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1 f ^—r / iy, February 23, 1928 wea«ss=!=sis!! McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCGRMICK, South CuroJluu. !<R'|p. Page NumKef 'I : : liemiasalpeter (Ammonium—Sulphate—Nitrate) SOX Nitrogen = 31.5% Ammonia WUl Feed Your Cotton from Chopping to Picking/ LEUNASALPETER—the high^analysis top-dresser, supplies nitrogen in both nitrate and ammonia forms. It is a chemical combination of both nitrate and am* monia. Balanced so that It will feed your cotton all during <the growing season. Every euldvatsd crop in the 8oud> can be grown more pro fitably with LBUNASALPETER. Made by the world'* largest nitrogen producers. Poe sale fay dealers everywhere. Write for descriptive booklet No. 35 to Synthetic Nitrogen Products N! I ROC} N Cl 'kk 1 Exclusive agept in Towii for Genuine Oliver Plows and Repairs. * Gold Seal Congoleum Rugs at a bargain. Sherwin WiUiams Paint, Saw Mill Supplies, Buck eye Brooders, Farm Implements and Mule Gear. Your patronage appreciated. m i mi mm MAIN STREET McCORMICK, S. C mmmm 'aV‘V , ‘ ‘a*/' Va A’/ — ww/ ; Oa. ’ -J0.0 w.o .o 0.0 a.'_ o.O Cao HEN OF M Ai w WHITE TOWN NEWS' (Too Late Fcr- Last W2ek.) It seems that no one from our sec tion warts to write to The Messen ger, so I’ll try to send in a few dots. We are having sojne rain today (Monday) but tho past few days have been spring like; but no doubt the froggies will look through glass houses yet. Mr. and Mrs. Rich Gable visited Mr. and Mrs. Joe White recently. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Whitten from Abbeville spent Saturday night last with Mr. and Mrs. George Shrine. Miss Connie Lee Brown accompanied them from McCormick, to be the guest of her little cousins, Pauline and Edith Shrine. Mr. ard Mrs. W. W. Medlock and Mrs. Ollie White visited Mr. and Mrs, Henry Seigler of Cleora recent ly. Mrs. Joe White has been quite ill at her home here for about three weeks, but is improving some at this writing. We are glad to hear Mr. John Self is improving. We miss him on the mail route, but we feel like we wore fortunate in having Mr. Luth er Ridlehoover, to take his place. Mr. Jeff Gable will soon begin J worki on. his, * house. „ He is ^ going, to biiild back near the same place" where the other house was burned. " Miss Molene Winn spent the week end with homefoDcs. < A . Mrs. L. E. White and little son ex pect to return to Jacksonville, Fla., in a few days. Mr. White has been quite successful there for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Will McKinney and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Eldred Reynolds Saturday idght. Mr. and Mrs. CHfton Findley and little ones visited relatives in White Town Sunday* We had two good sermons at our little church Sunday by our faithful pastor; Rev. C. A. Padgett. He sure is a good preacher. ■ He doesn't preach for the money, but for the salvation of lost'souls. Mr. (L D. -White and Mr. and Mrs. W. B. White filled their regular seats at, service; Sunday. We were so -glad to welcome these good peo ple to the old home again. ' We extend a hearty invitation and warm welcome-to everybody, -i We have all day service ’every second Sunday. So, ’ come out and worship with'us. * Bessie. " -T—X —' • A Little Talk On Thrift are those who SAVE TODAY. Those who wait until tomorrow to com mence saving seldom ever begin. We invite you to open an account with us, and to do it today. THIS BANK % T ’ wants you for a depositor and a friend. a * Open that account today and become one of a community of friends. IE PEOPLES BANK McCormick, S. C. ✓.v.y£9;< BABY CHICKS — White Leghorn Chicks, from P. P. F. 270 Egg Strain Our breeders as baby chicks cost 49 cents. If you -want some good chicks from good stock, place your orefers with us. Write for prices, they fire right. CUSTOM HATCHING DONE J. M. RICH MERIWETHER, S. C. Best Cotton Varieties Reported In Bulletin CLEMSON COLLEGE, Feb. 21.— The best varieties of cotton for this State arc indicated by the results of experiments conduct'*! here and at Summerville in 1924 to 1927 and at Florence in 1925 to 1927 and report ed by the South Carolina Experi ment Station in Station Bulletin 244, “Cotton Var ety Experiments/' just off the press. In the Piedmont, the bulletin says ; n summing up the tests. King, Cook 1010 and Coker Cleveland 5 head the listj. with approximately the same yields of seed cotton per acn aver age for four years. Of these three Cokfer Cleveland 5 was the only one that produced a staple satisfactory to piesent demands. # “The highest average yield at Florence, 1904 pounds of seed cotton per acre, was produced by Dixie-Tri umph, closely followed by Coker Cleveland 5, Humco Cleveland 20, and Woolsey Cleveland. Carolina- Foster.. Lightning Express and Del- tatype-Webber of the long staple va rieties, produced practically the same average yield. “Dixie-Triumph, D’xie 14, and Su per Seven led in the two-year test conducted on land badly infected with wilt. “At v Summerville, Coker Cleveland and^Wqplsey Cleveland produced the highest average yields over the four- year period. “Considering the results secured in all tests, the best strains of Cleve land led in the production of seed cotton on wilt-free land," says T. S. Buie and W. B. Rogers and> E. E. Hall authors of the report. Division 'uf—Publications Clemson College S. C. Sirs: As a courtesy to The ■ • ■ ■ Newspaper, will you kindly mail me a copy of Station Bulletin 244, “Cotton Variety Experiments.