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Treating Grain Seed Reduces Smut Losses Clemson Colieg^ Oct 7.?Th? largo annual losses to South Carolina fai mors from the smuts. of, small grain are largely preventable by the dta, infection of seed at a small cost o treatment with a great increase of sound grain. Seed D'e^tntftU given by entomologists is simple and effect For loose and covered smuts of oats it is advisable to disinfect the seed with formaldehyde, they state. 'lhiH material is applied at the rate of one pint to r.O bushels of grain and is diluted with 10 to 10 gallons of water at the option of the operator, lhe cost of material is only about 1 1-<S cents for each bushel of grain. Promising results have been obtained by disinfection with organic mercury dusts and with formaldehyde dusts, ; but the cost ia'somewhat higher. Stinking smut or bunt of wheat is effectively and cheaply controlled by ducting with copper carbonate in a dosed mixing chamber. Since the copper dust is poisonous a dust mask or" wet handkerchief should be worn .over the nose and mouth during the process of-mixing. Undiluted copper carbon At e is used at the rate ol two ounces for each bushel of wheat, at a cost of three to four cents per bushel. The t rented seed can be sown Immediately or it may 1* stored for several weeks and will be practically immune to insect attack. "What Is Wrong With The C hurch? .This will be Che theme of Dr. Winiberly's address before the Men's ltible Class at the Lyttleton Street Methodist church next Sunday. Jle ? has been asked to teach the class for ? few Sundays. Pet nil the men turn out and hear these interesting addresses. Class will meet, promptly at 10 a. m. <> Jack Moore, Secretary. Demonstration Club Met The Antioch h?me demonstration club met at the home of Mrs. K. 11. Colvin, September 2t>. Mrs. L. E. Hill, the president, had charge of the meeting. The following officers were elected for the following year: Mrs. I?. E. llill, president; Mrs. F. A. Atkinson, vice-president; Mrs. J. It. West, secretary. Miss Craig then helped them outline work for the year. After business the hostess served delightful refreshments, assisted by her daughters. There were twice as many births as deaths in South Carolina during the last statistical year, with Charleston county having the most of both, Spartanburg county second and Greenville county third. Horry county had the largest ratio with -four births to one death. York county was two and a half to one with 1,1 births and 102 deaths. The figures are for the year ending July 1st, last. H?arvey Bailey,>Albert Bates,'It. CI. Shannon and his wife were sentenced to serve the remainder of their lives in prison; Armon Shannon was given a IP-year sentence and two others were given sentences of five years each at Oklahoma City, okla., in the Federal court as the result: of conviction in the Crschel kidnaping ca-c. The sentence of Armon Shan T'.?n w:i- >u>pei:ded. \l l M )A1 I'lSNl l< SI (.1.1 SIHlS\ I'. > ANN I \l. ?. i.n/j e ..... , . . y ( . , , ? V. ' j - , I I . . i * I a * : ' : 77 r '' > t K ' " n i l.nw ( est Dinner S- \ \ l! " : s an' j Cot .. . P.. ' ?, <" Medium ( ??" < Dinner ! (T.. :i M ,i !.. ! V o. ? | " (If*.*, n H-h'--' Toii.MIO -....4.; S.io..l L): Hot !i-> .. ts ( '..II .'H Ha V Hf.4.1 Codec M.ik Very Special Dinner Fruit Cocktail Ceiery Oiivea Faked Ham Browned Tama Cabbage au Grat.n Ro. la Butte* Cboe#t?U UcUjn CaC? ***** Snake Which Could Not lie Elect A few issues back l'he ( hronicl# I an led a story about a rattleMiake ;hat Ml. Hunter McArn, of L#urinburg, captured, and after being kept (>n exhibition in tbc window Ql] tin- Carolina Power and Light company officii at Luurinburg, it was deejded to elect rocllte it. Wires were arranged ami electrodes applied to the neck and tail of the snake and ! a current of the same voltage as used by the state in executing criminals in J the electric chair, and the electricity had no visible effect on the rattle snake. Hut the next morning there were 27 young rattlers in the cage with the mother snake, which had been born during the night. A few days ago Mr, McArn was in ('heraw on a vsiit,to his brother, Dr. A. H. McAnn, and called on us. He suid that be had seen our article am'L-"'believe it or not," that it was alT true, bftt said that we did not tell the whole of it. He said that a man picked up one of the smu snakes, which were, only a day old, and only about <? inches long, thinking it was harmless, but the little snake struck at him and though it had Yio fangs shortly afterward the man became deathly, sick and for a time it was feared that he would die. Mr. McArn also said that a live oppossum was placed in the window With a family of snakes and that night the 'possum ate tip all of the young shakes hut did not bother the old snake ? neither did the' snake bother the' 'possum. We have often heard of small animals, particularly out west, living in rattle snake dens with snakes. This story is one for Ripley. Ohe- I raw Chronicle. General News Notes Two are dead and 13 injured as the result of an explosion which wrecked a British submarine on the coast of I Scotland Sunday, just a little while 1 after the boat had been refloated off