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'•'V ¥ 'J 'onuiflt Mr. Kennedy Dowtin Is Master Farmer Of McCormick County .Movement Is Sponsored By Clcmson College And The Herbert Hoover Wins G. O. P. Nomination Pro grossivo f armer Mr. Kennedy Dowti.i of McCor mick, It. F. D., has been selected as McCormick County’s Master Far mer for 1028, according to an an- iu>uncement made by Thos. W. Mcr- gar. loc: 1 cou ty agent. The Mas'er Farmer movement, tfpon''<rcd by th e Extens or. De-par:- tnent of Clcmson College in co-ope:’- ation with the Progressive Farmer of Rale gh, N. C , calls for one Mas ter Farmer ta be selected from each county in the state. From these Master Farmers selected from the counties, ten or fifteen Gold Medal farmers will be selected for £he state at large. Messrs. A- H. Ward, District Ex tension Agent, and C. L. Newman, Representatives of the Progressive Farmer, visited Mr. Dowtin’s farm last week for the purpose of scoring lum fer the Gold Medal awaid, which will be made during Farmers Week at Clcmson Ccllege this year. The result their scoring will be made known later. According to the standards set by the scote -card arranged by the Exr tension Department and the Prog:es- sive Farmer, a Master Farmer must live on his own farm, have h : s sole income from same, must practcie soil improvement and other progres sive methods of farming, and must net be a one crop farmer. Mr. Dow tin scored highest of any farmer in the county, according to this stand ard, and was therefore, judged to b? McCormick County’s Master Farmer. Mr. Dowtin was born on the fanm he wow oiwttrhls farm be^ng a part the original farm owned by his father. Early in life he bought 100 acnee of unimproved land from his lather, and has sircc built every budding and fence that is on his fans at present. He paid for this land with money made by farm ng it, and later bought 94 additional acres adjoining his original hundred, paying for- that the same way. In this way he has worked himself up from the bottom on the farm where he now lives, making it add im provements in the form of a beauti ful dwell'ng house, large spacious barns, outhouses, and tenant houses, machinery, and work stock, and at the same time make him a living and pay for itsolf. Few men in any line of business have a better record than this. Mr. Do'wtin is far from a one-crop fanner. His cctton crop is only one of the money cr!ops grown upon hs farm. Every year he sells five or six hundred bushels of oats, around a hundred dollars woith of peaches on an average, several hund red dollars worth of vegetables and other fruits, several cows and heif ers, several hundred dollars worth of dairy p oducts, a number of hogs, and over oi e-thousend dollars worth rf poultry products. His flock of 600 White Leghorn hens have paid him since last No vember 1, $870.00 clear preot/ and at prerent this flock is leading the fiate demonstration flocks in aver age egg production, and :‘f nothing happens should pay him a profit of over $1,200 00 this year. M. 4 . Dowtin grows his feed for all h)s animals, with the exception of his poultry, at home. Oats, oats and vetch, and corn make up the princi- pml feed crops grown on his farm. In co-operation with four of h's brothers, Mr. Dowtin has bought a truck for the sole purpose of market ing poultry products. During the winter months the five brothers mar ket-d over $250.00 worth of eggs in nearby towns every week. A crowning achievement, whiqh roprese. ts the sound..ers of Mr. War-Time Food Administrator Chosen As Republican Pres idential Candidate KANSAS CITY, June 14—Her bert Hoover of California, war-time food administrator and for the past i seven years sec^rtary of commerce^ under President! Harding a:d Cool- idge, was nominated for the presi dency on a first ballot landslide to night by the Republican nat oral convention. Although his selection had been forecast for days, the proportions of his victory did net become ap parent until the call of the roll act ually was under way. He was helped c-n by his nearest competitor, Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, who withdrew his name just on the eve of the bal- Ict’ng because he could not approve the farm relief plank adopted today over the protest of the McNary- Haugen farm bloc, and in the end 24 ( of the 61 ctf Lowden’s own Illinois slipped into Hoover column to help swell the total high above the simple majority needed to nominate. The result of the conventions one and only ballot was as follows: Hoov er, 837; Curtis, 61; Watson, 45; Dawes, 4; Coolidge, 17: Norris. 24; Goff, 18; Lowden, 74; Hughes, 1; not voting, 5. The number necessary for a nomirat’or, considering the ab sentees, was 542. WASHINGTON. June 14.