Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

Thursday, June 19, 1930 McCORMiCR MESSENGER. McGORMICK. South Carolina Earewp •«>»**» *, •«.'KG1 'Pssfp Nrwn^or How often have you heard local farmers say, “My cotton is ’going to pieces,’ shedding excessively, leaves ragged and turning brown, drying up and dropping?” Such a. condition is caused by POTASH HUNG ER, RUST, and LOW PLANT VITALITY. Do not let it happen to your crop again this year— avoid this heavy toll that robs you of your PROFIT by SIDE-DRESSING your cotton NOW with from 50 to 75 pounds of Muriate of Potash along with the Nitrogen. Potash is a TONIC for cotton and it makes the BOLLS STICK and mature normally. ' This INSURANCE will cost less than $2.00 per acre and in 1929 it paid South Carolina farmers FIVE for ONE. Ask your fertilizer man for potash or get your lo cal mixer to mix you a NITROGEN-POTASH TOP DRESSER. EXTRA POTASH PAYS. Mop your cotton NOW with the 1-1-1 Molasses, Arsenate-W ater Mixture. Agricultural And Scientific Bureau 740 Hurt Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. To Make Your Vacation Enjoyable Here you will find things on every side to make your va cation more enjoyable and carefree. Before you start, drop in at our store and take note of the many items we have, then select the ones you want. Of especial interest, Vacuum Bottles, Stationery, Insect Bite Lotion, Toilet Requisites, Cameras, and various other articles. Prescriptions carefully compounded day or night. STROMS’ DRUG STORE Main Street McCormick, S. C. * SCREEN THE FLIES OUT Call at our store and get the best screen wire and other things necessary to keep the flies out of your home. The cost is nominal and the benefits great. Our stock of general hardware rs up to the minute and wc are ready to serve you to your own satisfac tion. WHITE HARDWARE CO. MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C. Club Winners Are Announced Following a delightful program consisting of plays, folk dances, pantomimes, a Style Show, and community singing, put on by the women and girls under the leader ship of Miss Ella Gardner of Wash ington, results of Clothing and Room Improvement Contests in State-wide 4-H Club work were announced at the evening hour of the Annual Short Course at Win- throp Wednesday. The winners were as follows: CLOTHING % CONTEST: Pied mont District, 1. Anderson County, Clara Church, 2. Greenwood Coun ty, Maty Corley, 3. McCormick County, Thelma Reames. PEE DEE DISTRICT: 1. Claren don County, Agnes Parker, 2. Sum ter County, Lottie Gillespie, 3. Dillon County, Ruby Hayes. CENTRAL DISTRICT: 1. Oran geburg County, Annie Hardin Bull. The District Winners for Na tional Dress Review w r ere: Pee Dee District: Dorthy Gregory, Marion County. Piedmont District, Clara Church, Anderson County. Central District, Beatrice Whit tle, Lexington County. IN ROOM IMPROVEMENT: Piedmont District, 1. Saluda, Mattie Lou Dominick, 2. Laurens, Nell Thompson. 3. Cherokee Coun ty, Avis Hammett. Pee Dee District, 1. Florence County, Annie McLeod. 2. Marion County, Bernice Harrelson. 3. Horry County, Esther Long. Central District, 1. Lexington County, Mary Ehrhardt. 2. Bam berg County, Thelma Ayer. 3. Jas per County, Sally Mae Tucker. There were 14 girls competing in the National Dress Review. Each wore a complete outfit, dress and underwear, and a large number hats or berets made by themselves. Dresses ranged in price from 40 cents to $3.50. The three district winners will compete at State Fair for State honors and a free trip to Chicago to the Club Congress. xxx Chevrolet Car And Airplane Collide DETROIT, Mich., June 16.—A Chevrolet six recently played an important role here in what is be lieved to be the first case on rec ord of a head-on collision between an automobile and an airplane. The car, one of twelve Chevrolet sixes used by Detroit Immigration authorities in border patrol work, was being driven by Stanley Zer- ambo, senior inspector, whose du ties consist in thwarting attempts to smuggle aliens across the Bor der. Inspector Zerambo had to his credit six planes seized in this ne farious traffic, and had been watching for some time a seventh plane said to have operated for six weeks on regular schedule flying afliens from Canada to American soil. After several attempts to seize the plane, its pilot and illegal car go had failed, Inspector Zerambo was scouting along the Detroit river front shortly after sunrise, on June 1, whe/i he spotted the plane heading from Canada toward an open field just beyond the Detroit city line. Speeding to the spot In spector Zerambo swung into the field in his Chevrolet just as the plane landed, and drove directly into its path to shut off retreat. When the pilot saw the official car in front of him, he sought to ward off capture by speeding the motor up in a desperate effort to take off again. Inspector Zeram- Little Talk On Thrift (By S. W. Straus, President Ameri can Society for Thrift.) MOST GREAT FORTUNES DE VELOPED AS RESULT OF SLOW STEADY SAVING There are a great many substan tial business men in America today who could tell you interesting stor ies about how they spent their early years in the accumulation of a* few dollars. Had they continued all their lives to save only the small amounts they were able to lay by at first, they never would have be come well-to-do men. But their small savings and the discipline which was necessary to build up these sums, put them in a position to earn more money and occupy more important positions as the years