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]1om0 Demonstration Dcpartuient. (Conducted by Etta Sue Sellers.) Bread Contest for 1921 Demonstrations have been given recutly to two of the Girls' Home Demonstration Cooking Clubs. These cooking lesson^ were preparatory to the bread contest for 1921. Baking powder biscuit and soda biscuit were made at the meetings. The schools in Dillon county having cooking clubs are High Hill, Dalcho, and Oakland. The majority of the cookinfe club members will enter the contest. Rules governing the contest are as follows: 1. Tlie contest shall begin March 1, 1921 and end during the State Fair in October, 1921. 2. Only cooking club members may enter the contest. ? 3. The contest is to be devoted to biscuit making only?both baking powder and soda. 4. Contestants must make each kind of biscuit at least 4 times before the county contest, one of which must be in the presence of the County Home Demonstration Agent. Each kind of biscuit is to be made 8 times before the District Contest and 12 times before the State Contest. 5. Contestants must keep complete records if they expect to compete at first the County Contest; second, tlie District Contest; and third the State Contest. 6. Record cards must be in hands of demonstration agent before each contest is held. 7. Record cards must be approvea by the Home Demonstration Agenl before entering the District Contest; and must be approved and signed l)> District Home Demonstration agent before entering ihe State Contest. a. i\u complete recoru carus musi be sent to the state officer before the final contest in the fall. 9. The state contestants are to b< those winning at both county tine district contests, making three, on< i from each district. 10. Each contestant must us< standard recipes given. 11. Contestants must use onlj bread or plain flour, no self risitij flour. 12. The regulation score card tc be used in judging biscuits. The contest for Dillon county will probably be early in June. The Pe< Dee District Contest will be conduct ed in Flofence after each Count) Contest. Two of the prizes for th< State Contest are a Detroit Vapoi stove by Mr. W. A. Blizzard of Dil Ion and an oil stove by the Standard Oil Company. The Dillon county girls are going to put forth every efforl tt win ne of the state prizes. Recipes to Be Used for Baking. Pow der Biscuit. 2 cups flour. 4 teaspoons baking powder. . 1-2 teaspoon salt. 4 tablespoon fat. About 2-3 cup milk. Mix and sift flour, baking powdei and aalt. Work in fat. Add enough milk to make soft dough. Toss or slightly floured bread board. Knead jest enough to make mixture smooth Roll out about 1-2 inch thick. Cul biscuit cutter and bake in hot oven about 15 minutes. Soda Biscuit. 2 cups flour 1-2 teaspoon salt. 1-3 teaspoon soda. 4 tablespoon fat. 2-3 cup sour milk. Mix and sift flour, suit and soda. Work in fat. Add enough sour milk to make a soft dough. Knead slightly. Roll OUt 1-9. innvh IliinU Cut with biscuit cutter and bake in hot oven about 15 minutes. A Word for Day Old (liicks. March is a good month to secure baby chicks. There is encononiy in buying baby chicks. The gues8 work and worry of incubation, the uncerItainties of setting hens, and the frequent disappointment of a poor hatch are eliminated. Those interested in securing pure bred chicks may communicate with County Home Demonstration Agent, Latta. She will either send off ordera or give price list and addresses. o Dll.liON SWEET POTATO STORAGE COMPANY We have secured our charter and have more than twenty per cent of our $6,000.00 capital stock paid in. We expect to wait until warm weather to beirin buildintr it s?j nnp ?-.ian to build by contract and to watch opportunity to buy lumber and materials at a bargain. We expect to build a house second to none in the Pec Dee section. We hope to cure potatoes in crates and think our storage charge for the season will be twenty five cents per crate. Our charge will be uniform with other curing houses in this State. The South Carolina Potato Association is to hold a meet ing at an early date to decide whether the crate should hold one bushel or five pecks. All crates the present season were made to hold five pecks We expect to Join the State Association and to market our potatoes in a co-operative way along with the many curing houses now in Soutli Carolina. We still have some on? hundred blocks of stock for sale and hope we can build the storage house so nc one Iorson will need take more than a hundred dollars stock. We believe we are fostering an important industry thai is capable of doing big things ior Dillon county. If we never shir a crate of potatoes we think the enterprise well worth while. A prominent lady in Dillon remarked that if all the vacant lots in Dillon