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V j.' • . K V. THUK TO OUESELVSS, OUB NEIGHB OBS,. OUB CODNTBY AND OUB GOD. - k'wts* Twenty-Seventh Year Santa Claus Ready For "Christmas Visit NORTH POLE, Dec, 20,—Santa Claus is ready to start on his an nual tow of the world. He will visit all the gocd little boys and girls in the world th's Christmas, carrying gifts to be left in their stockings and on their Christmas trees. He will arrive in McCormick this afternoon at 2 o’clock and hopes to meet the little children of the town and county and give each one a pres ent He then will depart for other parts of the country and come back to bring more presents on Christmas e night. Pretty blue, green and red lights ve been swung across streets in the town’s business section and plac- td in the lovely codar trees erected or the streets, and a number of the merchants have beautifully decorat- ad show windows in honor of Christ- mas and Santa Claus’ visit to Mc- ick. All out of town children e invited to remain in town unt : l r dark of come back tonight or e o thei' night before Christmas cec the pretty lights on the ts and in the show windows. i cannot descr.be the beauty of lights and other decorations, so see them. The lights swinging frdm the lines across the streets beautiful kwg mixed rays to e looking through the wind shield :f an automebile and are very pretty from any angle. -'gjjifeta chuckled today wh^n he look* at the huge stack of letters from boys and girls telling him how good tbjey ate and naming the gifts desi *EaeH year 1 brings a greater rum- bet* of letters” he said. “I’ll have a lot cf sVops to make this trip. My reindeer Uurely will have to go fast for me ti< get around before dawn. Hut I won’t overlook a single one. The boysJknd girls have been good this yeaj^Rid I want to make them happy. is what I live lor, you sed in a new :*ed suit, fur boots, m ttens and* h->d, bis rosy cheeks shinning, his blue eyes twink ling mterrily and his hair and whisk ers whito as snow, Santa will cut a swell figure Christmas. He has just applied a coat cf bright red paint to his sleigh too and put new slver bells on the harness for* his eight reindeer who arc prancing eagerly to be off on the long journey <«/cr the snow- dad h'lls and housetops. He said he wouldn’t much mind if seme boy or girl were awake to see him come down the chimney in his new suit. txt— Receiving Orders For Fruit Trees 8 Pages — All Home Print Star MJail Route McCormick-Anderson Now In Operation THANKS TO CONGRESSMAN FRED H. DOMINICK McCORMICK, S. C., Thursday, December 20, 1928 Taxable- Values Show Increase OVER THREE MILLION DOLLARS HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR AH farmers planning to put out home orchards should get their trees :n the ground as soon as possible, advises Thos. W. Morgan, county agent. Trees set early in the fall and winter take a deeper root be- f. e -spaing, and make a much larg- •c-:* g' owth during tin first year than tr'es set later in the season. Often times, trees set early in the season wi’l bear fruit a year earlier than those set later on in the spring. Tree" are v< ry cheap in price at the present time, and any farm can afford a good home orchard. Good sized pj'can trees of :^commended var eties and from reliable nursery- nen, can be had fer art-and 60 cents each. June bud peach trees are around 11 to 12 cents, apples 20 to 25 cents, and othc^ trees and shrubs ate priced in proportion. Orders are now being placed by, Since its mid-November announce- the county agent for trees at deliv-j -nert of the six, Chevrolet’s 18,000 e?ed prices, and all who are plan- salesmen have been confronted ir.rg to put out trees this year are an unprecedented influx of busi- The star mail route between Mc- Cc-"mack and Anderson wient into op eration Monday, 17th instant, with Mr. J. P. Deascn cf McCormick as caif'er at a salary of $1,925.00 an nually. The contract dates from De cember I7i 1928, to June 30, 1932. The carrier leaves McCormick at 12:45 p. m , arrlv’ng at Anderson at 3:45 p. m., and leaves Anderson at 4 p. m. and a:<rives at McCormick at 7 p. m., making st r os each way at Willington, Mt. Carmel Calhoun Falls, Barnes, Lowndesville Starr and Iva. Connection is made at Mc Cormick with the 