Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' "It's pretty hard to beat NATURE' "APRIL" Empress of the fern ft STOCKWELL'S APEU. POGIS. tbt only sow bm Sbt world 'twist wimmr of tbt Prtsidtnft Cup of tbt Amttlstn ftrtty Cafllt Club. Owntd by OWEN MOON, prrblhbtr Wbf tiuH-SaltM fotrmtl md " Stmtimtl, oumtr of Up wop Brums, WoodrtQsk'Vi WB present a "close-up* of a world-famous Jersey cow, Stockwell's April Pogis of [igh Pastures ? "April" for short. She made a world's record over all breeds?3217 lbs. butter fat in 3 lactation periods within 3'/t ?*ch under Class A. A. with an average test of 6.46%. No Jersey farm in the world has ever bred, raised and ested her equal. The pastures are full of Jersey ows?but there's only one "April." he's the empress?a hundred times tore valuable than the rank and file Jerseys?because Mother Nature gave her everything?a perfect nat*> ral balance of all the needed da* incuts. So she eclipses all the others. Natural Chilean Nitrate of Soda is another example of Nature's balance of many different elements. Just as Nature favored "April," she favored Natural Chilean. To this altrogen fertilizer she gave a natural balance of vital elements?the socalled vital impurities in her ows wise blend. That's why Natural Chilean is more than just quick-acting nitrogen. That's why it is such an effective food for your crops. | Natural Chilean NITRATE of SODA NATURAL AS TNI GROUND IT COMSS ROM With Vital Elements in Nature's Balance and, Blend , RADIO ? "UNCLE NATCHEL & SONNY* , FAMOUS CHILEAN CALENDAR CHARACTER!, See announcements of leading Southern Stations INobody's Business | ritten for The Chronicle by Ge? McGee, Copyright, 1928. EN DAYS VACATION IN FLORIDA AND CUBA (Fifth Day) Mut spending a few hours in Ha- ( Ktna. I reached the conclusion that ipercent of the population was sell ing lottery tickets, and 30 percent was selling something else. Nobody seemed to be in a hurry. Every fourth person is a policeman: the City is clean, well-managed and officered, and it is an up-and-coming winter resort. ..My party was all the time hunting a good place to eat. They would ride and walk for blocks seeking a joint with food-appeal. After they found such an establishment, they would walk in, sit down, and order ham and eggs or breakfast bacon and eggs. One member of the crowd ordered some kind of salad every time: it looked like a pile of rag weeks, pokeberry limbs, puukin vines and a cucumber all cut up. It smelt like very nice grazing. I still contend that it ought to have been served from a fodder rack instead of a platter. ..The removal or Impeachment of President Gomez during our visit ^rested about as muclr excitement land concern as is .created when we disqualify a magistrate or a coroner over here for mal feasance in office or for finding a corpse guilty of suicide and calling it murder. It's a habit in Cuba to ask for and get new presidents every now and then. , Everybody seemed to be satisfied. (I think it was a good move too), ..My first bad luck came when a Cuban eased up to me and rubbed himself against my body, looking like he was trying to smell me or something. I thought he was crazy and he knew I was. When he got thru showering his-affections upon me, my fountain pen and 65 cents from my vest pocket were missing, and so w'as he. There are a few of these smart rogues that can and will steal anything from one's person from a pair of BVD's to a stick pen, and the said person won't know what's happened till it's too late. ..We attended a professional jaialai game. It was the fastest and most Interesting athletic undertaking I ever saw. I hope that will be a common sport over here someday. Nearly everybody was betting on the games. In fact, the Cubans are bettors from A to Z. And It's contagious. Zip. I lost 30 cents on a game rooster Just like that . . . the next day. ..We visited two night-clubs one evening about 11:00 o'clock: they said we were too early. The first show IR THE CONVENIENCE ! OF THE FARMERS ! are placing in Stock a Limited Amount of ker's Pedigreed ; levewilt Cotton I -Seed ! RECT FROM COKER ce: $7.50 per 100 lbs. iy Cotton Co., Inc. Rutledge Street i MAYBANK FERTILIZERS id MATERIALS lay & DuBose Rutledge Street T. Hay John K. DuBose Fertilizers and arm Machinery - tHAME BROS. tledge St. Camden, 8. C. THE OLD RELIABLE REED I j RED DIAMOND FERTILIZERS I NATURAL CHILEAN NITRATE OF SODA I WHITAKER & COMPANY I FARM IMPLEMENTS g ^-- - '-.*^' ?&? '- >*'?* ' ?"" ? - ? -**t 1 ' '- **%*+ ' " "" ~?T T * B . v \ ^ I : '->? *k.for?-.tv. .*: 7\?riX' . ^-r^'-1..v^?