The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 17, 1948, Image 1
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CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, IMS
Veteran Students Set Out Pine Trees
Association
Of Colleges
Secondary Schools
iws Membership
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John Elliott Is
Kiwanis Speaker;
Telb Of Meeting
National 4-H Congress
Described By Youth
Who Won Trip
lie Southern Association
)Heges and. Secondary
jls at its /meeting in
aphis, Nov. 29^Dec. 2,
jved the Camden High
)1 for membership in
| aasociation fo> the year
19, according to a let-
freceived by J. G. Rich-
Jr., superintendent of
Ischools, from Grin F.
chairman of the South
l)]ina State Committee of
[association.
i association has rather rigid
which must be met by
school before it can be a
of the association and an
ition is made each year to
member schools are meet-
standards.
letter to Mr. Richards
| Mr. Crow follows:
Southern Association of
and Secondary Scho
meeting in Memphis, Nov.
t. 2 gave its unqualified ap-
I to Camden High School for
tip in the association for
1948-49.
action was taken after
consideration by the S.
State Committee, die
Reviewing Committee'
on Sect
(Schools.
to congratulate you
[having your high school
ietely in the dear and hope
able to meet all re-
• .. Camdaa High School agricultural itegartwissil attended a foeeatry demonstration
Burns' farm on Highway No. 1 last Friday and watched a dsmonstratton by the '
oy 1 pines. After watching the demonstration by the forestry
meet Shiver and Marion ShWar, instrnctors of the
sot ont S00 pine treat. This is part of the
with the South Carolina Forestry Commission. The students and
John Elliott, Midway High
| school student, who won a
trip to the recent national
4-H Club Congress by win
ning the state contest in
tractor maintenance, was the
[ guest speaker at the regular
weekly meeting of the Cam
den Kiwanis <31ub on Tues-
[ day, and gave some interest
ing highlights of his trip to
the Chicago meeting.
He was introduced by Miss
j Margaret Fewell, Kershaw county
[home demonstration agent* who
lerself was honored this year by
I having been chosen as the most
outstanding home agent in the
state.
at Julian 10 his talk young Elliott re
al viewed some of the programs he
" ' made in 4-H Club work be-
Ohly One Lugoff
In United States,
Says P, M. General
There may be It Camdens
in the United States but
there's only one Lugoff. ac
cording to the Post Offlco
Department.
On Nov. $. Mrs. J. T.
Getty*, of Lugoff, wrote to
the Post Office Department
asking if there were a town
in any other state by the
name of Lugoff. Sho received
the following reply for V. C.
Burke, first aisistant post
master general:
"This will acknowledge
your letter of November 5 In
which you ask whether there
is a town In any other state
by the name of Lugoff.
“The records of the De
partment pertain only to post
offices and only contain the
names of towns in which poet
offices are located. According
to the last Official Postal
Guide, the only post office by
the name of Lugoff is the Lu-
gorr. South Carolina, office."
W. L. Jackson, CU-
charoo of their groups I fufti telling of his trip,
canted on in cooperation t ^ have been in the 4- HChib
ructors are thownaboTeTl Tear.” he said, “and Have had
of
to set
school
the
Large Audience
Hears Concert
L. j-
Socond Public Appear
ance Of Organisation
Vary Successful One
Civic Council To
Present Tableaux
Wednesday Night
She story of the
Civic
IS project of which I kept an ac
curate record so that 1 could tell
. from which project I was making
^ ■ any money. From these 16 pro-
lorn Champion
■ potatoes, and beef rail, 1
each, and from all these pro-
• my gross earnings have been
v78S.
4-H Club work there are
[a number of contests. There is a
contest to attract everyone's st
and interest in the field
at $2,000,
iool y®ar,
[ changes ware
win be dgsmim
iden Friends
Copy of
igs’ N*
ien friends have
ol. Elliott W.
it of The Springe
Lancaster, a copy of hie
| book “Clothes Make The
book is very- L. .
and the cover binding is a
* showing many pictures
(of scenes connected with
_ Cotton Mills. The
cover is a montage of
Maid pictures. The inside
are also
book
The first part of it con-
history of the seven plants
Mill*
omes a section of Very in
letters some of them
by CoL
s and 2
ie last part of
some choice short stories
A very Urge and apprecia
tive- audience beard the
Camden Community Choral
Club, Mias Marian Burgess,
director, present its Christ
mas concert on Tuesday
evening in the /Camden
Grammar School auditor^
with Mrs
0
W Bf
first part
ipitrnuiu si
Mrs. Christy, who
contralto voice, sang
ben and generously
with two
In the last part of the program
the dub sang Christmas carols
ags to varied
motived bv
of the book
by CoL
iblishedT
hith-
I Springs is the author Of
(well known books, Indud-
ktume Militaire, Leave Me
■ Smile, Above The Bright
nks, Warriors And
and Pent Up On A
’mas Party For
list Adults
[adult department of the
an S
its
the
Jchurch
(clock. A large attendance
mide Will
[• To Hew
iters Soon
to ito
plant
club sang a number of ex-
difficult numbers in the
of toe
Is Experienced
K B. McCoskill, Wi
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Camden Hospital
Is Described As
Big Partnership
Duka Endowment Official
Speaks Of Its Growth
And Of Its Problems
Merchants Ready
For Final Rush
The Camden Hospital was
described as a three-way
partnership, made up of the
directors, medical staff mem
bers and public officials by
Marshall 1. Pickens, associ
ate director of the hospital
and orphans section of the
Duke Endowment at a din
ner held last week at the
Court Inn attended by the
trustees, staff and county
legislative delegation.
