McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, July 31, 1930, Image 7
Thursday, July 31, 1930
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^Nineteen Tkirty
a Good Year for A'lalting
deeded jPuklic Imprcvements
MOt>ERN PAVEMENTS • SliVTIsRAOE* SYSTEMS
SEWAGE DJSPOSAI PLANTS
BRIDGES • SIDEWALKS • SCHOOL BUILDINGS
I ABOR and materials are plentiful. Ex-
J perienced contracting organizations
are ready with equipment and skilled
men to compete for business. Seldom
before have conditions been so favorable,
for the town that needs improvements.
Take advantage of these conditions!
PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION
Hurt Building
ATLANTA, GA.
c>f National Organization-
to Improve and Extend the Uses oj Concrete
High Level Of Rail
road Performance
PORTLAND CEMENT
CONCRETE
FOR PERMANENCE
(A. C. L. Ry., Bulletin)
The railroads are now trans
porting freight 32 per cent faster,
Presbyterian College
Wins First Honors
CLINTON, July 29.—Official word
received Saturday announces Pres
byterian College of Clinton, South
on the average, than ten years! Carolina as 1930 winner of the
ago. Moreover, if the rate of fuelProficiency Trophy awarded an-
consumption in freight service ten dually to the college or university
years ago had continued all standing highest in professional
through 1929, the carriers would knowledge, rifle marksmanship,
have required approximately 23,- co-operation in athletics, and dis-
000,000 more tons of coal’ than cipline at the Fourth Corps. Area
were actually required to haul the T - c - Camp, Fort McClellan,
record traffic of last year. Com- Alabama.
petition among the railroads was Fourteen colleges and universi-
never more intense than at the ties from the Carolinas, Georgia,
present. Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and
These facts were brought out by Mississippi, as well as Cornell Uni-
Mr. R. H. Aishton, President, versity and the University of 111-
American Railway Association, in taois were represented at the camp,
an address to the Mechanical Div-
isicn of the Association.
“Competition as to rates, of
course, is impossible, for those are
fixed by governmental authority,”
he continued, “but there are in
numerable other fields in which
competition is unlimited. Among
them is the matter of both freight
and passenger service, efficiency
and economy in operation, the at
tainment of greater utilization of
and South Carolina may justly be
proud of the showing one of her
colleges has made . The University
of Florida, winner of the trophy
in 1929 has passed the cup on to
the Presbyterian College where it
will occupy a prominent position
among the cherished trophies of
the college, to be fought for again
in 1931.
As in troubles, - honors seldom
come singly and the sons of P. C.
equipment, improvement in term- i seem to have made a harvest of
BETTER MEATS
AT MODERATE
PRICES
Read over the following list
and come to our place for
choice meats at low prices:
Chuck feoeak, per pound 20c
Front Round Steak, per pound 25c
Loin and Hind Round Steak, per pound 30c
Pork Chops, per pound 25 and 30c
Stew Meat, per pound 15c
Mixed Sausage, per pound 20c
Pork Sausage, per pound 30c *
Have installed a Jim Vaughn meat cutter and can cut
your meats evenly so they will cook good all v the way
through.
CITY MEAT MARKKET
Phone No. dl J. L. REYNOLDS, Prop.
Augusta Street McCormick, S. C.
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Don’t wait longer—don’t say you will start to
morrow or next month or next year—now is the
time.
There is always some excuse for delay if you
want one. It is easy to excuse yourself for the in
difference of not saving, hut put all of these ex
cuses aside and start in now.
Later you will be glad, for you will be able to
take advantage of any opportunity that may come
your way.
WE INVITE YOUR ACCOUNT
We extend a hearty welcome to you to open your
account here and take advantage of the splendid
facilities that we offer. You will find the utmost
here in service, protection, and kindly interest.
No matter how small you start—be sure you start
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inal facilities, safety of both em
ployes and the public, and in scores
of other ways. For the most part,
it is friendly rivalry and compe
tition, but it all comes from an
eagerness on the part of the rail
ways to furnish the greatest and
most dependable transportation
service possible and a knowledge
that waste in industry is something
that is inexcusable and indefensi
ble.
“There is also a greater realiza
tion among railroad managements
that we are living in a new era,
that the old order of things has
service
are what the public now desires.
“The high level of transportation
performance recorded in recent
years has been mainly due to the
fact that the railways have con
sistently maintained since 1923 a
capital improvement program by
which they have been able to pro
vide new trackage, new and better
equipment and other improved
facilities that otherwise would
have been impossible.
“While the railroads under the
restrictions of the Transportation
Act cannot share in the prosperity
of the country to the full limit, yet
they are vitally interested in main
taining a prosperous condition of
industry in this country.
“By maintaining the large cap
ital program which they have set
up, the railroads have not only
been a big factor in stimulating
industry in this* country, but they
also have aided business in general
by providing a transportation ser
vice which for dependability and
promptness has never before been
equalled.
“This has been done in the face
of the discouraging fact that their
net earnings for the country as a
whole in the first four months of
1930, due to .the decline in traffic,
were only at an annual rate of re
turn of 3.56 per cent on their prop
erty investment, while their net
earnings have averaged annually
only 4.82 per cent for the past five
years.”
