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- > t . Thuraday, January 9,195& THE CLINTON CHRONICLE F’asre Nine 4 V THE WORLD S MOST WIDELY USED DEVOTIONAL GUIDE Head Corinthians 4:13-18. The highways of the upright is to depart from evil. (Pro- verba 18:17.) We have all had the experience of traveling over a highway that was humpy, crooked, and full of holes. Then later we re-traveled this same irighway. But what a difference! Tfoe crookedeness and roughness were eliminated. * ■’ . .. • The lives of most of us are comparable ..to-a poor highway. Our lives are in need of change and repair. TTie more we grow in the Christian faith, the more we become aware of our sinful lives. We then have the desire to rid our lives of sin and make them Christ-like. No highways, no matter how good, will remain in good cbqdiUon with out constant, proper maintenance. ITiis applies to the Chnstiah life also. Regular prayer, Bible reading, and church attendance are all aids in maintaining the Christian life. , When we depart from evil, C|irist will lead us to a new and living way of life. - PRAYER 0 Our Father, Thou knowest our sinful, crooked and rough lives. We ask the guidance of the Holy Spirit In smoothing aad straightening them, so that we can^arry on the work of Illy kingdom. We ask it in Jesus’ name. Amen. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY When we depart from evil, we find a new and living way by following Christ. Edwin E. McDonald (Colorado) Daily Bible reading—Matthew 3:1-17. FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER CTemson College Information Spedaliat usually killed about Thanksgiving time, and another of this sort on out in late wniter, after the fresh trim mings from the big one gave out I liked everything about butch* erin’. The .main thing was, they let us stay home from school that day. I now wonder that they did, for we surely had to be badly in the way. But they did, knowin’ how we enjoy ed it. ' ♦ We awoke with the grown folks before day, for that great event. It was invariably cold., very cold I can hear the steps cracking now, as we found our way-downstairs to The roaring fire in the open fire place. There we thawgd-'”out our things arid put ’em ort.”" By .that time the-grown folks a neighbors, who came to .help, tha^fire started under the wa$h pots, set and filled the afternoon before. It was still dark when we got out there, and -jack f r o's t crunched underfoot as weTan to the raging fire There we kept turning to warm the'dllier side until vie sort of got used to it out there As the water started to smoke-, the men wery down to the hog pen with an axe. We went yvith them and climbed up on the other side to see the killin’. The girls would go hack in the house so as not to even hear the squeal, if there was one The handiest man with the axe soon dispatched the hog and stuck him As he bled they tore down one side of the rail pen to get him out Then sveral of the strongest men drag ged him up to the scalding spot near the boiling pots. If the hog wasn’t too heavy, it was scalded in a barrel set slanting in the ground, the head end first and then the tail. But a large hog that wouldn’t got in the barrel had to be scalded by cov ering with heavy layers of sacks and- the hot water poured on That water had ashes in it to make it clean better. I’ve run out of space and haven't got to that country ham I'^tarted out to tel] about. We'll have to con tinue this next week. EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Dr. Herbert Rpmufh “No precious gem has ever been polished without friction. Success has never been attaint'd without reverses.” This little motto on the wall of the office of a business friend captured my attention It is a good one for all of us to remem ber, especially when we are in trou- c diamond, which we consider our most precious jewel,Ts a very hard stone Before it takes its place in a ring or in expensvie jewelry, it has-been ground and polished many times by lapidary. • There should be deep siginficance in the fact that the diamond is the accepted stone for the engagement ring. Its symbolism should never be forgotten by men and women who marry. It should remind us that marriage only grows into-rich companionship and happiness as a result of daily polishing by the diffi cult circumstances which always arise in marriage A happy marriage does not come easily It comes as a result of con stant adjustment due to the pres sure of change and accommodation No two people, reared in different environments, can expect to adjust themselves easily to one another The rising thvocce rate and the in creasing number of broken homes is sad indication of the fact that men and women do not understand the-true nature of marriage The nearest' we come to perfee tion in marriage is a perfect wil lingness to give and take. We must learn to adjust ourselves to one an other, and above all to the will and* guidance of Almighty God. No marriage can -be -truly suc cess unless it ‘is. God-centered, be cause we live in a God-centered uni verse. Th God-centered home is the only truly happy home. Selfish de sire has no place there, except as a polishing agent! It is as a .