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Thursday, July 17, 1958 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pa*«Nm* FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER demson College Inf orn at ion SpedaHat CHICKENS IN CHESTERFIELD Several years ago the county ag ricultural committee of Cheater- field set poultry as one of their goals of new money crops. County Agent Willis tells me it has pro gressed constantly since then and their central marketing agency has consistently gotten a good market for their eggs. And when I was there three new poultry producers were building! houses. Thy are not fooling along with ordinary farm flocks, as we’ve known them in the past. But their producers are study ing their busniess, they get the best strains of chicks, provide adequate housing and equipment, and gen erally do a good job of this rather new venture. • * • EZELL RETIRED IN NEWBERRY Over 200 friends from over New berry county assembled at a ban quet back in the spring honoring their retiring county agent, Paul B. Ezell, and presented him and his wife a beautiful silver service. The event was sponsored by their coun ty agricultural committee, through which Ezell has worked so effec tively for 28 years. I speak often of change, this changing agriculture. Nowhere have I seen a once all-cotton econo my more completely changed into a diversified one than there. I rode with Ezell rather often. Good grass and cattle and dairies had come to hundreds of farms, pine trees had asumed the stature of a crop, and farmsteads looked good anywhere we rode. On one of my early visits there, I wanted to see some of their pastures. Paul asked me which I’d pick to ride, for fenced fields and good pastures were to be seen in any direction or along any road. And we rode for miles through areas once just about all cotton, mightily impressed then with the and hardly saw a patch. I was great change that was coming to the lands of Newberry. And it has continued up to this day. In all of that, Paul played a major part. He was always progressive, yet conservative enough to be practi cal. His ideas and advice were sound, and his folks believed in him. He is succeeded by his worthy as sistant, A. F. Busby. Knowing the progressive people there and know ing Busby, my guess is their pro gress will not be interrupted. * • * A NEW 4-H ANGLE Richland county observed Nation al 4-H Club Week last spring in a unique way. Pifty-lbi|r of their older 4-H club members, dressed in 4-H uniforms, and worked in Co lumbia stores that week. They gave out information about 4-H^ studied the business they were working in, and helped with routine jobs, just like the regular employees. This week was wound up with a luncheon given by the merchants to these 4-H’ers, their county and home agents, and leaders, about 100 in all. A lot of good rural-urban rela tions built there! • • • DIVERSIFICATION IN WILLIAMSBURG Although they have their tobacco and cotton is still rather strong as a crop on the good lands of Wil liamsburg, County Agent Jackson showed me a lot of their hog work when I rode with him back in the spring. That county is a natural for hogs. Their lands are good for corn, and grazing. And you put those two things together, with a protein supplement, and you have the economic elements that turn out profitable hogs. Jackson 'said they were market ing around 1,000 finished hogs a week. At that rate, they have an other major money crop in hogs. And they had not reached their limit. Others are expanding in hogs and they had just gotten in nine fine boars and 15 gilts with which to improve local stock. “Crops plus livestock," to quote its banks tells me of its sapling days; and every crook and ripple in its course id the river has mean tng that speaks out to me now. Every hill, every vale, and every foot-worn path through the woods is so etched in memory that I see it plain, and it tells me of bygone days. Ceaselessly they come, mem ories of happy, carefree boyhood in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork, where the thrifty Dutchmen hewed out a sturdy living. We didn’t have much, measured by present standards. But we had the greatest things on earth. Security! We lived from our land, and no one owed a cent. We