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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, April 13, 1950
Farms
&
Folks
By J. M. FLEAZER.
Clermon College Extension Infor
mation Specialist
Be;u
tty a Ion
g the by
ways!
That
- whece much-
of, it abides.
Fa"
along t! 1
k* torrid
highways the
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• unis an
l the ta
Hibbards have
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t ie pi
•ture so.
I: e
.ii'ly Ft
•bruary
1 went , oh a
a;n:ei
grazing
tour of
Mississippi It
w3s in
* re as -here.
uttg the high-
wavs
.ve saw
httir l>4
X^tyte jamble
l. v.
ned ab
vgliack on the
section was the Williams family, a
son and grandson of Col. James
Williams of Kings Mountain fame.
All of them were prosperous and
places now is an insult to that divine’(his beautiful wife; I know them
dish. - " • [well, I can say that) during the past
To me, real ice cream has a rich, Christmas week,
base of creamy milk poured from the j That little shack was never torn
top. To that is added eggs a-plenty; down. But it has grown into a reg- successful, but Col. John D. Williams
and a rich custard flavored with va-1 u > ar dream house. The lawn is spa- ! stands out as being especially illus-
nilla js made from it. Then it is*cious. And the picture is framed with Urative of prosperity at its high-
frozen in a treezgr that turns, as the fi ower jhrub, and tree. And his fields' water mark in Laurens county before
dasher .-vha\es the frozen part were half-knee deep with Dixie Won- the war. Col. John, some eighty years
the side of the container.
That is ice cream. It will melt
der peas, 450 acres of ’em!
nd ( Their only child, a dynamic
after the Indians and wolves were
dispossessed, owned a manor house
at White Plains near Milton, where
was absorbed by an act of the legis
lature into the'public school funds
of this part of the county.
We are indebted to Mrs. Sarah
Ball Copeland for this information
and some “Laurens County Firsts"
centering around out little commu
nity which will be given in our next
issue.
There are at present three Negro
schools in the Wadsworth district,
the white school having been discon-*
tinued some years ago. The building
, of the discontinued white school still
i stands and is used for a community
| eenter ; ,
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run down, not foam and puff up. youngster finished at Clemson and
And each saucer of it you eat just fell early in France. His room is'as he held some thousands of acres, a
calls for more. he left it, a shrine. And they make summer residence which 1 he called
- I was at a tarm nome the other things beautiful there and all about Greenwood, five miles from the town
day. Thev had just made a hand- : ' n his blessed memory. of Laurens on the road to Green-
freezerful of that sort on the back 1>3ul 3 specialist. And that’s why ville, and a town house in the village
porch. They piled a great mountain he has not been designated a "Mas- of Laurens. He also ownetj some five
of 'i* on a saucer and^ave it to me ter Farmer”, I am sure. For that ap- hundred slaves, and this was a great
They "aid the" diked homc&”de plus to the live-at-home farmer who fortune for that period. j
strawberry preserves on it. 1 had ‘•"•sn.es vv.th crop.- anu livestock In 1800, Thomas Wadsworth, who
never tried that but did then, r anc * takes part in everything that lited near Milton for many years and
made something that was already nieans good citizenship. Paul meets had large holdings there, died in
simply tops in eating just simply out 3 1 of ‘hose requirements except Charleston, leaving thousands of
livestock. He is a crop farmer, and acres of land in the up-country for
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Iks doing :
. =ty atns w'e >« a /more xoi
:rungs with their 1
mida:*ernoon the 50-car car-
ne
of this world.
Just Work All Time
The man owned much land. But
was getting little from his old-time
farming operations. He had heard
much of Dejunark How they made
muen on few acres. So he went there
a master of that.
Laurens County Firsts
1 rrr. - -‘.'r'ped 'in. a country road byt
i> smah white house on a knoll. The
'ra>' was green, and flowers were j
—(From The Joanna News)
The Wadsworth school, the
the support of a school for poor boys.
The school was to be called The
Wadsworth School and the boys ben
efited were to be of Dunlap’s batal-
ion. '
The bounds of Major Dunlap's bat-
CHILEAN KiTRATE
offers you all the^e
fOl/i'fs/Advanfegps
lalion embraced an area of about 10
-LJSalural. niilpanJ^imici^
bloi ming in Uie yard Retreshments J
ere y Homen ide - >kie - werej
•erved by the cute little 4-H club
carls wiio cooked them cn .yoeir home
economics class Plenty of good
thing.', butter, eggs, and skill went
uito those cookies.