went by. “I don’t think I could live long enough ever to be rich at the rate I would be able to save money.” This sentence in a letter received recently is typical of the viewpoint of many who lack the patience to build up their personal resources through the painstaking methods of thrift. Now and then someone does strike it rich, so to j speak, but where one person may gain sud den wealth, a million others, trying the same thing, may lose their last penny. Look up the histories of most of the large fortunes in America and you wull find that the vast major ity were started with small sums of money and grew to fabulous ac cumulations of wealth through the normal processes of sound business and investment. The possession even of a small sum of money was necessary before the larger amounts could be built up. It is always to be remembered that one of the great elements in thrift is patience. It is hard for an ambitious, vigorous person to exercise this rare quality. The temptations always is strong with such persons to take chances and plunge. But patient saving and the slow, steady accumulation of funds will win out in the long run. The great book of human experi ence is eloquent in its assertions of this fact. A reader of this department writes: “I should like to have in formation on the amount of one’s income to be spent on each item.” It would not be possible to give an answer to this question for the reason that different conditions prevail with each individual. We each have our problems of person al economics and what might be considered good thrift upon the part of one person might be quite the opposite for another. We are all striving to make progress but each of us is confronted by situa tions that must be taken into con sideration in planning our bud gets. There are certain however, to which we adhere. We should bear in mind that thrift is not merely saving money. It is the process of thriv ing. We should save as much Just Like An Ostrich A medical authority says that a person who tries to cover up akin 1 blemishes and pimples with toilet creams and powders is just as foolish as an ostrich that buries its head in the sand to avoid danger. Skin erup tions hre nature's warning that con stipation is throwing poisons into your blood stream and weakening your whole constitution. Remove the constipated condition and you will strengthen your system against disease and clear up your disfigured skin. The best way to do this is with a course of Herbine, the vegetable medicine that acts natur ally and easily, which you can get at STROMS' DRUG STORE occur make sure ofLjour automebile insurance. Frank C. Robinson Insurance Agency PHONE 66 McCormick Forty-Five Minutes Per Acre When wheat was harvested with a sickle and threshed with a flail, from 35 to 50 hours of labor were required for harvesting and threshing an acre with a yield of 15 bushels. The introduction of the cradle saved about 10 hours per acre. At present farmers in the Great Plains use from 4 to 5 hours'"in harvesting an acre of wheat with a binder and thresh ing from the shock with a station ary thresher; from three to four hours when the crop is harvested with a header and threshed with a stationary thresher; and an aver age of three-fourths of an hour when the combined harvester- thresher is used. —JXt principles' State Adopts Laws should all I To Aid Aged Persons money as possible and most are so situated that they can to advant age save from 5 to 25 per cent of their incomes but we should not save money to the detriment of our personal welfare. We must con serve our health and maintain a standard of living commensurate with our position in the world. If we are young we must secure an education. Wr v m-ust do our share in contributing to worthy religious and philanthropic movements. We must not get into a rut which means that we should read good books, patronize good forms of en tertainment and broaden ourselves : gedness 1 BOSTON, Mass. — Approximate- (ly 8,000 aged persons in Massachu setts each year will receive assist ance under the provisions of the old age assistance law which has recently been adopted by the state. It is estimated by Richard K. Con- ant, commissioner of the state de partment of public welfare, that the cost to the state would be $J,- 250,000 annually, and to the cities and towns about $1,450,000 a year in addition to the amounts they now spend for old age relief. He also stated that under this law adequate assistance would be provided for citizens over seventy years of age who are in need. The underlying principles of the meas ure were given as fallows: (1), ade quate assitance at home; (2), indi- THE BEST MEATS We have on hand at all times a good supply of the very best Pork, Beef, Sausage, ele., and will be glad to have you drop in any time for anything you may desire in this line. Also a nfee s(pck of canned goods, bread, rolls, etc. Our motto is: Quality, service, moderate prices. CITY MEAT MARKKET Phone No. 61 J. L. REYNOLDS, Prop. Augusta Street McCormick, S. C. through travel. At the same time bo. in the split second available to ! we must do non,e of these things make a decision, weighted the rug- was tefully. Thrift is the elimina- of the car against the tion was te. vidualized treatment of each case, strength of the plane, and drove ! The science personal manage- and (3), local administration with head-on into the whirring pi'o- ment involves ingenuity and re- state supervision. It does not set peiier. sourcefulness. We can not work out j up a