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TMI^CMIOEIj^OJIJOWCL^CAJjWlJli^JOWTJ^^JOUJi^^JID^^lBRUARV^a^JW S O Cl CTY T«1«p1mnm 29 uiM Charlotte Perry, of Miami Fi... I. “r*’““« ““ Ira Lewis Lee ^lyburn. and Mrs. Hawley from New roS’ were week-end gueata of Mr. id Mrs. Frank Spencer. , Mr and Mrs. Jack C. Brown. Jr . of acksonville. Fla., rlslted Mrs. C!ora rapp over the week-end. Mre DaCosta Brown and children. ir« spending this week with her moth- [ M™ T O. Boland, in Blackvllle. Mr and Mrs. C. A. Perry, of Sumter, -ere vialtors In Camden on last Frl- *Mr and Mre. J. P. Lewis hare re- irned borne after spending the week Savannah, Oa., with Mrs. Milton 'hillipe. Mrs U. O. Bums spent last week in rort Pierce, Fla., visiting her son. 'Illiam V. Bums, S2c, who is sta- [loned there. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Blakeney had Sunday guests. Dr. Hasel Baker of ike City, and Mr. Herman Bowers of [eath Springs. Mrs. Marie Tlndal and Mrs. Hughey 'indal. Jr., spent the week-end In ’olumbla as guests of Mrs. A. A^ ladden. Clerk of Court Clybum, who has ill at his home on Broad street lor the past several weeks, is able to lit up. This will be good news to lilt many friends. Set. and Mrs. Thomas J. Latham lavo returned to Blythevllle Army .Ir base. Arkansas, after spending a reek with Mrs. Latham's parents, Mr. ind Mrs. P. C. Jones, on Walnut St. Lt. W. H Dost, former flight com- lander at Southern Aviation school, ras the week-end guest of Mr. and Irs. Harvln Smith. Lt. Boat flew U. D. C. MONDAY The U. D. C. meeting will be held fit the home of Mrs. R. M. Kennedy, Jr., on Fair street at 4 p. m. Monday, February B. LEGION AUX. TO MEET The American Lbgfon Auxiliary will meet at U)e home-of Mrs. Carl West with Mrs. J, L. Williford as assistant hostess. The meeting will be held Friday, Feb. 9, 1945, at 4:30 o’clock. ANNOUNCE THE ENGAGEMENT META ALEXANDER TO ED. BEARD Col. and Mrs. Thomas L. Alexander of Atlanta. Ga., announce the engage ment of thfelr daughter, Meta, to E3d- ward Boykin Beard of Camden. Miss Alexander, a graduate of Cam den High school, was a memCer of the Tri Gamma and also attended St. toary’s Jr.’ college at Raleigh, N. C., where she was a member of^e Gam ma Phi Delta Sorority. She now holds a position with the Office of Price Administration at Durham, N. C. Her paternal grandparents were Lemuel Whitaker Boykin and EHlen Douglas Cantey of Boykin, and D. ■Blenman Alexander and Lillian Ma- lono of Greenwood. War Bonds WUl Be Offered As Prizes In Event Defense But Council Hsia Two« la Seekinf More Donations. Who’ll give another %25 bond for the coming salvage drive winners. Already the Camden Rotary club has announced an offer of a |2R war bond, Frank Shebeen; salvage chair man, is also giving a |25 bond. The defense council would like an other bond offered as a priie—In fact, several others would acceptable. These bdnds will be glven^ to the achool students who collect the most waste paper during the period bf the campaign, to be announced next week. Chairman Shebeen of the salvage committee states that the collection of waste paper, fats and tin has fallen off PAOB mvi To Raise Large Sum In This County Methodist Crusade For Christ Here For Course Is Launched In This Area > Four States To Send Delegations Bethune News Notra The ’’Crusade For throughout the Methodist church. The Crusade has five major objectives: 1 A troop advisors course will be con ducted at the Court Inn Feb. 12-20, by Christ” Is on ( Miss Kathrlne Park, field advisor. Region 4, Girls Scouts of America. Local .«pi)nsors of the girl scout Building a world order that will make possible an enduring peace. 2, War relief and reconstruction. 