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^Imrsday, September 20, 1928 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Carolina. Page Number Two No more anxiety. No moi'e danger. No more doubt. Use FLY-TOX, then you may be sure your garments will retain their original beauty and per fection—free from ravages of moths. FLY-TOX kills moths, eggs, larvae. Spray thoroughly blankets,, carpets, ifugs, clothing, furs and woolens. IN SIST o i FLY-TOX. FLY-TOX is the scientific insecticide developed at Mellon Institute of Industrial Re search by Rex. Fellowship. Simple in structions on each bottle for killing ALL household insects. FLY-TOX is safe, stainless, fragrant, sure. Every bottle guaranteed.—Adv. U. S. To Play Host To European Road Builders In 1930 W. C. ROUNTREE, M. D. Pellagra A Specialty If you have any of the following symptoms, I have the remedy, no mat' ter what your trouble has been diag nosed: Nervousness, stomach trouble, loss of weight, loss of sleep, sore mouth, pains in the back and shoul ders, peculiar swimming in the head, frothy like phlegm in throat, passing mucous from the bowels, especially after taking purgative, burning feet, brown, rough or yellow skin, burning or itching skin, rash on the hands, face and arms resembling sunburn, habitual constipation, (sometimes alternating with diarrhoea) copper or metallic, taste, skin sensitive to sun heat, forgetfulness, despondency and thoughts that you might lose your mind, gums a fiery red and falling away from the teeth, general weakness with loss of energy. If you have these symptoms and have taken all kinds of medicine and still sick, I especially want you to write for my booklet. Questionnaire and FREE Diagnosis. W. C ROUNTREE, M. D. AUSTIN, TEXAS. BOX UoO d*. Cheekea By modem vaporizing ointment—Just rub on VapoRub 6 6 6 Cures Chills and Fever, Intermittent, Remittent and Bilious Fever due to Malaria It Kills The Germs DR. HENRY J. GODIN Optometrist Thirty Years Experience. A Specialist Examining Eyes and Fitting Glasses at Your Service. 956 Broad St. AUGUSTA, GA. * YOUR boy’s room ; ^ j is probably filled full of many val- j f uable clothes, athletic supplies and furniture. If like other boys’ rooms, the value of its contents is considerable. Suppose it should burn tonight? 7bis agency of the Hartford Fire Insurance Co. will insure your household goods and personal belongings. Frank C. Robinson Insurance Agency ' PHONE 66 McCormick A puncture is a little hole found in auto tires, at the most inconvenient spot along the highway. X Wonder how all of those marathon people manage to get off from work s& long. MacDONALD RETURNS FROM PARIS AFTER CONFERENCE WITH OFFICIALS OF INTER NATIONAL ROAD COMMIS SION-SAYS UNITED STATES IS GIANT HIGHWAY LAB ORATORY FOR ENGINEERS —COOLIDGE SENDS INVI TATION FROM CON-) GRESS Jurors For First Week Of Court WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18, Leading highway officials from all parts of the world are coming to the United States in 1930 to study Amei’lcan methods of road improve ment ar.d road use, according to word brought back • from the recent sessions of the Internat'onal Road Commission at Paris, by Thcfcnas H. MacDonald, chief of the United States Bureau of Public Roads and chairman of the Highway Education Board. Mr. MacDonald went to France as head of the official delegation rep resenting the American government at the road meeting. He later made an invest’gation into phases of high way development in many of the countries of Western Europe and in the British Isles. Interest In Program “Not only was the invitation ex tended by our Congress through President Coolidge accepted unan imously,’' said Mr. MacDonald!, “but fiOm comments of delegates from other countries, it is evident there is a deep-rooted, world-wide interest in what is being done to improve high ways here. “The great distinction which exists between oir program and that of ether nations, is that while here the whole country has adopted metor transportation, elsewhere car use is still largely in the hands of a few. “The rapid expansion in the Unit ed States faced our engineers with an urgent demand for the immediate improvement of hundreds of thous ands c. e miles of highway At the same time, increased valuations growing dut of bettered transporta tion facilities and a moderate tax up on the vehicle itself made it actually cheaper foil the public to have roads than to go without their- so that we were able to embark upon a construc tion program without parallel in the histc’ry of public works without dis locating our financial system. “Concurrently, we were faced with tho question of whether it was cheap er to build these loads slowly and lab- o.’iously by human labor as most other countries now do, or whether we should work out mass production methods ard so meet the national de mand quickly. Experience has dem onstrated that the latter plan is by far the more efficient and less costly. Same Problems Face