Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ws Letter berty Hill 28?The condition pie in thin vllluge ?r than when we lovernor Richard# several week# of heme, Two sun# BlUle?of Mr, aud are up alter cases Lamar, lour year irs. B. L. Jones is the same disease, rained nurse, irda , faithful and the Green school aster county, has over two weeks the first time she ming hor school &r fourteen years, lutte a good record P. Thompson aud t guests of his sister, Kev. and uchlln. of Chester. . MacLauchliu ha# > time, but they ich improved. i was on a see and several up Btate He visited severSpartanburg. Visitor where he spent ed at home on Fri. v rds returned home islt of some weeks iughter-iu-law, Rev. Richards, in Meridte Is pastor oii one arches. Mts. Rlchisit very uch--e she was confined u- . . , u L. Sauls and daughSauls, were Sunday e of Governor and Is, parents of Mrs. prominent citizen of welcome visitor in y last week. . ames Cunningham, re in our village on datives and friends n's boyhood home. ). Cunningham and . H. Clements were In Camden on Mon, T AW unu, md J. Abe Hilton trip to Camden on ~ am, Jr., was a Camad&y test. s having a new convinced on * hi# resirk for January lshed the old year's wise for the club aok over it and see illurps, and lmproveade in 1940?think nistakes and resolve in 1941?note yvhat have marfe and rethem. >f report of the work ary meeting by four The Charlotte Thompson Club met with 10 members present, Cassatt 10, Mt. Pisgah 18, and Malvern Hill 18, and one new member joined Mrs. C. E. Dyroock. The members of the various clubs are very anxious to make 1941 the very best < iub year. The clubs elected their now officers for 1941 and appointed i ho ""various chairmen. Each Chairman was given goals for year. Miss Kcwell gave outline of year's work. 1 think this year's work as planned promises to be not only interesting but very beneficial to all farm families as Miss Fewell Is working so hard ou The Live at Home Program." This year all the clubs are requested o begin their meeting, with flag salute. Miss Fewell presented each . Iub with a flag to be^u^ed at each meeting. Miss Fewell asked members of each club their opinion of exchanging the iocal 4-H Club Camp for a club market lo be used by ''The Council of Farm Women." The members wore much In favor of this proposition as we need a larger community market. At the close of last year's work the Malvern Hill H. D^jC- Joined the chapter of American Rod Cross Work. At this month's meeting members reported having made more than a dozen garments for tbe Rod Cross. On W.sd; nesday afternoon January 29 the members are planning to meet at the home of Mrs. John Langford to make more garments for the Red Cross. This concludes H. D. C. work for January and all clubs will meet in February at their appointed time Contributed. W. P. Barfleid Dies at Kerahaw Kershaw, Jan 28.?W. P. ("Pink"), Barfleid, 66, died suddenly of a heart attack' Tuesday night at his home near here. He is survived by one son and cn? daughter, WillHam Barfleid and Miss Kqihryn Barflekl; also one sister ?nd two brothers, Mrs. Y. L. Copeland, L. E. Barfleid and D. A. Barfleid. all of Funeral" services were-conducted at 3 p. m. .Wednesday from Hanging Rook Methodist church by tWtf"Rer. Mr. McLeod. Interment was In the churchyard. Argentina will expropriate foreign ships anchored in her harbors. If necessary, to oops with ths problwmof Camden School | Training Contract ., Washington, Jan.' 23?The army i stepped up its pilot trainiiiK program j today wit|i the award of contracts to >!t schools to provide elemontury training (or 1.1 UO new student ftyors every ten weeks, beginning about March 22, With.,17 privuto Meboola already giving elementary flying instruction to1 1,283 students, the air corps now ex-1 poets to reach it training goal of 12,-' 000 army pilots a year.'- I Among the schools receiving the now con tracts, each of thoui to have a ^lass of 100 students, wore: fOmbry-Hlddle company, Arcadia, Fla.; Graham Aviation company, Ainerlcus. Ga.. and Southern ^Aviation school, Camden, S. C. Amounts involved in- the contructa were not disclosed. Students completing the elementary flight training at these and the 17 schools previoulaj* under contract .will bo given basic and advanced training at air corps training centers. - Like tho elementary course, tho basic and advanced courses last ten weeks. Under the air corps expansion program, officials said, the number of students enrolled lu the civilian training schools under contract with the department Increased from 475 on last May 18 to 1,688 on Jatauary 4, and would roach 2,383 on March 22. ^ -J*-* ? ? Will Award Certificates On Saturday morning, February 1, at 10:30, there will be a meeting at the court house in Camden for the purpose of awarding certificates to a group of farmers of Kershaw county who raised 75 per cent or more of their food and feed crops for 1940. This certificate will be signed by the Governor of South Carolina; D. W. Watkins, director of extension service; I Verd Peterson, state supervisor