should be planted in sweet potatoes, well fertilized and worked: and it then stored so as to prevent rottlDg that these vacant lots would R almost feed our population. This is a splendid suggestion. Speaking of lawns do you know anything more attractive than a beautiful' green well kept sweet potato patch. The town can bo made more beautiful as well as more sanitary by replacing our unsightly weed patches with well kept \ potato gardens. THE DILLON HE1LA SEARCH SOUIH CARQLIN FOR Dillon County's Most a Young Woman Sent of Social Gayety M Wlio will represent Dillon county 'in the contest for Queen of Palmafes-, j la (Palmetto State Festival) to be j held in the capital city March 27 to April 2? By means of a popular voting contest through local newspapers during the next four weeks, candidates will be chosen from every county in South Carolina who will go to Columbia as the guests of the Palniafesta Association, which organization will defray all expenses, including railroad transportation, hotel bills and entertainment. The young women will be chaperoned by prorni; nent Columbia society folks and will feature in a week of entertainment and social gayety which promises to rival the famous New Orleans Mardi " Gras. During the week an election ' will be held in Columbia to determine ^ the most attractive and poular young woman from among the delegates as> semblcd from the various counties. i,The winner of this contest will be j proclaimed Queen of Palmafesta, and -| will be awarded a grand prize consistt ing of a complete spring trousseau of I the finest apparel obtainable. One r of the leading moving picture comL punles will film the queen and her ontire court, and this specially selectL ed galaxy of South Carolina beau? ties will be sent far and wide via the movie screen to advertise the Palmet; J to State. I Palmafesta is to be an annual ,1 spring event, held in the capital city ! for the entertainment of all the peo; : , | * VOTING ! QUEEN OF > j "PALMAFESTA" L ^ * DILLON HERALD, r Gentlemen: 5 " My choice for Queen of Palmafe t Name i t * Address This coupon good for one vote. * scriptlon to this Newspaper coa a FARMER'S i * i ; i * County of 11 * do certify that I am a farmer and I _emnlv nrnmlsp anH acroo on mw en * year 1921 I will not plant In. cot * lands cultivated by me during the * And I further promise that I w * may have with my friends and ne * obligation and to co-operate with * ganization and the work of the sa * Witness * * . . . ?7. i . Sign and SOUTH CAROLINA 809 LIBERTY COLUM Our slogan is to put Porto Rico sweet potatoes on every table in Dillon county every day in the year. Suppose every family had potatoes, chickens, eggs, kept a good cow and niade plenty of butter, milk, and cream for the table three hundred and sixty-five days a year. If that condition prevailed it would not so much matter whether cotton brought ten cents or thirty cents. We could nrwl ohrvitl/1 Lr. 1 ( ?..u ouuuiu uc iiiuniieruuH illlU happy. We expect a car load of Porto Rico seed potatoes to arrive Saturday, March 5. Mr. A. M. Musser of Clem1 son College will give a demonstration of best method bedding sweet potatoes on the J. P. McLaurin place at 1 end of Main street Monday, March ! 11, 3 p. m. The public is invited to be present. Wade Stackhouse 1 ? 1 Facts About Cotton Production of cotton in Russia is ' confined almost exclusively to the 1 Asistic provinces of Turkestan and ^ Transcaucasia. Since the outbreak of th? Great War in 1914 production of cotton in 1 Russia has averaged about 750,000 5 bales annually. 1 World carry-over at July 31, 1920 of cotton grown outside of the Unit' ed States was 2,100,000 bales great! er than it was at the end of the pre vious year. i i*r ?* j - - ? - worm carry-over at July 31, 1920, ! of cotton grown in the United States, according to Hester, was 6,086,000 ' hales. During the year 1919 the propor1 tion of world's mill supply of cotton contributed by each country was as follows: United Stateg 56.7 per cent. British India 22.4 per cent. Egypt 5.9 percent. China 5.7 percent. Brazil 2>.8 per cent. Russia 2.2 per cent, all others 4.3 per cent. World production of cotton destined for factory consumption in 1919 is indicated by U. S. Census figures to have been 19,260,000 bales, not including 582,000 bales of linterg in the United States. World production of cotton for factory consumption in 1919 was 1,100,00C bales greater than the amount consumed. i lLI). DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, A QUEEN OF PALMAFESTA Attractive and Popular o Columbia tor Week arch 27 to April 2. pie of South Carolina. It will be a week of many and varied attractions, including the State-wide automobile show exhibiting the late models of cars, trucks and tractors; the spring style