Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? -V On,, of the moat active collegiate religious organizations In the southeast Is the Young Woman's Christian Association at the University of South Carolina. Officers of the Carolina Y. W. C. A., elected recently to serve until the spring of 1941, are pictured above. They are. left to right: Clifton sirohecker. Charleston, vice president; Jacquellu McCutcheon, Blshopville, secretary; Maude B. Chlsholrn. Colutnhla. sophomore advisor; (trace Edwards Kllgore, Blshopville. president; Elizabeth Bird, Orover. V C. treasurer; and Paillette West, Camden, freshman advisor. Well Known Publisher Dies In Auto Wreck Norfolk, Va . April 25?W. O. Sauuders, former Elizabeth City (N.C.) publisher, was drowned thlH afterihx)ii when an automobile In which he was traveling alone plunged Into a canal adjoining the Ooorge Washing- J ton highway nine miles south of I>eep Creek. Identification was made by the victim's automobile driver's card, State Police Officer D. S. Leonard j said. Officer Leonard said the body was taken from the car about 4 p. m. It plunged inlo the canal about two hours earlier. Elizabeth City. N. C\, April 25.?W. O. Saunders, who drowned today near Norfolk. Va.. was associated with the Elizabeth City Independent for nearly .10 years, and his name was a household word In eastern North Carolina. The Independent" a weekly newspaper known widely for Its humor and frank presentation of news, had much more than a local circulation. Saunders, as editor, for many years was a storm center of the community, and was Involved In many libel suits. Saunders gained nationwide publicity in ill211 when he strolled down. Main street here In white pajamas and bedroom slippers and advocated this as a sensible attire for men In the summertime. News cameramen broadcast the picture over the nation. The author, editor and journalist was born In humble circumstances In Perquimans county on May 24, 1884. Ills family moved to Hertford, the county seat, when Saunders was a child. At 17 he obtained his first job t>ii the Tar Heel, a weekly newspaper then published at Elizabeth City. Utter he worked on the Norfolk (\'n l Dispatch and on tlve New York American For a time he was also associate editor of Colliers. He was a member of the state house of repre sentatlves in 1919. The Independent went bankrupt In 1937. Saunders went to Washington and became a free lance writer, contributing to national magazines. In an article, "I Feel Like a Man Again." which appeared in the December, j 1937. issue of Nation's Business, ! Saunders said he folt like a new man "with a freedom from those multltu- ; (iinous cares of business ownership and management that has plagued me for nearly 30 years." j In 1938 Saunders launched a news and feature service in Washington Worker'8 Pick Uncovers Treasure Cincinnati, April 23?A city relief worker's pick uncovered a ".gold mine" on a street project today. Gold and silver coins of United States, French and Mexican origin flow Into the air and just as quickly disappear-' ed Into hats, pockets and lunoh palls. All workmen were asked to surrender the money, "very conservatively" estimated at |250, in return for receipts. The one "holdout" said he "wanted to talk to someone in authority" but City Solicitor John D. Ellis tentatively expressed opinion the "finders keepers" rule would apprly. The find came in a neighborhood which once was the home of many of Cincinnati's ollto, and now Is a negro settlement. The coins were dated from 1813 to 1870. Senator Lodge, republican, of Massachusetts states that testimony given by MaJ. H. H. Arnold, chief of the army air corps, last week in a closed session of the senate appropriations committee, had convinced him that every military plane in the service of the United State? is obsolete according to European war standards." Tea was used in China as a medieino rather than a beverage until about the year 500. Greenville Man is A Plant Wizard When Hush L. Vaughan a busy electrical contractor decided he needed a hobby two years ago he turned to the chemical production of plants and today he has a small hothouse full of 1 strawberries and roses sprouting lustily out of plain creek sand. Ho got started when he read an advertisement In a magazine and sent off a coupon requesting the shipment of some ready-mixed commercial chemicals. Before long he went off on his own and bought some regular druggist's chemicals and started experimenting. He built a small glass hothouse off the basement of his house at 107 McGee street, ran a pipe into it from his furnnce and rigged up a thermostat 1 to Insure constant temperature. Then he began mixing his chemicals and seeing what would happen. The first year he concentrated on tomatoes, and In an amazingly small I area he produced enough to keep his household supplied. He simply stuck plants In creek sand, which ordinarily wouldn't sustain Bermuda grass, poured In the proper mixture of chemicals and watched unusually large tomatoes sprout and ripen. Lately Mr. Vaughan's been pretty busy and he's been sort of neglecting his synthetic garden. His wife and her friends have taken over in his absence and the hothouse has become a blossoming bower of flowers. He ' mixes the chemicals In a big vat and ' his wife pours them around the plant roots from time