pension system. The essential Result: Another seized plane added to Inspector Zerambo’s im pressive record—a disabled plane with a shattered propeller and a damaged wing; two alien prison ers; an escaped pilot; Insp. Zer ambo slightly shaken up and bruised; and a ear with a damaged right front door, fender, radiator and the radiator cap picked off by the propellor. Despite the damage to the Chev rolet it came out a decided victor in the crash, for while the plare was totally disabled, Inspector Zer ambo was able to back the car out of the wreckage and drive it under its own power, with his prisoners safely aboard, to Detroit head- our destiny by fixed rule. We must think out our plans and have suf ficient will-power and character to do what we know is for our best. In this way we develop judgment and administrative ability. The joy of thrift is not in scrimping and saving every penny possible and putting it in a savings bank. The joy of thrift is in plan ning our personal affairs so that we shall truly thrive. The test of thrift is our ability in spite of all odds and obstacles to carry our a well ordered system of personal putrn ncement. — X A smart man will listen to all advice that is offered, and then [ignore most of it. difference between it and the pen sion bills which have been rejected lies in the fact that under this bill boards of public welfare are expected to enforce family respon sibility for the support of aged persons wherever possible. Admin istered as a relief measure under the state department of public wel fare, it is estimated that the law will be of benefit to about 8,000 aged persons each year, and will take care of the needs of the aged people in Massachusetts.* iXt A press dispatch quoted a min ister the other day as saying that girls want husbands. In at least one particular, then, they are old fashioned. Enrollment Books Are Now Open • At a meeting of the County Dem ocratic Executive Committee on last Friday, the following Enroll ment Committees, together with, place of enrollment were fixed. Books of Enrollment open in the respective precincts on the first, Tuesday in June and wi-1 remain open until the last Tuesday in July. Under the rules of the party a. new enrollment is required, all per sons who desire to vote will enrol? in the precinct in which they re side. The respective Enrollment Com mittees are requested to secure a full enrollment, and to have each voter sign the Enrollment Book rather than to make his mark vherever it is practical. The Enrollment Committees are requested by the Executive Com mittee that Books of Enrollment must remain at the place designat ed in the notice and it is not desir ed that the Books shall be carried around. Such procedure, however, is permitted in case of aged and infirm persons who are unable, without great inconvenience, to get to the place of enrollment be fore the Books are closed. Such matters are left to the discretion of the Enrollment Committees. Iit Wards One and Two, McCormicks Books of Enrollment shall not leave their place until after the- closing hours of the office in which they are located, and in no in stance and under no circumstances shall the Enrollment Books be sent out without it is accompanied by one of the Enrollment Committee. Enrollment Committees and places of enrollment for 1930 are: McCormick No. <5 f: J. O. Patter son, D. A. Bell and J. L. Caudle. Place of enrollment, J. O. Patter son’s office. McCormick No. 2: P. J. Robin son, J. S. Strom and T. J. Sibert. Place of enrollment, J. A. Talbert’s office. Plum Branch: W. M. Freeland. W. R. Miner and J. J. Collier. Places of enrollment, Bracknell’s store and Freeland’s store. Young’s: S. L. Long, R. C. Young and J. C. Young. Place of enrollment, J. A. Young’s residence. Mt. Carmel: W. *A. Scott, S. D. Wells and W. H. Horton. Place of enrollment, W. A. Scott’s store. Parksville: J. P. Brunson, W. T. Self and W. P. Parks. Places of enrollment, Parks & Percival’s and Brinson’s stores. Lyon’s: Grady Bell, R. T. Mc Kinney and C. L. Williams. Place of enrollment, R. T. McKinneys. Dowtin’s: T. A. Dowtin, J. P. Robinson and J. F. Langley. Place* ef enrollment, T. A. Dowtin’s store. Willington: J. M. Gibert, J. J. Hester and A. B. Andrews. Place of enrollment, S. E. Cowan’s store. Clatworthy’s Cross Roads: Char- Ue Dansby, Ernest Hanvey and J. J. Link. Place of enrollment, J. J. Link’s store. Rehoboth: E. M. Morgan, J. P. Talbert,and W. A. Winn. Place of enrollment. Morgan’s store. White Tov/n: F. P. White, R. H. Wldeman and Mrs. Salhe Holley. Place of enrollment, Farmers Sup ply Co. Clarks Hill: L. C. Rich, Jeff Sharpton and W. J. Hines. Places of enrollment, Sharpton’s store, Clarks Hill; Bennett Mercantile Co., Meriwether. Bell’s store: T. B. Bell, J. A. vallison and D. L. Burnett. Place )f enrollment, Bell’s store. Bordeaux: A. S. Cade, John B. Harmon and Mrs. G. W. Cade. Place of enrollment, O. G. Cal houn’s stare. Modoc: G. C. McDaniel, M. M. Marshall and A. V. Bussey. Flace- of enrollment, McDaniel’s store. Bethany: R. H. Quarles, Sr., E. L. Hollingsworth and W. K. Mc Donald. Places of enrollment. Quarles’ and Hollingsworth’s stores. The following assessments have* been fixed for the respective can didates: State Senate unexpired term $10.00 House of Representatives 10.00 Probate Judge 20.00 Treasurer 20.00 Auditor 20.00 Coroner i.oo Magistrate — McCormick — 10.00 Magistrate — Willington __ 2.50 Magistrate — Parksville 2.50 Cotton Weigher 5.0C W. K. CHARLES, County Chairman. JOHN M. BELL, Secretary. ,