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/■ \ / ■■ Thursday, August 8, 1957 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Nine FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER f demson College Information Specialist sJM. rm FARM AND HOME WEEK Yes, it’s Rarm and Home Week • at Clemson, next week, August 12-16. The full and continuous pro- grain starts at noon on {Monday and runs through Friday. No matter what your special farm and homemaking interest is, you will likely find it qpvered by exhibits, lectures, demonstrations, and field tours during the week. You can likely see the full pro gram at your county or home agent’s office. And we will give you a copy of it when you regis ter. So you can get the most out of Farm and. Home Week, let me suggest this. Go over the pro gram and mark the things you specially want to see or hear. It is a big, program and unless you do something like that you are sure to miss some of the things that would have interested you most. AROMATIC TOBACCO IN McCORMICK County Agent Bonnobte tells me the few carefully supervised dem- ’onstrations with Aromatic Turk ish tobacco they have had in re cent years have led to enlarging it this year. They now- have 16 fanners with 35 acres of this new money crop. They are using the hot air cur ing and 4-row tractor planters worked out by Clemson. In the past this crop, of which we have imported all of our needs, was la boriously handled by hand and sun cured. Clemson has assisted with breeding better strains and in ‘developing safer and faster way of curing by using enclosed barns and heat. This country uses many mil lions of pounds of this high priced leaf in making its manufactured blends of cigarettes. Clemson is cooperating with Duke University and several other states in this area in the development of this new money crop. It seems spec ially suited to the lighter lands of the Upper Piedmont and to small acreages that can be han dled by family labor. Clemson has two specialists in the field to help farmers with all angles of growing it. They are G. D. Butler, of Greenville, and D. P. Mathe- son, of Oconee, each attached to the office of the local county agent. * * * TOO BIG FOR ME With all of the room that’s in this world, it’s hard to understand why folks will pile up as they do in the great cities. „I know there are reasons, but it looks like they could be overcome. Look at greatenNew York City. They tell me it uses 6.5 million eggs a day, five million Quarts of of milk, 15 million pounds of fruits and vegetables, and 2,000 tons of meat daily. Yes, they live just a few days from starvation all the time. Trainloads and hundreds of’ truck- loads of food are rolling to it night and day, all the time. I’ve been there with our 4-H Sweet Potato Champions and saw their car of fine “sweets” arrive at midnight in a freezing gale. We got up early and saw those same potatoes displayed in the great supermarkets when they opened next morning. ’Fast food work there. (And I want to tell you, you would have been proud of those fine South Carolina 4-H sweet potatoes as compared with the sorry ones we' saw in the oth er bins.) Those cities, too big for me. They make my feet hurt. .And I wouldn’t like to be so fa^ from the source of my rations. Too | many things could happen in this atomic age BOYS ARE THAT WAY As a kid, there were two tnen I was frantically afraid of. 'One was a much older cousin that al ways teased me. And the other a drunkard from down the road They said of him, he was raised on a bottle and never gave it up, just changed the brand. I avoided that cousin at every turn. If I heard he was coming, I hid out. And on big road or by way, if I saw him first, he never had a chance to see me. On oc casions though he had me corner ed and I couldn’t get away. I now know he didn’t just pick on me He teased all kids, in the ab sence of anything else to do Man I was timid! And I had no de fense when he teased. So I jttst avoided him at all hazards. I’m sure he didn’t now that teasing cut me. For he was a good man. But that drunkard from down the road I had nightmares about him. I^ot that he picked on me. I just feared him as I would have a bear or spook I had seen him' drive by home in a wild detirium, j whipping his lathered horse, and yelling like an Indian on the war-j path. One Christmas he jerked his horse to an abrupt