ETIWAN FERTILIZERS!
SINCE 18G8 HAVE BEEN CONSISTENT
CROP PRODUCERS I
i .1 - -SOLD BY?r : M.
FRED E. MOSELEYl
I Office and Warehouse at Bob McCaikill't Store j j
| (Old Schlosburg Store on Main Street) flj
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I CASH PAID FOR CORN AND PEAS I j
Two Men Arrested
In Counterfeit Case
Darlington, Feb. 4.?George 11??<!won I
and Colon Truett, charged with hnv- J
lug counterfeit money in their pos- j
session, were arrested today by Shur- i
Iff J. H. Coker, Deputy Sheriff V. A.;
Grinnell and Federal Officer Crook
after the officers had received a tip
that the money had been seen on the
public square here.
Hudson was arrested at his home
near Darlington and officers alleged
found in counterfeit half dollars
on him. The. money, it is alleged, 1
was made at the home of the men. i
Truett was arrested near Hudson's
home.
Officers have conducted a search
into many sections of the county in
an effort to locate the machinery used
in making the counterfeit half dollars,
but their efforts have been
t h warted.
The money, according to officers,
is hardly distinguishable from the
real coins except that the pieces are
a shade darker and less heavy.
Hudson was released from the Federal
prison In Atlanta last December
?!. after serving a term for participating
in an automobile racket. Ho lias
stated, according to local officers,
that he bought the counterfeit money
from some one else.
Darlington ^ifficers during .their investigation
into the eounterfe.it racket
made two purchases of counterfeit
money.
Mrs. Huey Long of Louisiana, was
sworn into office as a United States
senator on Monday.
j CARPETBAGGER RULE
Days of Good Spending Told of in Old
Manuscript Published In 1879.
Columbia, S. C\, Fob. 1.7.?One of
tlie lurgest committee rooms in the
Blute House wus fitted up as a first
class restaurant, open from 8 a. m.
to 2 a. m., during carpetbagger rule
in South Carolina, usserts Dr. J. A.
Lol>and, president of the old Laurensvilie
Female College, In "A Voice
From South Carolina," published In
1X79, a copy of which is in the Uni-'
verslty of South Curolina library. Refreshments
were free to all members,
A "Joint Investigating Committee on
Public Frauds" wub created when the
people got control of tlie government,
and published a 937-page report of its
findings.
The committee found that in 18711872,
contracts were let for $5 clicks,
25-cent hat pegs, $4 looking-glasses,
and $2 curtains, but in 1872-1873, contracts
were for $600 clocks, $30 hat
racks, $600 mirrors, and $600 brocadI
ed curtains. Columbia merchants testified
to furnishing committee rooms
I each year, besides 40 bedroom suites. J
Furniture unaccounted for amounted :
to $182,385. .
Presiding officers of the House and ;
Senate were permitted to issue pay I
certificates for their respective bod- |
ies. Checks were sometimes made out
to fictitious persons. The amount fre- 1
<inently had to be raised so that other
officials who had to sign them could
share equally in the graft.
It is reported that 50 per cent of I
the 1,500 population of the Lago I
Grande district, Brazil, is dead from
an unidentified disease.
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Lights of New York
<iby L. L. STEVENSON
!'*? ?'?i (i Walt Iter, uiuitre dlodei pf
the McAlpln, bus a scrap lunik I lull
throw* a lot o' light on tin* rating
huht.ts of various gentlemen vvoomo j
names appcur in the history lay'lf*.
For lm?u?ue, Luil* XIV iiie.on an
average. eight Indira u day: Flmrle
mugue liked cabbage and prized Ills
iahbaiT^ patch so much lm itfmfci'd It
only to lila closest friends. Napoleon
was mighty Wild or bold chicken. it
la ^ little known fact, the owner of
Che ael'ap law?k revealed, that thoao
who were Invited to dine with Napoleon
fortified themselves with u
meal beforehand, alnee the emperor
Mulshed Ida food In five mlnutea and
got tip from the table. Naturally, aa
a mark of reapect, everyone elae hud
to get up ulong with him, no matter
how far behind he happened to abu,
Old I.oula I'hllllppe wua the first man
to Institute the cuatotn of paying for
bunquets, according to the scrap hook
which Mr. Walt her haa been building
up during 22 years. Louis charged a
dollar for a .small banquet and two
dollura for. a big one. lie called the
charge a "forfeit," and It had to be
paid whether or not the guest uttended.
Charles \r, of Spain, was extremely
fond of pickled herring?so fond, Indeed,
that he frequently visited the
grave of William Bokeld, the Fleming
who first pickled herring.