to time. To illustrate the remarkable growth obtained by the chemical method he I>olnts to a big rose bush In the hothouse. He bought a cutting from a florist, planted it, poured a little VItanion B-l into his regular Chemicals and had it blooming in two weeks. There's nothing particularly mysterious about the chemicals?they're standards like aluminum bisulphate and epsom salts? and Mr. Vaughan says there's nothing particularly mys t-rimjH about-miring them, it's alt a matter of experiment and experience. While, because he has been experimenting. his expenses have been prettv high Mr. Vaughan beli-'ves a man with sufficient knowledge and experience could make, a fine living ui owing v. gf-tahies by chemistry. He points to th" fact that growth can be forced, p..in'- may he planted much i lose? ingeth- r and the yield can be made virtually -continuous He's s'ill ati titnti'i ;ir ehmihal gardener. Mr Vaughan admits, hut he has a more or less professional eye to the future This summer he plans to throw out all his sand, waterproof his vats and till them with loose gravel. Then he wants to rig up a pumping system which will send fresh chemicals flowing around the plant roots every three hours. When lie gets that rig complete about all he'll have to do is go down every now und then and harvest the crop.--Greenville News. Sumter Trim* Camden Netters Sumter netters trimmed the Camden high school netters here Monday afternoon 6 to 1. Summary: Beall, Sumter, defeated Rhame 6-2. 4-6, 6-4. H. Moses. Sumter, defeated Little 8-6. 7-5. I/eNolr, Sumter defeated Nllea 6-4, 6-2. Weinberg. Sumter, defeated Major 6-1.2-6,6-4. VanLandlngham, Camden, defeated Lutz 6-1. 6-1. I-enofr and H Moses. Sumter, defeated Rhame and Vanl>andlngham 6-4. Beall and Lutz. Sumter, defeated Little and Niles 7-5. Lieut. Wego Chiang, son of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek . Is studying advanced air tactics at the L. S. army aviation school. Maxwell field. Ala., under the special act of congress permitting certain foreign officers to study air tactics In the United States. In 1939. for the first "time In 100 years, the slums of America ceased growing and began to shrink. Weekly News Letter From Liberty Hill liberty Hill, May 7.?Your reporter availed himself of the opportunity to attend the unveiling of the memorial to Governor und Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman In Columbia on May 1, and enjoyed the privilege of riding to and from Q^he ctydtal city with <Miaa Sophie Richards, affuble und energetic area super visor of WPA work, with headquarters In Columbia. We deeply appreciate the kindness of Miss UlehunjH. At the appointed time Chairman Richards announced that the exorcises would be opened with prayer by Dr. O. M. Richards, of Da-vldson, N. . After which Chairman Richards kept the different parts of the long und varied program moving like clock-work, without hitch or lost motion. Time and space will not permit the mention of -many things of more than passing interest, but the presentation of the different participants in the program, the introduction of officials and prominent persons?in particular .the Tillman family, and the bands, especially the big Wlnthrop College band of gaily uuiformed college girls was liberally applauded -by the big mass of humanity gathered on the platform and around the monument. Senator Byrnes mado an Interesting address, giving -many facts and incidents In the life of Mr. Tillman and held close attention of the big assemblage who reiriained throughout the program, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather?a strong wind and threatening rainfall, which, however, did not materialize. Wo noticed among the big crowd a number of Liberty Hill citizens?among theirn N. S. Richards, Mrs. T. P. McCrae, Miss Virginia 'McCrae, Steven McCrae, J. H. Clements, Mrs. J. G. Richards, Miss Johngy Richards, J. H. Clements, Jr., and others. Governor Richards is due much credit for initiating and carrying to a successful conclusion the convmendtble act of "memorializing" the life and services of one of South -Carolina's most useful citizens. Rev. S. H. Ewart is expected to preach at the Presbyterian church Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Mrs. J. C. McDow, -Mrs. W. C. Corcoran, of Lancaster; Dr. and Mrs. E. E. Corcoran, of Washington; Mrs* J. W. Partrum, and Jack, of Columbia, were Thursday visitors of Misses Clara and Louise Johnston. ... Miss Webber and Miss Margaret Richards were visitors here on Sunday evening. Governor John G. Richards, R. C. Jones, G. R. Clemfents and N. S. Richards attended the county convention in Camden on Monday. The first three as delegates from the Liberty Hill club pud the latter as executive committeeman. Governor Richards was elected as state executive committeeman. Mrs. L. P. Thompson and sons, PatJr.. and John, attended the May day exercJses at West Columbia school on last Friday. Miss Ann Thompson had charge of several of the folk dances. She returned home with her mother for the week end. Miss Lucy Clements, a member of the Wlnthrop band, has been with it when It played in Columbia before the legislature; In Charleston, at the Azalea Festival; in Columbia, last week at unveiling of Tillman memorial. and is anticipating a trip real soon to New York World's Fair. Lucy Is a junior at Wlnthrop. Rev. and Mrs. Mcl>auchlin and their daughter. Ann, of Chester, were visit-_ ing relatives here on Monday. Governor 'and Mrs. John G. Richards, Mrs. T. P. McCrae and Miss Virginia McCrae went to Denmark to hear John Richards McCrae sing. He returned to New York on Monday. Miss Cliristino Perry , Lancaster school teacher, spent the week end with her sister, Mrs. J. H. Clements, who also had as visitors Mrs. Lucy Perry and G. W. Perry, of Lancaster on Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Richards und Miss Edith Richards were guests 'on Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Wilson. of Darlington. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Anderson and sons, of Camden, were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. Z. Hilton. Mr and Mrs. J. B. Cureton, of Camdon. and W. D. McDowall, and sisters. Misses Margaret and Sue McDowall, of Knight's Hill, were visiting relatives on -Sunday. L. P. Thompson and T. P. MoCrae, of Santen-Cooper project, spent Sunday at home. CAMDEN HOSPITAL TO KEEP OPEN HOU8E SUNDAY, MAY 12 The Camden hospital has addressed the following invitation to the people of Camden and Kershaw county: "The Camden hospital, which is your hospital, will keep open house on Sunday, May 12, during visiting hours ?10 to 11 a. m., and 2 to 4 p. m. The ladles of the auxiliary will serve punch and cake in the afternoon. All are welcomed to be shown through the hospital." | - Don't waste a moment if you your child scratching. Prompt action bring* prompt relief. Scolt^^p ^^^Trealmenl Soothe* instantly. KUla the tiny mitet that burrow j under the akin and the itching, dean, quick, mmr cheap and aure. AH drugfista? 30/ Onward, Ever Onward 18 Aim of Campaign SI ii i. . i Onward, over onward presses the Kershaw county tuberculosis association in their effort to conserve the hoalth and life of the county's children and young people. ' Normally, according to Rev. A. Douglas McArn, j chairman of the early diagnosis cam| palgn committee, the annual early diagnosis campaign should have ended April* 30. However, because the job is unfinished, clinics arranged for at 'State Park,, will continue during May and June, even longer should it become necessary. Approximately one hundred fifty people have been examined for tuberculosis since 'March first and appointments are to be filled at State Park "by at least sixty-one, others. I "No stone will be left unturned" until the early diagnosis campaign committee is satisfleld every thing possible has been done to find, early cases of tuberculosis, especially among those of high school age. The sources from which tuberculosis infection comes to threaten the welfare of the young folk is often puzzling. We know they seldom contract the disease from each other, as the case with the common communicable disease. It must come from careless adults or from adults who do not have j the disease. Sometimes children's ' parents are foolish enough to take the u __ u. k. children along when they got tuberculosis cases. Just last the tuberculosis nurse wag ?, ed to have some one w 1th ac9 berculosls and know to be ei ting or spitting up tuberculod remark In her presence, " l ? 1 on Sunday afternoon bocaugg ny people who come to visit a i the children along, ami the < ' make so much noise running out my room." As long a? act so unwisely, we can expe# children in the county infecti tuberculosis and Just so lon^ be necessary to raise Christ* Sale funds for their protectK German planes tried for thrs Frklay night and early Satat penetrate England's southeu defense, returning repoatedlfcoastal region as they were off by heavy anti-aircraft ti searchlights. British defend orlzed It was possible that the came sihgly in relays. Promise of an end to the n and a uniform auto license b am elected governor'' haB bee by Major Thomas Cooper, ci for the Nm'th Carolina govta Cooper said the three ppr cea tax was "driving North trade to South Carolina me and must be eliminated." -w Germans regard carp as an I delicacy. H STATEMENT BY GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. 8? to bo the finest product of its kind j |3 ever offered to the American public | ?one that will cost you less to own I than any other refrigerator you could B|?j I buy at any price." A Better G-E Refrigerator For Less Money Than Eyer with CONDITIONED AIR Controlled humidity and temperature, and constant circulation of clean, sweet, freshened air. Keeps foods fresher longer! hHSTwsn | A \H G-E WISTOM'- j Bought A General [Icttr/if BURNS & BARRETT HOW. CO. j YOUR "G-EM DEALER PHONE 94 CAMDEN, S. C. Tax Notice] " " SEVEN PER CENT PENALTY OH ALL 1939 STATE, COUNTY An SCHOOL TAXES AS BOOKS AM CLOSED AND EXECUTIONS GO Ti I THE SHERIFF. fl C. J. Outlaw,] TREASURER KERSHAW COUNTY, I -I . . i ' 9 riOO IN. Hn - 16% NIT606IN QUARAHTHB i I msm NITRATE W 11 SODA l| " When I buy Nitrate of Soda, I look'for the bag. ARCADIAN NITRATE, the American SODA by homefolka right here in the South. X buy everythtaf "J homefolks. Since I started buying ARCADIAN, I have beeo^ ting better Soda in a better bag and the price hai coma 40 per cent Yes, sir, give me Soda with Uride Sam on THE BARRETT COMPANY jj/tM HOPEWELL, VA. RALEIGH, N. C. COLUMBIA, S. C. ATLANTA, GA. MONTGOMERY, ALA. 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