stop there where t h e dim road passed through our front yard. He caught us three kids flat-footed there by the well. And he told us to come to him. In fear and trembling, we went He got out. staggered to the back of the buggy, pulled the flap up. and opened a* burlap bag. It had about a busnel or more of I coconuts and several dozen cans I of sardines- in it. He gave each us one each, got hack m the buggy and without a word to the horse, gave it a resounding whack with the whip With a jerk that almost broke the traces and sin gletree, and also almost toppled him from the buggy, he was off down the road, reeling and rock ing The buggy barely missed the corner post of oiir lot We later learned he had sold his last remnant of cotton and bought li quor, coconuts, and sardines, vfhen he should have been getting some Christmas things for hw poor folks. FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 5th day of September, 1957, I will render a final account of my acts and do ings as Administratrix, W. A, of the estate of John D. Dominick in the office of the Judge of Probate of«Laurens County at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administratrix. W. A. Any person indebted to said es tate is notified and required to make payment on or before that dalle; and all persons having claims against said, estate will present them or or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. MARTHA K. pOMINICK. , Administratrix, W. A. July 15. 1957 4c-A-S STOREWIDE Use Your %e VALUES are wmtidty — rife STYLES new — Buy Now On Easy Terms — and Save SUITE NO. 4 4-PIECE MAHOGANY COLONIAL SUITE, including double dresser, poster bed, night stand, and chest— Priced to Sell at Only $285oo BEDROOM SUITES REDUCED SUITE NO. 1 ' 4-PIECE FRENCH PROVINCIAL C II E R R V BEDROOM SUITE. Pieces include bar bed, night stand, dresser and chest— $340 oo Reduced to SUITE NO 5 3-PIECE MODERN GREY SUITE, consisting of bar bed, dresser and chest— Reduced to Sell at $210 oo SUITE NO. 2 4-PIECE CHERRY COLONIAL BEDROOM SUITE with cannonball bed, night stand, dresser and chest— Reduced to $29995 SUITE NO. 6 3-PIECE MODERN TOFFEE COLOR SUITE with bar bed, chest, and double dresser— SUITE NO. 3 3-PIECE MODERN CORDOVAN SUITE. Pieces inclue bar bed, chest, and double dresser— Priced to Sell at $13075 Priced at $190 oo Living Room Furniture Reduced To Clear SUITE NO. 1 2-PIECE EARLY AMERICAN LIVING ROOIVUSUITE including foam rubber cushioned sofa and chair. Geo metric pattern cover— $17995 f Reg.-Price $210.00 Priced to Clear at SUITE 3 AND 4 2-PIECE MODERN SUITES, boucie-covers with foam cushions— • i “ SUITE NO. 2 2-PIECE MODERN, foam rubber cushion sofa and chair in cocoa color material— Reg. $248.00 Value Priced to Sell at $190$o Reg. $239.95 Value Slashed to SUITE NO. 5 5-PIECE PLASTIC LIVING ROOM SUITE,-consisting of.sofa bed, two piHows. side chair, and reclining chair, plastic and nylon cover SUITE NO. 6 < , ' 10-PIECE LIVING ROOM SUITES in turquoise or green with mahogany or blond exposed wood. Group consists of sofa bed. two pillows, two entl tables, two lamps, platform rocker, side chair, coffee table 15250 Reg. 182.50 Value 13950 Reg. 172.50 Value DINETTES REDUCED 25% Off —FR€E!— 32 : Rc. SET OF DISHES • • . • • WITH EACH PURCHASE OF DINETTE SUITE Armstrong's 9x12 Congoleum RUGS $9 95 FIRST QUALITY Budgeteer Patterns, in Florals, - Blocks, and Weave Designs One Group Victorian LAMPS SPECIALLY PRICED at' $9.95 Reg. Values to $13.50 Beautiful Victorian Lamps at a Low, Low Price. OTHER LAMPS REDUCED One - . Sectional 2-Pc. SOFA PRICED AT ONLY 1 i $75oo SECTION Reg. $197 00 Value Turquoise Cover in a Nobby Tweed Weave. Bumper Style. One Small Lot Summer LAWN and PORCH FURNITURE 25% Off STACK CHAIRS. GLIDERS. AND STEEL SUITES* CHAISE COTS AND FOLL^NG CHAIRS. ' BABY BEDS ODD BEDS ODD CHEST and DOUBLE DRESSERS GREATLY REDUCED . Savings Up to 25 0/ o THESE AND MANY OTHERflTEMS THAT CANNOT BE LISTED ARE ALSO ON SALE YOU MAY USE OUR CONVENIENT EASY PAYMENT PLAN— J* 10% Down-12 Months to Pay BUY NOW — USE OUR. CONVENIENT METHOD North Broad Street Giaiton/S. C. Phone 257 Nationally Advertised or Fair Traded Items Not Included in These Sales Prices. All of Thir Merchandise From Our Regular Stock of Goods. No Close-Outs or Seconds Specially Bought for This Sale. Ail Mer chandise Guaranteed First Quality. JJirf .' r - jrrrrt . r} . . . 1 , < .