Other Nations “Foreign highway engineers who are as well or better versed ip the technique of road building as our own men, in the main are only new ar riving at the stage wheite they must meet similar problems in their own countries, hence their interest in the sessions here in 1930. “Further, because of the wide di versity of geographical, climatic and soil conditions in the Un’ted States coupled with varying degrees of wealth and population, it is possible to approximate here the basic pixib- lems which confront engineers from abroad, whether they are interested in congested areas, such as England has, in primary roads, such as ax*e needed in the newer countries, or in questions of mountain roads such as face Austria Switzerland and other nations. United States Giant Laboratory “So that the United States in 1930 will be a giant laboratory in highway development and motor transporta tion where highway officials from other countries will find an oppor tunity to see not only what has been accomplished frdm an engineering point of view, but also to observe both the social and economic influ ences which have been effected. “At the same time, our engineers will have an opportunity to learn what is being done in other countries and to compare note s with their for eign colleagues.” Aside from Mr. MacDonald, mem bers of the United States delegation to the International Commission were H. H. Rice, treasurer of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, Pyke Johnson, executive director of the Highway Education Board, and H. H. Kelly, Commercial Attache, representing the Department of Commerce*. An American committee will be named soon to take charge of the work of preparation for the Con gress. X The audience the other day is re ported to have thrown eggs at an acto: ir. T.c'me. There is a quaint old American custom- Petit Jurors for First Week of Oc tober term of C."-jrt foi> McCormick County, S. C., 1928, are: H. K. Holmes Walter Banks J. W. Lovelace W. D. Lesley L. W. Pettigrew , R. M. Pettigrew J. L. Self Barney Weeks L. C. Rich Joe Jf Link W. H. Palmer W. T. Strom W. R. McNeil , W. G. Mallett J. W. Quattlebaum R. S. Duncan James Keown A. P. Willis J<?e C. Bowick • J. P. Talbert T. R. Blackwell. ^ E. C. Young G. T. Rearden J. A. Harvley T. J h Stone C. H. Fooshe J. T. Link C. T. LeRoy W). P. Long O. M. Talbert T. W. Gable W\. J. Franklin P. W. Roper [ ’ C. L. Fil^eland J. L. Strother W. T. Walker txt Prosperity Follows The Dairy Cow In Texas County CHILDRESS, Texas*. Sept. 17 — Prosperity in Childress County fol lows the dairy co.v, according to J Brummctt, one of the large far mers and producers of dairy products in the panhandle of Texas. She furn- ; shes the farmen with ready cash in the form of cream checkr. She makes it possible to pay all running ex penses without touching the revenue derived from his major crops. With this money, the farmer can then buy mere lard, mc- e livestock and better his standard of living. Mr. Brummett and his sons, L. L, B. V. and D. M. BiHimnrett and Frank Calvin, have proved this beyond a doubt* Annually, they produce 15,- 000 pounds of butter, from wh'ch is derived a gross income of 89 750. Cream sales bring this sum to a year ly total of $8 : 000. Over a period of seven years, the Brummetts have been able to pay <-*f a $12,000 indebted ness cn a section of land; in addition, the dairy has paid all living expenses and contributed a large share of the cost of raising cotton products. All of this has been accompl : shed with a small outlay of capital. Start ing with a herd of only 25 cows seven years ago, J. R. Brummett and sons now' have a herd of 100 mother cc'ws. During this period not a single cow has been bought. Mr. Brummett con tributes the success of his dairy venture to correct breeding and fe'd ing. Their inte^st in dairying by no means causes the Brummetts to neg lect their major crops. In alV they have in cultivation somo fourteen hundred acres. On this, they annually proiuce a large amount of feed stuffs and about 300 bales of cotton. As the dairy in a measure plants the cotton crops, it in turn helps to sup port the dairy. Mr Brummett in stead of selling his cotton seed out right exchanges them for the meal and hulls These he feeds to his cows the year round. This year he hopes to have ninety thousand pounds of cot ton seed to trade, Speaking of this method of selling seed, Mr Brummett says: “If every farmer would take seed to the cotton oil mill, for them get meal and hulls!, go back home and feed these to cow’s and then sell the cream or butter 1 , he would be able to get ahead He should do this rather than sell his seed right after ginning and blowing in the money—it helps to make his farm self-supporting. “The best thing that ever happened to the farmers in this country are the cotton oil mills. They have start ed more farmers feeding cows than any other one thing, and after a farmer begins to feed scrub cows, he begins to think about getting some