McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, September 20, 1928, Image 2
^Imrsday, September 20, 1928
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Carolina.
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you may be sure your garments will
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U. S. To Play Host
To European Road
Builders In 1930
W. C. ROUNTREE, M. D.
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face and arms resembling sunburn,
habitual constipation, (sometimes
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sun heat, forgetfulness, despondency
and thoughts that you might lose your
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with loss of energy. If you have these
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Insurance Agency
' PHONE 66
McCormick
A puncture is a little hole found in
auto tires, at the most inconvenient
spot along the highway.
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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.
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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McCORMICK, S. C.
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Fall months call for a lot of fixing and repairing around the
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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
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very moderate prices, up-to-date undertaking service
in or out of town and county. Embalming on short
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ipraiN
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