rocks where it had grounded. | Frank J. Cushner of Ansoniu,! Conn., has been chosen as national commander of the Purple Heart association at the first national convention of the veterans' organization held ut Derby, Conn. Police of Port of Spain. Trinidad, a British colony, have given notice to I French convicts escaping from Devils! Island, . penal colony, that hereafter 1 they will be arrested and given but al limited time to-quit Trinidad. Contracts awarded for buildings,! engineering and construction in 101 southern states during September totaled $33,000,000, according to fig-1 urcs* compiled by the Manufacturers Record, of Baltimore. I Ten convicts of the Virginia state prison have volunteered to undeigol tests by being bitten by mosquitoes which had been fed oh victims of the current sleeping sickness epidemic in St. Louis, with a view to helping to find a cause for fhe disease. , The v?dical socialist party, in res. *ion at Vichv, France, went on record as opposing inflation and favoring sound money. The resolution is taken as .confirmation of the belief that the government intends to keep the franc on goM. _ 1 P.i it fs have been tiled in the I n.ted I . (i,ut: in proceeding* brought V.ahamn. se-kr.g t<> have -et :l ;l,v. ,.t- ti,e Cnitcd States and other -:a;t- regulating ?r , ,w . ,,f >> >.-n made , - m ? e del'un t N-ri'i , , I i;. i an-1 r cempavv at --. i. N ;i ' r.-,e.v,ng . . ;a\ in- r ' r -V t-' V" -i ' :> h O. M... .v. of ,, \ * . mat .A- hi-A A.. n - n P .d J .. ;i .. u : . a-.,. a- 11- - j n ? . w. < - v | \ . , , r .1' 1 . . .a - . V 1'. .? ' V' ' \\ a : ' r. . s . r. a a m-a* i;, , r ' - lv?r w - del . < ... g' i a' v iv.c-. ame nn-:ie> available f??r ha > ir.es- ;tt m:* c<>u-i:y. he -ay -. but woU.d h-ir.g a fi >w of, , - ha- ; from A-la ; ... Aau-s i- ' . fin good.-. The Hitler government Germanj has put an cr.d to the "free prr?s" of; Germany as the free pre** i* known ( in America, an.: set up tra* death penalty for the circulation of treas- , onable articles and pbued German workers under the thumb of the authoritio*. 1 1 Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee McG?e, Copyright, 1928. TIIB PE8KY GNAT ..September and October is gnat season in many parts of the south. Next to the housefly, the lowly gnat is the moat insulting and disturbing insect extant. Nobody so far has ever found any reason for the gnat; he's just hefe and perfectly at home. Gnats enjoy crawling through screen wire int<j sitting rooms and-sleeping porches. ' j T ..Ghats are more prolific around saw mills, dog kennels and peoples' eyas, ears and noses than anywhere else. You can "shoo" a gnat "away from your left eye-bull 999 times per minute and he will be right back trying to $ruw) into the said eye before you can possibly "shoo" again. ..Gnats are often mistaken for pepper, in pickles, salads, chicken pie. unsoforth, and that is why so few folks complain of them. Gnats don't taste like pepper, but unlike flies, they are not poisonous. Gnats usually travel in droves or swarms:'there are never less than 075 gnats trying to get in one's oiife. eyes, mouth and nose at one time. . .Gnats are more at home with dogs than any other animal. If a dog would keep perfectly still for 10 minutes during the high gnat season, and not move a foot or head or em* or tail, over 1,000,000,000 gnats would cover him knee deep. Gnats don't bite dogs?they only tickle them. They tickle people also and bring forth much profanity. -: i ..We wouldn't mind gnats so much, if they'd only light so's you could "wink" them in your eye and kill them; they just hover and hover ami hover and drop in' occasionally. A person would judge that^the motive of a gnat in front of the eye is to determine the color of the eye..or count the eyebrows or eyelashes. Surely there ain't any gnat food in a person's eye. ..There are 4 distinct kinds of gnats, vizzly: the bothersome gnat, the' troublesome gnat, the detestable gnat and the damnable gnat. The average gnat can be inhaled, and when that takes place, you never know whether you inhaled him all the way down, or got him out of your mouth just so. Anyway, one feels that the gnat is .still in his mouth the next day, and possibly he is. Helieve it or not, 1 1 am down on gnats. Wait a minute ,till 1 get this black one out of my : ear. Now,. ?, a KNI'MTIS ..The knitting craze has struck out , house. ' I can't turn around 6r hang up my hat without getting tangled up in knitting thread. The old lady is knitting a bedspread; she's already bought the output of a twine mill for 2 weeks to go into bedspreads. I ' \ * s ' . ,Onc of the girls is knitting a blue dress, but has started a green dress and a pink dress also; carrying them all along at once. She spends the morning hours on the blue garment, the afternoon siesta periods on the green dress and'works late into the night on the . pink creation. ..The baby girl is knitting a seat for her bicycle saddle and the baby boy is knitting a baseball. The second daughter is knitting a purple ensemble or something. it's going to J have a collar, 3 frills, 2 ruffles, and J u jig-jag hem at the bottom. I have not seen any of my folks for a week except in a knitting position. . When 1 came to my