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In the old days, members of the nobility
actually engaged teachers to
coach their children In the proper
method of dining. Mr. Wulther holds
that such schools might he a good
thing todav^.Hft. however, la not in
favor of tiie mannera of King Monroe
of the early Celts. Monroe had two
meals served him nt every banquet.
One, was placed with the guests, the
other behind the king. When the king
didn't like the company, he merely
turned around and ate with his hack
to his guests.
?
Hotels go'away hack to the days of
Nebuchadnezzar, the tlrst hnvlng been
In 'Nineveh. It was run by royalty,
hut It seems that didn't help the service
much. The Romans were the first
to have chain hotels. Travelers, however,
had to bring their own food. As
late as the Seventeenth cpntury, travelers
brought their own beds.
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The Walt her scrap book reveals also
that the old custom of serving a few
drops of wine to the host first, Instead
of to the ladies, had a highly
sensible beginning. There was a time
when, if the host drank first the appetites
of the others nf the table Improved
because in those days, a guest
| didn't know whether he was Invited to
j he dined or poisoned.
?
Speaking of wines, it seems that another
custom of the past is being revived.
In pre-prohihltlou days, wine
agents boosted their sales by paying
waiters 25 cents for each champagne
cork returned to them?provided the
cork wns the right kind. Now they
are trying the plan again, but not with
much success as yet. As for corks, It
Is said that a wine connolseur can
Judge wine more accurately by the condition
of the cork than by tasting the
contents of the bottle.
The Municipal court of the city of
New York Is being moved from Thirtyfifth
street to Lafayette street. Not
only will the Job take two months, but
It Is complicated by the fact that the
court must he kept going. Commercial
cases and civil suits are heard and the
Municipal court Is held to he the bus
i lest In the world. The 03 Judges and
! seven referees handle 700,000 cases a
1 year.
? noil Syndicate. ? WNl' Service.
! Man Unknowingly Makes
Longest Telephone Call
Vancouver. It. i <\ ? A Vancouver
1 business man established a new world's
longdistance telephone ^all nv.r! hut
! didn't know it until a mouth |.unit
happened ttii- way : The !>nsi
lies-; man wanted to speak to a tfiend
: In Sydney. Australia, hut S\<! > \ -ole
1 photic otiieln's eon! In't |.<e to film
j there, so They tried Perth 1 ~.uu mile*
; away, found him and connected the
two men, without informing the Vancouver
man about it. After talking
tlve minutes over HVooo miles of land
and water, the two men hung up. La
ter It was revealed that the call from
Vancouver to Perth was a new world's
record for n commercial call.
Unearth Reptile Bones
Fort Peck. Mont. ? Fragment. ot
Jaws, teeth and other hones of a prehistoric
skeleton unearthed here have
been Identified as belonging to a ! ingextinct
marine reptile, the Mosasauri
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Montana May Boast
Gold-Plated Road
Malta. Mont.- Recent news stories
telling of the vast amount of gold
that Is contained in the dirt used
In onstrurtion of Forr Peck Hani
loaves I'liillipps county residents
unmoved.
Because it present plans are
consummated, there is a strong possibility
that the county will have a
gold-plated highway that will put
the dam to shame.
Estimates are tlmt about $5,000,.
4?X> In gold will be contained In the
dam?about ft cents per cubic ytrd. ;
But the contemplated highway in
Phllltpa cotinty would contain aa
estimated 30 cent a par yard.
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Court Upholds
T. V. A. Project
Washington, pefc, 11 Th<} KOYOm.
uu ut won u major victory In tin sn'jpiomo
court today when tho justice*
by fc to 1 hold the TV A could dispose
or surplus power manufactured at Wilson
Duiu at Muacle Bhouls.
Justice Mcltey nobis dissented.
Chief Justice Hughes handed down
4W 4?wd?d ruling-before a orowd oL
prominent lawyers and members of
congress at 1 p, m, M
Only power from Wilson Dam had
been sold by the TVA,
The Justices held that federal die 1
position of power was a question for I
congress to answer, not the courts.
The court uphold the right of the
government to dispose of all surplus J
power made at dams Intended to promote
navigation or aid national defense.
.
The government owned the property,
said Hughes, and there was nothin
the consHtntTBn to limit the goveminent
s disposition of the power.
The general purposes of TV A, it decided,
present no "Justifiable question."
I he i ennessce Hiver is u nuvigu-1
ble stream," said Hughes, developing
j the thesis that the constitution reposed
powers over navigation in the federal
government.
' in Its present condition the river
| is not udequate for commercial navi-1
gation."
j The only thing involved In the present
case, he said, wps validity of a
contract for sale of transmission linesj
by the Alubama Power Company to!
TV A. '
Heading deliberately before a distinguished
audience, the chief justice
dismissed at the start the contention I
tiiat those suing had no right to do
so because they were preferred stock|
holders of the Alabama Company.
