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^AQt TMA«« From tho Skipperf^ Desk We have the Rose Bow!, the Sun Bowl, the and the Cotton Bowl, another and when thooe gL clove ovente are held, Mil It Bowl. fenoh • • « ^,«pr became of that baaket- yiSroe that some guy waa prqmoU if ‘i>““ j'**'."**' 1^1 o«or«l«._ *•" of that snow storm last —wow, gpetktog ” ^0 hiiTe fun? -Ij««<ulsy—wow, uMi ww «a The blanket of white 8en.t '‘5,o«6t» KurrrM back a law * w^n we used to trek orer the £,tBdded hills of the Upi^r Pen- of Michigan. Made us think of fly* when, skitlng was the order 7 Sire Did you ever ski? No, ^^^tbat's that,^ them *" «ldefjy visitor from tne North explaining to a heavy set southerner that walking tm icy miks hlfw explain something that people ao- CMtomed to winter picks up by In- stinct. For a fact, there is a tnck to walking on ice without the danger of doing a t^odie.. Sign in WANTED: The men uniform really ,got big kick out of the Soldiers’ Center last week-end. Many of them have be^ coming to Camden for weeks and months and have watched the transi tion take i^ace in the Rutledge atreet armory. • • • a drug store window: ...4 1.. . Miesgirl, must be re- specUble. 'til after Christmas . • • • • Attended the cinema last evening. The glamor star, alone in her apart ment, sat down at the piano.to play tmd sing a ditty. After lour hira she had a complete orchestra accompany ing her. Inflatlon,-Ah? For a fact, they just gaped last Saturday when they entered the build ing. It looked as If Aladdin ahd h|a magic lamp had been doing thingm. ■> • • • k Ail of which made "Mom” Lindsay and Mrs. Rtan smile happily. 'Fdr after all, this Center is for the boys in uniform, particularly those from out of the city, and their appre ciation of what Camden offers in hos pitality, u a source of much satisfac tion. • -• • To our way of thinking, the Soldiers fhe human body is worth n.- .. ...a approximately gi cents Consideriita represents Just about the last the cost of medicine l-v« » worth-whUe etfort. And for medicine I’ye taken re- cently <he living symbol of Inflation! • • # Tv« travels of Bobo Newson, the i^vUle pitching flop, reminds ns iThst Major Bowes has to sky: and round she goes and where, ^ .tons nobody knows.” That Is Just | ^^le Oscar said to the salvage Is doing. No one seems to! Why do you want us to ;St the big fellow. iilniig Broad Street fihM whiz kids, snowin’. and yep men and boys, women jju really got hysterical over that ^"gfofm last weefe . - - twat fun to ramble down Broad itnet and dodge snowballs tossed by wtn and boys end yes—even girls. OM trim looking blond tpok a pot save waste paper-to win the war* Are they shooting spltballs at the Oermans?” • ' t • • that reason it deserves the cooperation of every man and woman den. T Nearly" every .home in Camden car ries a star in windows. Some of them have two. some three and others more than t^at. Seems to me that every member or"TEe8e households should Almost every girl In. town here is pursuing a war time occupation. 0ns usually in a uniform, too. Pop Eye says a girdle is something to keep waves out of WACc. The Calhoun Times reprints a para, graph from the New York Sun which 'says that the creation of the world is told in Genesis in 400 wordSj the ten commandments have only 297 words. jiat at me and conked me back of ths Declaration of Independence _ w-... A-t-a 1.551 wrtrHa Kss9 XTam* a Mf. Remembering a faw trlcka of mr fgXooi in the north where snow it^ are frequent during a winter unon, I grabbed the young lady and tfocecded to wash her face very tiiofoughly with ths snow. Is some way she managed to get of some of’ her Up stick on my shoulder and I’ve been making every effort <0 convince the lady of the house Just how the darned staff did ltt there. • • Well, that tnow storm also brought lomc cold weather and cold weather meant Ice" and Tea" 1,321 words, but the New Deal’s