That small farm had gone almost
< r.mpiefe’.y to grass, grain. ancUdairy
cattle Lupine-, were being turned
■ • * three acres of cotton that’s -
st 11 planted There in early Febru-
7fy the grazing was ahead of the
tth An I signs n 4 >•< I living 'were
To geT their secret. th
He came back a sad man. He said , “ c . y acl sworLn school, the first miles square on the waters of Bush,
there was no secret to it. “They just sc ' 00 we record of, Little and Saluda rivers. The county
worked all the time.” iclentl ned with Milton—the lat- had been divided into four parts for
_ tei being one of the most interesting military purposes, each part under
Truly there is no secret for sue- oj .
ce.->s except constant intelligent work. pnlmtv ctao*. i.nac a veteran of the Revolution, com
manded one-fourth of the county.
hool were
Burnsides,
of course, a post office. 1 Sylvanus Walker, Col. John Simp-
Major John Black owned flour and son and Captain John Watts. The
grist mills and a store at Milton in first teacher was George Watts, who
the 17th and the early years of the j received a salary of a hundred dob-
18th centuries^ • lars a year. Not too many years ago.
cv-c-i,. l ^ c i* settlements in Laurens command of a major. Major Dunlap,
This formula does not .baffle the ^ oun >• e coach lines from a vt
oane, for he likes it. Nor does it v 1 ™ 1 e t0 ^ umbia and from mam
oother the farmer here who likes ‘ , r ean s to Washington crossed The trustees of the sch
what he .s doing. For when w'e like Mlllon ’ and there stores and, Zachariah Bailey, William I
of poured a nnct oFTipp i nuc U/nUror- Tr*b
> o u
So ‘p r\ir»|.-rn I—*n*i' lil.iT
• ;x u i -T many places. Grass and
love: ar-.d cattle are coming to move
n'> 1 ?t a res. And irrigation is
destined to insure the harvest on
n,any an acre where enlightenment
hes-struck. Ciemson has a bulletin
■ irrigation-that’s free at you; - coun
tv agent’s office.
Old Time Ice Cream
I have always thought that most
changes were for the best. But not
' with ice cream.
The spongy stuff we find at most
a thing it loses its unsavory features.
And when the man puts his devoted
celt to hfis soil here you see a-plenty
come forth that Denmark does not
know —— —>—
A Good Farmer
IT I were called upon to name the
JO odii-tarTfiers^I know, Paul K. Bow
man of Dalzell, down in Sumter
county would surely be high on the
list'.
Paul finished at Carolina some
thing over 30 years ago, built a shack
for $250, and started living and far
ming out there on some very poor
sandy land. In'fact, some of it was
still sterile white sand when I went
there as county agent in 1923.
But land doesn’t stay poor long
when a highly intelligent and ener
getic farmer like Paul gets hold of
it. I ran by to see'him and Jenny:
Another prominent family of the what remained of this old bequest
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ihc only natural nitrate in llie
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2. Nitrate Nitrogen. The
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3. Sodium. Chilean Nitrate
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< K.O) and helps to make the
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General Increases in the Last Ten Years Have Boosted VFage Rate* 117%
While Living Costs Have Increased About 75%. Any Further ina case
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telephone wages—have they kept up?
As the chart clearly shows, telephone
wages have more than kept pace—leaving a
substantial margin in our employees’ favor.
Telephone wage,rates have been increased
117 per cent since 1939 compared with an
increase of about 73 per cent in the cost of
living for Southern cities.
Southern Bell employees have received
eight general wage increases in the last ten
years. In addition, they regularly receive
automatic “progression” raises according to
a schedule which begins the day they start
work and continues with frequent increases
until they reach top pay for their respective
jobs.
During the next twelve months, 8 out of
4 Southern Bell employees will receive at
least one such automatic increase. Many will
get two and three.
Today, as always, Southern Bell people
receive wages which compare favorably with
those paid by other concerns in the com
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g XI. S. Butmu of Labor Statistics’’ Consumers'
FHoa Index (Data for Southern cities combined)
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