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COLUMBIA THURSDAY MAY 12 1955 The States South Carolina Progreuire net pa per The State: Smith Carol in Ijirgarf err pa per PAGE IO-C Supply Bill Asks $152500 for Next Year Bill'pervieor $2900 Clerk Board of ter fuel lights and insurance i For supplies and maintenance County Cbmmiarioneri $2925 $7500 county owned or leased vehicle County Cbmmiasioneri $2825 $7500 county owned or leased vehicle SOUTH CAROLINA FOLKLORE Our Little Boy Blue Leaves Little Bo Peep for the Army Clerk for additional work with Retirement Records $460 Stenogra- Bamberg Centennial Program THURSDAY AND INDUSTRY 9:00 a Aerial salute to signify opening of fifth day of Centennial Week 9:30 a Registration of visitors at Centennial headquarters 10:00 a View historical window displays durn lhe MXt 11:00 a Guided tour of Bamberg textile mills Open house at Bamberg Herald Special Centennial sales in retail stores Carnival midway opens Second guided tour of Bamberg textile mills Special session of terrible kangaroo knurt Presentation of queen and court Fourth performance of Thru Fireworks display Visit carnival midwav 9:00 a Aerial salute to signify opening of sixth day of each $9400 Rural Police 3 at Centennial Week 1 32800 each $9400 Uniforms for 9:30 a Registration of visitors at Centennial Deputies and Rural Police five at Fairfield County The Fairfield County supply Produced in the House yesterday introduced in the House yesterday calls for expenditures of $152500 used in law enforcement $3500 Board of Public Welfare $500 Rural Police Cranmiasion $75 Lease of automobile $500 Lease of Deputy Sheriffs auto mobile $400 Fairfield Chamber of Commerre $1500 Veterinarian $15000 par month $1900 Service Officer $900 Hospitalization Iasuraiee County employees $2000 totato $15350000 Printing Postage and Stationery $2000 Vital Statistics $560' Farm and Home 'Demonstration $500 Cbunty 4-H Club Work $200 County Farm Demonstration and 4-H dub Work (eolond) $300 Home Demonstration Work (colored) $400 Fingerprinting and Law Enforcement $50 Janitor lor courthouse $900 Janitor tor County Library $300 Future Fanners of America Livestock Show $350 Armory maintenance $500 pher to County Agent $150 Stenographer to Home Demonstration Agent S60 Judge of Probate $1500 Secretary to Delegation $300 Expenses of County Officer: Supervisor's car $1000 County Board of Commissioners $2520 Insurance Fund $4000 County Health Unit $4700 Magistrates $6000 Eight Constables lor Magistrates $200 each $1600 County Boards: Board of Equalization $700 Jail Expenses $2500 Jurors and Witnesses and Court Expenses $3500 Hospitalization of indigent cases $500 Post Modems Inquests and Lunacies $700 Public Buildings including ws SINCLAIR LODGE No 154 ATM 1104 Avf West Columbia The A degree will be conferred this date at 8 pjn Visitors welcome (Bed) Barfield VN Lawrence Amick Secretary $150 each $750 Auditor to receive a portion of his salary from State funds $1270 Auditor Clerk hire $2200 Treasurer to receive a portion nf his salary from State funds $1270 Cleric to Treasurer $1350 Attorney $500 Coroner Travel for Coroner $50: Su- ALUMINUM AWNINGS TA Ult A nocsniMK" law ftMaae MM traces him back to King I ear art scene 4: Sleepest or wakest thou Jolly shepherd? Thy sheepe bee in the come And for one Mast of thy minikin mouth Thy sheepe shall take no harme The account of Boy Blue above Of especial interest since he is threatened with a thrashing if he do his duty Ibis is not a common motif But it is also found in the version of Bo Peep carried in the column of the 13th of February Little Bo Peep go find your sheep And neglect your duty For if you don't do it You surely will rue Since Boy Blue seems to be older than Bo Peep this motif is probably original with the former Mrs William Miner Bostwick of Charleston sends two poems Of the first one she writes: was generally known in my family when I was a child but other people aeem always surprised that there is more than the first Our readers will also be surprised: There was a little girl and the had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead And when she was good she was very very good Triple Wrapped to keep that distinctive ZESTA flavor! 4:00 Pet parade 8:00 Pageant 9:00 a Aerial salute to signify opening of final day of Centennial Week 9:30 a Registration of visitors at Centennial headquarters 10:00 a View historical window displays Hog calling Men and women'a class All Machinery display! 2:00 Tractor driving open any age (Located near carnival) 7:30 Beard shaving sponsored hy Remington Rand at pageant grounds 8:00 Presentation of queen and court 8:15 Final performance of Thru the Years" 9:45 fireworks display 10:00 Visit carnival midway 10:00 Free street square dance downtown Bamberg Major Parnell Heads Medical Unit in Munich Maj Homers Parnell son of Mr and Mrs Parnell of 846 Arbutus Dr has been assigned ss commander of the Filth Medical Battalion of the Fifth Infantry Division in Munich Germany Major Parnell lucceeds Maj Peter Scoles He assumed command of the unit during April during change of command ceremonies He was assigned to the Fifth Infantry Division in January from the 16th Field Hospital where he was chid of surgical service He is a graduate of Wofford Col lege and received his MD from Vanderbilt University in 1939 WASHINGTON May 11 UH-The government today asked the US District Couri here to declare crooner Dick Haymcs a deports- Me alien At the same time lawyers urged the court to rule he may not be deported to his native Argentina because he visited Hawaii in 1953 I a i Judge Burnila Matthews took the case under advisement Haymes TTie husband of actress Rita Hayworth has been battling the government's attempts to deport him since he was arrested on But when she was bsd she was returning from Hawaii and charged with entering the United States Illegally 11? nit FRANCIS BRADLEY I'nlvwnity South Carolina