Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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j SKIPPERING j Hutch was Just a woo dog. but he had u heart that wan an hlK as tfm Kirk wood hotel arid evory beat wan one of love for his youtiK master. A big bulldog with cannibalistic tend* oncles attacked Hutch and before bystanders <ouhl separate tho dogs Hutch had been mo badly maimed it wart necessary to put him away. Which Is just one inoi'6 reason why thoro tthould bo a dog survey In Cam* dcur and dogs with savage inclinations should t?e kept .chained or muzzled We like tho Chariot to idea of requiring dog owners to keep their animalM off tho MtreotH. Another regulation that Camden need* 1h one that will eliminate tho racket eauHod by motors running with mufflers wide open. This applies to autoH, truckH and motorcycles. A well known authority on manners and customs takes a crack at the general practice of Home folks carrying paper cupa containing coca cola or other soft drink concoction Into a theater. This woman authority very bluntly asserts that this practice Is tho "height of 111-biceding." * ? * * After having coca cola spilled on our clothes by some of those lamebrains we are delighted to find this expert on manners frankly asserting her little piece about Ill-breeding. And wo suggest that the folks who eat pop corn with its accompanying greasy smell should bo listed on tho same page with tho dope drinkers. ? * Received a nice message from Carl Llghtfoot. who with his family, are on <1 Jaunt through Florida. On the day of writing Carl and the Missus were Just back from u frolic in the waves at Daytona beach. "The beach is everything and more than you said it was." said Carl. f Real Americans will experience a feeling of disgust over the manner In which the congress is squabbling over defense measures. This is no time for mixing business with personalities. The verbal chastisement given uoiiim />f our UoMsIti Imw tiv Kslten horn over the air was well deserved. V American people have a right to feel sorrow and pity for the suffering people of Helglum and other countries devasted by the hordes of Hitler They have a right to want to extend supplies of food and clothing to those unfortunates. Hut. Fuglaml also1 has a right to refuse to permit these supplies eoing through her blockades. Kngland knows Hith-r and the (or maio< and o-ali/e that any food and Hllpplio-- s?nt to tin- destitute of the devasted nations will reach only the, The gesture is line and j truly Ameiik.m it: character ? but Krtrta-n-1 cannot rnlc.v nny rhanrm'.-? VSSBSSESBnasSSUafleeKSSKSBSMBSflBBBH Sumter Ceases To He A Town | According t<> tin* recent cenMts report. there are more than 24 00U people living In (lie metropolitan area of Sumter ami 1G.G99 within the oily limits. This la an lnciea.se of 4,919 over the city population of 193o which wan 11,780, an lie maso of 12 per cent From reports to date, thin Is the Urgent percentage Increase in population of any community of 10.ooe In South Carolina, and the largest numerical increase,- in the history of Sumter Thl|? report' makes Sumter one of (he fastest growing towns in the I'nlted States. Our community has boon Increasing by leaps ami bounds throughout the past forty years. In 1.4100 Sumter had little more than f>,000 Inhabitants. During the next decade this figure Jumped to 8.100, and In 1020 had increased to 9,">08. Hy 1030 the population hud risen an additional 24 per rent to 11.780. Down through Its history Sumter has not only grown steadily as a trade center and a residential city, but has likewise been very progressive In her government. She gained for herself a permanent place In all political science textbooks in 1912 by ttdopiing the city manager form -of government, the first city in the Culled States to utilize this system. And so. with a population of 16.GOO, Sumter Ceases to be a "town" and becomes a "city."--Sumter Item. Mrs. Sally Shiver Dies Near Camden Mrs. Sally J. Shiver. 