Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ I McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORM/Ck. truth cirutt Page Number Eight ■ s MT. CARMEL ss»:; m * « • ' .^. • i5pj: f ^ >f land, , ,S. €., »Fo«r pasture include a out houses ,5^1: ; ' ( 'V \i> 5 - * \ the ^pjace for 11,100.00. arid balance can be is, 25 years if desired. assum- r that amount. IVILLE, S C. mi&m <£*m m m ly of- your acquaintance seventy per cent Of its in- j, acc<Hrding to eco- ' ' • : r ,. ; experts. | ■... ■ . ' • . this means—seven del*, every 'ten invested in food, household utilities and all tude of things that keep a and'liappy. It’s a big-job to spend so much money wisely and well. It requires careful business methods to get the best possible returns from each dollar that leaves the family purse. The clever woman goes ( for help to the advertising column^ of her news paper. There-she finds a directory of buying and selling. She learns about the offerings of inerchants. She com pares values. She weighs quality and price. She takes this opporunity of judging and selecting almost anything she needs to feed, clothe, amuse, in struct and generally bring up her fam- ily. Do you read the advertisements? You will find them willing and able to serve you in die regular business of purdu»e. Advertisements Are Guardians Of . Your Pocketbook. Read'Them Carefully. Mr. Ben Sutherland of Greensboro, N. C., spent the past week end with his father, Mr. J. F. Sutherland. His father accompanied him to Anderson Sabbath afternoon. We are always, glad to see our boys and girls come back home. Miss. Virginia Majette of Pensa cola, Fla., but now a student in Con verse College, spent a few days with Miss Elita Covin in Mt. Carmel. Her many friends were delighted to see her. Mr. John Dru Cade, Jr., of Lau rens was a recent visitor in Mt. Car mel. We are sorry to say that Mrs. H. S. Cason has been quite ill for sev eral days. We all hope for her a speedy recovery. Mr. J. D. Cade has been sick again, but we are glad to say he is able to be out again. Mrs. J W Morrah is also on the sick list this week. Our last report said she was better. We all hope she will soon be well again. Miss Lura Jean Watson has been suffering the past week with an ab scess in her ear. We all hope she will soon be well again. Misses Irene Boyd and Martha Connor and Mr. Willie Hester, also Miss Juanita Curtis and Mr. Powell of Abbeville, were visitors in Cal houn Falls last Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mauldin and family of Augusta are visitors of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Mauldin this week. Misses Ruby Smith and Elizabeth Hester of Anderson and Messrs. Buddie Smith and Floyd Wells of Greenville spent last Sabbath in Mt. Carmel. Mis. Lewis Ramey of Abbeville.is v siting at the home of her brother, Mr. H. S, Cason. -1X1 SANDY BRANCH NEWS REHOBOTH McCORMICK, S. C. Well, we are having some real pretty weather, but it is .still cold. I think it makes the farmers think about .plowing some, although some have already. started. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Holloway and Mr. and Mrs. Yancey Seigler spent Sunday afternoon in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Seigler. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Campbell and little son- spent Sunday in the home of the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Campbell. Miss Tomnre Walker of McCor mick spent Saturday night with Misses Ruby and Julia Jennings. Mr. and Mrs. Manning Brown and family of McCormick spent Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Jennings. Mrs,. W. C. Jennings spent last Wednesday with her mother, Mrs. J.-P. Price, of Cedar Hill. Mrs. J. B. Holloway and 1’ttle son spent last Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. W. T. Jennings; also Mr. Lyn Jennings called awhile. Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Bledsoe and Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Willis spent last Tuesday With Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jennings. Mr. Elliotte Seigler and Mr. Lyn Jennings spent Sunday afternoon with Messrs. Garland and Mack Campbell. Callers in the home of Mr. J. R. Jennings on Sunday afternoon were Mr. W. T. Jennings, Misses Ruby and Jul ; a Jennings and Miss Tom mie Walker. Mr. Loyce Jennings spent last Friday in the home of his grandmo ther, Mrs. J. P. Price, of Cedar Hill. Mr. and Mrs.. Willard Walker of Greenwood spent Sunday j n the home of Mrs. Walker’s itf^snts, Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Price, of near McCormick. Mr. Leonard Deason and Mr. J. R- Jennings were callers in Greenwood Sunday afternoon. Messrs. Lee Price, Loyce ar I Paul Jennings were in Greenwood Mon day. Mrs. Carl Willis and child’ ' Hel en, Dennis and Harold, spen! awhile Wednesday afternoon with 11 s. Paul Jennings. Messrs. Loyce and Paul J linings called awhile Sunday mornin;r in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Jen-, nings. Remember Sunday School at Re publican Church next Sunday morn ing at 10:30. We hope to seo more than we have been having. Let’s all come out. Well, Mr. Editor, I guess I had better close. If this escapes the '” a -te basket I will write aga : n Bill. txt Too many women place their hus bands in the accessory class. Mrs. Robert Hitt cf Bamberg vis ited relatives here last week. She was greatly welcomed by her old friends and relatives. Mrs. Matthew Ousley and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Paul are still with Mrs. P. P. Doolittle to comfort her in her recent bereavement. Mrs. W. P. Culbreath and Mrs Strom Culbreath and little Thomas Culbreath were welcome guests at Woodsrde Cottage Tuesday after noon. . It will interest the many friends of Mrs. Kate T. Moultrie to know she loft for Clinton Tuesday to accept a position. We miss this good friend in ouf community. Mr. W. T. Strom’s family, who have been sick of measles, are much better; some are able to be up. Rev. Paul Webb preached a good sermon at Rohobbth Sunday after noon. Mr. W ; . T. Strom met him at Bethany and brought him to Reho- both to preach, and carried him to Ninety-Six Sunday night. The at tendance at church was large, con sidering that several families have moved away. Mr. G. C. Morgan and family, Mrs. Janie Morgap and Mr. C. I, Gay mo tored to Kirksey to visit relatives for the afternoon Sunday. Mrs. Marion Winn. Harold W nn and M : ss Adalaide Chandler made a hurried trip to Edgefield Saturday afternoon. Mrs. E. M. Mozgan and Miss A. L Morgan called to see Mrs. Doolittle Saturday afternoon. Miss Chandler attended the teach ers’ meeting at McCormick Satur day. Mr. W. R. Ridlehoover and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Roy Harling. They are keeping house now. The sunbeam leader requests all the sunbeams to be present the first Sunday in February. There is much business to attend to. Glad to see Mss Branyon and Misses Mayson at Rehoboth Sunday afternoon. Mrs. W. P. Culbreath and Mrs. Strom Culbreath visited Mis. Doolit tle one day last week. Mrs. Carrie Burkhalter Freeland has not been very well for sometime. Glad to learn she is better. In some of the gardens where cabbage weie killed, some have been reset; some EngFsh peas that were killed down show signs of coming out; onions look badly but not killed; very little of the grain is coming out. Mrs. J. P. Talbert has put her dn- cubators to work again. This* means early broilers. Miss Chandler is boarding with Mrs. J. P. Talbert since Mrs. Moul trie is not hero. Mr. Ed Winn and family spent Sunday at Plum Bcanch. Mr. T)usley came down from Green ville for the week end. Mrs. Ousley will return home with him. Mrs. Lizzie Coleman and daughter visited Mrs. E. M. Whatley one day this week. Rehoboth. —m—V— The New Regime On The Farm During the years from 1920 to 1925 the number of horses in the United States decreased 'about 25 per cent. At the same time, the number of tractors in use increased almost 100 per cent. The new reg ime on the farm had begun in earn est. The obvious duties of the tractor, 1 oad-building, plowing and like hard work, were quickly apprec ated. Its variety of new uses seem endless. It has become an integral part of log ging damps, it carries supplies across difficult country, it digs ir rigation ditches, and moves houses. The back-breaking task of trans planting celery has been made easy; and recently it has been used to help in the extermination of