of vocational agriculture and W. T. Hoiley, chairman of better * living committee 1n this county. At this meeting a short program and radio broadcast will be sponsored by each South Carolina radio station and each county In the State.will have meetings similar to ours. Governori Mayibank, D. W. Watkins," and Verd Peterson will make short talks' over the radio. The public is invited to attend this meeting says W. C. McCarley county agent. Eagles Win First Home Victory Tuesday night, bought the first home game of the season and second victory for the- "Blue Bugles" of Mather Academy. The opposing team was Coulter Academy of Cheraw, S. C. At the end of the first half the scores were 20-2 In favor of Mather. During the second half the second and third teams of Mather entered the game, bringing it to a close with the scores 34-13. The other attraction was an intramural game between the sevens and eights which brought the sevens out on to p tth a e on top at the end with a score of 16-8. Negro Physicians Attend Conference Drs. J. P. Pickett and J. H. Thomas attended the first post-graduate seminar for Negro physicians in South Carolina whi^h was held at Staft A. & M. College of Orangeburg, January 28 to 30. Dr Thomas and Dr. Pickett are the only two negro physicians in Kershaw county and both Reside in Camden. Dr. Pickett was graduated from the Leofoard Medical School in Raleigh, N. C., and began his practcie in 1904. After finishing Temple JMedical College of Philadelphia in 1910, Dr. Thomas came to Camden. * Wins Prize in Essay Contest In a library contest, Geneva Belton, 1940, a freshman at Knoxville College, won second prize on the subject, "The Library as an Asset to the Community." Geneva Belton and Llndel] Portee, 1940, having been honor students of Mather, were on the honor roll for the fall quarter at Knoxville. RUPTURE SHIELD EXPERT HERE H- M. 8H%VNAN, widely known expert of Chicsgp, will personally be st the Columbia Hotel, Columbia, Thursday, only, February 6, from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. Mr. Sbevnan says:,/ The Zoetic Shield is a tremendous improvement over all former methods,'effecting immediate results. It will not only hold ; the rupture perfectly but increase the circulation, strengthens the weakened parts, thereby closing the opening In ten days on the average case, regardless of heavy lifting, straining or any position the body may assume no matter the size or location. A nationally known scientific method. No under straps or cumbersome arrangements and absolutely no medietas# or modJoal Deatments.^ ^ , d ^ Latimer To Head State Press Group Columbia, Jan. 24?S. U lAtimur. j Jr., managing editor of Tho Statu, was elected pros Wont today of tho South Carolina Press Association at tho uunaul mid winter business meeting hold at the University of South Carolina. Other officers ?looted Included A. L. Nl. Wiggins of the Hartsvlll? Mossonger, first vice-president and Judaun W. Chatntan, of tho Greenville Piedmont, second vice-president. Harold Hooker of Columbia was re-elected treasurer. Named to the executive commits? wore Allison Ia>o of tho Laurens Advertiser, W. W. Harris of tho Cttutou Chronicle, Roger C. Peace of tho Groenvlllo News, Wilton- Hall of tho Anderson Independent and Ed H. DoCamp of tho Gattivey Urlt and Steel. , ' ~ f Brian Boll, native South Carolinian, now chief of tho Washington burouu of tho Associated Press, and Bon Robertson of Clomson, London correspondent of the newspaper PM, will speak at tonight.'? banquet. ( Brig. Gen. Holmes B. Springs, retired, state selective service director, told tho newspaper mon and women that the press "haB its greatest opportunity" now to bo of service to Its country.^ The work of the newspapers has been outstanding in publicizing tho selective service act, he said , and added that South Carolina stood out in front In administration of the act because of the publicity It had received. Major G. Heyward Mahon, state director of the national defense council. advocated all aid for Britain-short of war and urged the newspapers to cooperate in establishing industries in the state. Col. Sumner Walte of Fort Jackson, attached to the Paris embassy until a few months ago, also addressed the newspaper group. SOMETHING TO DEFEND Plumbers and steamfttters on an army hosp^al Job at Charleston are reported to be drawing $112.50 per week for 70 hourB 4rwte. They received standard scale of $1.25 an hour * for a standard- wofk week of 40 hours. In addition they get time and a half for 20 hours of overtime and double time for 10 hours on Sunday. German workmen who extended themselves to help Hitler get ready for hia "blitzkrieg" are said to have received about 25 cents an hour for their work. If this is true American workers who are not getting such handsome wages have no reason to envy their Nazi contemporaries. Never in the history of this country have the workers had more to defend than now. There was never more reason for them to stick to the Job of national defense and _ protect their rights ^to earn.?The Greenville Piedmont. Pilot