12:30 train from Augusta, which is very satisfactory so far as that ma l is concerned but delivery of mail at McCormick is not made from the route in time to catch the 5:50 p. m- train ^or Augusta Bordeaux is not served by the route, due to bad reads and the fact that the post office is two or more miles off the highway. It is hoped that sone arrangement can yet be made to extend this service to Bor deaux. On behalf of those served by the rente, The Messenger extends thanks to Congrcsrman Fred H. Dominick for the splendid work he dd in bring .ng ^bout the establishment cf the *oute. Mr. Dominick is due much praise fo* this service. When his aid v/9s solicited he immediately took the- matter up with the postal authorises in Washington and d’dn’t let up until he was assured that the route would be established at the earliest practicable date. And we highly appreciate the excellent serv ice ho ’.pridered in this instance, how ever, rendering good service to his 4’st:ict and State is nothing new for Mr. Dom'nick. txt Chevrolet Company Has Busy December • _______________ DETROIT, Dec. 20.—Wth just a Tittle more than one full week re maining of 1928, the greatest year in its 16 years of existence, Chevro let Motor Company, impelled by the largest volume demand it has ever faced, is experiencing its bus'est December. For the past seven days prepara- tirns have been under way at all as sembly plants getting ready new car consignments for shipment to Chev rolet’s moie than 10,000 dealers. Satuiday, Dec. 29, dealers in all parts of the country arc scheduled to have 1929 cars on d ; splay, and on that da*i too, deliveries are to begin. Another instance of Chevrolet December activity is to be revealed during the forthcoming week when at Kansas City a huge new assembly plant is to go into operation. This will bring the number of Chevrolet assembly plants in this country up to n'ne. The Kansas City plant will have a capacity of 350 cars a day, and will cover 32 acres and will include five buTdings. The Fisher Body Corpor ation will occupy a plant corering mere than 120,000 square feet of .oor space- in which to build their Mncus bodies for Chevrolet closed cars. The Kansas C'ty opening signifies •dded strength to the already enor- m **s productive capacity, which en- ilej Chevrolet during the present '•car to r.anufacture over 1,000 000 cars in less than nine months time. The total taxable values >n the state of South Carolina in 1928 are $425,54;; 764. according to a state ment given out Saturday by A. J. Beattie, comptroller goneral. The taxable values this year aie some thing more than $3,000,000 greater than in 1927, The total for 1927 was $42|[ 169,895. Taxable values in the individual Cotton Ginned In S. C. Counties COTTON GINNED PRIOR TO DE CEMBER 1, IN SOUTH CARO LINA. CROPS OF 1928 AND 1927 count'es are: Linters are not included.. Abbeville $ 5,318,751 The State 682,099 Aiken 11.777,540 Abbeville 14,222 Allendale 3 915,476 Aiken 17,170 Anderson _ _ 19,735,580 Allendale 6,734 Bamberg 3,679 680 Anderson _ 54,858 Barnwell -- - 4,495,890 Bamberg _ — — — Q 311 Beaufort . ... 4122,550 Barnwell _ _ _ _ 13,563 Berkeley 4,262,357 Berkeley _ _ _ 1,771 Calhoun — — 3,188,970 Calhoun _ 10,952 Charleston - 36 208,661 Charleston — 977 Cherokee -- 9,382,792 Cherokee 15,707 Chest e:’ — — 10,666,309 Chester 16,352 Chesterfield -— -- 5 649,410 Chesterfield — 211025 Clarendon 3,939,120 Clarendon 8.313 Colleton 4,556,810 Colleton _ 5,435 Darlington - - IQ 006,547 Darlington 15,756 Dillon 5,445,705 Dillon — 11,825 Dorchester _ 4,122,150 Dorchester _ _ — 3,669 Edgefield £800,520 Edgefield — — — — 8 660 Fairfield __ ,7,948-,905 Fairfield : 7.047 Florence -— 12,846,300 Florence — — — — 7,392 Georgetown --— 4 707,608 Gieenville __ 43,015 Greenville — 31,123.475 Greenwood __ 13,477 Greenwood 10,455,794 Hampton 3,730 Hampton _ _ 7 __ 3,767195 Horry — 956 Horry 4,169,816 Jasper 855 Jasper —-- — 3,496,022 Kershaw 15,332 Kershaw — 7.701,566 Lancaster « 11,930 Lancaster - 5j780,380 Laurens 23,0119 Laurens - - 9,674,022 Lee _ . 21,404 Lee - - _ _. 5,356 380 Lexington 11,888 Lexington -- 7371,905 McCormick _ 5,918 McCormick 2,428,365 Marion _ _ 5,243 Marion 5187,350 1 Marlboro 33,102 Marlboro __ . 7,578,535 Ncw’berry — 15,001 Newberry __ _ . ... 