Mr. Pickens, in a most interest
ing talk, gave something of the
hospital, reviewed its growth and
told of some of the problems con
fronting it at the preaent time. He
Stores
expressed the hope that the coun-
_ ty legislative delegation might go
Ca ,H %a/ || I a step further in the aid h is giv-
BnU vveiljing the hospital and would “a*-
^ . _ I Ms* with some of the capftaT
Stocked Wmi Goods For naeda facing the hospital at the
preaant time."
Christmoi Trod* I -Unwr wg.:
zienry vs. carnson, L. D. Boykin,
N. P. Gettya, Mrs. H. G. Gaither,
Camden merchants
ready for the final rush ^
Christmas shoppers, which i« I Robin
expected to reach a grand a. b.
climax on next Friday, I -on ' Qr -
Christmas Eve. r r
In preparation fOT Ae
this year, me J Darden,
We
Dee. IS aiS
Was Cam Club Bay
Bate will
ed hu tba ehoba ef
tout churches ai the I
of what I merchandise
tar has b
, P - , .good all of the
ration for the girls end field good stocks still
I meat animal, farm safaty, meparad to
ffillt might be
SS «*Mnning |
laid in has vv. supplUs of
mdiae and while the trade
on
Just to
for the
•d Iasi
_ and drew a large
11 U expected that
will
are
Extra help has
of the stores
still
put on in
P?C. A
Dr. J. W.
S Rhame Dr. OP.
J. W. Wiceman. Dr.
Dr. A W. “
R/Gettys
of tho Du
follows in
to the <
and
pinx. i
r™
• in preparsttofllitij and
of intense shop- & 85th
1, IMA
R. H McCaskill of
thune, who won the Kershs
county corn contest this
by producing an average olj winners receive the awards. [' •ffoe merchants are again aak-l “in 1925.29
63 bushels an acre on three [prizes and tripate the National ing all to do their shopping as fint
acres, has been wkming|^ b ^ <****> ^kb[tarty as pomlble so jm to
prises growing corn since he 1
#. mere shaver and in
^ days !%e p
at 122 busli
birthday on
by the sponsoring |
& . - r - ‘ 'FT,
Watts
The program follows:
Thanks Be to Thee, Handel;
Prayer from “Haeniel and Gre-
taT, Humperdinck: The Heaven’s
Are Telling from “The Creation”,
Mrs. Jack fTallent,
Craig, tenor; Paul
Town and
» -~m ■ ■ '' '.it *1.0
County....
as
om an acre.
Mr. McCaskill was a
of the Boys Corn Clubs,
ed back around
the State
tQR.
which
fContlnuAd am
Some Demands On
*u!bJ£iita*£S|City Unreasonable
.an, ub * “‘Hgayg City Manager
a picture
[win be*
next
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the
(eontlaaed
B)
usuaU^Lrie selection Christmas Play On
this Christmas and there is np I Ct s w-% •
JSp* mm J , ■■ JM % M m au I f9 MAM
ior any one in v^amucn or
to go out of tho
county to
All of the stores
be closed
Christmas Day, but will
[main open on New Yen
• Dance Friday Night
The Teen Age Canteen will -
sponsor a dance Friday night at | stay tor a
8:30 o’clock at
i open on New Year's Day.
The A to P store has announced
that it will be dosed on tha Mon
the Recreational | He says that the
HaU at the Airport Bill Bums
and his orchestra will , play.
ig aside a railway pas-1 City Manager Jack Tallent Wad
coach in Columbia in 1916 nmday, but same of them “v i . av f n i lowin - r^riRtm**
to leaving for Clem-1 not feasible and onlv lead to par-1 following Christmas also,
where they were tolu^ii^ [ • •
Pr( « ram
Music
•To Have ( aiil a rr Night [old Con Club contests he planted[daining of streets, maintenance
Cote,'Cecil Forsyth;
Noel, Adams; sd
n, soprano;
iti (from “Alcuna”),
lei; Chi M’Arrests (from
Mercadante; Amour
; (from “Samson and
Dalila"), Saint-Saens; I Wonder
As I Wander, John J. Niles; The
Homing Heist, Malotte, Mrs.
Christie.