show, featuring the latest creations from the realm of fashion by professional models to be imported from New York fbr the occasion; daily band concerts by one of America's' premier musical organizations; floral, trades, automobile and baby I parades; fetes, dances, social eyents and special attractions at all theatres, with nightly exhibits of fireworks iu which will be featured specially designed set pieces depicting important events ln South Carolina history. The auto show, style show and fireworks display will be staged at the State Fair Grounds. In order to secure the most popular young woman in Dillon county as candidate for Queen of Palmafesta, there is printed below a popularity voting coupon which is to be filled out and mailed as per instructions contained therein Voting coupons will be printed in each issue of this newspaper up to and including the issue of March 12th at which time the votes will be counted and announcement of the winner made. There will be no restriction upon the number of votes Ieach person may cast. Each coupon clipped from this newspaper is good . for one vote, and a yearly, paid in J advance subscription will count 10 j votes. COUPON IAIJMAFESTA sta is: * A Yearly, Paid in advance Sub nt? 10 Votes. i PLEDGE. ? of the cotton grower and hereby sol cred word of honor that during the * ton more than one-third of the * year 1920. ill use whatever influence that I * ighbors to have them sign a like the county committee in the or- * id cotton reduction. * *** * **?* * * * send to: COTTON' ASSOCIATION RANK BIjdg. HI A, S. C. I worl/? ?* * .. vou vuuDuuiyuun or American cotton is running 25 per cent below what it did last year, but the estimated production, government figures, is 1,662,000 bales greater. There ig now enough cotton in the world ( unspun, to last nearly two years. Cotton is produced extensively in many sections of China. Most of it is spun by hand in the homes of the people, but reliable estimates place the quantity of Chinese cotton from the crop of 1919 which reached commercial channels at 1,100,000 bales. During the years 1862 and 1863 total production in the United States javeraged less than 375,000 bales of I cotton annually. First cotton seed were planted in .Virginia at Jamestown in 1607. Cotton was Introduced into all the Southern colonies by the first sellers. The Spanish invader in 1519 found cotton clothing in common use in Mexico, and Cortez received gifts of fine cotton fabrics from the hand of the great Montezuma. Statements to the effect that Egyptian mummies were wrapped in cotton fabrics have been disproved. In the first chapter of Esther definite reference is made to the use of cotton "hanging" at the feast which King Ahasuerus gave, about 519 j B. C. World carry-over of American cot-| ton at Jul y 31, 1920, U. S. Census figures on the domestic supply and | Chronicale figures on stocks held abroad was 6.149.089 hato? o VALUE OF TESTING SEED CORN ON THE FARM Clemson College, Feb. 28 ?From the present outlook, with demoralized prices, particularly for cotton, it is expected that the South Carolina farmer will this year give much more atten tion than usual to the selection, testing and growing the best types of corn for the locality. It is advisable that the farmer confine himself to standard varieties of proved merit, rather than continue with the specials which might require years of experimenting to develop Into profitable yields as compared with the Blandard varieties qJ much greater THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, economic value, says Jas. L. Carber- N ry, Extension Service agronomist. I Next in importance to selection.' comes the home germination test, I details of which are supplied free through illustrated bulletins upon application to the agronomy dlvis- f \> ion of Clemson College. The testing of seed proves to the fawuer that under proper conditions i.bout the same percent of seed will germinate in the field. These contionditions consist chiefly of preparation of seed bed, depth of plant-' ing, moisture and temperature. The, a germination test further avoids much lost time in replanting assures the | I crop a uniiorm siart, development i and ripening. if conditions are favorable and intelligent care is given. Professional Cards. ! Surveying Drafting and Blue Printing W. M. ALLEN Dillon, S. C. Phone N*. 112 L. U. HA3ELDEN Attorney at Law DILLON. 