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I Cruising Around with i "Skipper" ft ^ ^ M ^** ?u, .ud<l?o thought o( the week i? .? wouldn't It he fuo to he ?ble to on the time we h?ve weetei Tout life ?'"? then do ell the thing, we wanted to do hut could never hud for. |>(( u, good friend, Dave who ha. Just returned Iron, a bualue.. Jaunt to Lw Vork tell, a .lory hbout a drunk .ho had boarded a double deok bu. ,?d .tumbled to top deok, hut oume Idling down a minute later mumb ?| ain't going to ride up there! There', nobody driving. Seen on the wludow of a real estate 'office. "Oar business is improving lots." la winter time when frosty time Bespangles all I view, ' My fancy files to sunny skies And flowers of varied hpe. Xn(l when at last grim winter's past, Anil summer round me lies Again I pray the frost to slay Mosquitoes, gnats and flies. +-# * Down In Fort Myers, Florida, they are all het up because the screen play "Edison, the Man," does not mention Foh Myers at all during the actIon of the drama. As a matter of fact ajl of Florida is Indignant over this omission. * We think the Florida folks have justifiable ground for being peeved. Tom Edison was not Just a tourist in the Sunshine State." fae went to Fort Myers in 1883 Just after his first Invention. He established his laboratory there, and carried out most of his experiments. Today that, laboratory Is In the Henry Ford collection of Edisonlana at Dearborn. We would remind the Florida folks that the picture was (filmed In California, which Is sufficient reason for Florida being left out. * Dtd you know that -Matt Ferguson's elephant, Miss Alice of Chancefleld, [ hs been the source of greater pubBclty than any other event In Camden history. The story and pictures sent out by this department made the first page In thousands of newspapers. It was the flrot Camden picture io_ make the wire pho'to. * * And to cap the climax today a Fox movietone news camera man will be in Camden to get some (motion pictures of Miss Alice for use In the news reel. While the camera man, M. D. Cooke, is here, the Chamber of Commerce has arranged for him to take other motion picture shots of historic places. * Neville Chamberlain, England's umbrella man, once said "Hitler has missed the bus," is walking a lonely road to oblivion. Soldier-members of the English parliament are now demanding of Sir Neville, now lord president of the council, why the British government during his reign as prime minister permitted the English army fo become obsolete from the standpoint of modern war-machinery. Soldiers returning from Flanders are demanding that parliament stage an English blitzkrieg and rid the governni"n of appeasement apostles. The British remembered how they won the last war. The formula looked good enough to ^in another, so they dusted It off last September and hung on to It, even" In the face of a new order of military technique used in Poland. Germany, remembering how she lost the last war, discarded losing methods lu favor of something new which at least had a chance to win. Where, Inquired a caller in the office of this department, is Bessarabia? We know that one. It is next door to a fix and you know what kind of a fix: * So enemy planes will not use them for landing fields, England is digging up the fairways on her golf courses. After watching some of the local golf talent last 'Sunday we are inclined to believe that some of them have the same idea as the English. * * * ? Sentence in golf write-up in New York paper: "Ben Hogan took a cursory glance at the Ball." Some of my good friends were taking cursory slices last Sunday afternoon. * - Attention, Mr. Mayor and city commissioners: Itinerant street takers and beggars can not be classified as desirable transients on public stroets of any community. * ^ Last Minute Musings?Miami Florida, doubted its .population in the last ten years. But Miami Beach took top honors in the nation by trebling its 1930 figure. Columbia, Palmetto capital, had (but a 17 per cent gain and the announcement caused a mild sensation in the ranks of municipal officials. Senator Pepper, of Florida, Beveral weeks ago said Italy would enter the war on June 10. Speaking of high-class prognosticates?hats off to Pepper. Now we know what that secret weapon Hitler has been talking about is. Answer: that dagger old man Mussolini stuck in the .back of the Allies. A British broadcaster says that British aviators spread "destruction and chaos behind the German lines." It might not be a bad idea If they tried it up in front. * * Last minute sport flashes: The Sumter Legion Jui#or ball club comes here Tuesday. Whjt^ot have a real" turnout of fans to greet the Camden team. Sumter defeated Camden under the lights last week 10 to 9, but it was the first game of the season for the Camden boys and also the first the players had ever worked under lights. - On Thursday next week the Epworth orphanage team of Columbia plays 'here. Steve Bundrick hit a home run.in the seventh Inning of the Wolves?Waynes game in the sofbball league last Monday and won for the Haynes team 3 to 2. Two Men Drown In Wateree River Two men, Marvin Washington. 