83. widow of the late VV. J. Shiver of the Plsgah community. I*eo county, died last Thursday at the residence of her daughter. Mrs. I>ena McManus, Plsgah community. She was born in iho Spring Hill section of Lee county, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McCrady. Funeral services were held from Plsgah Baptist church of which she was a lifelong member at 5 p. m. Friday, the K?v. John T. Littlejohn of Blshopvllle officiating, interment was in the church cemetery. Surviving are three sons. W. H. J Shiver. J. L. Shiver and C. M. Shiver, Plsgah; three daughters. Mrs. C. M. I Dunlap, Mrs. I*mui McManus, Mrs. W. 10. Muggins, all of Plsgah; 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. VOICE OF EXPERIENCE j Denver?enough is enough, so 18-j year-old Robert Leathers of Wayne. | Ohio, is through with hitch-hiking. ! After escaping injury in an acci| den: In which the car turned end' I over end tive times, the boy told high'way patrolmen he had been In nine Residents In the past six months and from now on hitch-hiking was taboo, i Lven a cat with Its nine lives wauldii'x ptisli._lu. luck any lurtlicrX' ] i closed! fo^oncmtpavinq A Sign of Wise Investment 5ortunate arc the communities where a highway is closed for paving with concrete. Temporary inconvenience is quickly turned into lasting satisfaction. This means the end of spring break-up ills?frost boils, mud and ruts. Seasonal load restrictions, dust and the inconvenience of constant road tinkering can be forgotten. Concrete stands up under all legal loads in all weather. It permits speed with safetv. It cuts driving costs to motorists. It reduces road maintenance costs. U. S. Route lf north and south, needs to be widened with concrete $* For Concrete Fucti, Write to PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION Hurt Bldg., Atlanta, Gi. ij.iuniaii.jnii iaiiij.mil ij Nobody's Business Written for Th? Chroniclj by VlcU?e, Copyright, 1M* | AM RUNNING FOR OFFICE a big |h>I11lea 1 barbecue ?**tl fUhfry wan hell satlurday p. m. ?? bick ? mill pond and was well attended by candy, dates and voters, nearly everyboddy It-n -be place with their hands aching iitid bleeding from hawing benn shuck m> much. una. holaum inoore suys that > or the candy-dates for the leggtslaiuif almost wrung her hand off, and Hh,. wont be able to milk her cow for at least 3 weeks. ^ Home of the candy-dates made short \ speeches and bragged on thelrselvea and their klnfolka a right smart, all of them said that they were self-made, and even with that?they all done ft mighty poor Job of It, so said mra. art Situate, enduring the meeting and barbecue, miss Jennie veeve smith raised about 4$ to help buy a new carpet for the pullplt at rehober j church, she says that candy-dates ate mighty blg-harted when they are run|,ling for off Is. but they always get ! over It after they are defeated. I the fishes which were served were I not ketched locally but the market 'man said a friend of his ketched them In norfolk, Virginia, they et verry -good!?but the fat-back meat which they were fried In tasted better than they tasted, cornbread was allso on j hand with each helping, all for c25. coffee was c." extry and so was Ice' tea ansoforth. somo of the candy-dates made like they dlddent have anny appetite to eat nothing but mra. slim chance, Jr., said that they said that because they dlddent have no monney to buy nothing to eat with. it is going to be a hard summer on the deer people, they will have to Hhake thousands upon thousands of horny-hands and smile when they fef>l more like frowning, the country has more politeness in it than it has ewer had befoar. men who are seeking offls are bowing and scraping and praying In publiek and singing In the quire and donating a dime here and a nickel there, none of things they have ewer indulged in befoar. all of them are sure of election. yores trulie. mike lark, rfd, corr.v spondent. WAR NEWS mr. holsum rnoore keeps right up to the mlnnet ou the war news, he says that mossy-lena and his it-layans are great fighters, to let them tell it. they sunk a big brittlsh battleship 3 times last week and diopped 5 big bums on top of its turrets besides, he dlddent know whether they dropped the hums befoar they sunk it the third time or after they sunk it. he wonders if the dagoes carry th-ir monkeys and grinding organs into battle with them. he blames the fall of france and hollnnd on inside traitors and trojan ho*se?. he explained that the trustors would g<n on their trojan bosses 8t night and run rough-shod