grasshop pers. One of the most efficient instru ments of war has become the tool- of-all-work of peace. Our great me chanical $ge could be proud had it produced only the tractor. X Cattle should not be fed within 24 hours of the time they are to be slaughtered, but should have access to fresh water. An animal should never be killed while in an excited or overheated condition, as it will not bleed well. Beef from animals not properly bled does not keep well. Bruising the body just before slaughter will cause bloody spots, which have to be trimmed out, re- sulving in considerable waste. X A fool-proof airplane won’t be worth much without a fool-proof pilot. Worth Knowing Nine Out Of Ten Women! To seek knowledge of womankind is always intrigurng if sometimes precarious. For instance: How tall is the average woman? Nobody seems to know. No national situation having yet caused all wo men to be weighed and measured, there exists no-standard of judging their average size. The war draft determined that the average man be tween 21 and 30 years of age weigh ed between 141 and 142 pounds and was about five feet six and half in ches tall. One can only judge from considerable observation that the la dies do, not consistently top the gentlemen in either way. As to coloring, the hairdressers re po, t a decided predominance of bru nettes. Natural blondes are by com parison fairly rare. » For a solid week, a New York re porter braved the hazards of sta- foning himself at busy street cor ners in pursuit of a sort of sidewalk type of knowledge. He has determ ined brown and black to be the lead ing winter-time outer apparel col ors; small hats to lead over large by a big majority; and that there is decidedly not a white ho*se for every red-headed woman. Two months ago at the opening of the “season” in New York an ener getic fashion wr ter who constantly attends fashionable functions, began jotting ; n her nrtebook the apparent preferences of the majority of wo men as well as their idiosyncracies. Her notes have developed into a vert- itable rurvey. They read like this: 1. Most excessively stout women have a tendency to comparafvely small feet. (This was checked up with shoo clerks in 12 different stores.) 2. Most tall, willowy society wo men have a predilection for trans parent velvets, satins, rayons, silks and other softly shimmering mater ials. 3. Women with too large hands wear few rings. 4. Nine out of ten blondes prefer shades of blue, black or yellow merg ing into brown. 5. Nine out of ten brunette^ pre fer red, pink and black. (This with the report of the blondes gives black the highest vote). 6. Lip-sticks, compacts and mir rors consume more area in feminine purses than money by an approxi mate ratio of 8 to 2. 7. Mirror-less drawing rooms (as well as soda founta : ns) are unpop ular. 8. Wh^n driving alone in the back seats of their motor cars, most wo men s : t on the left hand side. (Rea son entirely unguesced). 9. To be known as amusing is of far greater personal publicity value than to br known as a beauty. 1C. The woman who knows in stinctively how to dress “Smartly” is much more envied than she who is called “pretty” or “sweet.” F. om this we observe that the la dies have at last gotten together on quite a few things. -txt- Corn And Cotton Corn is a plant that produces corn. Cotton is a soft, wlvite fibrous substance composed of the hairs clothing the seeds of various mal- vaceous plants. So much for Noah Webster’s nice book! Out at the State Agricultural Col lege at Ames, Iowa, chemists with persistent methods have for many years been working to develop a wide variety of products from both the corn and its stalk. They include among other th'ngs, new forms of foodstuffs, artificial silk, paper, building boards and blocks, a substi tute for maple syrup, and certa : n preservative chemicals. The two hundred million tons of corn stalks which annually go to waste will ere long be developed by the commer cial chemists, and it is a safe pre diction,—jn view of the successes of Dr. O. R. Sweeney, of Ames, and other scientific men,—to expect that this annual waste will be con verted into ccmmerc'al materials that will add perhaps a billion dol lars to the value of the nation’s corn