3. Evange llsm. 4. Stewardship. ;5. Increased program are anxious to have all moth ers Injercsted in the girl scout pro gram attend this course. The registra tion fee Is but 32. It Is hoped that enrollment and attendance in church Iavail themselves of this school. i^pportunity to take part In a worthy Financially the Crusade proposes to raise In cash or pledges 125,000,000 by March 4, 1945, all of these pledges to be paid in full not later than Januafy 31, 1946. The other phases are to continue until 1948. . The Methodist Churches of Kershaw county, white and colored, are coifjper- ating fully in the Crusade, and will undertake to raise approximately |10.- 000 by March 4, as their part In the activity. Those who start are request ed to be consistent In their attendance at the school sessions^ The course here will bring Interest ed partjps from four states. North and South Carolina, Florida and Georgia. Miss Park has had wide and varied experience In the field of rorreaflon, having served as director of recreation in the three government hospitals for' Qpnslderably In the city and county j financial phase of the Crusade, and as the government needs this] The’LylUeton Street Methodist salvage, every effort Is to be put forth: church, led by the Board of Stewards, to raise ^the amount to a figure com- under the chairmanship of Mr. W. F. parable with the patriotic standard of Nettles, has set Sunday, February 4. ’he community. Army Appeals For Edward Boykin Beard Is the son of 4-U.rv Hr. Hd Mrs. Henry Edward Beard. Sr. Y 01Uni66rS 111 1110 it Camden.' He Is a graduate of Cam den High school and also of Presby- Medical Corns whArA hA M terian college at Clinton, where he was a member of the Beta Kappa Fra-1 ^ » . ternlty. He was an instructor at the' Lnurens Air school and is now a U. S. . , ' i », n At * Army Air Cadet at San Antonio. J®*** Col Schlll^ter. com- U a challenge to every Method’s - J manding^^officer, Army Recruiting ^ Methodism has accepted that chal- longe and will complete the task as Crusade Day. and will underl.ike on that day to raise its part, |2 900, in cash or pledges towards the 325,- 000,000 fund. Every member is urged to be pr«;3^t, Sunday. By far the iirger part of the money raised will go /or war relief and re construction. For what shall it profit us if we uproot Nazism and Facism and plant not Christ in their stead, or what shall it profit us if wo win the war and lose the peace. The Crusade manding officer. Army {station, Charlotte, N. C. I Pointing out the discussions now in 'CELEBRATED ANNIVERSAR.Y , . Mr. and Mrs*. H P. Vincent. Sr., cele- Proi^eM for a na lonal service act, re. »'-t-d their 30*h ‘wedding anniversary re. from Schilletter urged all eligible Camden ad vanc«TIlSlITh8tnRT6f^t -*»®°V_' '*“• **: ^ ^wonren between ^ nniL 40 -eesee Is an foOdfeltow Field. Johnny DeLoacb, son of Lieut, and {rs. John DeLoach, was operated Ipon recently In a PiedmonL Calf., kospltal. according to word received [y relatives here. The young man knderwent the operation successfully (nd is now back at school. Mr...and Mrs. W. F. Buckley have pturned from a trfp.to Ptort Bennlng Ind Maxwell Field. At Fort Bennlng liey visited their son. Billy, who is Ittendlng the Officer Candidates ciiool there. At Montgomery they rere guests of their son-tn-law and laughter, Major and Mrs. B. W. leath. Private Emmett L, Raley, Columbia cousin of Street Coinmissioner lames Raley of this city, is now In be Halloran hospital in New York fler being in action overseas for the a.st four months. Private Raley’s rife, the former Elaine Horton, of JrBe^ and daughter,^ Patricia, we Biding In CoTui^l^ oaugnier. Mrs. A. L. Hare and family. BRAIL8FORD AGAIN HEADS RED CROSS (Continued from first page) Those present were Mrs. .Tssper Immediately as Women s of officers. The meeting closed with