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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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Thursday, November 29, 1951
FARMS
AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information
Specialist
Seen Oui West
Many small lakes in arid west
ern Nebraska. I wondered why
they didn’t irrigate from them.
Learned they were so alkaline as
to be no good. And only at places
where they could get good water
from deep wells did I see the abund
ance that irrigation brings.
The Burlington Zephyr trains,
that speed west into the Great
Plains from Chicago, are light,
At the old one-teacher school
away back in the woods from our
place, I can well remember seeing
all the children of a family wearing
garments from the same cloth. And
our school clothes too occupied a
special category.
Last week I told you of our
“Sunday clpthes.” They were
strictly for church, weddings, par-
itcular visiting, and the like. They
comfortable, and fast. They hinge were often store bought, or made
together like an accordion, and
only have one wheel on each side
at the end of the car, whereas most
at home from a little better ma
terial. Then the school clothes came
next. They were always made at
trains have three. No smoking is home, even to our pants and coats
allowed in the coaches. A club car of heavy jeans. If there was work
is provided for that.
In the Chicago station a fash
ionably dressed woman was lead
ing her suitcase along by a strap.
It had skate rollers attached to
the bottom of it.
At Peoria I saw’ tractors being
made. They work 28,000 folks in
that factory. Now I have more ad
miration for the skill and material
that g^es into a good engine.
Melons and peaches were high
in Chicago. But our growers were
not getting much for them then.
Carrying and distributing costs
must be high. The producer gets
what's left after those things are ^
paid When I got back I saw a t
farmer in Spartanburg >vho had
received $43 back for a car of,
peaches—10 cents a bushel! The
ones I saw up there were selling
for 15 cents a pound.
Double sidewalks on the grounds;
of the University of Illinois. One'
was wide and the other narrow. I
wondered, and soon found out. The
narrow one was for bicycles. Not
a bad idea.
And the sidewalks were brick in
stead of concrete where they lay
mar trees. The brick would Rive,
a? the tree roots grew, and could
t* taken up and relaid. Concrete I
couldn't
to do when we got home from
school, we pulled our school out
fit off and donned overalls, our
everyday work clothes. In them we
w’ere most comfortable.
LAND SALE
The State of South Carolina,
County of Laurens.
In Court of Common Pleas.
TOM PLAIXCO, Plaintiff,
vs
CHARLES J. SLACK, Defendant.
Pursuant to a Decree of the
Court in the aboye stated case, I
will sell at public outcry to the
highest bidder, either in or in front
of the Court House, at Laurens, S.
C., on Salesday in December next,
being Monday, the 3rd day of the
month, during the legal hours for
such sales, the following described
property, to wit;
All that piece, parcel or lot of
land, with the dwelling house
thereon, situate, lying and being
one hundred seventy-five (175)
feet, more or less, south of U. S.
Highway No. T6, about one (1) mile
east of the corporate limits of the
Town of Clinton, in Laurens Coun
ty, State of South Carolina, bound-
Nqw from these three sorts of
clothing, don’t get the idea we had
a lot of ’em. One Sunday outfit,
including shoes, was all. Two school
outfits, washed on alternate weeks.
And several changes of older
patched-up work clothes that had
likely once occupied the upper
categories. That made up our out
fits in the Stone Hills when we
were kids.
ed on the north by lands of Tom
Plaxico, three hundred and thirty-
two (332) feet thereon; on the east
by land of Annie W. Todd, two
huhdred sixteen (216) feet thereon;
’on the south by land of B.- L.
Smith, one hundred ninety-eight
(198) feet thereon, »and by another
lot of Tom Plaxico shown as^lot
No. 2 on plat of said subdivision
hereinafter referred to, ninety (90)
feet thereon; and on the west by
said Lot No. 2 of Tom Plaxico, one
hundred and eighty-five (185) feet
^thereon, and by public driveway
leading south from U .S. Highway
;76, twenty-five (25) feet thereon.
Said lot of land is Lot No. 1 as
shown, designated and delineated
on a plat of subdivision of proper
ty of Tom Plaxico. made by S./T.