over soldiers and niffugoes. he says that them trojan bosses are shod with big heavy steel shoes with nails poking thru I In-in and if tiny ever step on anyboddy or kick them. Its good-o>e susie. lie has nevvr seen a trojan ! hoss. hut after the war he thinks the u. s. should import some ot them and i raise them to fai in with. ! hitler has cut expenses in the I countries that he captured and put | them on a sound financial basts, he 'has done away with all churches, so |a man newer has to donate nothing | ;o a preeeher. and he saves that, he j has allso outlawed all ciwic clubs and j nil pollltical parties has done away : with the practice of leeching seholl jibe old way. he has allso took over I all power plants and waiter systems land cotton mills ansoforth. he Hxes jail wedges, that Is?if he decides to ! pay any a-tall. he has no labor unions i and a fellow alnt allowed to talk back I to noboddy. not even his wife, over I there, he has allso done away with 1 conventions and elections and all | manner of voting mr. moore says that the hitler .tea 1 and the mossy-lena followers ought I to be shipped from the u s. to their j beloved countries and feuhrurs if we are fair to the animal kingdom, it's our duty to help them to get v.ith the people and the gowerment they so deerly love, lie further says it's against the law over there to shoot ,i fifth collumnist. hut over there h?-v will even shoot first and secont collumist without asking befoarhand if ihey ht" guilty ansoforth where you makes a lot of difference these days, yores rrulie. mike lark. rfd. cony spondent. i Constipated? i or v?*ra I had occasional constipation, a.. ' ,i Ka* M>>atin?. headache* and hack pain*. '.VI in ika *Ua>* hel|>cd right a*ay. Now. I i cat MiiMjff, hananaa, pie, anything I want* W a V ft V 4 A A V i r l'miiwj DeKALB PHARMACY J ? Washington. D. C., Aug. 2 Thla week In tho Ho ua? was taken up by consideration of three major measures: Addition to the Tennessee Valley Authority by adding a National Defense Dam Project; Supplementary National Defense Dill; and the Hill extending the powers of the Commodity Credit Corporation. The House Rules Committee granted legislative right of way yesterday to a measure which would permit ships to transport war refugee children, provided the ships were granted ' safe conduct" by all warring nations. Any vessel on such a mission could carry no cargo, would be unarmed and could not be convoyed by war vessels. Only children under 16 years of age could be transported. In less than two and a half hours, and with only one dissenting vote, the House Wednesday passed and sent to the Senate tho supplementary national defense bill providing $5,o00.000.000 to build a two-ocean Navy, equip an Army of 1,200,000 men and procure 19,000 planes. Resides making possible vast expansion of the armed forces, the bill boasts the limitation of profits on airplane contracts to 12 per cent from the 8 per cent level established five weeks ago In the naval "speed-up" bill. Shipbuilding profits will continue to be limited to 8 pec-cent. In addition, the measure repeals a provision that had been inserted in the "speed up" bill granting the President power to take over aud operate private plants if necessary for national defense purposes. Officials of the State, Treasury, Commerce and Agriculture Departments urged the Senate Banking Committee Wednesday to give speedy approval to legislation adding $500,000,000 to the lending power of the Export-Import Bank. President Roosevelt proposed the increase to assist Latin American nations through loans to carry on trade under wartime conditions. Sumner Welles, Acting Secfetary of State, told the committee that the Export-Import fund "would constitute a most effective and important part of the program of inter-American economic corporation and hemisphere solidarity." Secretary of Agriculture Wallace said the program would fit into the general scheme of cooperation "along economic, political and military lines among the nations of the Western Hemisphere." Robert If. Hinckley, Acting Secretary of Commerce, said the proposal "reflects recognition that our economic velartoirs with the other countries of this hemisphere and economic conditions in such countries are vital