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I J Page Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, September 21, 1950 i By J. M. ELEAZER, Clemson College Extension Infor* mation Specialist 100-Day Flower If I spoke in pompous phrase. I’d say, before you dream of a lily or rose, plant ye a crape myrtle. Yes. the old Hundred-Day Flow er! What brightness and beauty it brings to the summer hedge and hilllock! And what abuses it can stand! You set it out once and it's forever there. It will respond to good treatment, but neglect does not cause it to go. It is often the lone sentinel that marks where a house has been, after even the brick and other rubble are overgrown f with j wild verdure. * ! We settled a new place. Didh’t get ; one planted last winter. But hope to ; the coming one. How- about a little ] 1 resolution. Let’s resolve to do that ! on every place where a beautiful crape myrtle is not now growing. I i like that gorgeous watermelon pink j , best. Likes New Melon I ' 1 In the past few years several new | disease-resistant watermelons have j i been developed at the U. S. Vege-, we had no form of heat in our up stairs sleeping abode. Yet childhood memories carry recollection of dis comforts from neither this nor from the summer heat. I guess kids are just that way. New Car Licenses Are Now On Sale TAKE A LOW-COST TRIP IN GOLDEN AUTUMN! Time to travel-lime to »ave! Year «|treate« teleutoo of trip* and tours over glorious Autumn high*ay*, including: Bargains % IN •ROUP TRIPS TO RIO IVINT• Have more fun on Ckaner Trip* to big gam«. faira, fettivala. convention*, reunion* . .. Bargains IN ROUNR TRIPS IVIRT WM IRt Save an t*tt* lOff or more t*b ttmy on Round Trip* to big (Kiev. »mall town*, retons, everywhere . . . Bargains IN IIPINII-PAID TOURS See more on Amanng America'* Tour*, to tcenic area*, big citie*, hivtoric vpot». vacation play ground* all nver the country! • ( linton Bu» Station Phone 59 GREYHOUND (t cost 41Q ooo 8 years tyo But how much would it cost to REPLACE IT? The average home owner to day carries only 40% enough fire insurance. He’s thinking backward to what his proper-* ty cost, instead of forward to what it would cost to RE PLACE IT. Face the facts. Your home or place of business (and con tents) may burn tonight. Is your fire insurance big enough to enable you to start to re build and refurnish or restock tomorrow? Quit kidding yourself that you won’t have a fire or that you are fully protected. It’s no fun to be half-ruined. America Fore • INSURANCE CROUP - CLINTON REALTY b INSURANCE CO. B. Hubert Boyd. Agent j table Breeding Laboratory near Charleston. In cooperation with that j laboratory, several of the county! j agents have been trying them out in five-acre plantings, enough to isure 1 . carlot shipments. The Congo special ly showed up well. And the pa$t | season was the first time enough seed were available for rather wide- ! spread planting. The growers liked ' it very much. I visited a large grower’s field in j Allendale with County Agent Sear- j son. Part of the field was planted to! Congo and the rest to one of the I j leading established varieties. The! old sort had sunburned badly, most of the vines were dead, and about half of the melons were left in the i field. That day they were picking t the Congos for the fourth time, vines j were beautiful, and it looked as though they would continue making melons for some time. We asked the man how he liked the Congo. He said he liked it very much, that it was making at least twice as many melons, and he was able to market all of them. He { brought out too that it was a good shipper. County agents down there feel that it will be very widely plant ed next year. Planting Birds Through the game department,! many of our counties have been' planting lespedeza bicolor for bird) feed. With cleaner farming and! wide terraces that we work over, itj ! is felt by game lovers that the lack! of food is one of the chief causes of! less game. So many thousands of these bicolor shrubs are being plant-, ed along hedge rows and the edges! pf fields and in open woodland spots Folks who have bicolor several i ^years old tell me that if you have) j any quail on your place, you will surely find them there in the vicin- 1 ity of this planted food during the winter. It holds its seed pretty well and birds can get it even if snow 1 is on the ground. After this and other bird feeds are planted around, then many countrie are raising and planting quail there. In Marlboro, 60.000 bicolor plants were set last winter, 10.000 of these by 4-H club boys. And many of I these got quail from the Blenheim The counter sales of 1950-51 auto mobile license tags began September 18. The State Highway, department will mail out application cards to motor vehicle owners beginning Sep tember 15, however. As in former years, tags may be obtained from the Highway depart ment office in Laurens. The new tags good for the 12 months beginning November 1, will be black with white numerals. These colors are the reverse of the current white tags with black numerals. For the