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Thursday, July 31, 1930 MCCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Cardin*. Page Number Eight MODOC NEWS The weatheir in this "ecticn a ; present could r^pt be much better for farmers, if it : should be made to order by the best weather men Mr. and Mrs. Talton Pince from Edgefield were visitors here last Sunday to the latter’s parents, Mr and Mrs. T. T. Bussey. Mb. and Mrs. G. E. Dukes were business visitors to Greenwood on Monday of this week. Masters James Bussey and Al bert Howie are spending the week with relatives at Cold Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Bussey and Mr. and Mrs. Bela Bussey of Augusta were dinner guests Sun day of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Dukes. Rev. G. C. Sidenspinner fflled his regular appointment here Sunday evening. Miss Blanche McDaniel was the guest Sunday of Misses Rosalie and Lucy Bussey. Master Willard McDaniel has re turned to his» home in Greenwood, after spending a week here among relatives. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Dukes have purchased a handsome new car— a Marquett. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Seigler spent Monday among relatives and friends at Johnston. Mr. Robert Bussey from De la Howe State School/was among rel atives and friends here last Sun day. Mr. R. L. Ott and Miss Euzile Seigler were united in the holy bonds of matrimohy Sunday even ing at five o’clock, the ceremony being performed by Rev. G. C. Sidenspinner. After a brief wed ding trip to Barnwell, Charleston and other points of interest, they will make their home with the mother of the bride at Modoc. XX* GALLANT-BELK’S CLEARANCE SALE SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND . MONDAY! NEWS Mrs. S. J. Chandler and three Children are visiting her relatives in this community for some time. Mrs. Chandler was formerly Miss Julia Strom 4 of this community. She has spent sometime at Glenn Springs before cqming here. Then going to McCormick where she will spend some days with her two brothers, W. T. and W. C. Strom. Mrs. W. P. Culbreath, Mrs. Chandler and children and Mrs. Strom Culbreath and children s^ent one day last week with Mrs. J. E. Winn. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Morgan have gone to Johnston today to visit her sister, Mrs. Cole Berry, who has recently returned from the Baptist Hospital. The Berry boys, who spent three weeks with Raymond Morgan, returned home today. Chicken thieveis better be fleet footed around Mr. E. M. Morgan’s premises. Last ni£ht chickens gave alarm and Mr. Morgan was ik the yard in a few minutes .finding an o’possum devouring a chicken, he killed it with a stick. FREE TICKETS TO CAROLINA T H E- ATRE With Each Pur chase of $5.0t) or More During Clearance Sale. - - - - . _ _ Men’s White BROADCLOTH SHIRTS 50c 2 For $1.00 One Lot of Men’s STRAW HATS To close A Q 0% Out at ■tOI# BOYS’ TROUSERS Summer Shorts_a spe cial purchase makes the p ri , ce 48c or>ry " — w BOYS’ BROADCLOTH SHIRTS & BLOUSES Regular feature price 48c. 3 ?oJ$1 -00 Boys’ Extra Good KHAKI PANTS $1.00 value, Friday, Sat urday and Monday * wl# Other Boys Good KHAKI PANTS Extra good 48C for money One Lot of Ladies’ SUMMER HATS To Close 91%** Out at l. ASK FOR COLONIAL CHINA COUPONS A Conn on Given With Every 50c Purchase Men’s Triple Stitched WORK SHIRTS Full cut, well made YOUTH’S OVERALLS Sizes 27x26 Fridav. Sat- urday and 50c 39c Men’s Good Triple Stitched OVERALLS Sale Price 65c es offered at the three institutions will be uniform. Variation in teaching content will be made to meet conditions peculiar to the section in which the school is lo cated. The aim is to make these courses simple, definite and appli cable so far as possible to the 'problems with which negro exten- ‘sion agents have to deal in cheir \/ork. j The work of formulating pre liminary plans for these schools is under the general direction of Mr. J. A. Evans, associate chief of the Office of Co-operative Extension iWork; and Dr. E. H. Shinn, of ex- j tension studies and teaching, is ac tive director of the work of select ing teaching personnel and special lecturers in the Washington office. Mrs. Ola Powell Malcolm, field agent in home economics for the Southern States, is assisting in the preliminary work. The work of Will Make Check ! On Truck Loads Jay Motslnger, representative of the State Highway Department, said today that he would begin at once making an accurate check of loads carried by trucks in order to see that requirements of the law are met. A one ton license per mits 2,600 pounds, two tons, 5,200 pounds, and three tons, 7,800 pounds, 4 tons 9,200 pounds. , Mr. Motsinger urges owners and fev ers of trucks to see that their loads are not in excess of these figures. -X Include Livestock In The Farm Business Monday MEN’S CHECKED SUMMER PANTS An extra AQ p* special value MEN’S UNDERWEAR Cool, comfortable OCf% Shorts, special LADIES’ BLOOMERS Summer weight, Friday, Saturday and 1 Monday, pair " MISSES’ BLOOMERS Cool, comfortable 1 and serviceable ■ W Genuine Carhartt OVERALLS Friday, Saturday and Monday, $1 .gg special ^ " Other Men’s BETTER OVERALLS Extra special 701* values at * wW BELK’S SPECL4L MADE OVERALLS Full cut, reinforced back, hammer loop, QRf* extra pockets www Jack Rabbit Express STRIPE OVERALLS Friday, Saturday and $1.00 BELK’S SPECIAL BRAND OVERALLS White, low and high back union made Overalls, Friday, Sat urday and Moi> day special 1 Ladies’ Silk Dresses Reduced from $9.75 to $7.95 and $4.95 Friday, Saturday, $2.95 CLEMSON COLLEGE, July 30.