OPA required 2,500 words, to announce the reduttiOD in the price of cabbage seed. No wonder there is a paper shortage, Orchids and Onions fallk Which reminded me of the lady who slipped and landed square on her buttle. A gentls-faced gsnt standing It seems that some laddies went raid ing To deliver a hugs bill of lading And as their loud din Faded out in Berlin Nazis knew they were not serenading. • • • • They say some of the beet brains tho nation are in Washington, bat what can they be doing? realize that the soldier boys, sailors, marines, flyers, etc., who come to Camde n for a week-end have mothers, dads, brothers and sisters somewhere and these ‘folks “oena.lnly "appre<rtste any and all kindnesses shown thsir dear ones here in Camden. Perhaps out. CamdeuL-boyiL are enterUlned at U. S. 0. or soldier centerh some'^efC DeKalb St Whispers NOTICE OF SALE By "Skip" Just for the fun and pleasare of it, we contacted several lads In uniform at (;he Sdldier Center last Saturday and to each one we inquired as to what his post-war plan contemplated. The replies were interesting—yea amusing. To add to the sport we have set them In verse. *. • • • For instance the big sergeknt said he used to be a farmer and here is his post-wsr plan: "Fields without a foxhole Cows on every hill Two of mother’s pumpkin pies On kitchen window sill.” * • • • • 'Then there was that little short cor-, poral who was a garage mechanic be fore he entered the army. His plan goes something like this: "To take my old Jalopy apart r And put it together again And take my best girl riding Any time after ten., \ . Pursuant to an order of ^e signed by N. C. Arnett, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County, State of South Caro lina. that the undersigned as Admin istratrix of the estate of Qrover C. Welsh, deceased, will sell at public auction, for cash, to the highest blti- der or bidders at my Cantey Place about six (C) fniles west of Cassatt ou the south side pf the Porter road in Buffalo Township. Kershaw Coun ty, State of South Carolina, at IS noon, on the SOth day of December, 194S. all and singular the following desorlb- ed property of thk estate of Grover C. Welsh, deceased; to wit: 'Two (S) bags of lespedesa, three (3) tons of scrap Iron, one (1) Ipg cart, one (1)- pick-up Chevrolet truck and one (1) Chevrolet truck. I Purchasers will not be aBowed to remove the said property, or any part thereof, without first complying with the bid. Prances B. Welsh, Administratrix' of the estate of Grover C. Welsh. Wartime Rationing Guide Last bfot not least was ths big. hiMky private who hid svidsntly eai-| ih something that failsd to agrqs with hinrv>-for his post-wsr plan want as follows: ‘‘To get up when I want to gat up And read the morning nsws And If I Ilka ’em diwty NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS To hell with shining shoss." • • • By the wajr friends, did I ever tell you of* the B^ton gent who went Into one of the Camden stores to buy a phonograph recorA? - Set Mr. Bostoneze to the clerk; "I would like to buy the Franc Sonata in A Major for violin and piano.” Said the "ChTiatmM cteilr, - -looking here, there and everywhere:- "Sorry sir, I can’t find that one, but we have All parties indebted to the estate of Dicey Miller are hereby notified to make payment to the undcraigned, and all parties. If any, having claims against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, within Williams, A. R. Collins, Executors, Camden, S. C., December 9. 