->W-- ' ' '- - ^ ~ ? -' - - ~~ - t ' Murder Committed ! In Sumter County The body of John Henderson, 70year-old negro, was found yesterday afternoon shortly after 4:30 o'clock in front of the fireplace at his home near Ueinbert. The body was lying r fate down with a wound in the back of hie head and the ekull crushed. Death apparently had been instantaneous. Officers working on the ease no far have been unable to find any clues to the old man's murderer. Henderson wus an in offensive, hard-working negro. He is known to have had between $75 and $100 on his peraon shortly before his deuth. Nothing was disturbed in the house, but the pocket of his shirt where he kept his money hud.been torn out, leading officers to believe that robbery was the motive ton. the murder. Henderson wus lust seen alive Monday night ami some of Hie packages he purchased that night were on a table unopened. The examining physician expressed the opinion Henderson had been dead from 24 to 36 hours when his body was found. Coroner J. S. Cain visited the sceno last night and will have an inquest at a luter date. This afternoon Chief of Rural Police W. J. Scale announced that four suspects had been arrested and lodgou in the county Jail for questioning. He also slated that a hickory stick wub found about 50 yards from the houso and was believed to be the weapon used by the killer.?Thursday's Sumter Item. There are more than 20 claimants to the $20,000,000 estate of the late Mrs. Henrietta E. Garrett of Philadelphia, all of whom are trying to establish their claims in Philadelphia courts. started at 1:00 a. m., and the second show started at 3:00 a. m. It waa truly a night club but it was mighty hard to get a table and 4 chairs reserved. The cover charge was from all you had in your pockets . . . up. These night-club hours are either too late or too early for me, 1 couldn't decide which. Nearly all of the girls had on a smattering of clothing, so to speak. And could they rumba? You're telling I. TEN DAYS VACATION IN FLORIDA AND CUBA (Sixth Day) . .Speaking of laziness, we got up early Tuesday morning (in Havana) at around 9:30 o'clock. After hemming and hawing (and jewing) with a taximan who owned a 7-passenger Lincoln touring car, we began a trip into the country in the direction of Santaigo which carried us a distance of 160 miles. ..The majority of native Cubans and native Cuban negroes, embracing the blacks, the tans and the whites, comix and co-mingle on an equal social footing as to association, schools, churches, marriages and otherwise. The negroes do not seem to object to it very much. There are as many negro policemen and public officers as there are white men. . .The old Spaniard types have steered clear of racial degradation and seem to represent the so-called upper class. After trying to discourse 2 or 3 days with those Cuban folk, 1 got to the point where I couldn't talk English much less Spanish. Very few of the rank and file speak English. When they do speak it, it takes a whole family to get as much as every third word deciphered. The most of their talking is done with their hands anyhow. ..On our trip into the rural sections, we came upon all manner of country life. There was an occasional nice farm-home with well kept buildings and premises generally, but the average home was a mighty poor excuse for a place to live. Two rooms is considered a fairly good-sized building. The horse is usually parked in the front piazza. ..The rich people in Cuba use cow's milk, the next bracket south uses goat milk, but Jenny milk Is on the daily menu of thousands of families. Every farmer we saw at work in the fields was plowing from one to 2 yokes of oxep; it is an easy matter to grow 4 crops of fine corn every year in Cuba. c . .Strange as It seems, we saw a large field of cotton about 30 miles southwest of Havana that had not less than a 500-pound bale of cotton per acre open; it was being picked by all ages and sizes of laborers. I didn't like t to see cotton growing down there. Tljo stalks, bolls, and limbs were all of normal size and the cotton fibre would easily pull an inch and a quarter. (Possibly everybody already knows everything I am now trying -to tell, but there might be a few here and there that don't gather this kind of information . that's why I am touching on such. subjects as cotton and living conditions In Cubs:). j:-...- .. . ; 1 ?_ . - - - * ' . f ' -f ? "I. - ?u.- . .1 i -'i . ". 1 ' 1 ' ?* t WEEKLY BULLETIN ' . . S.C.Game fyLiSH Association Jhru MalewtJf (o-opemf 'on Came 1 jiwi ^ Jvrest (an be M / ieriajtu increase a fur ike fien< <i( of /// | r". . J ""* ^ OPPORTUNITY FOR FARMERS Being able to cut their cuko and have It too 'described features of the agricultural conservations program by the biological Survey of the department of agriculture. To have a better soil and a crop of bobwhito quail to boot Is outlined in a planting program for fanners in the Southern region, including South Carolina. j The program will increase the food supply for quail and other wildlife as well as improve the soil and*at the same time qualify the farmer for payments under the 1937 Agricultural Conservation Program. (.'lass l?Conservation payments for diversion of acreage from soil-depleting crops may bo earned by reducing the acreage of cotton, tobacco, grains and other soil-depleting crops and planting instead soil-conserving crops. The approved list of soil-conserving crops includes seed producing legumes sucli as cowpeas, soybeans and beggarweed; grain sorghums, if seeded solid and not harvested for grain or forage; sweet sorghums, millets, or Sudan grass either iu rows or seeded solid If not harvested for grain Boed or forage; cover crops, including rye, barley, oatB, wheat and grain mixtures, not cut for grain or hay and left on the land; and forest trees