—In a flushed but obviously happy silence, Herbert Hodver tonight accepted the congratulations of his closest friends upon the attainment of the Republi can presidential! nomination. But he withheld all comment and retired tc bed to let. tomorrow take care of his new problems and henors. Informed at^very phase of the preg-'ess of the convent*on toward his nomination, the secretary got the final news of his success in his private study, surrounded by friends and neighbors. Ho was swamped fer a moment by the tide of congratulation and felicitation that swept over him. He broke away presently, to meet the group of newspaper men who had wa ted for the balloting with him. Smiling broadly, he shook his head in answer to the demand for state- UKnts and comment, promised to see £beai. tomorrow and turned away. Nor would his campaign aides go further for the moment, though they gave the night up exclusively to the jubilation that had been mounting. From early in the evening the Hoover family had kept open house to a small circle of intimate friends and neighbors, most of them distin guished in public life. Just.c'J Stone. W. J. Donovan, assitant at torney general, the interstate cbm- me ce commiss’oner, Lewis, and Mrs. Lewis, Dr. Vcrno Kellogg and Mrs. Kellogg, Mrs. Borah, wife of the senator from Idaho, Adolph Miller cf the federal reserve board and others were among the group who gathered arourd the big :1adio loud speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover sat with them early in the evening, but as the great moment of nomination ap proached. the secretary retired to his study desk, just off the parlors, and there kept up his watch. tXt 75-Story Building Planned In Chicago Mass Meeting Held Tuesday Evening Crowd Small, But Of One Ac cord To Let Trustees Run School Affairs Will Ship Car Of Lambs Tomorrow First Time For McCormick County To Make Shipment Alone Dawtin’s plan :s the fact Hurt during the past five years ho ( tm* savwl $3,500.00 to pay off a mo: Igagc brought on by buy rg high priced l*.nd during tire war. During , v,. »r.vt five years, scorched by droughtilddo i ly the boll weevil, ‘ lucked b” ihe v.u h d by i ary, nn.ny farnirrs have gone un der, or barely been able to hold body u d rc-ul together lorg enough to growl about hard times, Mr. Dowtin ^ cutt~n hopper, a .d unseasonable- rains, when CHICAGO, June 16.—A 75-story building to cost $45,000,000 and to contain a virtual city within itself will be erected in the immediate fu- tu’/e above the Illinois Central Rail road tracks. The location overlooks the Chicago river ju r t east of Mich- ’gan avenue between Randolph street and a n extension of Wacker drive, formerly known as South Water street, it was announced today by the Apparel Manufacturers Mart Building corpoiation, the builders. The skyscraper will stand 845 feet above street level, 70 ^eet higher than the Wool worth building in New York City, and second in height on ly to the Eiffel tower In Paris. X- A newspaper printed in the native language of Hawaii since 1861 is now about to bo discontinued. has saved $3,500.00 from his own farm to pay off this debt. Truly his is a great record. The mass meeting held in the school auditorium Tuesday evening was attended by about six or eight ladies and some thirty to forty men. The meeting had been called in the Interest of the school and for the purpose cf allowing the trustees of the McCormick School District the opportunity to inform patrons and tax payer's c\“ the indebtedness of the school, accruing over a period cf several years for enquipment and eperation. the total amount of which now runs slightly of $8,000 00. A lesolution offered by the com mittee recently appointed to look ’nto the matter and suggest some plan to operate the school the next term, suggested that the trustees v't allow the expenditures to exceed the revenues, and that they make proper and necessary concessions to that end. After d scussion, the reso lution was adopted. This mea.rs that taxes shall not be increased at this time, and that the school shall run the full length term, with a cut or saving of some descrip- t on effected here and there to the extent cf about $2,600.00. Last year the expenditures exceeded the revenue by about $2,600.00, due to the heavy, and increasing demands cn this district, where, like in many ether districts, the valuation of tax able property has decreased consid erably within the past few years. X McCormick County Plans Road Paving State Senator Frank C. Robinson, of McCormick, was in conference with state highway department of ficials Monday o n matters pertain ing to road construction projectn in his county. According to the senatcr, plans are under way for r.urf'ace treating a large portion of McCormick County highways in 1929.—The Columb’a Record of Tues day. The. following letter was sent the l^fessenger Tuesday by M:\ C. E. Jones, Chairman of the State High way Commission: June 18, 1928. The Honorable C. E. Jones. Chairman State Highway Commiss'-on, Hatesburg, South Carolina. My Dear Sir:— There is now under construction Route 182 from the Abbeville Coun* ty lire to connect with Route 20 near McCormick known as the McCormick- Calhoun Falls Road. In the construction of this road a Town in my County, Bordeaux, is necessarily le^t off of this highway for a distance of about two miles. It is important that this town be served with this connection, and I am writmg to request, as Senator of the County and in the interest of the people of Bordeaux and vicinity, that this road be added to the System or some way provided so that it can eventually be constructed and main tained as a part of the State High way system. Yours very truly, F. C. ROBINSON, State Senator. txt Florida Methodists Expect Ruin Party TAMPA, Fla., June 16.