-man’s, and w-oman’s desire^..are' polished by the friction of the one ^against the other, and against the hard circumstances t>f life, that the true beauty of a hap py marriage emerges This polish ing produces adjustment and co operation which brings out the true beauty of ^personality Let every ^.wife remember that as she looks at .the engagement ring on her finger, a'nd let every hus band fecall it as he gazes upon thaf symbol which he presented to the woman of his choice. CREDITORS’ NOTICE " All persons having claims against the estate of Richard E Fergusop. deceased, are hereby .notified to file the same duly verified, with the undersigned, and those^,indebted to said estate' will please make pay ment Lkewise FLORENCE .1 FERGUSON, Executrix January 3, 1958 3c-J-27j Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Phone 794 Laurens, S. C. '-X" CHEERY - - - WARM-AS-TOAST WINTERS CAN BE YOURS -—If V ou Insulate and Weal herstrip Your Home En joy freedom from cold drafts and save on fuel bill Home insulation pays for itself in fuel savings, on in creased comfort—more than you can measure in do!-' lars and rents. * v ' . - o. NO DOWN PAYMENT—^MALI-MONTHLY' PAYMENTS —Siding —Sheet Metal Work—Roofing —Downspouts —Metal Vents—Gutters —Cy-Craft Fences -^-Aluminum Awnings — Ponded Built I p and Taj; and v Gra\el Roofs For Free Estimates—( all or Write i JL A. SMITH, JR. P. O. Box 111 Clinton. S. C. Phone %7-.l —Represent ing— AIFGCSTA ROOFING & METAL WORKS. INC. ACGCSTA. GA. h Convincing talk We're talking .ihcnit the door-to-door ^.iletman who is selling vitamin preparations these days He sounds mighty convincing, perhaps because he’s memorized i fancy sales talk. One way to stop him in a hurry last ask him fa wait while you cheek with your physician Or nvite him to stroll down to our pharmacy and, while von watch and listen, show us tus wares We have i notion he ll go away quickly and bothet you no more. HOWARD’S PHARMACY PHONE 10! - r„ !*■<& BUTCHERING BULLETIN With the coming of locker plants and home freezers, farm butchering can be made more, meaningful. We used to get tired or fresh meat, try ing to eat it before it spoiled. But now we can prepare, pack, and freeze it in the fresh uncured state and keep it as long as needed. 1 can well remember butchering time at home. We were hungry for the fresh pork products at first. But soon we had enough, but it was there, and had to he eaten, that is, Such parts of it as couldn't be cured and kept Now the freezer takes care of that and we can have it all along and enjoy if to the end. Clemson’s Bulletin 17, entitled, “Pork for Carolina Farmers,” has been revised and is available, at your county- agent’s office. ■ For those rusty on butchering, ijt/, te the whole story from selectii right hogs right on-down to ished products * * * TIME TO SET THINGS As soon after killing frost as pos sible is the best time to transplant trees and shrubs. And right now, in the dead of winter, is still a good time. For, set now, they have time to get firmly established in the soil before the growth season arrives in the spring And the roots of wood^ plants grow some even in the win-' ter time. So set now, this new growth has time to take place and have the trees better ready to meet growth demands in their new set ting when it comes with warm weather A few suggestions about ti^ns- planting. Dig plants with care, to save as many roots as possible. Prune off any damaged roots. Dig holes big ger than root system will require. Put some topsoil in first. Then hold tree ?t natural depth and fill in and firm roots into their natural posi tions. Don’t plant deeper than tree was in ground before. Leave a slight depression around it to aid when watering becomes necessary. Fertilizer is not needed at planting time. It is best applied around tree after growth starts. Prune top at transplanting time to balance roots lost. Water at transplanting time, even though soil moisture is good. Watering.,settles soil firmly about the roots. > HYDRANGEA COLOR Aluminum in the soil makes hy drangeas change from pink to blue, our specialists tell me. Acid soils make aluminum become available. And that’s why acid soils make blue flowers. Otherwise they will be pink Last summer at the Finney home in Clinton I saw the most beautiful bed of pink and blue Hydrangeas I’ve'ever seen By putting acid ma terials to some and not.to others, they got a veritable rainbow of col ors, all mingled there * OCONEE APPLES Based on the perfection to which! the Long Creek apple growers, up in Oconee county, have learned to grow them, it looks like a real ap ple industry might well be develop- fed there. I don’t believe more beau- /tiful{applies have ever been grown anywhere than those growers had upAhere last fall. You mgiht have seen some of ’em at the State Fair. And I’m sure no better quality, bet ter tasting ones are grown any where I’ve ever eaten 'em from. County Agent Morgan tells me the acreage is gradually growing. The past season they had a rather short crop, about 50 per cent, and har vested only about 50,000 bushels of beauties. Good apples are hard to grow, harder than peaches. But with mod ern equipment and the'spray calen dar worked out by Clemson, Oconee grhwers have proved they can pro duce them to perfection. Even though droughts are not so frequent and destructive there in the near mountains they do hurt And I vis ited several growers who are plan ning for irrigation now. They are planting on contoftr beds with an eye to gravity irrigation so as nbt to get water on the foliage to eauSe diseases and wash the spray mate rial off. * * * - , BOYS ARE THAT WAY Memories o’f boyhood in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork return of ten. None are fonder than those sur rounding country ham. And they start back at butcherin’ time. Each family had from 2 to 4 hogs to kill. One was always a large one to get the year’s supply of lard from, in addition to some big cured meat This one was killed in the dead of winter to insure a keep. 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