9,536,440 Oconee - 17,328 Ocoiee -- 6,405930 Orangeburg — _ _ __ 37,932 Orangeburg 11 799,500 Pickens _ 15 761 Pickens _ 7,327,741 Richland . 8,398 Richland __ 2£ 976,150 i Saluda -- 6,301 Saluda _ _ _ 3,124,8691 Spartanbui'g _ _ _ 63,569 Spartanburg _ 37,299,320 Sumter _ 20,573 Sumter - - 9,698 193 Union -- - 15,081 Established June 5, 1902 Many Make Bids On Road Projects THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT NAMES LOW BIDDERS Nui i Union 8,782,310 Williamsburg 5,932,360 •York IS 793,515 The Department of Commerce, through the Bureau of the Census, announces the preliminary report on coton ginned by counties, in South Carolina, for the cnops of 1928 and 1927, The total for the state was made public Saturday December 8. (Quantities are in running bales. 701,175 12,699 17.657 6,321 50,603 11,087 13,367 2,185 12 668 664 17.382 >44,886 £4,512 9,141 4,330 2C* 082 18 277 4,217 9,278 6,126 12,248 34 184 12 530 3,230 1 778 761 23428 12,429 2a 173 23,168 11.571 5,488 7,924 37,739 13 166 14,776 41,002 15,067 7,626 6,182 57 699 18,599 13.571 7,677 30.485 194 Williamsburg — — 3 544 York _ 26,238 All other 745 txt Total $425,543,764 Qf Interest Georgia Power Co. Buys Augusta-Aiken ATLANTA. Ga., Deq 8.—An nouncement that properties in Geor gia of the Augusta-Aiken RaTway & Electric corripany have been bought by the Georgia Power Company and will in future be operated as an in tegral part of that system was made here today by P. S. Arkwright, pres ident of the latter company. Coupled with the announcement was the statement that F. B. Culley vice- president and general manager of the Augusta-Aiken company, will continue in charge, with the t’tlc of To The Farmers Mrs. L. M. Mason of Meriwether advises the county agent that she has three two-weeks cJd heifer calves for sale at $30.00 each. These calves are from Mrs. Mason’s herd, sired by l\er registered Hood Farm bull, and are a splendid fe^y ^ or anyone at this price. Anyone interested in buying one or more of these calves wTl get in touch with Mrs. Mason c-' the county agent at once. The county agent wishes to remind all farmers who have cotton seed for sale that Clemson College is making ge: mination tests of cotton seed, urged to get their orders in> early. -X ness. Every place the car has been displayed at advance showing's it *4-* ^ as ^ >GOr *° accompaniment of Edgeiiela Association vast Qn.Ards SiM a deluge of orders. And now, w th the cars actually in the hands of dealers or scheduled to be there before next week elapses, the volume of orders is reported to have assumed even larger proper- division manager c*? the newly creat- 1 free of charge. A sample of one ed Augusta division of the Georgia j (• • two pounds from each lot of seed Power Company. | should be sent for the test. Bring Union Meeting Is CaUed Off -ax- The churches comprising the Third t,ons ■niu-iaimv of the Edgefield Association * " * l Sn please take notice that the Un- Th e old fashioned tramp who used Meeting appointed to be held to oat his meals out of a can, now at the Red Oak Grove Church the rldee ir ^ fifth Sunday in this month has been • • x ailed off by request of the church. Robbers who stole 700 dynamite C J. W. JOHNSON, caps the other day, probably lived in % • Moderator. ; Chicago. The utilities involved in the new expansion of the Georgia Power com pany system supply electr c light and power service to Augusta and 30 other Gec.rgia communities in that section. Street railway service also 's supplied in Augusta. Announce ment of the acquisition of the Au gusta properties follows by only a week the acquisit on by the Georgia Power company o«? the Macon Rail way and Light company and other utilities seiving Macon and eight oth er Central Georgia communities bringing the total number of cities and towns seived by the Georgia Power company to approximately 200. Georgia municipalities formerly served by the Augusta utilities which now are served by the Georgia Pow er company are: Augusta, Evans, Grovetowiv Campania, Harlem, Dear- your samples to the county agent’s <.