24, and Muster Tucker, 28, drowned in the Wateree river 4 miles north of Kastover at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. The men were iu a boat negotiating | a crossing of the river, together with Joseph Kinsey, for mean; Hilly Tolar, 1 son of the superintendent of the Holly Hill Lumber company of Kiugsville. { and Charlie Joseph, Jr. The 'boat did not overturn but the occupauls, with the exception of the youngest boy In the group, either lost their balance or Jumped luto the river, according to information given to Corouer John A. Sargeant. The group was connected with the lumber company which was preparing to begin work on a trestle across the river at the John Cottou plantation. Coroner 'Sargeant and Deputy Sheriff Tom H. Scott went to the scene and the bodies were located with dragging equipment in 25 feet of water. An Inquest will bo held. It was Richland county's second and third drowning in two days. Charles George, 17, of Taylors Road, drowned In a Bluff road plantation pond Thursday.?Saturday's State, Kight Run Rally Wins For Sumter (Saturday'!* Sumter Horn) When Lefty Mol*eod, Camden pitcher, gave up two hits in a row iu the eighth inning, the Camden coach sent him to the showers and trotted out Johnson, a right-hander, to stop the Sumter sluggers. Hut Johusou was duck soup for the slugging soutbslde batters of the Sumtm wrecking crew and before the tmoke had cleared Sumter had pushed eight runs over the pan. Up to the time of MoLeod's removal from the lighting line, he had given up hut three hits In six tunings. Camden was leading 4 to 2 when the Sumter blitzkrieg was stageu. Sumter won 10 to 9. . The local Juulors showed another brilliant performance by rapping out eleven safe blows that accouuted for teu tallies, while C&nulen also dinplayed some hitting power, amassing nine hits for nine runs. Gene Bradley and "Bull" Berry led Sumter's siege gun hitting, blasting out three hits ' in five times to the plate. Two of Bradley's hits were tremendous triples to center that accounted for four runs. However, James Parmer had a perfect night at the bat, getting two for two, 'both of his hits coming in the aovent.h frame. Johnson, Bowers and Hunter each collected two hits for Camden, one df Johnson's being a triple. Prom the first to the sixth inning it was an old fashioned pitcher's duel between Lefty Graham, of Sumter, and I^efty Mol^eod for the Camden Juniors, each giving up three hits and one run during these six stanzas, Camden took a one run lead In the Initial Inning when Graham walked two men and Bowers singled sharply to left field. Sumter came 'back to tie the score In the third when Jenkins struck out but the catcher dropped the ball and he reached first on the error. Bradley then singled, driving him to third, when Berry stepped up to the bat and sent a screaming liner to center scoring Jenkins. The Gamecocks took a one run lead in the fifth as Edens reached first on an infield out and came home when Bradley sent a long triple to the center field fence. However, the visitors knotted the count in their half of the sixth on a base on balls and error by Edens in right aijd a single uy Hunter, the Bulldogs' backstop. Camden added two more runs in the seventh on a walk, single arid two errors. At this stage of the game Charles Tomlineon replaced Lefty Graham on the mound for Sumter. Farmer opened Sunster's half of the seventh with a single, then an error by the Camden second -baseman ena- bled Tomlinson to get on base, Jenkins fanned and Bradley tripled for second time to center, driving home three runs. Berry sent Bradley across with another run with his second hit. At this stage Johnson started pitching for Camden. Mlms greeted him with a triple, Gulledge walked and Parmer come through with his .second ML In the same Inning, sending . both across the plate. The fire works finally stopped when Tomlinson singled Farmer home with tho eighth run of the inning. With two men out In the eighth Camden came through for three hits and an error to give them four runs. They again staged a rally In the final frame but felL short of tlelng the score by one run when Tomlinson struck out the last two batters with the tleing run on second base. The Score: It H E Sumter 10 H 6 Camden 9 9 5 Batteries: Sumter, Graham, Tomlinson and Bradley; Camden, McLeod, Johnson and Huter. WE KILLED 'EM The United States department of agriculture estimates that boll weevil damage In 1939 caused the following percentage reductions from full cotton yields: Virginia 32 North Carolina 23 Georgia H Florida 1* Alabama IS Mississippi 13.. South Carolina 8 These figures for states In the Southeastern region are Interesting, and significant. Why was boll weevil damage less In South Carolina than In any other state of the region? The answer seems to be this: the baited poison method of killing boll weevils is commonly practiced in fftiuth Carolina, but not commonly practiced In other cotton producing states.?The State. , County agent HcCarley tella in another place in The Chronicle toddy of an inexpensive hut effective fomulae for poisoning boll weevils which has saved the farmers of this state many thousands of dollars. Many persons believed that barbed wire was more important than railroads in the development of the west It .