Walden and daughter. Mrs. Wilson Corps medical technicians. | the singing tJf The Star Spangled Bah- vneent s"d children. Mr. and Mrs. ^ more Im^rtant than ner and benediction by Rev. Henry W. J. Braislngton, Mrs. David Catoe. w n Misses Kathleen and Ruby Catoe and Y‘th the Job you Two little boys, Johnny Wall and * n/wr A S>A MAlMCV AMA lA^ VASIA AAAAaI nAWWlAS kIam J I m m ^ Mrs. Lucille Taylor. Kennedy Named On Clemson Board now are doing and let your conscience Frank Babbitt, Boy Scouts, did page bone8(l,y Judge,” Col. Schilletter con- duty for the acting secretary, M'ss tinned. “Must we say to the world Nancy Watts, in an outstanding man- that American women had to be ner. ’The decorations in the guild hall forced to care for those who have.were due to the skill and artistic abll- fought and bled? Unless every eligible I ity of Mrs. R. E. Stevenson and Mrs {woman does her duty at once, that|W, L. Goodale, members of the can {may come to pass,” concluded the Col. j teen corps of the chapter. Floral de- Although medical and surgical ^ corations were by courtesy of the are especially needed, {Camden Floral Company. Taking part In the clever Junior Representative R. M. Kennedy. Jr., has been appointed as a member of technicians the Board of Visitors for Clemson col- there are also -openings, /or clerical lege for the present year. This is the army assignments. This Is the lime Red Cross play were: Chapman Ora- second time that Mr. Kennedy has for action, for complete information ham, Mary Jo McManus. Ted Miller, been on the Clemson board, having contact the Army Recruiting Station H. B. Hasty, Shannon Lindsay, Ran- been named in 1936. Mr. Kennedy Is at Post Office building, (Damden, S. C. dolph Jones, Bessie Hammond* Kath- a Clemson alumnus. MtPisg.hH.D.a«b^«^ AA ‘ ^ fospital Auxifiary Seeks New Members The Mt. Pisgah Home Demonstra-1 tion club held Its January meeting.at! United States veternns in Chicago, 111., under the American Red Cross. She has also hendxdt the community recreation activities at tloldsboro, N. C., and been supervisor of playgrounds and recreation at Asheville. N. C. Ear ly in her career. Miss Park became In. terested In Girl Scouting and had been associated with the movement before Joln’ng the national staff. Miss Park has specialized In many phases of recreat’onal activity, having eraduat^Hl fpcHn the Mary Wood Hln- man School of Folk Dancing, stud'ed Enalish country dancing under Mr. Cecil Sharp, and pageantry at the Pavley-Oukralnsky KusHliin Ballet School In Chicago. She has also liiken special courses at the Recreation Training School at Hull .House, which has since been taken over by Chicago (Tnlverslty. Miss Park’s academic training was received uLNorthwestern University and at Chicago Unlvers ty. Camden girl scouts, panicipating In the March of Dimes program last Sat urday. collected 345 hy their solk-ltlng at the post office corner. J. N. McLaurin and G. H. Fowler of Charleston, spent tho week-end here with their families. Forbls Morgan- of Mullins, spent the week-end here with his mother, Mrs. Eva Mdrgan. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. King of Harts ville, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. O. King. Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Brannon were Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Brannon and children of Rlshopvint. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Watkins and chil dren of Camden. Friends and relative* of Mrs. R. E. Sims will rejoice to learn that she Is Improving nicely In the Columbia hos pital. Miss Mary Nancy McLaurin of Wilmington, N C., and John Carlson. U. S. C.. South Port. N. C.. were the week-end guests of Miss Mcl^aurln's parents, Mi^nd .Mrs. J. N. Mcl.aurln. Mr. and^lrs. Lee Ernest Outlaw of Spartanburg, spent the week-end here with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Outlaw. Mrs. K. n. King spent tho*week-end Hodman with her daughter and Mrs. James Brk-e burg of th? YvaF Tuiid campatTOi mlttee, who reported a total collec tion of 314.500; Miss Ada Phelps, Jun- lor Red CroK«; also Miss Fannie Fletcher of the Junior group; Colonel E. C. vonTresekow. of the camp and family, Mr. and Walters. {Mrs. Annie Lee spent the week-enil it' Chester with relatives. Mrs T. U. Bethune and two sons, f^ydney and Bell, of Florence, and Mrs. .iohn McDonald of Ilartsville, were recent guests of relatives here. Mr. Iy,iiirenev Campbell underwent an operation at Columbia hospital last week. Mrs. Campbell and daughter. Miss Mable Todd Cnnipboll, of Wash- ngfrn. dre freiiuent visitors at his bedside Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Mitrhell were Sgt. and Mrs. J. A King of Fort Jackson. Week-end guests in the home of Mr and Mrs. C. H .Mitchell were Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Clement and son of Spartanburg. They were accompanied home by Mrs. M S. Mitchell, who has spent several weeks hero with her son and family. Mr. and Mf». Jessie Smith nd fami- ly of Florence, .Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith of Camden and Mrs. L. W Iflgbe, Jr., of Columbia, were Sunday gmutts of Mr. and Mrs. Belton Tid well and family. Mrs. John J. Little has been noti fied hy the war department of tho death of her husband. Dec. 12, on hospital council; Colonel John Wall. ^ of tho disaster preparedness commit tee, this also being rt‘ud by Miss Green. Resumes of the annual reports of Dr. Humphries and Miss Olive Whlt- tredgo on first aid. Miss Margaret Fewell on home farm accident pre vention, Mrs. C. T. Bhldwln on nutri tion and Mrs. Grainger Gaither on home nursing, were submitted erlne Sheorn, Harmon Hancock, Char- The followjng branch chairmen k>tte Boykin. Billy Rush, Donald Hall, were tendered recognition: Bethune. Giles Huggins, while the announcer Mrs. Mays; Boykin, Miss Mae Boykin, was Jane Sinclair. The property com. Mrs. Shell West; Lugoff. Mrs. Team .{mlttee consisted of Catherine-Mcliean.4uettye; Blaneyj- MrsrCrigshyt- Liberty Anne McLean and Patricia Maddox, while the curtain was In charge of . , _ The children’s committee of the „ . „ . ^ home <rf M». «^Byr4^l^Mra..K<,rt^ County Civic-ComiciL la 7®^® 5^ Ellis presiding. Mrs. R. B. Greene deavorlng to secure clothing for three Kirkland. Mrs. TlHcr, who I.ittlo hsd served .35 months In this ar<a and la.st summer was granted a leave to visit his family here. His wife, who was Miss Ava Shaw, before marriage, and little daughter survive. Capt. L'ftle was originally from Page- land. Mrs. Little and little daughter have been making their home here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lucas Shaw Miss Sara Mayfield, senior at Wln- thrup college. Is doing her six weeks practice teaching in the home eco nomics department here. Coldest Day of gave a very lovely devotion. Miss ages eight, ten ahd twelve. 'The directed the play, ^ Is the dramatic February is membership month for be Camden Hospital Auxiliary. We re very anxious to obtain many more lew members. The annual dues are ily 31.00. If you are not already a aember, won’t you pl^we join? We leed your help and support. To you, bo are already membera, mall me |our check as soon as pdsalble, and will be appreciated. Mrs. Mortimer Muller, Membership chairman. teacher at the Camden high school. Reports were submitted by Mrs. J.’ R. Belk, treasurer; C. P. Du Bose. Jr., Fewell, Miss Olive Raley, Mrs. W. P. children are from a very needy home Sowell and Mrs. John Byrd took part nj.g tryinur jg go to school with program. - ^ . 