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fTlmrsday, September 13, 1928 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Carolina. Page Number Two Floods Cause Four Deaths NEARLY FIFTY ROADS PUT OUT OF COMMISSION 1", ; m :JL t Jt Jl DOES this remind . you of your dining room and of the value of the furnish ings you have? No doubt ofttimes you have said you could never replace them it would cost too much. Suppose they should burn tonight? .This agency of the Hartford Fire Insurance Co. will insure your household goods and personal belongings. Frank C. Robinson V Insurance Agency ’ PHONE 66 McCormick >v’s Colds Best treated without dosing—Just rub on visas For Colds of Allthe Family Experts say that a circle cannot be squared. Automobile owners will agree that they can be next to it, when they have a flat. ^ 8 6 6 / Cures Chills and Fever, Intermittent, Remittent and Bilious Fever due to Malaria It Kills The Germs The nrt’n who design the bathing suits, must all have been born io Missouri. fag Li 1 ' DR. HENRY J. GODIN Optometrist t Thirty Years Experience. A Specialist Examining Eyes and Fitting Glasses at Your Service. Broad St. AUGUSTA, GA COLUMBIA, Sept. 7.—With four deaths traced to the floods that for a second time, within a month have threatened central and lower South Carolina, high waters were receid ng today in the absence of further rains arcand Columbia and the central sec tion. The deaths attributed to floods were those of J. F. Rattaree, D. B. Poore and J. E? Glenn, trainmen kill ed when a Southern Railway pass enger train plunged into a washout near here Wednesday night, and John Thimble, Richland county far mer drowned while attempting to round up cattle. No est'mate of damage to high ways, bridges and crops was available today, though nearly fif ty ^oads had been put out of com mission by high waters and numer ous bridges were carried away. With increases of malaria reported after the flood. Clarendon county ports requested supplies of free quinine from the state health of- f.c'als. Numerous instances of stalled au tomobiles and some cases of passeng ers marooned filtered into Columbia as communication was re-established. Marooned in their car by rising water, the Rev. E. V. Best, Mrs. Best, and the Rev. Mr. Booth were stranded for seven hours Wednesday night and Thursday morning near Blaney in water shoulder high before neighbors heard the:‘ r calls and rescued them with a rowboat. Lighter phases to the flock! situ ation were not wanting in Colum bia, where one negro left his automo bile parked in a low-lying section of the city. Returning after a visit with a friend he looked for the car, thought it was stolen, and later found that rising wate:fe during his absence had completely submerged the ma chine. txt Little Talk On Thrift Pickens Lad Wins Honor LEON CLAYTON SENT TO LEADERSHIP SCHOOL 4-H TEACHING OF THRIFT IN OUR SCHOOLS NOW MAKING RAPID STRIDES One way to keep people from swimming the English Channel is to build a tunnel beneath it. Country Newspaper fj J. C. Holton, Mississippi state com missioner. of agriculture, recently paid a worthwhile tribute to news papers that expresses graphically the general feeling for the press. M I have always appreciated the power of the press, mcce especially the ‘country’ press,” said Mr. Helton. “The home papers carry the home news, and are icad from cover to cover by those whose first interest is in home affa’rs. They reach the people and constitute a powerful influence of public sentiment. “A wonderful factor for good is the cckintry newspaper; worthy of the pride and support of folks at home, an avenue of commercial en trance to those who would sell .their goods to our people. Pitesident T. L. Turner in his annual address elo quently described its importance in these words: ** * Out yonder stands a lefcomotive on the railroad track. Everything about it is in order; water in the boiler, coal in the tender, engineer at the throttle; but it can’t move. All it lacks is steam. Remove the newo- papeife from Mississippi, take away the ‘steam,” and this state would soon he a state <«! idle people; its credit gone. Weeds would grow :n the streets; our farmers would look for pastures newer, manufacturers would depart from us, and our peo ple would seek new fields of labor.’ ” The “home town” paper is an in tegral part the lives of the people it serves. It has been a tremendous factor m building up an American spirit ann cjnscloaencss, and in turn ing public (p’.nicn n.to wc 0 avenues. (By S. W. Straus, President American Society-for Thrift.) , During the sdhocl yea: 1 soon to open far greater attention to the teachings of thrift will be given than at any previous time. Probably no less than 10,000,000 students will then be gaining educational help in thrift. i • In some schools no effort has been made in thrift education to go fur ther than the establishment of school savings banks. In others, the bank werk is supplemented by certain les sons in thrift imparted by the teach ers. In still other schools, ical in structions in thrift along correct se'entif c lines have been adopted. The latter method is the one to which all schools should work. Near the close of the last school year, the outline of a thrift study course for grades one to eight, in clusive, was completed and issued by the American Society for Thrift af ter thirteen yea.fe of research and study by various educators. This out line does not provide a separate course’ in thrift but, by concrete, ex ample, shows hdw thrift can be ap plied to many of the common branch es. During the Spring and Summer, many schools throughout the country secured copies of this outline of thrift study with a view of introduc ing the work in the curi'iculum this year. We believe very few people today deprecate the value of thrift. Surely one can over-estimate its worth when properly expounded in the classroom. . The work of the school system of this nation has been greatly enriched by the introductio.i of thrift teachings in this practical form. The nation that teaches thrift to its ydung need have no fear s about its futur'e place among the nations of men. txt Mineral feeds which supply cal cium and phosphc'rus should be in cluded in rations for chickens. Al though nearly all the common chick en feeds contain minerals, there is usually a deficiency of calcium and phosphorus. Meat scrap and ground steamed bone meal as well as fish meal will supply phosphorus. Cal cium, the continued lack of which will cause a noticeable decrease in production, can be furnished by keeping a supply cf oyster shells or of limestone grit before the hens all of the time. txt It tak s fewer eggs from October to January to pay for a given quant- -- of '••ra.’n tlia:~_ at any other per- *•-' c- t... y:ar. CLEMSON COLLEGE, Sept. 10 — Leon Clayton, nir.eteen-year-old 4-H club leader and former club member of P : ckens County, now a sophomore at Clemson College, has been select ed to represent the State at the Sixth Internatictaal 4-H Leaders’ Training School,; Springfield, Mass., Septem ber 9-22. County Farm Agent S. M. Byars of Anderson represented the State at this training school last year and County Farm Agent S. C. Strib- ling of Cherokee in 1926. Leon was a 4-H Club member four years, 1924-27 inclusive, during which time he conducted one swine, one cot ton, four corn and fetar poultry dem- onstrat'or.s and saved more than $400 with which to enter Clemson College last fall. Each year he exhibited his products at the county and state fairs were he won some good prizes. In 1925 he was county champion in the livestock judging contest and in 1926 he won frst place in the Pied mont district contest and came sec- n the state contest, missing the Chicago trip by oily 28 points. That same fall he won first place in his district in the poultry judging con test and came second in the state contest. He was selected as one cf the four South Carolina delegates to the First National 4-H Club Camp, Washington, D. C., June 16-21, 1927. Young Clayton is still very active n 4-H Club work, having attended and assisted with several club camps this suVnmej He says that club work has helped to improve the farm prac tices on his father’s farm, has been the means of helping him financially to enter college, has been the means of helping him decide on a vacation, has given him a new vision of life’s activities, and has helped him spirit ually. TXT— — Age Of Good Roads The present era in the United States might aptly be called the “Age of Good Roads.” There has never been a country to which highw'ays were so necersa’-y, or where the need has been so rapid ly supplied. ' Not a great many years ago the amount spent for building roads and ma'ntaining them was neglig hie. To day it is one of the oitstar.ding items in goveimmental budgets. The time is within easy memory when paved highways were practi cally unknown and even passable dirt roads were rare. Particularly in rural sections were conditions bad. The farmer brought his produce to market over roads that were all but impassable. Today it is difficult to iind a com munity without paved streets and highways. In agricultural .districts asphalt and <.'led market roads are being built rapidly, and the farmei can haul his goods over co:nfo:tab!e smooth surface’s. Amer'ca has made an investment of hundreds of millions cf dollars in providing highway facilities. And it is an investment that has paid dividends in attracting industries, residents and tourists. Alfalfa Wants Clean Ground Infantile Paralysis The follthving facts concerning in fantile paralysis, a dread d sease that at intervals becomes epidemic in sec tions of the ccantry, have been ap proved by the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, and are printed by the Pathfinder, a reliable, inter-; esting, authoritative periodical, pub- ; lished in Washington, D. C.: Infantile paralysis is caused by an i invisible germ. It is communicated from peiison to person only through the mouth and nose. So far as known the germs are carried only by man kind. In epidemics these germs