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i V • Pape Four I REMEMBER BY THE OLD TIMERS From Mr*. Brrt Riror, Br.rbrrton. Ohio: I rrmember how the pupils in the county school which 1 at tended visited other schools to at tend a ‘’literary.” We would ride in a bob sled with straw on the floor and kept warm with lap robes. The school house was lighted by kerosene lamps in brackets on the walls with reflectors behind them. The program consisted of dialogues, recitations, and it usually ended with a “spelldown" between the two schools. From James Black. Ada, Ohio: I remember 60 years ago when father would take me and get my leather boots long about last of November. How sore my feet would be, and not just that, they had to last until April or May. Never got any socks, but boy. was I proud! Could go out to Grass Run and skate Don’t know how many time; would break through. Never got t cold, never sick Dr. Walters gave father quinine powder once awhile. From Mr*. Henry Adamson, Ish- peming. Mich.: I remember not so long ago in 1900, cream was five cents a pint No one was fined for speeding Nobody was ashamed to walk. Vitamin gauges were un known. Only small boys wore short pants. Nobody was told. “The line is busy ’’ Nobody cared for the price of gasoline. Farmers came to town for their mail. No one had to look for parking place. From Mm Ko neack, Sparta, Wlae.: I remember when Barnum and Bailey’s circus headquarters were in Baraboo, Wise. They had taken the big elephants to the portage in the Wisconsin river for a bath What a tune trying to get them out* They Just made the big parade which was soon to start Free* C. C Fteaa. Chlpley. Fla.: I remember when shoe eelet were nailed on with wooden pegs and ail merchant* kept a rasp on their counters te rut the tipe of the pegs off on the inside soles be fore delivering them final irnruoncNT Take notice that on the ITth day THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, April 12, 1951 Farms & Folks 1MI. 1 wtu April. account of my sets Far utns of the estate Rev Pitts, fir, in the office Judge of l*T d»ete of ty. et 10 o'rlork asn William the' By J. M. ELEAZER. Clemson College Extension Infor mation Specialist Over and Over In 1918, as a young man, I drove from Columbia to Charleston in a j T-Model Ford. It was a hard day’s drive over rough roads all the way. We were at war. and I saw’ folks cutting poles for pilings for the navy yard along the way. They hauled them with ox-drawn log carts to the station and shipped them by rail. In 1941 I rode from Columbia to Charleston over surface - treated roads in a Plymouth in four hours. We were at war again, and they were cutting pine trees .along the way for piling again and hauling them to the Charleston navy yard in trucks with long saplings for coupling poles. In 1951 I rode from Columbia to Charleston over smooth slabs of concrete in a Pontiac in two hours. I We were at war again. Folks were j cutting poles for piling in the Low- Country and hauling them to the Navy Yard in great trailer-trucks ! that carried about a carloa. I winder what the next chapter to this story will be. It seems that everything was changing except the | need for trees. Irrigation Pays * Few folks got much from their winter grazing planted last fall. But Hanna Bros, of Abbeville did. When I went by there with County Agent Bull I learned they had had plenty of good grazing for their dairy herd all winter The fall was dry. They planted on time and irrigated it One of the brothers told me it was ready for grazing in 30 days. It was five months before many folks got any grazing from their fall-seeded stuff, out in February, after some moist ure came and it warmed up a little And on the winter grazing tour in Richland with County Agent Bailey we taw what irrigation could do again Mr Derrick, of the ing of a friction-top molasses buck et that we turned back and forth by the handle, and this was im mersed in ice and salt in the water bucket. The week before it had all been ruined by salt getting in the cream. So by his time, having skipped a week, we were evermorely ready to eat, when it came to ice cream. It was about June then. Strawber ries that had been fortifying our ice cream along in the spring were out. The first blackberries had just came in, the running sort that gets ripe first. My brother had an idea that looked bright. The strawberries had added so much. Why wouldn’t those dewberries, too, if added to the makin’s "for ice cream? So we picked a batch, mashed them up, and added them to the aggregate. We were keen with anticipation a c we whirled the friction-top bucket in that pail of ice and salt. When we took the lid off to cut it from the sides, it looked a sickly bluish pink. But that didn’t dampen our ardor. For strawberries had made it simply divine. And surely good dewberries should do the same. At last it ^was frozen. $apcers weie helped as tisuak, with % great pyramid of the frpzeh delight. As each tasted it, a look of keen dis appointment came. The stuff was so insipid and flat that even hungry country youngsters couldn’t eat it. We left it. It melted. And the hogs 1 got it next day in their slop. After that we took no chances. We had planned to use mulberries with it for the summer, for they ' lasted. But we never tried them, 1 after the fiasco with dewberries. CITATION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION \\ The State of South Carolina, County of Laurens. By J. H. Wasson, Probate Judge: Whereas, William R. Brown made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the estate and ef fects of James R. Brown. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kin dred and Creditors of the said James R. Brown, deceased, that they be and appear before me, In the Court of Probate, to be held at Laurens Court House, Laurens, S. C., on April 16, 1951, next, after publication hereof, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration shpuld nbt be grant ed. ' Given under my hand this 29th day of March, A. D., 1951. J. HEWLETTE WASSON, 12-2ew J. P. L. C. MOKb PEOPLE ARE READING THE CHRONICLE THAN EVER BEFORE! Ep» wth orphnaagr farm, showed Lodmo V , ZrL , , X M for 7S dairy cattle ewry day Mlirr dav will .pply a final du- for th , ^ ^ * r: * trust aa Kaocutrta • fm,* t m ■ ■ ■ a la Any j j % -r rnt on all :«r»ona Ha la d estate will br’tfe said Jorr-. er | Mj believed or before that date, and „ yy, ■ctaAMi — j 1 t date, duly 13 • Mrs ) LYXMK ACMTOsM PITTS L«e« utrta t Union, r C- W-r*h IS, i«tl dt-Apr THARIFIL FOI STRENGTH TB WORK gallon* of zntlk' That fig S370 per Wre from that | Tfeso • l\ M .V.T7* 'iMt *t regal a do mf work Mrs. Iraafcl.a. I. leaaw City. V a a a . ( "far *aar year* I •.•* I r a a> ga« a* <ay »*aa»- a«fc. *aa ••»a a ad • a a h faatlag Sad ••aa. ■ay boky d«#d It »remed Hta* I |wtt <« a>y UreagHi "1 mmi eaaMe fa a ad etfea arawld have ta tpead • ►>• day iu bad I triad traataiean witb aa retain. Tbea I ttarted ea }<elf i Indiea liver Meduiae a«d the ftrtt battle betged ate. My appetite come bark, tbe petty **oe*ecb treeble wat relieved ead I pained treat 100 poeadt ta IIS poundt and can da my work with no trouble. 1 can net Had wardt to preite Scatf’t enoupk. It it limply wendertvl." Scall’t Indian River Medicine It a tfrenptkening vegetable ttem- ach tonic peertmteed ta talitfy er your money back. O oner oat botflo S' 23—A 6-bottie treatment $5.75. Try It today from year draoalit LAWN MOWER PRECISION SHARPENING DONE BV EXPERTS Call 184-R Cox Seed Cleaners E. Florida St. THE CHRONICLE Completely Covert CUnion’s Trade Aren for Advertiser* There la No Svbstttvte for Nt neper Advertlting it four timet, but told he it would hove paid to give jpplementory water about four additional time* And ho put the fertilizer to It But look how It paid off He fed *1700 leas feed than the your before and got 11. additional urea over well fed and weU watered pasture in 13 month* No wonder some folks think we look through rose-Unted g lasers when we talk of our pasture poten Ual here We have known graaa In the peat but to fight it in th* cotton patch Now hat we are beginning to f wtrr it as a crop, we are find • >ut surprising things about it it rairisa a golden promise for our future here on cotton’s loaf acre*. For. remember, we have about two acre* that have gone from cotton for every one still tn it We are mak ing that one in cotton better and better with cotton, as tune goes on. Now the big Job is to find profitable use for the greater acreage that has gone from cotton. And. surely, grass cannot be overlooked in this Fertilise Summer Pastures. Tool When a fellow gets of the mind to lime, fertilize, and seed one of these new pastures we are putting m all over the state, he usually continues to give it the attention that’s needed for success. But when it comes to the old standbys, Bermuda, Dallis, and les- pedeza, they are usually left to shift for themselves, as of yore. Folks, let’s try giving these pas ture plants, that carried us back there before we had the good pas tures we now have a chance, too. While riding with County Agent Gray of Grpenville, we went by the W. J. and Paul Verdin farm. They had fine fescue and Ladino clover there in midwinter that they had handled right. And a big part of that handling right was last summer when their cattle were making full use of their limed and fertilized summer pasture of lespedeza, Ber muda grass, and Dallis grass. That let the other build up a good re- \ serve of growth for winter. Yes, Mr. Verdin said it was sur prising the amount of grazing he got from that old Bermuda plot that was made very fertile. Garden in the Field Some folks farm with tractors now. Don’t even have a mule. And that just about does away with the old garden. Now we need to put it out there in the field, and work it right on through with the tractor. With modern freezing and canning, we can grow enough of many things to last the year through with one planting there. And vegetables grow good on that clean land out in the field. Boy* are that Way Our first ice cream had been mostly good old vanilla. And, my, how good that stuff was when it first came to our stone hills there in the Dutch Fork when I was a kid! 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