crop. Cotton in chemical industry has been among the marvels of recent years. Dr. Charles M. A. Stine ha? recently told of some of the achieve- menfs by the Du Pont Company, of which he is the Chemical Director, in the manufacture of various pro ducts from cellulose or cotton as a raw material. X For the dairy herd hay may b ^ fed loose in the manger or in a feed rack. It is usually given after milk ing in' order to prevent dust in the stable during milking. Since it is i^ot practicable to wjeigh it every day, weigh a bunch ’ occasionally in order to estimate pretty closely how much each cow is getting. S. C. WEEKLY JS JL WAIYL-JU REVIEW No r.afon in the world can show as large a percentage of its people so well fed, wholesomely amused and fully employed, as can the United States. Beaufort — Exceptionally good business done here during Christmas holidays. iBfeauftfrt —( Macporialp, Wilkins Company improving front of store on Bay Street. Bamberg — AM. Brabham will open mercantile store here. Beaufort’s new sewer system rap idly going iu£o service. 717.093 bales of 1927 cotton were ginned in South Carolina. Easley—Local farmer averaging $100 monthly from 15-acre truck farm near here. Bamberg—Bamberg Banking Com pany in very satisfactory condition. » South Carolina will get 20 out of 48 new textile plants to be built in South during 1928. Newberry — Copeland-Hipp Com pany moves into new quarters next to Imperial Theatre. Camden—Kirkwood Hotel renov ated and opened. Bamberg—Plans making for new post office building here. Georgetown — North Hampton Plantation opened to hunters for first time recently. Oiangeburg—Three banks of this city j^aid divic Lancaster—Survey made of new route of Highway No. 26 from this place to Kershaw County line. Greenville—Reported that gold mining has be?n revived in upper section of Oconee County. Southern Bell Telephone Company will expend approximately $1,120,000 on improvements and replacements in South Carolina; esfmated 1810 new telephones will be installed dur ing 1928. Georgetown—Singer Sewing Ma chine Company will open branch of fice here. v Sumter — Building permits issued here during 1927 totaled $376,380, gain of $181,062 over 1926. Camden—Repairs being made to bridge spanning Granny’s Quarter Creek 7 miles north of here. Camdnn—Palmetto Tea Room, new business, on DeKalb Street opened. Newberry—New high school build ing completed and in use. Bamberg—Poles being erected by Edisto Public Service Company for power lines between Bamberg and Ehrhardt. K'ngstree—Carolina Power and Light Company takes* over interest of South Carolina Power & Light Company serving Kingstree and. six othm* South Carolina communities. Dillon—Local man finds dewberry industry profitable. Dijjqp—Coker Ped’greed Seed Company purchase 625-acre farm of E. W. Evans. Dur : ng recent week 26th carload of poultry was shipped from Dar lington County. Sumter—Postal rece ; pts for 1927 in local post office reached total of $57,175. ' Sumter—Electrik Maid Bake Shop shows steady increase in business. Anderson County ginned 52,855 bales of 1927 cotton compared to 19,- 674 for 1926. Plans making for organization of % Chamber of Commerce in every county of Edisto-Savannah River section; half of counties already or ganized. S. C. Leads In Spin ning In December RALEIGH, N. C., Jan. 23.—After leading the nation for many months, * North Carolina yielded first place in cotton spinning to South Carolina during December, figures of the United States Department Of Com merce indicafed today. The figures credit North Carolina mills with 1,706,313,170 spindle hours during December while credit ing South Carolina mills with 1,756,- 371,936 spindle hours. Massachusetts is third with 1,337,904,604 spindle hours. • Figures show North Carolina more than six million, and Carol* na with about five and pi half million. * The South Carolina spindle the busiest during December wc ing an average of 322 hours. txt It is possible to grow good hay on land too sour for red cl by planting alsike clover usually j combination with timothy or ot grasses. Alsike clover is also a hay crop for swales, or land loo for most crops. It will make growth in watersoaked soil and endure overflow to an unusqalj gree.