have been found to exist in the throats of almost all children and some adults, most of whom, fortunately, never show any signs of the disease. Un fortunately, children under the age of 15 are the chief victims. As yet cleanliness and forebearance from contacts, such as kiss'ng child en, etc., are the o'lly known preventives. An international authority on the disease recently pointed out the nec essity cf parents keeping a sharp lookout as td the health of their children. “Symptoms of the dis ease,” he said, “are not readily ap parent to the laymen. The children run a fever, become nauseated, per haps, and complain of a headache. These are also symptoms of many other diseases,. In a 1'ttle while the m ^k may stiffen, o^ an arm or leg become flaccid. If only the child can be placed in the hands of a compet ent physician before this occurs, the results would ,be beneficial.” —txr Teaching Children Fire Prevention m To avoid the destruction of stands of alfalfa from bacterial filt in dis tricts where this disease is present, the U. S. Department of Agricul ture recommends that new seedings should not be made on fields that re ceive surface drainage or flooding from land on wh’ch diseased plants are located. The mCst destructive out breaks of bacterial wilt, which has caused serious damage in the past 3 or 4 years in many alfalfa-growing regions, particularly in the central Mississippi Valley, have occurred in fields where the bacteria from dis eased plants were probably conveyed to them by water flowing along the surface of the ground or by tempor ary flooding. Bacteria may be car ried from diseased to healthy plants in a field by the knives of the mow er, and possibility of infection in this way may be reduced by mowing the field when the plants are free from dew or rain. Dry fragments of al falfa stems may carry the bacteria for many months, so disease-infected stems should not be carried to new fields either mixed with uncleaned seed or mixed as unrotted refuse from alfalfa hay with manure. The destruction of the cultivated black currant is urged in Miscellane ous Publication 27-M, “Black Cur rant Spreads White-Pine Blister Rust,” published by the U. S. De partment of: Agriculture. Valuable white-pino trees in many States are li eatf :.ed because of the blister rust disease. At a recent convention the Georgia Association of Insurance Agents’ fire prevention activities were dis closed. They have done an important work in a praise wcMthy manner. The me st outstanding part of the picvent'on progi-am, perhaps, was the offering of prizes for the best fire-prevention essays by school chil dren. Hundreds of essays, many of them showing a real understanding of the subject, were turned in. As a result an instinct to be careful about fire was inculcated in the yc«ung mind. It is safe to say that a generation which is trained in this manner will, when it comes of age, do much to ostracize fire waste, and it would be a fine- thing if all children in all schools were given such training. Fire is one of the greatest enemies of progress and prosperity we have; the ch Id who learns adequately of its destructiveness will be an adult with knowledge and the desire to prevent it) ' X < lard Of Thanks From Mr. Johnson i m Si To the Voters of McCormick County: I am grateful to my friends for their support in the recent primary. I have a smile for those who did not support me. Respectfully, J. W. JOHNSON. X Card Of Thanks From Mr. Boddie I apprcc’ate the support, especially of my hc'me people who knew me best, in my race for magistrate; also wish to thank thc*3e who did not know me, and supported me, for their many kindnesses and courtesies to me. I hold no animosity towards any one. R. L. BODDIE. txr “Clean” Profits Kill Germ Laden Flies —and keep th^m away. Bee Brandons 0 ''* Pow der or Liquid kills Flies, Ants, Roaches, Poultry Lice, Mosquitoes, Fleas, Bed Bugs, and otherin sects. Won’t spot or stain. Use powder cn plants and pets. fVrite us for FREE insect booklet. 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During a 3- year p* riod, on a number of repre- sentat v" 1 farms where this sanitation system was carefully followed out. the avr iage value of the pork (the pigs v re sold at 6 months) amount ed to > 1422.28 per farm; while rec o’.ds kept on other farms where this sanitat -n was neglected or only par tially followed, showed that the aver-j age va’ue of the pork per farm was only $844.00. TXt The use of a concrete wallow for hogs is an aid in keeping down worm infestation, provided it is properly cn.t. ucted and used. FaM months call for a lot of fixing and repairing around the home and premises in preparation for winter. If you are a handy man you can do these many odd jobs yourself in your spare time. You will need tools for the work so that you can do it right and do it easily. Whatever it may be that you need from nail to saw, we have and the size and quality that you want, too. Here are some o: the things that you may, need. 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