1943. Sugar: Book 4, stamp 29, 5 poundl, expires January 15. Gasolins: Coupon No. g in A book good for threp gallons, expires Peb. 8- Shoes: Coupon 18 in the sugar and coffee ration book valid for one pair of shoes has no expiration data. No. 1 airplane stamp In Book S became valid Nov. 1 for one pair shoes. Food:' Brown stamps. Book 8,. meats and fats L. M. N, expire Jan. 1. Green stamps. Book 4. procested foods. A, B, C, expire December 20. D, E aad F valid Dec. 1. expire Jan. 20. Fuel Oil: New No. 1 coupon. Class 5 sheet, good for 10 gallons (1 nnlt). expires Jan. 3; new No. 1 coupon. Class 5 sheet, good for 60 gallons' (6 units), expires Jan. S; new No. 1 coupon,' Clasa 8 sheet, good for 150 gallons (26 units), expire Jan. S.» No. 2 coupon valid Nov. 30, expires Jan. 35. Na 8 valid Nov. SO, expires Feb. 11 ' Tires: Inspections required of A hook holders every six months: of B holders every four months; of C holders every three months. The finest CHRISTMAS pree- unV yoa can give Is one of Uncle ^m’s WAR BONDS. Reep on BACKING THE AT TACK. Well, that’s that. We get a big kick out of chattiAg with the boys In'other records by 4>^4mk Sinatra, khaki. The boys are smart, alert and well behaved. And the gags they pull are splendid. You can get a barrel of chuckles Just listening to them. eant was telling his bud- hls wife getting" s “cold One sergei dies about ms wire getting" s wave” and how it cost her 20 bucks, whereupon the blonde soldier neat by exclainfed: “We’ve had a cold wavs around here that didn’t coet a darned cent.” • • • • The private who hung arohnd the Juke box said that he thought it would be a swell Idea to have Don Hutson take those puses on_ the road to Rome. ' ■ • • • • rooks go, but os rooks go, she wMit' Cousin Helen Is being annoyed lats- nezrby srinned and in a funsral voles ly by men in uniform. She says they remarked: "Verily, verily, the wicked just won’t look at her. Mik in slippery places.” j • • • • • • • *, I Worst Joke I Ever Heard Front all indications 'the Camden ^ I can t understand why that soldlw' by Is a farewell. A farewell Is to part, eocial .calendar will be rt^ning over, who got slapped In Sicily received so xo part is to leave. So, said the And speaking of music and what sometimes may well be mistaken for music, we read the other day that the British Broadcasting company, among other things taboo, bans ths Jazzing of classical music. QrestI Splendid Ides! How about Isnd-lsasing ths IdM to this country. • • • • Good morning you folks who are still grumbling over the way your car balked last week during the cold spell. Or perhgps the water pipes under your bouse froze up. And still, it might be that your fuel supply ran short and you dam near froze. But be that as H may, it really was cold. « • • ped perking. Thinking his gas was gone^r. Officer, Joe Is his name, fill ed up, “6uT"ihe^ minor Btm refused to fire. l4iter it was found that water in the gas lino had frozen. eOLD DISCOMFORTS KERBHAW LOOai NO. tl, A. F. M. I -k- T Regular Communleatloa. : First Tuesday of Dadt Monm, At 8 P. M. Tialturs Wslcoras. J. C. HdiTMAN, W. jr ' J. B. ROSS. Secretary. According to the official weathsr - ..111 It . AtA .4 . 4U * records as maintained by Weathsr Ob- Oh well. If you didn t get that one, server Brown, Broad street, ths low- try this. She tempsrsturs of last week was Friday morning when a reading of 13 and became a welder in a war plant * m * • A bargain is a good buy. A good- abeve zero was recorded. .On Thura day. morning ths low figure wsc 14 degrees and ths high for ths day was 30.. Can you Imagine that, Camden, WCIKI .Lttimuar Wl*l W av^AAaaa^ vv w j ^©vn p||j^ 13 leaTe, OO, 81(10 1118 ft C thm WMlntAP ftitv A# thM week with A smaahiny climax on.inuclL^lc^ When I get slapped fr^kied face lad who was hanging , ^JJIoeM^tire that iylrester eve when a lot of i^tles only the two oOs ev^pmow about lt- ,aroundlhe pTan^my gliTTeft me with-1 I^^Vv^r ^nt over and a lot of fire water will be in dulged. Just got to thinking what kind of a celebration those boys in the frost lines will be'having. Frankly I don't think that we realize Jtut what ttU war means. e • • « Getting back to the big storm of laat week, the cold weather caught many motoriets napping and as a re sult garage mechanics ware kspt on the Jump thawing out radiators, gat lime and inatalling nsw battsriss. out a good-by. Modern Maiden’s Prayer | anyway. Dear Lord, bring him back safe. She was not any bar- • • • • sound and single.