Brunette admitting that “I did let HIM kiss me on the first day, although I very seldom let a boy do that on the first date. But you see, he has a mustache, and I had always wondered how it felt to kiss a man so he equipped – just couldn’t wait until the second date . . . It wasn’t any different from kissing a man without a mustache.”

Drova G. Crapps, the tombstone tycoon, flashing a $50 bill at us . . . Didn’t know how they grow such things . . . Food store clerk informing a customer she could buy a pound of sugar for each dollar she spent . . . For instances if her total food bill was $4.60, she would be allowed to purchase 4 pounds of sugar.

And speaking of food, a government official said leaders in Washington were more worried over the food situation than that of armament . . . In the capital they believe a food shortage may proceed a shortage in production of munitions for war.

Mrs. Mary Jenkins, stenographer in office of Governor Harley, standing entrance as an automobile, license of northern state, draws up to the curb near State House grounds, and woman gets out, followed by five beautiful Irish setters, which scamper about the grounds, woman telling Miss Jenkins one was an international champion. . . and Mrs. Jenkins wondering where she puts the dogs, all of good size, when the woman stopped at a hotel as she said she had been doing on her way north from Florida.

Shelton Peters find some friends of his desires to get into the Navy . . . Frank Macaulay crossing Washington Street at suppertime . . . Dick Wilson, with a handful of application papers for the Army Air Corps . . .Mrs. Frank Camm of 3607 Cassina road, looking up and down main street with her pretty daughter, Felicia, for the car she had missed placed.

Pvt. Leroy Douglas, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Dougals of Columbia spend his twenty-third birthday Thursday at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. His wife is here with his parents at their home at 3002 Farrow Rd.

BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARIES TODAY: Edward P. Cave Columbia, Samuel A. Much of Ridgeland, Samuel B. Love of Richmond, W. S. Solomons of Columbia, T. P. Lyon of Edgefield, C. Flint Rhem of Hemingway, C. R. Page of Aynor, S. W. Rose of Blaney, J. S. Bass of Hartsville, J. D. Moorhead of Gaffney, Mitchell S. Aiken of Anderson, W. L Smoak of Cordova, Benjman D. Riedgel of Ware Shoals, Dr. C. A. Brown of Columbia, Z. V. Whelchel of Gaffney, E. O. Hull of Rock Hill, Lee A. DeHihns, Jr. of Columbia, (last birthday for some time in civilian clothes).

BIRTHDAYS: Dr. Walter M. Riggs, 1872; Charles Kendall Adams, educator, 1835.

Gold discovered in California, 1848.

LINE FOR TODAY: Think wrongly, if you please; but in all things think for yourself.