From Peru Visits His Parents Kingstree, Jan. 23?C. Haynesworth I^osesne, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Lesesne, Sr., of Greeleyville and a pilot with the Pan-American Airways in Lima, Peru, made a brief visit with his parents, recently, en route to Chicago, 111., as the delegate to the pilots' convention being held in that city. Mr. Lesesne commands a 22- passenger plane, whose run Is from Lima, Peru to Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, a, distance of 1,900 miles, making stops at Guayazuil, and Quito, Ecuador. To reach this latter city, a height of 14,000 feet is flown. The entrance is through a high mountain pass, and perfect atmospheric conditions have to be assured before entering or leaving. Funeral For Lieut. . , Jenkins on Saturday Columbia, Jan. 24?Lieut. Leo Jenkins, 44, identification officer of the state highway patrol died at a hospital here early today after an illness of several weeks. ? Jenkins was a native of Santuc. He joined the highway patrol Jn 1930 as a patrolman. Later he became chief of the Identification bureau. He was an expert in the trackuijg down of criminals through the fingerprint and lndentlflcatlon process and had a part in the solving of many sensational cases. Before joining the .state higway patrol, Jenkins operated a bus line at Union, and later was in the automobile business.' - ; , .> Survivors include hia widow and a daughter, -Mrs. Charles Laoghinghouse of Columbia; his mother, Mrs. B. J. Jenkins of Abbeville; a brother, Laurie Jenkins of Columbia, and a sister, Mrs. Maude Cook of Abbeville, bro therm v Registered at Vanderbllt Special to The Chronicle Last Mecklenberg Confederate Dead Charlotte, * C., Jan. 22?Capt W. 11 H. HUM. the I a tit surviving real-Jen t 1 of Mecklenburg county who surved I with tlu> Confederate army. died yea- < terday. lie claimed. In hla memoira. t to have been the youngest veteran of t that war In the Carollnaa. ? At the ago of 12. ho recently wroto, lie volunteered but was refused i 4,llut", he added, "when Sherman shelled tho capital at Columbia, taoy said. 'come on boys and dig ditches and bury gold and silver to keep Sherman from taking It." Ho commenced on March 17, 1865. and served 14 days. Shortly afterwards, the war ended. He was a native of York county S. C., but lived bore since 1875. cri8tma$ 8eal sale being ' i added to every day "The time for rejoicing over victory lb near at hand," remarked J T. Gottys, president of the Kershaw Cojnity Tuberculosis Association, ht commenting on the good news that tho Seal Sale committee Is within llfty-two dollars of their goal, which was sot at sixteen hundred and fifty dollars. Daily something comes in to be added to the-treasurer's account. v^Thoro Is special reason to he proud of what has been accomplished by the negro citizens, who have been-working under tho leadership of l'rof. I. 11. Mdodana. Their quota was two. hundred and fifty dollars. On Tues; d?y afternoon they were within thlrtjy-two dollars of "this amount, and tho finest thing about It Is that their workers are still on tho Job, contacting those v.*ho have not been heard from. The deadline for reporting to the statoand national tuberculosis assocla tions Is February 25," concluded Mr. Gettys, "aud with the present steady progress, It appears certain that success is assured." _____ REPORT OF CHAIRMAN OF PUBLICITY COUNTY RED CR08S Mrs. Sadie VonTresckow, chairman of publio Information committee of, the Kershaw County lied Cross chapter, makes the following report: "Appointed a year ago as publicity chairman of the volunteer service committee. I served for a few months in that , capacity by sending articles to--the papers concerning our production room work and its needs. "When Mr. Heath found his t.me taken up with the chamber of commerce's Increasing work for Camden and the defense program, I was promoted to his position as public Information chairman and as such this report Is made. "Thanks to Henry Niles. His paper, The Chronicle, has afforded a weekly outlet for news of our work, and forty articles have bean given valuable space. In addition to tills, with the assistance of Mrs. Jack Nettles, publicity chairman of tho Roll 1 Call, and for the War Relief Fund, wei got The Chronicle to carry numerous; "cuts" and "Join the Red Cross" signs and all manner of Important data?I much of which was also copied In other papers in the state. 