—Sizzling Bessie. • • The gal across the corridor asks: “Have I ever told you about my radio?” said the boy at the writing table. “It’s one of those ancient At- • • • • Cadets of the Southern Aviation field and soldiers Drom Fort Jackson (nd other points in Camden last Wednesday looked at _ the snowf^ vith nosulic appreciation. And many of them offer^ mocking remarks about the “Sunny South.” 8 • • • In tome parts of ths deep South “What is a Christmas caurd?” A Christ- water-Kent models andf it’s so darned mas card my dear is a message sent old I can't get any of the programs to inform some one that he Is re^ broadcast after 1930. When I get a membered, but not well enough to news reporL alf I hear about is Her- receive a gift ibert Hoover and A1 Smith and when • • • j I try to get some comedian, the Two Our Lll Red RItin stsno sex—Shu BUck Crows turn up. A few nii^U doesn’t mind the wolves smilin’ but »go } tuned la * ^ It sure bothers her to hear ths sound rear’s movie is without a doubLSomv ».4i»k fiiickln’ Boy’. Gogh the only tunes I can get during an entire day.. Fact folks, it’s unbeliuvabis. But ths weather mtn esys so and It must bs so. of their false teeth clickin’. • • • are ‘Tip Toe Through the Tulips,’ ‘My . 4 4V , » 11#.. Mdn,’ and ’If I Had a Talking Picture T-<v pre-vent fnrfhBrJt^of life, pf ers have been forced <0 shoot sB the wild beasts boused in Berlin’s zoo. Too bad that the lions and tigers had to pay the supreme penalty for the acts of a baboon who has been away Well, it may be a wee bit old, but it plays anyhow. • • • • »now fell for tho first Urns In scorus.f^Qm ^helr institution on detached of yeari. Down in Pensacola, Florida, several years, tne natives gaped In amazement ~~ ' the flakes started to fail. • • _ , , , There ain’t no Justice, Arch^They’iw Klda in the city parks yelled in glee 9o[ng to put •'••t'e j" “The six s«ea of a woman,” pro pounded the sleepy corporal on a nearby davenport, are: ‘‘InfanL little miss, little girl, young woman, young woman, young woman.” All Tibetans are equipped with shorts, not In infants’ or girls’ pan-' prayer-wheel, aacred bells and amu- love Bake^^^mtb ADL-UH UnfiM iwifchud t^T^blu-Tuitud ADLUH Flour I ma<k on# failure after anotitar frying ^ biscuit*, pie* and eaka*. Now. u*ing ADLUH, I anjoy baking *urpri»a» and treat* for the family, becauia I know they will rave about them and \ navar think of making a failure—they iu*t don’t •Mppsn with ADLUHI Get a“lig tfWrT«*r "grocer today and try itl Tuna in Fi»her Hendleyover WIS Tuwday, Thur*day and Saturday at 5:30 P. M. One city , policeman who start^ for Columbbi la bka car found. fhAt wteter driving hag its handicaps. He got as far as Blaney when ths Jalopy stop- Look Your Best For HIM Through The Hopday Season By Allowing Us To Clean and Press Your Oothes! DeLuxe Cleaners - Call Ua For Our Delivery Ssrvios FEbttrtIO — _ S. C —j ^At ChrisUaas^Blay^end iii«ke so^d cheer For Christmas comes but once a ye«r^ liuitBfticdilf than di« few- els of Aladdiii*! cave sre the Christmas —i-_ trees In the windows of this town sod ad|oin* ing farm areas. Everjrwhere, everywhere Christ mas, and the spirit which ChristnuM brings. Wt love this town and itb environs.^e have 6^ard JSE.-, milled e distributed by , mm MOS. MILUNG CO. grown up here and have come to regaru our selves as **a fixture.".-Wo have a great many friends, "but not a friend to spare," and at this time we want to thank them, one and all. YES, CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR, SO IT K. HOOVES US ALL TO MAKE THE VERY MOST OF IT. ON THE EVE OF THS JOYOUS SEASON WE TAKE GREAT PLEASURE IN WISHM6 ALL OUR FRCNOS THE FULLEST MEASURE OF CHRISTMAS iOY AND HAPPMESS. : i BELK’S DEPARTMENT STORE -1