good stock.” — X Card Of Thanks From Mr. J. A. Ridlehoover South Carolina Crops As Of Sep tember First Declare War on All Insects—AT/// Them I wish to thank the people of Plum Branch, White Town and Rehoboth nost sincerely for the splendid vote ver me as candidate for cotton ve : ' p lKr at Plum Branch. J. A. RIDLEHOOVER. Numerous wind storms, heavy to excessive rains, and floojed lowlands during August resulted in consider able damage to grow’ng crops, but despite the unfvorable August, pros pects were still for fair to good yields for most crops on Septembe 1. CORN:—Du - ' to the effect of high- winds, excessive :airs, ar.d flooded F-viands, corn prospects declined about a million and a half bushels during August ,and from the condit ion of 66 per cent cn September 1, the outlook is foi- a crop of approx- inately 21,440,000 bushels, compare ! to tho final estimate of 25 449,030 bushels made last year and an avc: - age product on (C 23,900,000 bushels for the past five years. TOBACCO:—Heavy rains during August reduced tobacco prospecte somewhat and the condition of 62 per cent of normal cfn September 1, indicates a crop of 75,531,000 pounds, compared with last year’s crop of 7d 920,000 pounds and an average production for the past five years of 61904,000 pounds. SWEET POTATOES:—Sweet po tatoes improved during the month and the condition of 77 per cent on September 1, indicates a crop of 4,- 428,000 bushels, compared to 5,300,- 000 bushels produced last year. Pros pects fc-* a smaller crop than last year are due mostly to a reduction of about 6 per cent -n this year’s acreage. PEANUTS:—Unfavorable weather during August reduced peanut pros pects somewhat and the September V condition cf 71 per cent gives promise of about 7,654,000 pounds this year, compared to the final es timate of 8,525.000 pounds last year. TAME HAY:—All tame hay im proved during August and a crop of about 336,000 tons is indicated from tho condition of 78 pen cent cn Sep tember 1. This compared with the crop of 35a 000 tons last year, and an average product'on for the past five years of 248,000 tons. FRUIT:—It has been a very goo:l year for fruit. The peach crop was probably the largest ever produced in the State, and prospects are fer fair to good crops of apples, pears and grapes. The condition of State crops on September 1, this year and last, res pective^ follows: Cotton, 58 and 48; Com, 66 and 75; Sweet potatoes 77 and 79; Irish potatoes (late crop) 67 and 62; Tobacco, 62 and 79; Tame bay, 78 and 81; Peanuts, 71 and 74; Pasture, 85 and 81; Cowpeas, 74 anc 78; Soybeans, 74 and 77; Velvet beans, 78 and 81; Alfalfa, 80 and 75: Apples, 66 and 40; Peaches, 79 and 41; Pears, 79 and 49; Grapes. 78 and 70; Pecans, 66 and 64; Sugar cane, 73 and 78; Sorghum for syrup, 72 and 76. UNITED STATES: — Although there have been sharp changes in in dividual states, the crop situation in the country as a whole averages about as it did a month ago 1 . Pros pects on the f'rst c-! September in dicated crop yields per acre 3.3 per cent above the average of yields se cured during the last 10 yea:*,. S’ncc last month prospects' have declined along the Atlantic Coast, chiefly as a result of excessive rain and. wit? exception of Kansas, have declined ir the Great Plains area from South Dakota to Texas as a result of drought. Crop yields are now ex pected t;. be a little below the usua' average in most of the Southern States east of the Mississippi River, in the eastern lake states, and in South Dakota. Elsewhere yields seem likely to be about aveiiage or better with prospects best in Kansas, North Dakota, Montana, and on the Pacific Coast. FRANK O. BLACK, , Agricultural Statistician. txx Card Of Thanks From Magistrate Holloway Editor: Please allow me, though The Mes senger, to thank those w r ho elected me magistrate of McCormick Coun ty. I hope they may never have cause to: regret the favor shown. J. B. HOLLOWAY. txt Can!: Of Thanks From Mr. C. C. Morgan I wi h to thank the good people of this crunty for their support on Sep tember 11,. I sincerely appreciate each vote cast hi my behalf, and pledge my a :e c t etiorts in performing the du- t-c s of this office to the very best of rr.y ability. Respectfully, C. C. MORGAN. BE a BE I aS sects, v/on’t spot or stain. Use powder on plani end pets. Write us for FREE insect booklet. dealer can’t supply, we wi.l ship by parcel post at prices named. McCORMICK 0: CO.,BaIuaiare, McJ. BEE BRAND Powder Liquid 10c & 25c 50c 9 75c 50c <ST $1.00 $1.25 30c {Spray Gun) 35c ALWAYS HEADY TO SEKVE 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. ~T r ~ 3 TOOLS TOD HANDY ULAN Fall 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 c-f 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. 1 PNDEQTAKING SEDUCE We are preparfed 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 or see G. P. or G. H. McCain or J. B. Smith ipraiN Undertaker, McCormick, S. C. PHONE NO. 77. 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