—The Flor ida conference of the Method’st Episcopal Church South, i n session here today, adopted a resolution as serting that the “nomination of any Tammany-controlled wet would mean the destruction of the Democratic party.” The resolution specifically men tioned Governor Al Smith, of New York, and “all wets.” The Florida state primary, the tecolutions said, showed a four to one vote against the Smith candi dates for delegates to Hcustev., “and even if the New York governor gain ed control of the convention Metho dists pledge themselves not to sup port him.” B. F. Rogers, editor ef the Christ ian Advocate, discussing a proposi tion to buy the Vincent’s hospital in Jackson said “I’m for Herbert Hoov er and the hospital.” A carload of spring lambs will be shipped from McCdrmick on Friday. June 22. These lambs will be loaded by McColm‘ck County sheep grow ers, and will be consigned to a com mission merchant at Richmond, Va. Around 140 lambs are expected to be loaded into the car, according to Thcs. W. Morgan. County Agent, who is arranging the shipment. This number, he states, will make a good car load. That the rhesp industry in McCor mick County ‘s growing is shown by the fact that this is the first year the McCc- tnick County farmers have ever been able to load a car of lambs alone. Heretofore, they have co-op- rrated with the farmers of Abbeville County, and carried the lambs to Abbeville every year for loading. The lamb crop in the county this year will be around two to three ca:s. One car will be sold locally ard in nearby towns, th«s shipment will be made to Richmond, and an other car will probably be shipped later when all late lambs are large encugh to ship. Wonderful improvement has been noted in the quality of lambs ship ped from the county during the past four years, according to Mr. Morgan. This is a ;esult of the fact that prac tically all sheep growers are us'ng purebred rams and ate thereby im proving their flocks every year. X Clemson College Live Stock Train * To Be Here Tuly 16 McCormick County Farmers Greatly Interested And Will Visit Train At McCormick Those Who Did Not | McCormick Telephone Enroll Two Years Ago Company Sold To The Continental Company Should Do So Now Candidates Must File Pledge^ Sale Consummated Tuesday, And New Company Now In Charge And Pay Assessment By July 16th; First Cam paign Meeting July 17 The sale of The McCormick Tele- The question has been asked by phone Company cf McCormick to different ones as to the requirement 3 j Continental Telephone Company of enrollment in order to vote in the i St. Paul, Minnesota, was consum- coming primary. Under the Rules j ma t e d here Tuesday, 19th instant, of the Democratic Party, no new en-j which time the new company took rollment is required, but the enroll- i cf the local telephone plant merit for 1926 holds good f 'r four years, and all who are properly en rolled under the 1926 enrollment will be entitled to vote in the pri mary in August, 1928. The books rf enrollment, however, are open for and everything in connection with it. For the present, Mr. J. W. Wilk ins, who has operated the system a number of years past, will remain i n charge. The Continental Telephone Corn- the purpose c-i: enabling those who P an y own the system at AbbeviLe failed to enroll in 1926 or who have since become qualified to en \nl. Registration certificates are not nec essary for voting In the primary election. and a number of systems in other towns and cities of South Carolina and Georgia, and have spent mere than $2,000,000 for plants and equipment* in these two States with- The first campaign will be held o’.) j ^ ‘^ e y ears « July 17th. All candidates will.! The consideration was not^ learn- 1 he ref ore, be required to pay the aK -j *d, nor was information available r.s oessmert and file pledges by .12 o’clock, meridian, on Monday. July 16th. Any candidate failing to file the pledge and pay the assessment, will become disqualified as a candid ate. Forms .of the pledges may be obtained from the secretary or the county chairman. The places of the rrvpectivo cam paign meetings have cot as y°t been fixed by the cxecut ; vj committee. The executive committee will be glad to receive inv'tations from any com munity desiring a meeting of th? campaign party. This may be ad dressed to the secretary or county chairman and will be presented to the executive committee at its next meeting. txt Watch The Weevils to the ’■future plans of one new com pany in the way of improvements or expansion. X Clifton Drennan Wins Distinction Took First Place In State In Home Orchard Club Last Year CLEMSON COLLEGE, June 18 — Preliminary observations from five counties last week showed an aver- According to an annou’cement re cently received by Thos W. Moi'gar, Udunty Agent, from Mr. 3. O. Will iams. State Boys Club Leader, at Clcmson College, Clifton Drennan, a member of the McCormick High School 4-H Agricultural chib, wen i first place i n the state in the Horn-) ’ Orchard club last year. This is tho ! first state pr’ze to eJme to a Mc Cormick County club boy, and one cf which the clul) boys should be proud. Clifton’s record for last year Much interest is being shown over the county in the Livestock Develop ment Special train, which will stop in McCorm ck on the afternoon of July 16. according to Thos. W. Morgan, County Agent. This train, loaded with purebred and prize-winning dairy cattle, sheep, hogs, and poul try, livestock equipment, and many other livestock exhibits, is being run by the Atlantic Coast L nc x*a 1 rc ! ad in co-operation with the Ex tension department of Clemson Col lege, and, starting on June 18, will travel for one