'clothing insufficient for their comfort, . ,, ... , The hostess served a very delldous health. If you have about your, wurse, assisted by Mrs. John Byrd. clothing which is outgrown by {Mr*- John Wall, chairman of Volun- The February meeUng will meet with children or laid aside, will you' ^®*’ committee, Mrs Mrs. Ira Ellis. not kindly offer It? All sorts of J. P. Richards Gets Another Joh Buy War Bonds and Stampa Washington, Jan. 26.—Congressman lobert Ramspeck of Georgia, Majority Whip of the House of Representatives, clothing including shoes is needed.— Rev. A. D. McAm,.chairman. Red, Blue Stamps For Period Ready red Home Bakery . , ^ I Housewives hake six more — announced today that he hu splint- gt^mpg obtaining meats and fata, ed Repr^entatlve James P Rkhards j. „ Talbert, OPA district director of the fifth South C^ollna dlatrlcL as Columbia announces. Assistant Majority Whip, representing i gfngg February rationing period, ^e Sontheastern states. H^e succeeds' .^^ich began January 28 will last five CAKES for Valentine's Day Rep. Green of Florida, who did not offer for re-election to the House. Bean Diseases Seedbome diseases of beans are serious and, once established in a planting, may prove impossible to control. Take pods only from dis- easefree plants, and take seed only weeks instead of the usual four, six red stamps, instead of the usual five given for four week ration periods,' were made good, he said. The stamps, each worth 10 points, are Y5. Z6, A2, B2, C2 and D2. Hugh Tlndal, prisoners of war com mittee; Mrs. E. C. vonTresekow. pub licity committee; Mre. W. C. McCar- ley, honse committee. Most of these reports were read by Mias Virginia Green. Others reporting were Mrs. Margaret Mayfield of the home ser- vice committee; Mrs. Leon Scblos- Hill, Miss Lai Richards; Wateree Dam i Mrs. Blyther; Ridgeway, Mrs. Rabon; Westvllle, Mrs. Shelby Truesdale; Mt. Zion. Mrs, Paul Brown; Ml. Pii!Kali.l\U||*4^A ffopnrfloH Mrs. Ira Ellis; gtoneboro, Mrs. V. »* 1111/Vl A%vvvfIUC\I Hammond and Malvern Hill, Mrs. Denton. THE F. C. FENNESSY’S BUY HOME IN CHARLESTON Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Fennessy have recently purchased a home in Charles ton, 106 Dunneman Ave., and extend to their friends in Camden a hearty welcome any time they might be in that city. Mrs. Fennessy is the form er Metto Baxley, of Camden, niece of Marion Baxley and the late Neal Bax ley. King Boreas set up a new tempera ture record in Camden on Thursday morning when he dropped bis mercury register to the 14 above sero mark. Weather Observer H. A. Brown stated that this is the coldest reading registered this season and also over a period of several years. The collective weather record for the present winter is far below any on file in the local register. Bscoms a WAC Msdical Tschnielan. Synibulic Animals I Fung Hwang is one of tlie four irom disease-free pods. It may even : symbolical animals supposed to pre- be wise to examine each seed for _ gjde over the destiny of China, spots or blemishes. j YOUR HAIR GIVES YOU A LOVELY SILHOUETTE K FOR EVERY ACTIVITY TRY ONE A sinf le look at ooo of those CAhes and your guests will and **Ahr^ One taste, A end they’ll call for more. Beautifully deeoratotjl lo order. Place your Order Early ^ ★WeVe highly trained Beauty Operators to take care dJ your every beauty need. The Newest in hair styling will be founds at.... Camden Home Bakery Phone 38 (OppoeHe Camden Theatre) DeKalb Beauty Shoppe Camder/s Leading Beauig Salon Nest Doer lo Poetolfice PhoMSSd V Roses are Red Violets are Blue I She'll love the flowers We send for you! St Valentine's Day, Wednesday, February 14th, will soon be here. Phone 193 or 694 for a lovely Floral Valentine. THe Camden Floral Company 211 East Laurens Street i-1