Justice H ran dels had by implication
questioned their right.
A court of equity should not shut
its door against such actions," he asserted.
i
The general purposes of the TVA
he proceeded, do not provide a "Justieable
question." j
It was impossible at the time to
tell whether the court upheld or
threw out the contract under attack. I
The court, by its ruling, upheld a
contract for sale by the Alabama I
Power Company of transmission lines
to the Tennessee Valley Authority. I
The court limited its decision to
the case before it.
i he right of the government to
seek wider markets for power than
was provided by the Alabama Power
company stands- up.
Some of the power produced by the
federally-built dams la used by the
government. "Surplus power" is that J
not needed by the government-. j
Justices BrandieB, Cardozo, Roberts
and Stone presented a concurring opinion
saying the case should have
been dismissed. I
Hughes first reviewed the history
of the case. He spoke in a clear, I
i firm tone.
Fmacted In the "hundred days" ses- j
sion of congress in 1933, the TVA was
the first governmental venture in the
long-time social and economic "planning.
TVA took for its nucleus the $137,000,000
war-time power and nitrogen
properties at Muscle Shoals, Ala. To
this original investment $111,000,000
| was added.
Mr. Roosevelt has asked congress
tor $43,000,000 more. His budget for
1931 estimated still another $95,000,O00'would
be needed to complete projects
"started or proposed."
Jail Break Occurs
At Bamberg
J><? in hi. i g, t cb. 17.- ?Oft icers sought
today (o pit k up the trail of a white
man. Proadns Hoover, and four nogro
prisoners who escaped from the
Bamberg county juil here early yesterday.
Hoover, held on a housebreaking
and larceny charge, had been returned
here Friday from Tampa, Fla., after
a previous jail break. He escaped
with seven other prisoners about three
months ago.
The four prisoners who escaped
with him yesterday were George
Downs. Clinton Paul. Heffhfin HailHard.
all negroes, and another negro
.called "Booze." They were all to face
trial at a term of court opening today.
They heated pieces of metal from
the cots and burned holes in the ceiling
to give them access to a loft and
then esonped by means of a rope made
of blankets.
The delivery left a single prisoner,
Duther Donald, white in the jail He
said he refused to join the others in
the getaway and that Hoover, armed
with a window weight, prevented him
from giving an alarm.
001 F *~Knox, Chicago newspaP?r
owner and candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination, in
an address at Philadelphia, likened
government under the present administration
to that under Mosaollnl, Stalin
and Hitler.
Fertilizer Needs Of
fteans and Tom aloes
Charleston, Feb. 15.?Results of fertilizer
experiments with beans and tomatoes
at $e South Carolina Truck
Experiment Station indicate that
changes may profitably be made in
present fertilizer practices with these
crops, according to J. M. Jenkins, Jr.,
assistant horticulturist.
"Growers of tomatoes frequently
use very high applications of potash
in the belief that yields will be increased
and that a tougher shipping
tomato will be obtained, but experiments
show that yields are actually
decreased when more than five per,
cent potash is employed in the fertilizer
mixture, while the shipping quality
of the product is not improved," >
says Mr. Jenkins. Highest yields of
tomatoes at the Truck Station have
been obtained from fertilizers analyzing
3 to 5 per cent nitrogen, 7 to 10
per cent phosphorus, and 0 to 5 per
cent potash, at the rate of 1,000
pounds per acre. . I
"Highest yields of snap beans were
obtained from plots which had been
fertilized with a mixture analyzing
5-7-0," the horticulturist continues.'
"Results df further tests, however,'
indicate that in many cases 3 per
cent nitrogen and 10 per cent phosphorus
may prove to be more profitable.
Beans failed to respond to potash,
and yields decreased with increas.
I
es in the amount of potash applied.'
This behavior may be due in part to
the fact that soils for vegetable crops
are usually highly fertilized, and that
sufficient potash has accumulated in
the soil to satisfy the demands of the
bean, plant. For a spring crop of
beans 800 pounds per acre may be
sufficient, or even less if the land is
in good condtion and has been prop-1
erly cared for.
"The fall crop may usually be successfuly
grown with no fertilizer other
than a side-dressing of 200 pounds
of nitrate of soda, provided the land
has previously tifeen fertilized well for
a spring crop or planted in a summer
cover crop. Where a legume is used
as a green manure crop during the
summer, higher yields .may be expected
than would otherwise be obtained."
Large Snake Killed
About three weeks ago, Simon Cook,
a colored employee of the J. E. Carson
Farms, which are located three
miles south of Kershaw, killed a rattlesnake
four feet in length, which
had eleven rattles and a button. Simon
was engaged in his duties around
the farm at the time, and as he started
to climb a bank on the side of the
gully, he was attracted by the sound
of the rattle, upon investigation the
snake was found and killed just as it
was ready to spring.