~fice and he will send them in. An official germination test will gzeatly help in selling cotton se^d, and there will be a st:':ng demand for plant ing seed of good quality and germ- nati(-i in the spring. ton litters of hogs were Orangeburg County ir in Three weighed October. The 32 pigs averaged 264 •funds each at the age of six months rd the corn that they weie fed > bowed an average return of $2.29 •>cr bushel. Another South Carolina farmer living in Marion Cointy sold 20 hogs at a price that netted him $7 08 per 100 pounds. He had the hogs on a 34-day feed test, and they gained 2.2 pounds per hog per day for the 34 days. He and e ; ght of his neighbors made up a carlot ship ment which gave them a net icturn The State of 13th instant says: Many contractors submitted bids on the road and br'dge wc-’k to be done by the state highway depart ment during the coming year. The bids were opened Tuesday but the work of tabulation was not complet ed until yesterday. Contracts have net yet been awarded though usually they are given to the low bidder. Low bidders on the various pro jects were: Greenwood county: For paving 1.03 miles of route 24 at Ninety-Six, low bidder, Slattery & Henry. Greenville, for $29,689.98. Jasper county: For paving 7.5 miles of route 17, between R’dgoland and Coosawh^tchie, low biddev C. G. Fuller, Dover Ohio, for $l6l.814.09. Kc shaw county: For paving ten miles of route 1, from Camden to wards Bethune, Carolina Contracting company, Spartanbu g, for $240 - 381.7(1 Kershaw cointy: For paving 10.2 miles of route 1, from Bethune to wards Camden; low man, R. G. Las siter & Company, Raleigh for $221,- 517.47. Kershaw county: For paving 14 7 miles of route 26, between Camden : and Kershaw, Robert G. Lbssiter & company, Raleigh, fo:» $292147.97. I Lexington-Richland count es: Fc j paving 9.7 miles of Saluda ciSun road, i from the dam to Irmo and from the , dam to Ballentine; R G. Lassiter & , company, Raleigh, for $20Q 401.93. | Greenville county: For construct ing 11 miles of route 284 fn.ti Travelers Rest to Cleveland, W. J. Turner, Hendersonville, for $87- 861 30. Lancaster county: For grading 7.7 miles of route 26, from Twelve Mile creek to North Carolina line; A. S. Barron, Chester, for $30 983.16. Marion cointy: Fc-r surfacing with gravel 9,4 miles of route 57, from AriaiPs cross roads to Mullins, J. W. Gwin, Birminghair, Ala., for $40- 157.60. Lancaster county: For construct ing 5.1 miles of route 9 fiom Lan caster towards Catawba, C. B. Hes ter, Greensbcro for $49,129.22. Lexington county: For placing guard rail on various roites, George M. Hughes, Florence, fon $22,550 57. Aiken county: For widening con crete culvert and br'dge on route 1, between Aiken and Edisto river; L. S. Mitchell Walterbc.ro, for $2,529 - 20. Qhester county: For extending bridge on :*oute 21, between Chester and York county line; D. M. Ricken- j baker, Union, for $7,097. Greenville-Anderson counties: For construction of reinforced concrete br’dge orer Saluda riven on route 20; J. G. Scott & company. Greenville, for $39,915. , McCormick county: For construc tion of treated fmber and steel bridge on route 82, between McCor mick and Abbeville county lire; A S. King, GreenWocd, fo:< $5 660.73. Spartanburg coanty: For furnish ing and installing girder railway span for Lyman underpass on route 29. Atlantic Bridge company, Greensboro, for $6 265. Lancaster county: For construc tion of a reinforced concrete bridge on route 12, between No th Caro lina Pne and intersection with route 26; George M. Hughes, Florence, for $5,499.24. X Expedition has started out to find Noah’s Ark. The next thing you know, some one will start out fish ing for the whale that swallowed Jonah. X Scientists are attempting to cal culate the age of the sun, and they will no doubt attribute its longevity to the fact that it never stays out at night. ing Thomson Warrenton, Camak, | of $2,036.21. Norwood Crawfordville, Sharon, 1 —...xxt'— - W ashington Tignall, Lincolaton, Men of science say that hair grows Martinez, Union Point, Gracewood, after death, but there isn’t any con- Hephzibah, Blythe, Keysville. Mat thews Stellaville, Lquisville, Wrens, Avera. Stapleton, Gibson, Mitchell, Noco and Zebina. -X- Clean and oil tools and machinery ... . . and stpre under cover before winter. W1 th ^ umea sc.’ation in that for a baldheaded man. X Then too, probably the trouble with those scientists might be due to the fact that they associate too much Makes 75 Bushels Of Com To The Acre ORANGEBURG, Dec. 18.