^sounded the death knell of the longhorn cattle, and made possible the introductoin of pnrdbred stock. It changed the vast prairies into an empire of homesteads. Old Oak# Preserved By Louisiana Society Great oaks from membership fees grow when the fee is 23 acorns a year, as it is in the unique Live Oak society which flourishes in Louisiana. Under the constitution of the society. organized by Dr. Edwin L. Stephens, president of the Southwestern Louisiana institute at Lafayette, the membership roIJ includes only live oaks 100 or more years old and the owner or other interested person must pay annual dues of 25 acorns from each tree. The "dues" are planted in the live oak nursery of the institute farm to aid in the propagation of these distinctive giants of the southern state. Many of the beautiful oaks, with long beards of Spanish moss, which trail between New Orleans and Lafayette, are charter members of the society, as most of them are more than a century old. The original 1 "president" of the society was the Locke Breaux oak at HahnviUe, with a circumference of 35 feet and a spread of 166 feet. The Seven Sisters oak at Lewisburg, however, also lays claim to the distinction of being the largest tree and, therefore, entitled to the office of the presidency. This tree ] is considered the most imposing live oak spectacle in Louisiana, with a circumference of 36 feet and a huge spread, but it is evidently a cluster of six or t^pven trees close together rather than one tree. Scores of other trees are members In the society and each year new ones are being added as they attain the proper age. Last year the beautiful avenue of live oaks known as "Oak Alley," situated on the Mississippi river in St. James parish, was taken into the society. This distinction again is challenged by the Versailles oaks located at Chalmette, where the battle of New Orleans was fought in the War of 1812. The 70 trees in this grove were planted by Pierre Denis de la Ronde, former owner of the Versailles plantation. (J. S. It Older as Nation Than Germany or Italy As united, centralized nations, Germany and Italy are both younger than the United States. "It was not until 85 years after the American Declaration of Independence that the modern kingdom of Italy was formed by the union of various small Italian states," says the National Geographic society. "Victor Emmor.ucl II, formerly king of Sardinia, was declared its first sovereign. Still later by another decade was the modern German empire cemented together under Prussian leadership In 1871. First emperor was William I of Prussia. "On the other hand, in terms of racial and political history, Italians ju\d Germans both look back on a past many centuries old when the Pilgrims landed in New England. Rome once ruled an empire from England to the Persian gulf, including the Mediterranean and the countries that rimmed it. The Teutons, had their 'innings' in the Holy Roman empire of the Middle ages, when their domain stretched from the Baltic and North seas to tha Mediterranean, and half-way down the boot." , , ,L Iceland's Heating Plant In Iceland everybody, has s job and now even nature itself is about to go to work?providing for tha homes of Reykjavik. A huge central 'heating plant will be built to utiliza the hot Springs of Iceland in heating the homes of the capital. Not so frigid as the name suggests, Iceland is a land of volcanic origin and of hot springs and geysers. In the neighborhood of Reykjavik the flow of hot water totals more than 200 gallons a minute?ample supply for the new heating plant. If Iceland eliminates the use of coal by means of the plant, that fact will be another distinction for this island state, which already has no army, no navy, no unemployment, no relief, no national debt. It has more books and newspapers for its population than any other country in the world, and Reykjavik has more university trained people than any other capital of its size. Hinged Bill The woodcock has a hinged bill, which serves a very good purpose as do most of the strange adaptations nature makes in her children. The woodcock feeds largely on earthworms and other foods for which it probes into the ground with its bill. The upper part of the bill, or mandible, is flexed towards the end. The end of the bill is very sensitive, so sensitive that it can feel a worm or grub when it comes In contact Vrlth it. Then?snip?the flexible, forceps-like bQl Is opened, and the meal is firmly gripped and dragged from the ground. Grouse Called Pheasant There is really no native American pheasant, although the ruffed grouse is often referred to in many liarts of the,country aa a "pheasant." This "native pheasant" if tha same bird that is sometimes known as a "partridge" in most of the northern states. Our native birds who resemble the pheasant are 1 mostly grouse. Only members of the ringneck variety of pheasa'nts, - of which there are about 