to the warmer water and staged a miniatuie { pawning run in the tub. i he enterprising communities in litis region have spared no labor or e.xptnsi- io make things eusj mid inicivsiing for "the sin-lters." Board waiks have been built along the streams, enabling tue fishermen to get right down to the waters edge, and e.a borate ilood-lightitfg systems ha\e been installed to make the lish \isible. Besides all this, there is a lot of entertainment planned for the visiting sportsmen. Hast Jordan and Hacanaba annually elect and crown "smelt kings." hold dances, parades and other festivities. Smelt are nothing new to northwestern Michigan, nor. for that matter, are they anything new to America. As early as 1622 Captain John Smith noted in his diary that the Indians dipped up the smelt in great abundance from tho streams^ each (frxein r* o -? I'l .1 f! f CI II 1 t C U oOClUl C * C I i C '"O ""u " * The little lish gradually worked westward, and the first recorded smelt run in this region was in the spring of 1918 when Boulah residents were astounded to find Cold creek teeming with fish. Thereafter, thoj runs have grown, both in magnitude1 and in popularity. These fish abound in- the frozen Northern lakes throughout- the winter and, despite large-scale ioe fishing activities during these months, there always seems to be plenty of smelt on hand to make the annual dash up the tributary streams to the spawning grounds or?if they're unlucky-* into the frying pan of some hungry "smelter." Ilatcherymen urge farmers td send them only the largest of eggs for hatching on the theory that the larger the egg. the larger the chick. Farmers, Be Kind To Census Takers If MlMllO of I ho qU08t ion?" itsk I in I mora by eensus takers this pi tug seem somewhat personal. ronii'inlit'r that those questions are asked in tiller to obtain a hotter uuderstan ti t of the problems of agriculture. Con i ty Agent W C McCarloy suggcsi-. The HMO census of agriculture wilt be the moat complete ever tak< n ami should bo the most vHccurate In vi <1 or that the information gathered ius nearly absolutely accurate as possible the county agent urges tlia;J farmers give some thought to tlte in*' formation which will be asked for b.? ( tito enumerator The Information sought will concern tlie farm itself and the farm operator. Information about tlte farm will Include total acres In the farm, acres In crop land, acres in pasture,) value of the laud, value of buildings 1 farm implements, and machinery, t*n ies and production of various crops, production and sale of livestock products, Inventory of livestock, and expenditures for farm operations in 1939 Information about Inventories will be us of April 1, HMO, that about crops will bo for the year 1939.% Information about the operator will Include tenure status; that Is, whether owner or renter, and days worked off the farm. All Information Is strictly confideilia!. Mr. MeCarley points out. It is unlawful for the census bureau to give out any facts about individuals from the census reports. The information cannot be used for purposes of taxation or Investigation. In shorj, it is only for the purpose of preparing statistical Information relative to the county, stale, and nation. Sample copies of the schedule of questions pertaining to agriculture aro in the county agent's Office. Any farmer who cares to do so may obtain a copy and study It against the time the enumerator calls on him These sample copies are not to be sent to the census bureau Military Training Camp To Open John K. dol-oat-h, "of Camden. South Carolina, chairman of the Militar;. Camps Association for Kershaw county announces that the prucurem* lit | campaign for the 19-10 Citizens Mill :ury Training Camp, wlrieh is to bei held at Foil Hragg, X. C. has offi-! ( ially opened. The camp will be held fieai June Hi. HMO, to July 11, 1940. Biggest U. S. Ship Almost Ready Newport News. Yu.? Tile largest} and most expensive