factors in our ability to defend ourselves against attack." Having been appointed by Speaker Hankhcad. as one of a special committee of the House to meet Secretary Hull and party at the Washingdon I'uion Station Thursday morning, it was a real pleasure to greet this great American upon his return from the Havana Conference and one of his greatest diplomatic victories. Few thought that Hull would ever persuade all of the twenty-one American Republics to sign a joint declaration of policy in regard to transfer of European possessions in this hemisphere. Now dictators know that the Americas are united against the spread of their systems to the new world. CITATION The State of South Carolina, Couniy of Kershaw, (By N. C. Arnett, Probate Judge) Whereas. Carrie Hunter et al have made suit, to me to grant Arthur Pickett loiters of Administration de bonis non of the Estate and effects of Simpson Hunter. These are. Therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said Simpeon Hunter, deceased, that tJiey be and appear before me. in the Court of Probate, to be held at Camden. S. C , on August 20. next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not bo granted. Given under my hand this 5th day of August, Anno Domini 1940. X C. ARNETT, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County] Goodrich Tires ? Batteries EASY TERMS RADIOS ? BICYCLES ECONOMY AUTO SUPPLY CAMDEN, S. C. Zd~. . V 7ZT ? , ' - _ Si Famous Arctic j . Explorer Dies New Hochelle, N. y., Auk. 5.?Dr. Frederick A. Cook, 77-year old explorer, whose claims to discovery of the North Pole precipitated au early twentieth-century world.wide coutroverny, died today aften a long 111noss. Stricken three montha ago by a cerebral hemorrhage, the aged adventurer of the Arctic never fully recovered, and was taken again to the hospital 10 days ugo. Dr. Cook sprang into international prominence In September, 1909, when he announced ho had discovered the North Pole. Five days later Admiral Kobert E. Peary claimed* he had reached the top of the world first. Cook's claim that ho discovered the Pole on April 21, 1908, a year before Peary reached the world's top, eventually was held to .be disproved and Peary, who insisted ho could find no evidence of anyone's preceding him when he was there iir April 1909, was accepted as the discoverer. Cook sank into comparative obscurity after his losing fight with Peary until 1922 when ho was convicted of mall fraud and sentenced to 14 years in prison. Broken in health, he was paroled in 1930. Then, as he lay apparently on his death bed last May, President Roosevelt granted him a full pardon and as Cook emerged from a coma which had I claimed him for days, he uttered only a feeble "thanks?happy." ' Dr. Cook died alone?alone as lie had so often been during his arctic Journeys. Hospital attendants making theirj routine morning rounds had been In' his room a few minutes before his passing and his condition seemed unchanged. j ? I SUMTER BOY BENEFICIARY OF I LEE SCHOLARSHIP AT CITADEL' Charleston, S. C., July 28.?George Edward Haynesworth of 407 West! Hampton Avenue, Sumter, has been1 selected as the beneficiary of the Wil-J liam States Dee Scholarship at The Citadel. This scholarship was recently made vacant by the appointment of the former holder to the United States Naval Ararlerrtv tn tho uolor. Hon of the winning candidate special attention was given to scholastic attainment and promise of success In college. The winner is a 1940 graduate of the Sumter High School, where he made an extraordinary record. Besides carrying a full academic course, In which he averaged above 95 per cent, he participated in basketball, baseball, football,- track, and swimming. He was editor-in-chief of the Sumter High News during his last year in high school, the paper winding first place in the State- in its class. He was a member of the high school band his last three years and belonged to- the school -orchestra in I his junior and senior years. For two years he was president of his class, was vice-president one year, and was home-room president for one year. He is a member of the Quill and Scroll/ and last year served as president of the South Carolina Scholastic Press Association. - I William States Dee. by whose es-! tate