Martin, Surveyor, dated March 21,
1949, and is a portion of the land
acquired by Tom Plaxico by deed
of Annie W. Todd, dated Decem
ber 28, 1943, and recorded in the
office of the Clerk of Court for
Laurens County, in Deed Book 83.
at page 271, and is the identical lot
of land conveyed to Charles J.
Slack by Tom Plaxico by deed
dated May 11, 1949.
Terms of Sale: Cash. The success
ful bidder, immediately upon the
conclusion of the bidding, shall de
posit with the Clerk of Court the
sum of five (5%) per centum as a
guarantee of his good faith in the
bidding. The same to be applied
to the purchase price upon his com
plying with the terms of sale, oth
erwise to be paid to Plaintiff for
credit on the indebtedness. In the
event the successful bidder should
fail to make such deposit or should
fail to comply with the terms of
sale, the said lands shall be re-sold
on the same oc some subsequent
Salesday on the same terms, at risk
of defaulting purchaser.
The purchaser to pay for papers,
stamps and recording.
W. E. DUNLAP,
C. C. C. P. 8c G. S.
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NOTICE FOR PAYMENT OF
1951 CITY TAXES
Notice is hereby given that Town Taxes for the Town
of Clinton are due and collectable up to December 31st
for the year 1951. The Tax Books are now open at the
office of the Town Clerk and will remain open up to and
through December 31st.
A penalty of ten (10%) shall be added if said taxes
are not paid on or before January 1, 1952.
The levy for current fiscal year is 53 mills; 15 mills
for current operating expenses, and 38 mills for interest
and sinking fund on various Bond Issues outstanding.
WM. B. OWENS, City Clerk.
Say "I Saw It In The Chronicle'' — Thank You!
can see,
mat are
In a '•range area, nt.*
many interesting thing:,
different
Hawkint Reviewed Cattle Business
For
many years J R. Hawkins
vi..' a
very effective livestock
*P«f»ah
>• here with the Extension
S« rv itf
Now he is a livestock
farmer
of Richland county. He
made .
i very good and practical
t..lk to the large group of beef cat-
tl* farmers at Clemson’i recent
Farmers' Week
Among other things, he said,
•Dne thing about this beef cattle
bu«ines> is, you can do enough of <
it to muke a good standard of liv
ing ’
Hr recalls that our first auction
market was started in 1934. Now
we ha\e many. And the readiness
with which a product sells at or
near the established market price
has a whole lot to do with how well
it will take as a crop. And he saw
pointed out that in Texas it took
some advantages we have here. He
an investment of something like
$250 tu $300 per cow in land for
the cattle business, and more in
the Midwest. Here he figured it
took an investment of only about
$125 to $150 per cow in land on
an average.
Our advantage is not in rich
soil nor experience. For we don’t
have them. Our main advantage is
in winter grazing,” he said. His
season of most abunpdant grazing
was in the winter.
I’m sure other growers share
with Mr. Hawkins in what he said.
And demonstrations that county
agents have in practically every
county prove the same things about
the cattle business here and our
grazing potential.
The beef cattle growers had a
very fme short course at Clemson
during Farmers’ Week. Hundreds
of them were here.
By the way, how is your winter
grazing now? If you got it up early,
Hhgh Woodle says it should have
already had some of that nitrate.
Lewis Knows Tobacco ’
Our extension tobacco specialist,
J. M. Lewis, really knows tobacco.
He should. He grew up with the
crop and was educated in the
science of growing it. His dad, W. J.
Lewis of Darlington county, built
his first tobacco bam the year I
was born, 1895. And Lewis tells
me he still uses it. It is a frame
barn. The space between the walls
is stuffed with sawdust.
I wonder if anyone has a tobacco
barn that has been in continuous
use any longer than that, 56 years?
If so, let me know, and I’ll men
tion it here.
Boys Are That Way
Our country store would get in
a shipment of cloth a time or two
a year. Most mothers would go
there, pick out a bolt that she
liked, and buy it all
Then she would make garments
for all the family from it. Shirts
for the men and boys and dresses
for the girls and women. Then, for
the next year or more, the family
was attired in a sort of uniform.
This had its advantages. Waste
in ;emnants was small, and when
patching time c*me, we only had to
match one pattern. Thus we can
see, economy was the watchword
in $he Stone ff*Us of the Dutch
Fori:. lor living was hard
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