17 species, have been introduced into this country with anv wide success.' MANY PATIENTS LEAVE STATE PARK TOO EARLY Three of the nine patients, admit led to State Park from Kershaw county since January first came home after a very brief stay, against the advice of the sanatorium physicians. Two of these people had no means of adequate support. That one-third of the patients admitted to a tuberculosis hospital from this vicinity returned home so soon is a good reason for giving careful consideration to some of the most important services these people are now unable to get. Quoting Col. W. H. Moncrief's story of sanatorium facilities in the June Issue of the QoOoSan Piper, "Tuesday afternoons at the sanatorium are set aside for Btaff conference. The medical staff composed of nine physicians meets to view X-rays and review case histories. Diagnoses of new patients Are made and the type of treament in each case la. outlined by the staff. Likewise no patient is discharged without approval of the staff in conference." Most of the sixty-odd patients now on the records of the Kershaw county Tuberculosis Association seldom see a physician either (before admission to the sanatorium or during the years following dismissal except when suffering from a very acute symptom. The reason Is that medical care costs something and most tuberculosis Is present among people whose Income is limited. Usually, those who leave the sanatorium without permission, after a period of battling for an existence?; medical care, food, clothing, a comfortable place to rest, say to the tuberculosis nurse, "Do you think they would let me go back to State Park?" But since there are long lists of people waiting admission, it is seldom that these cases can be readmitted. Hospital routine is different from home life, but it is best for tuberculosis cases. At the present time, airplane manufacturers are turning out about 400 non-military airplanes a month. When pins were invented in the 14th oentury, they were bo expensive that it was customary to give a person a sum of money to be used as "pin money," hence the term. In a hollow tree, which has no opening to the outside, the decaying heart continues to sink to the bottom and condense in bulk until it is hardly noticeable. If there is an opening, the decayed portion frequently Is carded away by birds and insects. I Says Civilization Is Going To Pieces Columbia, June 6.?KMitor Julian Miller of the Charlotte Observer told the 65 graduates of Columbia collogo today that "You are stepping Into a world where the pillars of clviliEftlion are being destroyed, where there are no arms of welcome, no sure footing, at the time of a universal orlsts." Uveuts in the world today, he assorted, "are so appalling and so filled with fearsomeness that one must grope feebly and haltingly for an intelligent and inspiring word to say to a generation stepping out into this ghastly arena." Dr. Miller declared that "there is no precedent nor parallel in the long story of humanity's life for the tragedies of these hours and that whatever we ' mean by civilisation, it is this which Is crashing and crumbling all about ub. The world that we have known throughout the Christian era is going to pieces right before our eyes." L. T. Beam Dies In V Ned's Creek Section KerstfWwT June 10?funeral services for L. T. Beam, 52, who died at bis home in the Ned's Creek section of Kershaw county, near here Sunday afternoon, were conducted from Shiloh Methodist church Monday afternoon by the Rev. D. A. Phillips, as* sisted by the Rev. -M. H. Dry* In addition to his widow, Mrs. Nannie McCasklll Beam, he Is survived .br fpur?.d?ughtera. aod..onn *aiv Mrs.. .. .. Clarence Crlmmlnger, of Lancaster, Mrs Paul Gregory, Mrs. Perry Reeves, ; Mrs. Crawford Gardner and Thomas Beam, all of Kershaw; two brothers and on? sister, A. C. Beam, Bossomer?City, N. C.; C. C. Beam, Bossier City, I>a., and Mrs. James Trull, of Concord, N. C., also survive. '??"Z\ ^*yA i 4 KV IN 7DAYS V^L 666 LIQUID OR TABLETS NOTICE I Notice is hereby given that current '' I will be Off on Sunday, June 1940, from 5:30 a.m.,to 8 a.m., on account of Carolina Power & Light Company doing some work on main feed line. Municipal Utilities . -v- ? .. - - -'w - o - i..i. ii. - - - - - - -1 < ? .. i;-i,fcLiS&Ji. i . ./5 ^T" - ?j? ~.f^slx ' / Z~ Stop the Boll Weevil NOW Blackstrap Molasses: In 57 gal. Barrel*, 13 l-2c per gal. Smaller amount*?you furni*hing container?-14 l-2c per gal. Calcium Arsenate: In case lot* or more, 6 3-4c j Smaller amount*, 7c. Extra nice lot of Biloxi Beans. Priced Right. We have installed Machinery for ? Cleaning and Treating Cottonseed Wheat, Rye, Oats, Peas, Beans, Lespedeza and Crotalaria Seed. Very Reasonable Prices. BAILEY DISTRIBUTING and MILLING COMPANY BLANEY, S. C. wmmmr 1 ??1 r - H1CK0K ff, and Suspenders" < For Fathers Day . W. Sheorn & Son , I '# f*' 10% REDUCTION ^^^WHlfHW^^r IN ROUND-TRIP COACH PARES ^^HHHHMr^ J ON THE SEABOARD SYSTEM Plan Now ! Visit the New York t* World's Fair _ Consult local Seaboard Agent. ON* WAV FARE8 FROM CAMDEN, 8. 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