typewriter just now to write this piece, I had to untangle '3 balls and 2 cones and 5 j spools of thread from the debris on my desk. I went to bed last night,' but the phone rang about 11:30 ,p. m. ' 1 got up and before 1 got halfway | into the hall, 1 realized that, 1 was; hog-tied with knitting 'thread. Hy i the time I got loose, the person at > the other end had hung up. ..I finally got back into bed about; 1:25 a. m?, by goin^ ,^ut into the j sleeping porch via another roSte. An hour later, the phone rung again. . I got up,'crawled out of the wiivdow, j went around to the front door, walked i in and picked up the phone and 17balls of thread, 3 unfinished dresses,! sacks, capes or soipething?got my j mouth so full of twine I couldn't say : "Hello,'' and danged if she didn't1 hang up on me again. - . ..The kitchen is full of knitting par-. aphernalia and unfinished business; the breakfast room looks like a knitgoods counter; the sitting room is really the knit-shop, everything- is full of hooks and thread there; the salad we had for supper last night had brown fuz from cotton twine in it. And the bath room resembles a showcase of knit-goods samples. I hope all of this thrift and apparent economy "saving $4.00 on that dress, $8.00 on that sweater and $3.00 pn that jacket" is going to help me balance my very muchly unbalanced budget, but I dunno: thread's high on account of the processing tax and low-priced cotton. Senator Bankhead of Alabama, has given his endorsement to the administration's plan for handling the cotton crop situation by loaning 10 cents per pound-on the staple. Funeral services for Thomas Price, former secretary of the Union Pacific j railroad, murdered near Henderson-' villb, N. C., Sunday, were held at i East Orange, N. J., Wednesday after- j noon. y 1 Old Pocket-Book Game James Smith and Edmund Hilton, negroes, were in the county jail today, charged with fleecing three negroes out of a total of $10 with the time-worn "pocket-book" trick. The three victims of the trick reported their loss to City Officer Cummings and Officer Dollard and Smith and Hilton were arrested on suspicion by the two officers. Under questioning they admitted the three thefts. About $20 of' the money obtained through the scheme was found on .Smith and Hilton. They were lodged in the county jail for trial in criminal court.?-Saturday's Sumter Item. Representatives of the National Farmers union, and the National Farmers Holiday association placed before President Roosevelt on Saturday a request for a moratorium on farm mortgage foreclosures and that farm prices be pegged at a cost of production level. 1 1 " ???? ^ THE BIG TIME OF THE YEAR AT THE STATE FAIR All Next Week in Columbia More than ever before a South Carolina Show. < Prizes limited to people of this state. The S. C. University Band will furnish the music. See the CarolinaClemson Game. The varied demonstration of State products. The BIG SHOW in front of the Grand Stand. The fine A midway ever. EDUCATIONAL ? ENTERTAINING The Real Place to Have a Big Time SCHOOL DAY FRIDAY All children and teachers admitted free with special program that day. Football Sumter vs. Brookland-Cayce. I OCTOBER 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 !An Announcement of Importance | To All Motor Vehicle Owners New Motor Vehicle Licenses Must Be Purchased Before October 31,1933 1 To Avoid Delay and Penalty I The-license year lias boon changed by law to be from November 1st of each year to October 31st of the succeeding' !year, instead of from January 1st to 1 )ecember 31 st. New licenses should r'be applied for NOW to avoid unnecessary delav and penalty. NEW LICENSES MUST BE DISPLAYED BY NOVEMBER 1. Observe the simple rules and help your Highway Department render to_ you the best and most economical license service possible. I Personal (hecks Xnt Accepted lwmitt;?!:?' ' I m 11 > 1 1 e in;:' by cither i". i!;? 11 r!; t r i\. I> ! ( '. e <1 r I j\! !!li il.i'V <>!'<ic!\ I >?' l'S <?! 1111 ciin'ks will In- rf 1 u111* ti .i tin* .-end.-r .'.II.I cu'teflcy sen: oiitfh the ma;! w ill In- a* sender'-- 1 isk. lie Sure Vehicle Is Registered in Your Xante If ? .? * was pwreha - *?d during 1 fn>in >>ia w ho pre\i<?usly regi-l.TcJ if .n hi- name, ye: i transfer blank fmni y -in* dealer. After fillin y it out send it to thi- utTico with the pmper remittance. Observe These Rules! Avoid Trouble and Penalty! 1. liead the instructions on the application form carefully, and follow them. 2. Don't send checks unless certified. Cash sent is.at your own risk. Money orders are safest. 3. To avoid long waiting in line and other delays, it is preferable to mail your applications rather than come in person. Full Co-operation Means Prompt Service Proper filling out of applications and prompt, return to this office means prompt and efficient service. To save time, trouble and to avoid the risk of pealties mail your application now. New Plates Must Be Displayed Nov. 1,1933 New license plates (both front and rear) must be displayed not later than Nov. 1, 1933, and they are good for the succeeding 12 months. . There is no extra expense to you under this new law. I State Highway Department 11 Motor Vehicle Division II /'. O.Bo% 1498 S. C. ""'J I