Earlier this winter a snake of somewhat
milder temperament was killed
near Charlotte, and every one was
very much excited over finding a reptile
of the kind, out at this time of
the year. It is rather unusual, but on
rare occasions they sometimes come
out on sunny days.?Kershaw Era.
Because of the long drawn out and^!
intense cold weather, that ban lh
vailed over the country, and cspeclalffB
in the middle and northwestern state*,!
an acute coal shortage is threatened,^!
both because there Is a shortage it^!
the mines and because of inability of H
the railroads to handle coal due to I
track and other traffic conditions, Is I
some sections heo,ds of mining unions^!
are rather indisposed to help the eit^!
uation by permitting longer hours oil
work in the coal mine.
Cotton Breeder |
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A. D. COSGROVE I
m COTTON SEED I
BE OFFERED HERE I
Colonel Cotgroye'ft Marl- I
Rose Strain To Be Sold I
In County^
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J. T. Hay Cotton Company, Inc. fl
will offer farmers of thia 9
section seed for next year's cotton I
planting which promises to solts i
some of the problems of the cotton 1
planter.
The cottonseed Is that of the fa- H
moue Mars-Hlose variety of cotton; 3
developed - by the veteran plant 1
breeder, Col. A. D. Cos grove, who 9
for 40 years has been studying and 1
breeding cotton. The strain yields
heavier than average good cotton, 4
Is resistant to the boll weevil and
is hardy in varying wetrther. H
The local concern will be agent
for the Southern Hardware andjii
Seed store of Birmingham, whcr^H
Is distributing Colonel Cosgrove's -fl
improved cotton seed over the belij^^H
Tlie Mars Rose variety won first d
place and blue ribbon at the Ala?* 1
bama State Fair this year in com*
petition over all other well known 1
varieties. * - Colonel
Cosgrove, originator and H
breeder of the siftaln of Mars-Rosa?*
cotton Is a colorful and plcturesqtt* H
character. Ho is a clergyman, and 9
has been for many years, but has |
found time to delve into the intracacles
of plant breeding and col*
ture. He has been referred to M 9
the Burbank of Dixie. 9
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?INTRODUCING?
"Mars-Rose" Cotton
! Colonel A. D. Cosgrove's Remarkable Success
After 40 Years Of Experimentation
This cotton has produced under test more than four
bales per acre?Genuine A. D. Cosgrove Mars-Rote cotton
seed are sold only in sealed cartons bearing the
personal signature of A. D. Cosgrove, the originator.
WHAT SOUTH CAROLINIANS THINK
OF "MARS-ROSE" COTTON
| Greenville, S. C. December 12, 1935.
Southern Hardware and Seed Store, i
Birmingham, Ala.
j Dear Sirs:
| I have had exceptionally good results from my Mars-Rose !
j cotton seed.
This cotton has some features that give it a decided advantage
over other varieties that I have planted.
It 18 at least 10 days earlier, a very heavy fruiter, haB exi
ceptlonally large bolls, is wilt resistant, turns out well from
the gin and the length of the staple brings a good premium.
My yield with Mars-Rose was considerably more per acre
than with other varieties,
i This cotton cannot be beat for producing under boll weevil
conditions. , Yours very truly.
I P. O. Box 22. Greenville, S. C. M. E. HUNTER.
?INTRODUCTORY PRICES?
II Bushel F. O. B. Birmingham, Ala. $10.00
1-2 Bushel F. O. B. Birmingham, Ala $5.50
1 Peck F. O. B. Birmingham, Ala. v $3.00
Small Trial Package Contains
1,500 to 2,000 Seeds $1.00
A LIMITED AMOUNT OF THESE SEED
. FOR SALE THIS SEASON
?Apply?
HAY COTTON CO., Inc.
^ J^utledge Street Camden, S^C. I
Cotton Seed Meail
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FED PROPERLY .
Is the cheapest concentrate on the market/ It is al8o
the cheapest organic Ammonite for Fertilizing all
7 Consult your nearest County Demonstration Agent or~J
Dealer And write f or a copy of pamphlet on Feeding tQ U
National Cottonseed Products Association 1
609 Central Union Building
COLUMBIA, S. C. |
Rain Check
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WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR CAR WASHED WHATfS
ASSURANCE HAVE YOU THAT IT Willi NO??
RAIN?
' ' ~1 ~ "
SMALL CARS 75c. LARGE CARS $1.00
NOW WITH EVERY WASH JOB i GIVE A RAIN
CHECK GOOD FOR ANOTHER WASH IF IT RAINS
IN THf^NteXT TWENTY-POUR HOURS.
Guzzy s Esso Station