McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, September 13, 1928, Image 2
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. If
dealer can’t supply, we will ship by parcel post at
prices named* McCORMICK & CO., Baltimore, Md.
BEE BRAND
Powder Liquid
tOc & 25c 50c 6T 75c
50c 9 $1.00 $1.25
30c (Spray Gun) 35c
By following what is known as the
McLean County (111.) system of hog
sanitation, hog raisers in Nebraska,
in co-operat'on with Extension Serv
ice specialists of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, have shown
that it is possible to greatly reduce
losses of pigs from filth-borne dis
eases. Briefly, the McLean County
system consists in thorough cleaning
of the sows and the farrowing quart
ers, and the moving of the sows and
young pigs when born to clean pas
ture ol ’er than the pe: mar.ent fc'M
lot, leading them there until they ai-e
at least 4 months old. 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.
Plane, Hammer, Jigsaw, Folding Rule, Hatchet, Screwdriver,
Screws, Bolts, Pliers, Nails, Hinges, Bit and Brace, T-Square
Vive, Wrecking Bar and Saw.
WHITE HARDWARE CO.
MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C.
r v ■
MAKING SERVICE
We are prepared to render, on short notice and at
very moderate prices, up-to-date undertaking service
in or out of town and county. Embalming on* short
notice and at reasonable price.
Free ambulance service in town or county. Call
<>r see G. P. or G. H. McCain or J. B. Smith
G. P If CAIN
Undertaker, McCormick, S. C.
PHONE NO. 77.
Look After Your Subscription Now
A STORE OUT IS GUO
TO SERVE VOO
We are alyays cn the alert to please our customers. W<?
carry a very complete ai d varied stock so that we will have
what you want and be able to offer new ideas for Afferent
menus, but if it should happen that there is something in the
foodstuflfs line that we don’t have and you are wanting it, we
will endeavor to stock it. We have your best interests at
heart always.
OUR PRICES ARE LOWER
Our facilities for handling our business at the lowest cost
erables us to give our patrons worthwhile savings on all of
our stock. You will find that you can get the high quality
that you desire, always cheaper here.
Try us once, we know that you will be pleased: to come back
again. A phone call will bring your groceries to your door.
T. CARETON FAULKNER
McCORMICK, S. C.
ALWAYS READY TO SERVE
This drug store is always ready to serve its custom
ers—day or night—with the best drugs and drug
sundries the markets afford at prices in keeping with
the quality.
We make a specialty of filling prescriptions at all
times.
STROMS’ DRUG STORE
McCORMICK, S. C.
ft
33
Send Us Your Orders For Job Printing