first time at the start of sale of a new year’s tags, personal checks will be accepted in payment. in Laurens county during August, the. motor vehicle division of the State Highway Department reported this week. Nineteen drivers privileges were withdrawn in the county for driving I under the influence of alcohol, and the reihaining license was withdrawn for an unspecified reason. Sixteen of the licenses withdrawn were those of white men, and the other four belonged to Negro men. Five of the men who had their liceenses with drawn were 17 to 29 years of age, seven were 30 to 39 years of age, and eight were forty years of age and over. Nineteen Drivers Lose Licenses Nineteen drivers licenses were sus pended and one license was canceled Dr. Felder Smith Optometrist Laurens, S. C. 126 EAST MAIN STREET SoNth Side Public Square HOURS FOR EYE EXAMINATIONS: 9:66 to 5:26 Wednesdays 9:60 to 12:26 Phone 794 for Appointment Neely's Toe Wins Presbyterian college End Bud Nee ly of Rock Hill, whose talented toe provided the margin of victory in PC’s stunning 13-12 upset of Furman last Friday night, will be ready to go against Clemson this week-end. Neely’s extra point after the first P.C. score was the deciding factor against Furman. He also starred de fensively and blocked a punt. Goodyear Tires and-Tubes BATTERIES AND ACCESSORIES McMillan Service Station Sinclair Products Phone No. 2 r COMMERCIAL HOUSEHOLD WIRING Electrical Appliance Repairing and Electrical Construction Work Floor Plugs A Specialty ARNOLD M. CANNON 40« W. Maple St. TeL 312-XJ I then * arms 1 j hatchery, raised them, and ’ turned them loose on their Grau In IHrkens County Agent Wood tells me that you see both permanent and tern-' ! porary grazing mixtures being seed- i ed everywhere you turn in the red I hills of Pickens. Far more than ever before! And that means something: else. Livestock. From all reports it looks as though; that "Blanket of Green” will clothe I many a new acre in this state fre the frosts of winter come. And what! meaning that carries! Leaching largely stopped, washing i i too. and pasturage for stock around the clock of seasons! Few spots of earth are capable of all that. , Will Oaks Go? Something they call oak wilt is killing all varieties of oak trees at places in the upper Midwest. The industries depending upon oak lum ber have become alarmed and have contributed fellowships and funds to nid research towards finding a rem edy. I am told that it has been found as far down as northern Kentucky, j Just how severe it will become, no one knows. But it looks serious. A similar scourge hit the chestnuts i jp East years ago. It came down the i country until not a chestnut was left along the eastern range of that tree. Boys Are That Way I don’t remember ever getting cold cr hot when I was a kid. We slept in an upstairs half-story that I know must have been torrid on many a summer night. And the feather bed must have added to the temperature as we lay there. Yet I never even paused when I hit those sheets. Sleep was almost instant, and I was dead until day. At dawn my signal to get up was the scraping of gravy from the frying pan. For I knew that in a matter of moments then the food would be on the table. And it took me just no time at all to bounce out, hop into my overalls on the move, and take the steps two at a time as I headed down to the dining room. And I don’t think I ever thought to wash my face. They always had to make me go on the back porch and do that after I reach ed the table and tried to get by without doing it. And the heat of day never bothered us either, unless they were trying to make us work. And then, we would soon be off to the creek, unless they had laid the law down to us mighty hard that day. Cold didn’t bother us either. Those brogan shoes with only a loose buck le at the top must have let in the cold something awful, just about like a wooden shoe. But I don’t recall my feet ever getting cold. And winters appear to have been colder then. We often walked the branch a part of the way to school, the ice was so thick. New that condition seldom exists. And heating was very poor. In our long one-room school there were cracks in the floor and an open fire place in one end; at home ceilings were high and rooms were airy, and JFS NEW.;;IT'S COMPLETE! % THE RALSTON'PURINA COMPANY ANNOUNCES THE OF Blakely-Burton's Hardware & Seeds As the PURINA DEALER in Clinton MAKE THIS STORE YOUR HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL YOUR FARM NEEDS...READY TO SERVE YOU NOW The Checkerboard Sign on this store means it is now ready to offer a complete one-stop farm supply service designed to meet your every farm and home need. Whether you raise poultry or livestock you'll find Purina-trained men ready to help you solve any feeding, sanitation and management problems you might have. Purina’s complete programs of feeding, sanitation, and management which have proved so valuable to thousands of farmers year after year are now readily available to you through this Purina Dealer. 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