8. O. Aoney to Lend on -First Mortgag' Real Estate. I?K. J. H. HAMKK. JIL Dentist Offlre over Peoples Bank. DR. It P. DARWIN Dentist Office Over Rank of Dillon JOE P. LAXE Attomey-at-I jaw Office Next to Bank of Dillon, Main St. Dillon. S. C. OTIS M. PAGE Civil Engineer DILLON, S. C. DR. R. M. BAILEY, Veterinarian Office at Dillon Live Stock Co's. 8 tables. Office Phone - 2S5 Residence Phone - - - - ? o. hensl.ee, m. d. fjs," Bar, No#? and .Throat Spectacles Fitted. CflN Hours 9 to 11 and 1 to t Crenlng Hours by Appointment. GIBSON & MULLEK, Attomeys>at-L.aw Office over Malcolm Mercantile Co. DELIjON, S. C. Practice in State and Federal Courts J. W. JOHNSON Attcmey-at-Ijaw "raetlee In State and Federal CenrtMarlon. S. C. L. D. LlDfC Altorney-?t-Ijaw MARION. 8. C. GUARD YOUR LUNG5WITH Lungardia IjUNCjIAKDIA opens the respiratory organs, removes the thick masses of sputum, heals the irritation, dispels the cough and cold. Unsurpassed in spasmodic Croup, Bronchitis, difficult breathing, and such kindred diseases. Thousands attest to its great vlrtHe. If LUN( A It 1)1 A fails, your money returned. Price, 60c and $1.20 per bottle. Mmnufaetarcd by IIVQARDIA CO.. t>alU?. Tcxa*. I B FOR SALE BY I DILLON PHARMACY j 1 uuwm Money back without question A a If HUNT'S 8a1vo falls In the R treatment of ITCH, RCZBMA, ft -li I RINQWORM, TBTTRR or f lit?^>Jll other itching skin .f I Try a 75 cent boa at our risk. f\?? /| I For sale by Evans Pharmacy, I Money bask without question I ]ft \1 If HUNT8 Salve fails In the \| treatment of ITCH, KCZRMA. I W17 Tv/ RINGWORM, TETTRR or I / II wrt other Itching skin diseases I 1 ^^1 // Try 79 cent bos at our risk. B j Sold by Evans Pharmacy I * FALMAFESTA I * Palmetto State Festival * I I * Colombia March 2S to April 2 * I * 8-17-lt. I Notlc0 of Meeting of Stockholders. I Notice is hereby given that a meet-)I <ng of the stockholders of the Spruntffl Farman company will be held at the I directors room of the Bank of Dil-ll Ion, in the town of Dillon on Wed- I nesdoy the 23rd day of March next, I the pnrpose of the meeting being to I act upon a resolution of the directors I of said corporation advlsilng the dis- I solution of said corporation. I J. M. SPRUNT, 2 17 4t. President. 1921. * OTICE?I AM AGENT FOR THE Florence Steam Laundry and will receive and deliver all laundries as, promptly as possible. Palace Market. ANTED?Everybody to know that J I now have a full line of machinery and that I am in a better position! to give quick service than I have ever been. All work guaranteed. | Electric Shoe Shop over Dillon Hotel, W. R. Summerall, Prop.? J 1 20 tf. | fyji/fnuJisx htaritb whatw te, JWJpMtblfa Wr-.^r*' WJOJWL yrv&rwiy / A/ftl&SL 6()>/nfe^ ft uou> 6ML fuuopjh a, fynXumsu Planting your money seeds of CONTENT. SUC DENCE. Cultivate the banking crow in vnnr own pebom CONFIDENCE of "those" you work. Confidence means CI is a help and often a nece We invite YOUR Ba The Bank SAFETY, SERVICE Dillon, Sou< CARL MILL COMl Dillon, - - 1. After March 1st. of cotton storage to 35c \ 2. We expect a car tato Seed to arrive here purchasers will come in tl potatoes bought. Our pric is actual cost. O "TIT- - - - o. we are overstock viil sell at bargain prices other feeds until our stocl with cash and you carry 4. We are selling ferti petition on mixed goods, acid phosphate. We will c grades fertilizer in our v ill be able to supply you time you have a wagon i 5. Our cotton seed g We are grading some ch land Seed. We will excha] seed for good sound seed at 25c per bushel differe planting good seed. Use i leave your cotton twice a usual. We can make one 1 I wiii-6t;x 11 you leave enougl 6. Try one bag of 01 bag of oyster shell. Our M Shell $1.00 per cwt. If ke about double egg producl Yours t< Caroliru Com . WE hTEACH THROUGH OORRESpondence the same bookkeeping, accountancy and penmanship as taught in our college daily. Very low rate of tuition. We are as near you as your mail box. Write at once for particulars. Bowen's Business College, Accredited School, Columbia, S. C.?3 3 It. FOR SALE ? Refreshment Privilege \ at Linwood Park season 1921. C. ? E. Peck.?3 3 ltp. ? LET Tr^LK ^^FACTS in our bank is sowing the XESS and INDEPEN; habit; it will help you to ; it will gain for you the for whom or with whom tEDJLT and a good credit issity. nking Business. : of Dillon AND 4 PER CENT th Carolina i VJNA i? JNG I t>ANY South Carolina 1 we will reduce the price Jifi )er bale per month. | of Porto Rica Sweet Po- I March 5th. and hope all I tat day to get and pay for 1 e is $1.75 per crate which g ted on feed products and I i, mill feed, rice bran and | k is sold. Come to the mill | away a bargain. | ilizers and can meet com- | \ kainit, nitrate soda and I arry a stock of nearly all I storage warehouses. We I a load to take home any I n town. 3 T jrader is now running. I oice Wannamaker-Cleve- I oge you graded planting 1 suitable for the oil mills mce. Meet low prices by I iery little fertilizer and I s thick in the drill as I cotton crop without fer- I hi stocks on an acre. I ir poultry mash and one I ash - ^/vi VTT V* pt before your hens will . tion. 1 > Please, i Milling pany