planted on cropland since January 1, 1934. Cluss 2?Soil conservation payments for soil-building practices may be earned by planting and leaving on the land lespedw-a or any other le gume crops. any sorghums, Sudan grass, millet, or by pluming forest trees on i'l'oplund this year I'aymenis will bo made upon appll-' t ut ion tiled with the loc-ul county farm agent and upon voriilcaticm by the conservut ion committee of the performance on furms for which work sheets have boon tiled. Sorghum*, suutui grass, and Icspu* degas, says the Biological Survey, produce much food for soed-cating birds and mammuls. Ucspedezas and grain cover crops yield much noedod green food. drains and summer legumes, if planted early enough to mature seed and left on the land, also improve the winter food supply for wildlife. Many forest trees such as: oaks, ashes, gums, hickories and beech, after reaching hearing uge, yield food for wildlife over long periods. These circumstances, says Ira N. (jubrielson, Chief of the Survey, present a splendid opportunity for Improving farms as homes, for game and other wildlife and at the same timo cooperating in a soil conservation program with financial rewards. In the hope thut many will take advantage of tltis opporunlty, the? Federal wildlife service calls attention to two publications of value to farmers iivterested in wildlife. Farmers' Bulletins 1719 and 1769, entitled "Improving the Farm Environment for Wildlife" and "Game Management on the Farm," may bo obtained 011 request from the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. ! Water Systems For Country Homes Ulemson, Feb. 6.?-"Probably tho tnohi useful equipment that can bo installed in tIk* farm homo 1m u water st\ nu'in," mi\ m C. V. l'huguu, ogrlcUl* i uial engineer for the Cleiusou ColIce Intension Service. "Such equipment, on?n though slinpie ami inexpensive, does much to lessen tho drudgery of tin; housekeeper and adds to tho lieu I Hi uuii liappiuoHM of all member* of tho furui family," Mr. i'iiiiKun conlinuoh. "(letting tho wubto water out of the house is considered by muny farm women to bo a bigger Job tlian carry* 111K tho water from tho well. For this reason the sink is one of tho flrut pieces of equipment to bo installed." Mr. Phugan bus drawn up Homo simple illiiMtrutioiiM of the kitchen sink with drain, tho kitchen pitcher pump, the kitchen lift pump, and a barrel or .small (auk. lie suggests that tho.se farmers interested in simple water systems consult tholr county agents for specifications and information. Tearing Up Railway Line The work of tearing up the tracks of tho Southern Railway lino from Sumter to Suuiter junction is well un* dorwuy and will probably be completed within tho noxt month, Tho Southern was granted permission some months ago to abandon the branch line from Sumtor to Sumter Junction because of lack of business. The crew now at work is tearing up the rails and ties, leaving only the roadbed.?Sumter Daily Item. The Metropolitan Life Insurance company of Now York, ended tho year 1936 with policies in force totaling $21,310,975,734. Policy holders total | 28,400,000. * V THE 2 5-MILLIONTH FORD HAS JUST BEEN BUILT It has never occurred before in automobile history that 25 million cars of one make, bearing one name, have been manufactured under one management. The 25,000,000th Ford car I rolled off the Ford Rouge Plant production line on 'January 18, 1937. *f 25 million cars since 1903 . . . more ji than one-third of all the cars ever built . . . enough cars to transport the i entire population of the United States. The figures represent a remarkable contribution to the social welfare, the ' industrial stability and the general j progress of our country. People respect Ford efficiency. They I know Ford uses fine materials, the | best workmanship at gpod wages, the j most exact precision measurements. ' They know these things are passed along to purchasers in the form of ; extra value. Naturally, they like to do business with such a company. That is the only reason it has been required to produce 25 million cars. INaturally, too, they expect more of a Ford car, more this | year than last year ? more d each year than the year before. They have every right to. The experience gained in building 25,000,000 cars enables Ford to produce today a really superb motor car at a really low price ? with the Beauty, Comfort, Safety and Performance of much more expensive cars. The 1937 Ford V-8 combines advanced design, all-steel construction, extra body room, and brillianjt brakes with a choice of two V-type 8-cylinder engines ? the most modern type of power-plant on land, sea, or in the air. The 85-horsepower engine provides e | top performance with unusually good economy for its high power. The 60-horsepower engine gives good performance with the greatest gasoline mileage ever built into a Ford car?and wears the lowest Ford price tag in years. People expect more of a Ford car because it's a Ford ? and they get more, for the same reason. It is undeniably the quality car in the low-price field. i FORD MO TO R COMPANY r ^ REDFEARN MOTOR CO. ... g > SALES SERVICE CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA ' ' "