*' Name Address What Children Should Know (By S. W. -STRAUS, President American Society For Thrift.) of There is at the present time much thought being given to the question of old-age pensions. Efforts are be ing made in a number of States to secure the enactment of leg'slation whic|i will permit tljose Common^ wealths to pay certain amounts to those who have become victims of the infirmities of old-age and are not self-supporting. Sinrlaf efforts in Washington are being made to se cure the enactment of Federal old- age pension legislation. It has been pointed out that the thhty-five foreign countries, six of our own States and the Territory of Alakasa now have laws permitting pensions to be paid to the aged. The point was made that the aver age dependent can be supported on a pension plan much more economi cally than through a system of pub lic alms houses. It is commendable that so much attention is being given to these matters and everything possible should be done to take care of those who are old and who wholly or in pait are not able to take care of themselves. The agitat'on should serve also as a lession to the members of the younger generation. Independence in personal financial affairs should be the goal of all. Strangely enough, a considerable per centage of persons are willing to drift along from day to day and take Modern .methods, of travel have an- * * . nihilated distances. > It used to take months to- go across the United States: Transportation has been a mighty force in the financial wel fare,. personal: happiness and soc : al life-of the Nation. - For bvtms and scalds coyer with cooking soda and lay on wet cloths. Whites of eggs, olive oil or linseed oil, or ‘Ihne water, are valuable rem edies. ■ . . , Many thousands of children have been badly injured by picking up biasring caps left lying around by careless workmen. Children should be warned not to pick these up, much less to play with them. Weak ammonia, oil, salt water or iodine are valuable for stings of pois onous insects. Great care should be taken not to eat spoiled, decayed, or old food of any kind, as it causes ptomaine pois on, and calls for doses of castor oil and other things that children do not want to know about. Beware of dogs that act peculiar ly, particularly if they have any froth around their mouth. A bite by such a dog should be followed by the speediest call of a physician that can be made. WORDS In the last 270 years 350,000 per fectly good words have been added to English. Samuel Johnson com pleted the first good. dictionary of the English language in 1755. It contained 50,000 words. The latest unabridged ,editions contain about 700,000 words. There must be quite a waste some where sirtce the average person is credited with a vocabulary of only 3,000 words which are evidently mull ed over and over day after day with surprisingly little variety. Still, the new words begging dictionary ad-, mrltance annually average about 3,- 000 themselves. Doubtless some of the lazy folk drop a few words when their chances on the future. Some they adopt a few of the attractive of them may avoid old-age penury but the majority, when they shall have reached that period of life when they can no longer toil for a liveli hood, will find themselves dependent upon the charity of the public or of their friends. It is indeed not a happy out look for many. How much better it would be to deny one’s self a few passing luxuries—even a few comforts—to day and thus be assured that in the days of old age there will be an in come that will mean complete inde pendence. Thrift is indeed the best and only dependable safeguard against one of life’s saddest tragedies—old-age penury. new offerings of English. Over the lexicographers’ counter the chief selections come from fair ly regular sources. From science and big business come many “leaders” such as “rayon,’’ the twentieth cen tury’s great textile. From aviation has come “aeronaut,” “airman” and “airwoman,” “skypilot,” “birdman” and “birdwoman.” Public schools and colleges have their part in this public “brush up” of the English language. “Dumb-bell” is said still to reign supreme in the former, while “moron,” with its antonym “highbrow,” have found favor in the higher seats of learning. Such as the “Babbitts” have' flowed directly from the nqvelist’s pens into the 4 ten you pay *1195 for acar you're entitled to Buick Quality- When you spend as much as $1195 for a car you’re entitled to Buick quality, luxury and reliability—as well as Buick beauty, performance, stamina and long life. \ For three of Buick’s 16 models sell at thki low price—a Sedan, Coupe and Sport Roadster-—offering all of the famous Buick features—and the unrivaled value that results from Buick’s unrivaled volumo* production. See Buick — and you’ll see at once it is the logical car to buy. 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PHONE NO. *77. spoken tongue. “Drives” are a' rem nant of the war which how apply to practically any kind of a campaign. Added to the dictionary’s burdens are the newspaper columinsts f the theatres, and nationwide contests seeking appropriate terms for new institutions or such persons as law breakers, (scoff-law) or those, for instance, who are cruel to animals. The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, selected “pitilacker” as its contest prize winner. So our Language waxes rich some times with terms the dictionary writ- on a scientific basis. A concern is manufacturing an article that has a nation-wide market. The manufac turer places his advertising order with a reliable agency. The adver tisements are written by experts who know how to make an appeal to the buying public. The advertisement appears in 12,000 newspapers on a certain day or week. The cost of the advertising is paid to the agency in a lump sum and the agency pays the newspapers, after deducting a rea sonable commission for its services. The manufacturer reimburses him self by pro rating the cost among ers must of necessity label “slang/’ the several thousand merchants who but with a vast volume of words en tirely necessary and commendable for complete modern expression. XXt Invading Home Merchants’ Field (From The Dillon Herald) If the local business man will take the trouble to look over the adver tising pages of his home newspaper he will discover, that a change is tak ing place in the business world. He will find that local advertising is de creasing and foreign adverrising is increasing. Not only is advertising agq being standardized but it is being put 1 a handle his goods and the transact 1 on is closed. That is why national ad vertising is on the increase and new advertising agencies are springing up nearly every day. The old fam iliar lines by the homo merchant, “We have just received a shipmenj of new goods,” which makes n^ peal to the buying publiCj disappearing and in a fj be numbered amon* The local mere! want to be mate fiek the rati adopts catcl the