passenger liner ever built in the. Culled States, the A merit a. Is rapidly Hearing completion here. Constructed for the Culled States' Lines, the $17,000,000 vessel is one >f the first ships contracted for under .he Maritime Commission's program I Io add 500 ships to our, merchant murine In 10 years. Christened by Mrs h\ 1). Roosevelt and launched last August, the Mas-ship of the American fleet is vir? tuully fireproof and slnkproof. Her second funnel has already been stepped in place and her Interior Is being outfitted by Smith. Urquhart & Murckuuld, the only firm of women decorators ever to install a ship's furnishings. UNCUs NATCH EL SAYS: J 7 SONNY? DATS SHO'-sj NATCH EL FOOD FO* DAT I CA LF... N ATC H E L..YASSUH NATURE supplies the right food ?the "natchel" food as Uncle Natchel says ? for every growing thing. For your crops?every crop you grow?Nature has created natural food?Natural Chilean Nitrate of Soda. It gives plants nitrate they need, but that's not all. It also supplies a natu ral balance of protective elements which help keep plants healthy and the soil in good growing condition. Use Natural Chilean Nitrate in mixed fertilize*under your crop. Use it liberally as side dressing, too. No price in-, crease this season. There is plenty for everybody's needs. NATURAL CHILEAN NITRATE Of SODA PROTECTIVE ELEMENTS Boron Iodine Manganese Potash Magnesium Calcium and many more ON YOUR RADIO ? Enjoy the Uncle Natchel program every Saturday night on WSB, WRVA, and WSW< and every Sunday afternoon on WIS, WOLS, WPTF, wBT. KWKa WJDX, WMC, WWL, WAGF, WDBO, WSFA. WJRD, WJBY. ___ * V> . *_ ? _ . -?rr ? ? Don't waMe a moment if you ftee^k your child acratching. Prompt action bring* prompt relief. ScoH^^pr Treatment ^^^Soothcsimtaftdy.Kabtha tiny mites chat burrow A . mmUt the skin and cauee *- 4-?~ ' ' 'Will ????i??W?^ i-*^" n</!nMMai3IMHHHBHHIHHHiHHHBHHBHH|HHHHBHBHBBBBBHHHHHBBHMB ax Notice fc . ^9, STATE, COUNTY AND SCHOOL TAXES * \Y BE PAID DURING THE MONTH OF APRIL j " ITH 3 PER CENT PENALTY. AFTER MAY i ST, THE PENALTY INCREASES TO 7 PER i NT WHEN BOOKS ARE CLOSED AND EXEv TIONS GO TO THE SHERIFF. C. J. Outlaw, TREASURER KERSHAW COUNTY. *r BEFORE PURCHASING Flower, Garden and Field Seeds SEE OUR LARGE ASSORTMENT We carry only Fresh, Reliable and Tested Seeds High in Quality and Full of Life. j Authorized Distributor of Seeds ( T. W. WOOD & SONS FERRY?MORSE SEED COMPANY S. N. NICHOLSON _ 934 Broad Street ??? It's more jw in ^the car up front IN other words, why buy a car that's content to follow along ? when little, if any, more money will put you in a Buick up where the banners are flying? For this year's automotive style pattern m V* ?5 f?? #?!/ /V rfn/t // OM K /t/f A ?* ao VUi L// A-* V4IV11. M ^ V/V%? ? W/S ?/ This year's performance tempo was set twoyears back when the Buick Dynaflash engine appeared. And this year's comfort standards still have some catching up to do to equal T~~ Buick's combination of four coil springs I and recoil-mounted Knee-Action. 1 Eventually, others may find a way to \ micropoise-balance engines after \ assembly, heavy-up their frames, and \ seek to equal Buick's staunchness. | Meantime you'll have those Buick blessings to enjoy. You'll drive the style-leader, the comfort-leader, the tW?*-leader ? a car full of things that will still be ' new" a good two year9 from now. And as a visit to your Buick dealer will show, you'll get it at prices like those you find on the ?ivp?. That gives you something real to look into. Start looking early?to get in on all the fun. Prices begin at delivered at Flint, 8 . Mich. Transportation 8 C J kHI ow rati rates, 8 ^ 8B l(^b j/^/* 8 " Of any), optional 8 I88f^8 equipment and 8 (or B.tlneM Coupe accessories- extra. 1 -Sedan price* Pr*c*.r subject to g tart at $955- change without notice. 8 Help Promote Safety?D/m Ko?r Ijghtt tVhen Patting. 8 8 1 "3f CAMDEN MOTOR COMPANY . \i2119 Broad Street Camden, So. Car. M n^fl