'We feel sure that the wide pub-| llclty thus given was partly responsl-; ble for our great success in our drives for the American Red Cross. "Wo have used press, photography, parades, window displays and exhib-, its, our Red Cross float, depicting the four eras of the society portraytnl by Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton the American Red Cross Nurse of today won the first prize in the Christmas parade. Our display at the county fair was outstanding. "Our publicity department was commended by both state and national officers. "To further' the scope of. the work, I have cut out articles concerning American Red Cross werk and that of other chapters from numerous papers and have mad^ use each week of articles sent from National or State headquarters, "The Red Cross News Service" from Washington, D. C., The Red Cross Courier, our monthly magazine and bulletins from American Red Cross public information service. In addition to this, reports of our meetings* and of the production room accomplishments have been published. "I hope to prepare later a scrapbook Incorporating, in part, the work of the public information committee." To Ship Hogs The next shipment of hogs by the Kershaw County Farmers* Exchange will be made from the Seaboard Loading, pens on Tuesday, February 4 between the hours of 8:30 A. M. and 12:00 noon. Remember the date and time of the loading and bring your top hogs for the shipment says W. . C. McCariey, county agent. c - Germany's trade negotiations with Soviet Russia are progressing satisfactorily, Emll Wlehl, chief of the economic section of the German foreign office, suites, sod the volhme of tnfc trade vii: vcsntfane m h tht first year of their present agreement, ending Mransy 11, 1*1. - ' % . Former Klan Chief Fined Atlanta, Jan. 24?Hiram Wcfeley tCvnns. former Imperial wUard of (ho tvu Klux Klan, ami three reiflning ompanlea were fined a total of $30.? ?00 in foiieral court today for i ontplrucy and monopoly in the sale of Muulsitled asphalt to the state Kvans, who had entered a plo.t of nolo contendere was fined $ to,000 District Judgn K. Marvin Puderwood also assessed $4,000 fines against the Kmulstfied Asphalt Refining Uompany at Charleston, S. C,; $6,000 HKainst the Shell Oil' Company, inc., i>f St, lsnila, and $0.0<?0 against the American Bltumuls ' Co., or San Francisco, on like counts io which they pleaded nolo contendere. lOvans, and three companies were accused of forming a competitionrestraining association from January, 1037, to Docombor, 1938; through which thoy allegedly sold emulsified asphalt totaling $460,427 to the state at a price $90,000 in excess of open competitive quotations. Honor Roil Midway School Orado 1?Peggy Hall, Wilhelmina Gardner, Charles Young, James Anderson, Tjeona Wntkina. Grade 2?Carolyn Drynn. Grade 3?Thelma Anderson. Hilda Davis, ^iTanot Hall, Curtis Harton. Judith Ann Young. Grade 6?Stuart .Teal, Grace Threatt, Rugeno Watson, David West. Grade 7?Margaret Rlliott, Willie Mae Rlliott, Catherine T^angley, Dotty Jane McCaekill. Sarah Juno Rozler, Claud Woat, Jr. Grade .8?Rebecca Mckinnon, Detty West. Grade 9?Wilson Holley, Lillian Uodgers. Grade 10?Cleatus Threatt. Grade 11?Troy West. JANUARY JOBS FOR THE FARMER It may get too wet to patch up fences but never too cold bc^hnse this is one of the jobs that must ho done before crop work opens up. And ntost farms need more fence building than fence patching. If we are going to grom grftssos, clovers and lespedeza wherov we onco grew cotton and tobacco, we must have more fence* on our farms. When we got far enough ahead with corn shucking, another mighty good rainy da/y job for January is that of overhauling all tools and Implements on the place. Let's look everything over carefully and see that It's ready to go?singletrees, doubletrees, wagon bolsters, plow beams and points, the harrows, cultivators, mowers, and what have you. Timo saved nqw will *>unt big when planting time comes. { ? The Progressive Fanner. ! Production of a new cockpit armor for pilots of American and British bombing planes, designed to protect the back of the flyer from head to below the knees, has Newark, N. J., plants of the Breeze corporation working at top speed. The armor, which is about 120 pounds, is expected to provide a greater safeguard against enemy planes diving from the rear. A Year of Accomplishments V T1?*' year just ended was a record year of general telephone expansion in the South. Millions were spent to expand local and long distance facilities and other millions were expended for preparedness projects. At the same time, the numerous and varied governmental and industrial emergency needs were filled promptly. Nearly MX), (XX) new telephones were installed and about 180,(XX) taken out, making a net gain for the year of more than 110,000. Sixty-eight new central offices were built and put into service. Twelve of these were new exchanges while fiftysix replaced manually operated offices with the newest type dial equipment. Rural sections also shared liberally in this program. The gross expenditures for new construction and replacements exceeded $40,000,000. It was a year of outstanding accomplishments achieved under exceptional conditions. The thousands of telephone men and women responsible for this work are justly proud of the * results. They begin the new year . ? ?confident in their ability to meet the future telephone requirements of this fast growing section of the nation. Southerii Bell telephone mid telegrrph coirprry I , INCORPORATED7 Time Use LEMOCO * * ' OLIVER PLOWS - And - - Plow Parts for Any Make / M) FEED And, SEED Camden Hdw. & Supply Co. PHONE .7 TRADE WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES FURTHER.