had morality! Never heard of a juvenile delin quent then. We had religion! Folks lived it daily. And even though their house might never have got ten its needed paint, the church on the hill did. Antj it’s still that way, the churches are better than the houses. But let me hush bragging For I’m at the bottom of the page any way. County Records »»»*»*»#**»»*******»*»*»**»***»» The following public records were filed the past week in the of fice of the Clerk of Court of Lau rens County. Property Transfers C. H. Tucker, .Jr., to W. J. Rice, Stella J. Cook, all his right m 42 W acres on Durbin Creek, 20 acres and 10 acres in Youngs Township and 58 acres being lYact No. 6 of the survey of Mrs. L. D. Garrett lands, for $10 00 and other consid erations W H. Wykel to Edna Hollifeld, 2.10 acres in Waterloo Township, for $500 00. \ „ . „ - „ lot on Blalock Drive, Joanna, for The Progress,ve Farmer, you can’t ^ and assump , lon 0( raon gage. neat mat. ^ t ^ Thomas B. O’Dell, Jr., to Melvin nnvc are--ruiT wav Immanuel Lothridge, 2 acres BOYS ARE THAT WAY bounded by other lands of W. B. In the past 18 years I’ve written i w over 900 of these true tales of boy 0 DeU : for $4 ’ 320 00 hood, one a week. I never had such Marshall W. Abercrombie to an intention when they were start- ^ , * n ^ a ^ Abercrombie, lot on Acad- ed. In fact, I’d have thought they’d em y Laurens, for $1.00, love run out long before now. But they an< * a ^ ec ^‘ on . W'. E, Dunlap, Gerk of Court, for Laurens County, to Louise Hill, U.5 acres known as the Drive-In Theatre Lot of A. G. Hill, for $550. Administrator of Veterans’ Af fairs to Joe C. Norwood, Maggie Norwood, Floyd Norwood and Mil dred Norwood, lot No. 15 and one- half of lot No. 16 in Block E. in Garlington Place, for $3,85000. Dewey H. Simpson to W. D. Ridgeway, lot of land bounded by other lands of W. D. Ridgeway, for $5 00 and exchange of real estate W. D. Ridgeway to Agnes Ruth Webb, 8 acres in Sullivan Township for $10.00 and other considerations. Marriage licences Issued Edgar Johnson Franklin, Lau rens, and Rosa Bell Kerns, I^au- renstet v iTajTor Cunningham, Waterloo, and Nellie B. Henderson, Waterloo. Sammie Lee Hill, Mountville, and Margaret Pearl Payne, Cross Hill Johnny Mark Duckett, New York, N. Y., and Ruby Adams, Clinton Cecil Farren Moore, Woodruff, and Geraldine Hendrix, Woodruff Ronald Franklin Tumblin, Lau rens, and Ruth Elizabeth Faulk ner, Laurens. EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Dr. Herbert Hpsach Intolerable pressures in the scramble for success is killing Amercian younger men at an alarming rate, according to a pop ular woman write, Hannah Lees I have just read her article, “Our Men Are Killing Themselves,” which appeared some time ago in The Sautrday evening Post. She says that “there seems to be a conspiracy among men to play down the fact that we are rapidly becoming a country absolutely awash with widows ” ' She points to the fact that the gap between how long a man can xepect to live and how long a wo man xan expect to live has almost doubled in the last 25 yejrs. In 1900 the gap was less than three years. In -1930, it was still lesh than four years. But today it is six to seven years. Today the typical widow, aver aged from the 7,500,000 widows in the country, is fifty-one years old and will live on in loneliness anoth er twenty years or more. The author marshalls an alarm ing array of facts and statLstics Practically everything, including automobile accidents, kills more men than women, except diabetes and child-birth Through the ages, men have been subject to more danger than women, so tribes that didn't have a surplus of male births soon got wiped out. But longevity today de pends very little on muscular strength Rather, it largely depends on loving care I don’t see much to indicate that men are the weaker sex But I do see a good deal to in dicate that they are the refkless sex. and even more, perhaps, the neglected sex *’ Examine the deaths from acci dents. They kill four times more men thaij women each year Al most half of these deaths are from auto accidents. There has been a ten per cent increase in deaths from auto accidents of young men 15 to 24 in the last ten years Let’s remember that the author of this article is a woman, he says. “Let’s face it—men tend to be proud of getting ulcers, regarding them as a sort of badge of success . . . Wearing the pants is appar ently unhealthy, but does it have to be 0 It strikes me that men and boys just don’t take good care of themselves and women just don’t take good care of men Nobody wants men to coddle themselves, but do they have to knock them selves out to prove they are big and tough and smarter than the other fellow’’ Do they have to knock themselves out to give us luxuries? I would personally rather have a husband than a mink cost or a diamond bracelet.’’ The author concludes, U dees term that If aaybody is geiag to change things, it will have te he the women. Men are always going to think it is sissy to ease up. un less we change their minds Do we really want to live longer and * on K- er—and live longer and longer than our men do’’ Do we really want to be widows", even prosperous wi dows 0 Let s revolt and tell the boys we'd rather have them than anything they can give us. But well have to find some way of making ourselves heard, because the way things are, it is probably easier for them to give us almost anything else." y Dr. David T. Mixon —Optometrist— 201 N. Broad Street PHONE 1308 Office Hours: 9-5:30 Ha\/& you notic&cf 7* Me Gee's Drag Store N* I haven’t. And I have about a dozen ahead. Always keep ’em that way For sometimes you just don’t feel C. M. McDaniel Company to; James Little, lot No. 35 of Lincoln Court subdivision, Laurens, for! Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Phone 7»4 Laurens, S. C. ER VOU TURN I the urge to write. And a deadline $160 00. can be deadly then. W R. McCuen, Jr, to Frank and Every time I go through the Grace Abercrombie, lot near Kings Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork. Chapel Methodist Church, for $300. memory’ sparkles with new recol- Joe H Bonds to O L. Turner and lections. And I stop in the shade Ferol M Turner, lot on Shands St. dwon there by the creek and jot Extension. Clinton, for $10 00 and 'em down Or, as I ride the high other considerations roads afar. I'm always seeing Mat Wood te Hattie Lee Mont- something that reminds me. or a gomery lot No. 68 of the J. D. Ro- pleasam thought of boyhood just bins property on Lake Greenwood, comes to mind And I jot 'em Waterloo Township, for $1.800 00 down For memory won’t always A. C. Nash to Rachel Nash Tal- de to trust, when the time comes ley. 9 3 acres in Dials Township for to write. $10 00. love and affection You might be interested to know Willie Means Moore to Charles how this thing got started in a farm H. Crowder and Patricia S Crow- column Weil, back when I was der. 1 acre in the Town of Gray county agent at Sumter. I told a Court for $4.000 00 boyhood tale to illustrate a point in Clarence L Smith to Raymond my column Next week the folks E and Addle Tingle Good, lot on I saw were talking more about Lake Greenwood for $10 90 and oth that tale than the nibstance I had er valuable. consideration» tried to give them So. thinks I, if W P Dagnail to F O Darnel, that's what you want. I’ll give you tot on Lake Greenwood for $759 99 more of it And since then it W P Dagnal to DeWm Morgan, niased a week lot on Lake Greenwood for $799 90 Folks ask if I don't make some Goorgie Cook to M M. Cook and of those stones up My answer is Stella J Cook, her right in 42 99 no And I never plan to Nor does arm on Durbin Crook. 29 acres. 19 M look like that could ever become acres in Youngs Township, and SI nrresaary For almost every rerfc seres bring Tract N# • of the tor in those Stone Hills ramns a mem vey of Mrs L D Garrett land* far ary Old Wateree Creek stiU runs $19 aa and other renatderatwns nek with them, every beech tree an Russell Caok te H II Cauk and John L. Mimnauffh About this question “Now that outlioard motors costs $200, $300 or $500. a man can't afford to have one stolen or lost overboard. Does outlioard motor ami boat insurance against loss, theft, or accidenUl damage cost about 5*« of value?*’ Wm. J. Bailey Int. Agency 1949 vowni aiwan tmeoau at rows tocai awrwoa zsn Se OLDSMOBILE quality oBAian-a Palmetto Oldsmobile Co, EAST CAROLIN A AVK M • Halle* * TO a « a 4 UNTOY i s. c. 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