the scholarship was established,! graduated at The Citadel in 1894. He was a distinguished civil and hydroelectric engineer, and was one of the men prominent in the establishment of the Duke Power Company. In his later years he was one of the governing board of Duke University. Young Haynesworth will report at The Citadel to enter as a freshman September 2. The Republican national committee has made public a letter from John B Jameson, a former New Hampshire Democratic chairman, pledging support to Wendell D. Wlllkle for president. Federal Judge Myers Dies In Charleston | Charleston. Aug. 2.?Federal Frank Kerchner Myers dk-d Hl ^ home here today after un iiluew o! several months,. He was to y^rg ^ I Hefore his appointment as judg* ^ 'the United States court ot the erp District of South Carolina in ' Judge Myers had been I'lurl*^ 'county master In t*|uity since lyos. j He was the father-in-law of oOY. ' ernor Burnet H. Maybank of South 1 Carolina. I Judge Myers was born March 7, '1874. at Wilmington. N. C . vu>?re ^ attended public schools and the ape Fear accademy. He studied law in the office of P. A. NVillcox In Florence, S. C-, and was admitted to the bar in I April 1896. I For ten years prior to his elecUtn j las master in equity Judge Myers *M 1 'stenographer for the first circuit] I court. In 1897 he married Miss RobertM Atkinson Smith of Raleigh, N. c,fl who survives. | m addition to the widow and Mn. | Maybank other survivors Include ? 'daughter, Mrs. John A. Vincent, and a son, Frank K. Myers, Jr., of Augusta. Danish Sailor Boys Stranded Jacksonville, Fla., July 31?Seventy-eight blond Danish sailor boygstranddd here for the duration of Europe's war? have no great desire j to get back to a Nazi-dominated home'land. But they would like to mak?< a little money while waiting. The Danish training ship Danmari," a white-hulled square-rigged sailor, ii anchored In the St. Johns river, ontfl of tfle sevaral foreign vessels keptfl In port here by the waT. fl 'Many or the Danmark's cadets have.* found girl friends since they haT# been In port, and they are chafing 1 a little under circumstances whick I have left them all but penniless. "But they do not need anything," fl says Capt. Knud L. Hansen, their ta|l fl commander, who insists he never wlll^| sail the Danish government's nwfl chant marine officer training ship u- I der a German flag. 9 The ooys iiau new wune unnormi* given to them by Jacksonville rcii*"] dents when hot weather caught then fl with winter clothes. They TtctlTtd shoes, too, and tobacco. .fl On their shore leave two wentag* fl a week, they have found dinner par ties, dances and outings plentiful. fl The ship's steward said they were] being fed better than If they were at] sea. Fresh vegetables and dairy prod- fl ucts are provided by United State* fl I treasury relaxation of Its j freezing" rule* to permit the Wm \ mark officers to draw on Danish gold fl reserves in this country. fl I The cadets go to a riverfront partfl i daily to play. Friends have furnish*] MtMfijT suits ftfr them to n] nearby beaches. But they'd still | to earn money to entertain thel? | American girls. I Roger W. Babson. the statistic!*!] | turned politician, asserts that Amer lis short of only two things?partniH space and character. "Character ) the thing that will save GreatM* |ain," declares the prohibition candidate for president. M .] machines win battles, but courag fl character wins wars." NOTICE TO DEBTORS fl AND CREDITORS All parties indebted to the e?t*jjfl of L I. Guion, deceased, are net -m notified to make payment to tn dersigned, and all parties, if a ^ fl ing claims against the saI ^fl will present them likewise, tested, within the time prescribed laW ELIZABETH G- GUION. fl U I. GUION, Jr., J. TEAM GETTYS, fl Executrix and Biwntori -m Camden, S. C., July 29. l940, | I NOTICE I J Effective this date. All Contractors or other* I i making repairs to buildings or erecting new building* I will be required to have Building Permit exhibited on I H the job before work has commenced. | Failure to secure Building Permit before work I | has commenced will be considered a mi*dem??n0' IB ' ^B punishable as provided by Law. I G. F. COOLEY, ||l I City Tax Collector. J ... \. jiTu' i mrjffifffirr" i* "k^-* *.'