Old King
Hoffman,
ent .-Night, Gruber; _
ian Men Rejoice, 14th Century
erman Matody; Joy to $he
orld, HendeL
Football Team To
Be Dinner Guest
On FridayNiriit
Friday
the Sirsfidd hotdT^
Ww "speaker at the
i
:
the
Lio^Kiwaniai
The Camden Red P« Club will I i n tu-
hold Ladies Night at Gus Ward’s 1 ™ winners in tha
1948
of streets and storm drainage, col-
contest lection and dispoaal of refuse, nd
business Kate maintenance for dty parks.
There is room for
“^““'Bethesda Church
of Christmas tion
At Grace Churm
joe presented at Grace Episcopal
church on Sunday evening, Doc.
19 at 7:30 o’clock.
The oast win Include Rev.
Stiles Lines, rector of the church,
adult members of die church in
character parts, members of the
[Junior and senior choirs and will
also include the entire congrega
tion* v
The pageant is under the direc-
of Mrs. Kent Miller and Mra.
bushels, $90: H.
157 bushels, $25:1
HO;
•Big Christmas Star B
Hal Middleton, director of the goff, 46 bushels. I
High School band, has built a big I win, Camden, R-!
six foot star on the second story $10; L. W. Boyl
of his. house, 1203 Lyttleton|bushels, $10; J. C.
making one of the attractive | den, R-2, 39 bushels, $10;
Christmas decorations of the city, j Pickett, Camden, R-l, 39
bushdl^Mof’
wi?«pniw? r ! t a^ty C BSi BUMy •
SX h»u »t ttS fa** 1 *.
Woodward Airport on Christmas 9M .
night starting at 9 o’dock. | TWO Gifts Made
demanded.
Lu-1 such savings
_J<1 God- othw service
44 bushels In explaining some of the de-
Boykin, 40 niands, Tallent said that the dty
IcCoy Cam- did not build driveways, drain
‘ “ [ music will be preaented at Beth- John M. ViUepigue and Mrs. C.
,, r-- . ,, ““I I esda Presbyterian church on Sun-1B. Salmond as choir directors.
[provanent^the^manager said, andj^ afternoon at 9 o’dock by the Mrs. Sarah Campbell ®
” I Junior, pioneer and adult chorus and the following adult
. .“‘J®* of file church." of the pariah: Robert A St
The Christmas story will be Llewdlyn, Edwin Guy,
devoted I presented in music and pictures Richardson, John K. d*>T^rh,
at this service with the pastor, Robert Fairey, Mary Jeanette'
Rev. A D. Me Am, reeding the CampbeU, Thomas Patton, James
^....ecriptem. Sweet, A C McKsin, James
k Some numbers wiU be sung Alexander, Donald Campbell,
****» ^ fcOta “The Messiah” and from Jr„ Johnny Zemp, Carroll Sav-
or trim trees on private property. I “The Creation” as well as other age and Wul Savage.
~t. _ Z ~ rrr well known Christmas anthems Fdlowing a chorale prelude
s Burns Reports Nice ugewab. cmtiqu.”* ifcyi w Xdoiph*
I Soldl*te win be Mrs. Jack Tal- Adam, the service will
Gift Made Sewanee lent Miss Gene Williams, E. M. ered in with the
The board of regente of the Craig. Edward Thompson and Come, AU Ye
University of the South has ac-1 Mias Marian Burgess. |by “The
cepted s gift of $10,000 to the|
bush-
0
at
I IfFm. K. Thompson,
4 Formerly (HtJLiberty
EiU, DiedWednesday
jmaumK.
gUlrtfti
ef MRNf
4t city MB
for the Christmas
25 and 26.
m
Camden Hospital
lr.
Kkfcover Out Agam
D. Kirkover I
Friends of Harry
wtil be delighted to know that he}^ ^
is out again after a recent India-
-sas —^
posivion. y-
to H | Local Gulf Dealers
who b dMinnon for' Kershjw HOnOTed For Long
two fifts h.ve reenuy s ^* At Dinner .
made to the politric department The gift made by a ^dant of At a dinner meeting held at
woei oy Adoipne
rvice will be uah-
the proceesional “O
-- r Faithful” followed
Ifrophectee and tha ita-
nunciation” during
which
■M
Next win come “The Holy
th ^.
“Rejoica, Rejoice Bel
with the
and
a child’s
Wilson Mills a
a memorial on
to be named for [four"
•City
Mr*
win
IT for the
and wiU
Jan.
(^Richards, Jr^
South
CASK OF m
m m 1XL.
ten area,
awarded
recognition at their
«T<^X5^ on a^
v/u v^orporauon, < these awards
tion
We
choir
Se
this
sentative of
ing held
by the
wffl
of i
'.V
trim
Tapper Family To
tuberculosis In Kershaw! ^ m "
s w i° r 1
m *«tlve
rare discovei
-Bay Cheat
through the
cases i
rey
the family
ItVW*
m -
I report on Bm pictures made baa
yet bee j received but it ia known aeveral active cast
the disease were discovered.
What to believed to be a record was made In the
of pictures made ia the nine days the unit w
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