month over the At lantic Coast Liite, C. & W. C., and the C. N. & L. railroads, making two stops each day for the purpose of bringing these livestock exhibits to the doors of the farmers in the counties traversed by these railroads. The livestock exhibits, according to Mr. Morgan, who inspected the train as it passed through McCormick on its return trip from Anderson where the Clemson exhibits were loaded,! represent the best that can be sel-| ected in the ttatc. All animals exh b-1 ited have recoi'ds of production, c. j have won prizes on type and per- f formance. It will be a wonde.fui opportunity for the farmers of Mc Cormick County to see first-hand some of the leading animals in the breeds and classes shown on the train. Further anpcuncepnents will • be made later regarding the train, but t is definitely arranged to stop at McCormick on Monday, July 16, from 2:45 in the afternoon until 9:00 o’clock that night. . Every farmer in the county, states Mr. Morgan, should see this train and its exhibits. We are just begin ning in the livestock and dairy game in McCormick County, and the train shduld be a wonderful boost to our industry. Card Of Thanks age of 118 weevils per acre rear: shews that he made a profit of $44.09 We use this method of expressing our sincete thanks and grateful ap- prec ation to the people, both white and colored, for their kindness to us when our home was destroyed by fire. We appreciate all you did and shall never forget you. May God; bless each and everyone. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. South and Children. 1 | St. Matthews. 58 near Orangeburg, 150 at Summerville, 86 in Floreree County, and 98 i n Darlington County. This is sufficient iiifcstatic'n to war rant pre-square poisenirg, say the entomologists, who advise farmers to watch their fields carefully and poison if they find 20 or more wee vils per acre when squares are form- ’ng, for when that many weevils arc found it is 1‘kely that a consid erably larger number will be actual ly present. Regarding this pro-square poison ing, Extension Circular 95 gives sug gestions based on the latest studies and experiences in weevil control. It says: “It is recommended that a pre square poisoning may be applied if it appears that there a:-e numerous cver-Avintered weevils present. This should be given just as squares be gin to form. “The vast majority of the filet weevils to appear on young cctton do not 1‘ve to injure the squares, and some over-wintering weevils will not enter the field until after the pre- square period. The most effective time for pre-square poisoning is thercrl’ore, just after the fh'st. squares have appeared and before they are large enough to be punctured,— when, if weevils appear to be rum* erous, an af>plicat"on of poison may be applied, and may be repeated if weevils persist in destructive abund- ar.ee. “If the liquid method is preferred, the 1-1-1 formula is suggested pound of calcium arsenate, 1 gallon of water, 1 gallon of molasses), this having proved satisfactory. It can be applied w th a mop or with a bot tle.” All phases df controlling the boll weevil are discussed in Extension Circular 95, which may be had free from county farm agents or from the division of publications, Clemson College, S. C. Regarding the low weevil emerg ence figures attent’on is called to the fact that while tho per cent of emer gence in experimental cages is small this year, the unusually large num ber of weevils that went into hiber nation last fall makes it likely that the actual weevil population now emerging in fie!c|^ will be large. from one and one-half acres cf peaches. These peaches were sold on the market and eaten and canned in the home. He kept strict record! from the beginning on his proj ct, and followed recommendations in the care of his orchard. His winning f'rst place entitLs Clifton to attend the annual banquet givc n to the 4-H Club prt~e winners, the place of the banquet to be an nounced later. Also, he will receive a gold club medal and a gold watch, chain as a reward for h's accomp lishment. X — Governor Stops Sunday Race: At Seaside Resorts CHARLESTON, June 13.—Sunday motor boat races on Folly River and Sunday performances at a theatre at the Isle of Palms were stopped yes terday by orders from Governor Richards. Irfr rmed Surday boa' it *s understood, that r^ces were : n progress, the governor ir.'i mediately called Sheriff J. M. Peulnot over telephone ^nj advise1 him to put a ?top to the Sunday sport. Sheriff Poulnot dis patched to the rcen J Rural Fo.ice Chief Andrew, P. Nelson, who ear ned cut the governor’s orders. C. L. Allen, president of the Isle of Palms operating company, con trollers of the theatre which was (1 closed and the concession upon wh ch, it operated, declared that no admis sion was charged to the Sunday shows. He said he believed Gover nor Richards was not aware of this. Although the govemior’s orders were carried out. it was said, with the least possible delay, this action did not prevent the hanging up of a new local record in a free for all event. Before the governor’s man date was received, H. E. Becker, of Savannah, drove his beat, Muriel, five miles in 5 minutee,.42 seconds for a new Charleston neccrd/ :—x—— i Ir.suiancc has contributed as much if not mere, to the trcmsndpufe de velopment of industry and the coun try’s commercial growth as,banking or any other element.