From Dr John Bennett: Scrape Possum up a gum stump Goony In the holler you hear de wild goose "Googie-googtogoller! Boy Blue haa always to Hie appeared to be inseparably allied to Little Bo Peep But the following appears to show that he experienced more mature and more serious adventures even got into the army: Boy Blue come blow your horn Crane call your horses and give them some corn For if you don't do it the Sergeant shall know it i And you ahall be beaten as sure I as you're born "The date of this adventure is set by the fact that it occurred before the forebidding of flogging as a punishment in the army friend Mr Henry Kirk deed gave me the following gruesome tale as given him hy an aged sea island relative Hr declined to vouch for its credibility a an historical fact: THE PERSISTENT WIDOW A hundred years ago a planter On one of South sea-islands fell into an incurable melancholy and became ao depressed as to commit suicide The suicide had been an Episcopalian his wile was a Presbyterian i In the neighborhood a small Episcopal chapel and congregation Its vestry refused to permit the suicides' body to be buried in the consecrated grounds of the graveyard around the chapel widow owned a burial lot In the Presbyterian graveyard So the casket was carried to the Presbyterian churchyard and buried In the widow's lot members of the Presbyterian congregation counseled hy the elders took up the body and re-biterred it outside the church enclosure The widow by night disinterred the body from where they had laid it and reburied it where it had been in her lot Again members of the congregation removed the body and once more buried it outside the churchyard And again the widow and her men put it back again the congregation removed the body to the outside grave times the persevering widow and her servants disinterred the body and re-interred It within the churchyard times the members of the congregation disinterred the unwelcome body and returned it to the grave outside the churchyard Rut again the persistent widow returned it could not go on forever So this time the body was left to lie in peace The widow had won It was her lot in which she had buried him and she was determined that tiia body should stay there until Judgment Day come rain or hail come sleet or snow indignant eld era or congregation winter sum' Bier and winter gain- widow lived to he a very eld woman But every Sunday morning she Jogged to church in Jier old buggy one small Negro hoy running in front to open the gates and another running behind to dose them while the scrutinized her husband's grave to make sure that he was still where she had laid him was And ao far aa legendary records gp he is still The above gives the up a gum a new getting The occurrence I the 'poa-aum in folksong is commensurate with hia popularity on the table He ia strictly American and pro- vailing Southern Not so the Little -Boy Blue The Oxford Dictionary 3 is ft Need Screens? re-screea with The annual death rate in the United Stales dropped from 172 per thousand persons in 1900 to 96 per thousand in 1950 tx reea Aluminum Screens 1 sad IhIbN vMI funsipM iillififllMi Aluminum lifetime Shingle Co Dial 2-5343 ACACIA LODGE NO AFJH Masonic Temple ISIS Hampton 81 A A special communics-JAi tion nf this lodge will bo held et 8 to confer the A Degree Visiting brethren jnvit- JEANES WM JULIAN SHULL Secretary horrid One day she crept upslsirs when her mother unawares Was looking out of the window And she stood upon her head on a little trundle bed there was nobody near for to hinder But her mother heard a noise and she thought it was the hoys Up in lhe empty altir So she crept upslsirs and caught her unawares And spanked her most emphatic The first four lines of this next which is called the Paler-noster" are several hundred yeari old! Four corners to my bed Four angels round my head Matlhew Mark Ijike and John Bleu the bed that I lie on Matthew Mark I like and John Bless the bed that I lie on Before I lay me down to sleep I give my soul to Christ to keep Four corners to my bed Fctjr angels round me spread Two to foot and two to head I And four to carry me when I'm dead I go by sea 1 go by land The Lord has made me with Hia right hand If any danger cornea to me Sweet Jesua Christ deliver me Is the branch and I am the flower Pray God send me a happy hour And If I die before I wake I pray that Christ my soul will take The I lay me down to so widely known throughout America is not ao old as the other parts of the above It goes hack to the New England Primer Boston 1737 sw1 TS SPECIAL! i LIVK MAINE LOBSTER (Chick) Each FISH OYSTER CO DIXIE AMPLE PARKING SPACE Owner Park and Senate Sts Phone 4-7274 Mill Employe Honored McGORMICK May 11 (Special) Employes of lhe McCormick Spinning Mill who have maintained continuous service for five years were honored Friday night at a banquet at the John de la Howe School A Thompson plant superintendent presented the awards and welcomed and introduced the speaker Dixon vice-president of the Derring Millikan Mills The Saltine with a FLAVOR! Taste that distinctive Zesta flavor! No other laltine can match itl And you'd enjoy it to the utmost triple-wrapped Zesta flavor! Buy JSestas the Saltine with a FLAVOR! BAKED FRESH EVERY DAY BY "Railed cabbage! My unfailiaq rcip far diaiag ut!" Giv year wiYa wafcom change From the klfchtu ink or rongo THURSDAY NIGHT IS FAMILY NIGHT 1st Chapter "WILD OPEN TOWN' Hepaleag Cassidy COLOR COMEDY Supper Special Broiled tenderloin Steak COLD STORAGE! Yes now ED ROBINSON has a new service to offer you for storing your winter suiti topcoats dresses blankets and all your winter woolens All you can pack ina box 27x28x4 inches (will hold approximately 10 pieces $350 plus cleaning charges All you can pack in a box 27x28x8 inches (will hold approximately 20 pieces) $600 plus cleaning charges (WE FURNISH BOXES) WHAT DO YOU GET? 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