-Jeff Early, member of the vocationr’ ricultural class of the Orangeburg' High School, made 225 bushels of corn, an average yield of 75 bushels per acre, on his three-acre p: »jcct in agriculture this year, records kept by his teacher, Robert Ga nson,. show. When it is considered tb?+ the average yield of corn per acte r or Orangeburg county in 1927 was only 16 bushels per acre, and for the whole state 17 bushels, young Early’s feat stands out as rather rena-vab’e in the opinion of local agricuKura! leaders. Young Early is the son of J S. Early, a prosperous farmer who lives about, five miles-east of Orange burg. The corn was grown on a light sandy loam soil with the ciay veify close. It was fert'lized v v; th stable manure valued at $8. which was broadcast over the land before it was plowed; 350 pounds of - com mercial 8-4-4 fertilizer per acre ap plied at time of ard ^75- pounds cf Chilean 6* plied per aefre^as a tep-dr^ssei, -- soda be ? ng applied in throe o n ual ** applicationr, .The project cf young E?ri ' dem onstrated that intensive cull .-tion pays as he has figures to sfc .v that he made a total profit on the three acres of $166.85, an average profit per ac:o of $55.61 and an average profit per bushel of 74.2 cents. A very careful cost record was kept $20.88 being charged to labor, $14.37 to fertilizer, $15 to rent of land apcl fifty cents to seed, making a total expense of $80.67. While yc;_ug Early did not sell his corn o ri in tends to market it through bog*, he cculd have sold :*t locally for $1.' , 0 per bushel; tho total leceipts from 225 bushels at $1 10 per bushel would thus have netted him $247.50 .• q. net total profit on the thne ires of $166.85. “From my project of threr acres of corn,” said young Early, “I learn ed that much more corn can be r ade to the acre than the average for Orangeburg county and South Crr^*- lina. The average yield for Orange burg county in 1927 was otuy 16 bushels * to the acre and for South Carolina it was only 17 bushclr,, I learned also from my project’that a good yield can be made from a very little fertilizer as I only used 350 pounds of a commercial 8-4-! fertil izer per acre w th 275 pcn.iu; of Chilean nitrate of soda per as * a top-dresser; an applicative of stable manure valued at $$ w is broadcast cveii the land befor it was’ turned. Another lesson I learned was that it is essential to top dre«i corn with ammonia. “I feel sure that I would hive made much more corn to the acie if the’ cut worms had not att^c-’ ed it, also the cold spring, the sto^m and :he excessive amcu.it cf rain!ail that we had went to reduce the yield quite a b't.” ' x Rooster Suffering ; From Insomnia Gets In Court It is said that there are some folks in our country who are such radical pacifists that they are even opposed to making war on the European corn borer. X tFbe country spent—or rather the women spent — over a hundred mill ion dollars this year on rouge and face powder. That is quite a bit thick. It took more than an-hour ox heat ed legal wrangling in city cc-irt Sat urday afternoon before disposition in tho case of a southside -vc-ian, charged with “maintaining and cp- o'lat ng” a crewing rcosttr, i.as. reached. The rooster in question, acr. "ding to testimony, was afflicted with in- scnviia. and broadcast an al^rni at all hours of the night. “We wouldn’t mird if the animated tim.enloce would start to crow at dawr. ” on r of f.ho ff.npla’nnnts said, “but lu in sisted on crowing at the moon in >• weo small houife of the morning.” The complications in the roistered neighborhood came to a head Frid \y afternoon, poli.ee said, when the reen ter broke loose from its mr wrings and made an impromptu tour of the’ neighbourhood. At each house, it was alleged- the rooster would rer.dei a serenade. The city attorney asked one of the witnesses if the “rooster crowed in transit.” He replied: “No, undo” f he house.” Judge Frank Houghton ord^—d the rooster to be put in escrow rn some other section of the city qi n the stew pot ’ or roasting ps i im mediately. “Ten dollar fine suspend ed.” the judge said. “On e mete crow and I’ll assess the fine.”—St.. Petersburg, Ffeu, Times. • Whooping cough is breaking in England, but who gives a v 1 over here? / V tL j