“The general index of railway
operating efficiency in 1929, stand*?
at the highest point $o far on rec
ord. * * * ■
“The railroads have been mak
ing for some time a steady increase
in the average speed in which
freight trains are being moved, the
average for April 1930 having been
13.8 miles per hour which is the
highest average that has ever been
attained in any one month. The
average speed which includes de
lays between terminals now being-
attained is approximately 32 per
cent greater than 10 years ago.”
Pink Boil-
worm Stopped
Several pink bollworms stowed
away in a small package of cot
tonseed sent by mail from India
met a timely death recently when
cups and medals at the 1930 R. O.
T. C. camp, winning first place in
the south toward the “Warrior of
the Pacific” rifle marksmanship
trophy, and handsome loving cups
for first place in the track and
field meet, relay races, and indi
vidual high score, while one of
the Presbyterians has been select
ed to represent this section of the
south at the National • Rifle
Matches, Camp Perry, Ohio.
The Blue Stockings repeated
their 1930 S. I. A. A. performance
in the R. O. T. C. track meet at
Fort McClellan and brought home
gold medals for first place in the
100 yard dash, pole vault, 220 yard
dash, high jump, and one mile
relay race, while silver and bronze
medals for secohd and third place
were taken by the Presbyterian
College in many of the other
events.
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A New Record
Of Service
the package was examined by a
United States plant quarantine in- stages is somewhat too laxative.
During 1929, according to a new
and exhaustive survey, the rail
roads provided the American peo
ple with the best transportation
service in their history.
Freight loadings averaged 1,-
014,000 cars weekly, and this tre
mendous volume was handled ex
peditiously and cheaply with
practically no car shortages. Train
speeds were greater; cars carried
a higher average of revenue freight
delays were fewer. Business bene
fited to the extent of millions of
dollars, due to the elimination of
losses resulting from heavy inven
tories, reduction in storage and
handling costs and related factors.
Service of this character, obvi
ously, was not the result of a for
tunate accident. Between 1920 and
1929, inclusive, the lines spoilt $7,-
500,000,000 for equipment, additions
and improvements . to property.
Last year expenditures were $103,-
000.000 above the yearly average.
The managements of our Ameri
can railroads have given every ef
fort'to improve standards of serv
ice and reduce both operating
costs and costs to the shipper. They
have never deviated from their
program of unceasing progress.
They have accepted the duty of
providing the public with the best
and most economical transporta
tion service the world offers. And
ihey have succeeded.
Fair profits are necessary to per
manent railroad progress. The peo
ple and industry are real sufferers
from any* conditions which des
troy railroad earnings and prevent
progress.
X
Practically all farm animals
show a preference for alfalfa hay
cut in the early stages of growth,
but this does not mean that such
hay is always the best for feeding.
Some animals, especially horses
and mules, do much better on hay
cut when the alfalfa is in full
bloom, as hay cut in the early
spector at Atlanta, Ga. The in
spector immediately ordered the
contraband package burned, thus
preventing a potential invasion by
this pest. The pink bollworm is a
destructive pest of cotton, 3#gard-
ed by entomologists as at least in
the same class with the boll weevil.
X
It is said that necessity is the
mother of invention, however, a
lot of the inventions prove moth-
J'ertefcs.^ ' V-‘- •* *
Hogs and poultry, however, can not
handle such coarse material, and
unless the alfalfa is cut while still
young there is considerable wast
age in feeding. It ^qufy^also be
borne in mind tlfat^cutting alfal
fa while the plants are young re
duces both the yield and the length
of life of the stand, and the grow
er must take this into considera
tion in comparing the money value
of hay cut young and at a more
,mature stage of growth. v
FIRST AID NEEDS
You should always keep a complete supply of needed
first aid requisites in summer for they may be most essen
tial at a moment’s notice.
The outdoor life of summer for both children and grown
ups makes the possibility of accidents greater than at any
other time. *
WE HAVE EVERY NEEDED ITEM
Here you will find a full line of first aid supplies, such
as—Bandages, Medicated Cotton, Iodine, Unguentine, Ad
hesive Tape, Healing Powder, etc.
Secure the needed articles and keep them in a handy
place.
STROMS’ DRUG STORE.
' Main Street : McCormick, S. C.
THE HEAVY DUTY TIRE
SENSATION OF THE YEAR
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AC 375-B
Everybody’s talking about tbe
low price at which this STUN
NING new
GOODYEAR 6-PLY HEAVY
DUTY ALL-WEATHER SELLS.
Have you seen it? Now is the
time.
GULF SERVICE
J. T. FAULKNER, Prop.
PHONE 40 McCORMICK, S. C.
CANNING SUPPLIES
We have in stock a good supply
of Tin Cans, Fruit jars. Tops,
Rubbers, etc.
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Also Magnesium Arsenate—
spray or dust—to kill out bean
beetles.
WHITE HARDWARE CO.
MAIN STREET
McCORMICK. S. C.
Experience Service Facilities
Those are the important things in measuring the worth
of a funeral director, and should be borne in mind when
you »have occasion to choose one
DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE
and there Is no additional charge for service out of town
J. S. STROM
Main Street McCormick, S. C.
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