— “Be sure you are right, then go formulating the pregram and se- ahead,” is not a bad slogan for the lecting teaching perr mnel and , farmer, says L. V. Starkey, chief equipment is being done in close animal husbandman. This is the co-operation with directors of ex- belief of 535 South Carolina far- tension, state home demonstration mers who produced 41,945 pounds leaders in the Southern States, and of pork from 2,238 bushels of corn- presidents of negro land-grant col- and 8.791 pounds of fish meal. Dur- leges. ing the feeding period the hogs X made an average gain of 80 pounds per head and ate an average of 5.7 bushels of corn and 23.5 pounds of fish meal per 100 pounds of gain. These figures, taken from - the records kept by the livestock spec- RECENT RAINS HAVE PUT NEW iali sts and county agents, prove LIFE IN OLD CORN AND THE that hogS wil1 pay for the f eetf S OUTLOOK IS GOOD ^ ^ * Pr0fit of about $5 per head. Having found one sure way o£ ' Prospects for s. corn crop are the making money) many of these best in McCormick county that same farmers are pi anning t0 en _ j they have been for many years, ac- large their buslness - and pr(Kiuce cording to Thos. W. Morgan, coun- j more hogs If one hog wiu clear ty agent, who says that he has $5) the 100 hogs wil , clear $soo in seen more good fields of com this addi ti on to marketing the feed at year than he has in any year since he has been in the county. I Old corn was. hurt by the dry Prospects Good For Big Corn Crop Monday _ _ GALLANT-BELX 46 GREENWOOD’S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE.” COMPANY “THE HOME OF BETTER VALUES.’ SELLS EVERYTHING AND SELLS IT FOR LESS. Joy Carpenter Writes Friends Dear friends of the Southland: I wonder how you all are. I think of you often and would like to see you again. Mr. Ronan and my son, Robert Carpenter, and friend, Karl Jenkins, who is pilot of his own plane, have been tour ing the East for four weeks, Maine, > Mrs. J. E. Winn visited her aunt N. H., Vky Mass., N. Y., N. J., R. I., and cousin, Mrs. T. B. Culbreath Conn., Efel., Md., Va., Pa., and and Mrs. G. H. Byrd, one day last Ohio, alVtrips made to nearest air week and Mrs. Winn also spent a | port by plane. . They have had a day with her mother, Mrs. W. P. Culbreath, last week. Mrs. Marion Wihn and Miss Ger trude Culbreath called at Wood- very interesting trip and will be home by the time this is printed. We entertained a car load of S. C. friends and 2 car loads of us side Cottage Saturday afternoon. ; motored into Canada, to Bay coun- There was preaching at Reho-, try and across it to Toronto and both Sunday afternoon between ’ Hamilton, to Niagara Falls, N. Y. the heavy clouds; very few there State, to Erie, Pa., Cleveland and and some came in as singing last,to Toledo, Ohio, then home. k song; better late than never. } We are planning a trip to Iron Mrs. W. A. Winn, Mrs. Doolittle ‘ Mountains and the copper mines nearly a score of picked state con- and Mrs. Marion Winn motored to in a couple of weeks. / Think will stables and other officers ordered McCormick one afternoon last I be interesting trip. here by Gov. John G. Richards to week. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Winn | I am sorry some of my friends prevent a feared outbr eak °f vio “ of tb Plum Branch was fine. Wish I could have been there too, and surely wish your pastor every suc cess this year and years following. Now, very best wishes to you, and may we meet again is my de sire. Remember me in your pray ers and God be with you ’till we meet again. Joy Carpenter and Family. Kalamazoo, Michigan. xxx :— Senator Dennis Burted Sunday School At Orange burg For Negro Ex tension Agents market price, continues Mr. Star- key. Another good way to enlarge the weather during the latter part of farm business is t0 make use of June and the first half of July, but some of the waste lands by chang _ has come back wonderfully since j ing thcm lnto pastures for graz- the rains. The seasons seem to iIng sheep or beef cattle It may be | have come for the young corn at P o SS i b i e to put the cattle and sheep the right Lime, and it look^ good all over the county. | Fine fields of bottom corn have been seen on tAe farms of R. W. Cowan and James Gibert, of Will- ington, Dave Wardlaw of the Bell- . vue section, W. E. and T. L. Britt, of Sandover, and Edwin Parker, of the Bellvue sectinn. Splendid up land com was seen during the past week on the farms of B. P. Talbert, H. T. Christian^and W. L. White, of the Liberty Hill section, and P. J. Dowtin, of the Dowtin section. Many other fields, equally as good _ _ . , L , as these are in evidence Over the ° ne Pa p s hotel will run an air- entire county, and if the floods and plane ta3U service for its guests dry weather hold off long enough, through the winter on roughage which would not be salable. The utilization of the crops on the farm is in line with the conservation of the soil. X THINGS WORTH KNOWING Almost half of the farm lands in Korea are owned by Japanese. PINOPOLIS, July 27.—Humble black folk of the Berkeley swamp country stood shoulder to shoulder with high officials of the state to- | as, and Nashville, Tenn. ORANGEBURG, July 30.—A sum mer school for negro extension agents will be held at State Col lege here August 4 to 30 inclusive, in accordance with plans for three such schools being worked out by, a committee of the Office of Co operative Extension Work in co operation with directors of exten sion in the Southern States and presidents of the negro land-grant colleges. The other two schools will be held at Prairie View, Tex- McCormick county farmers will make a bumper crop of com. Mr. Morgan further states that if the prospects of several of the com contestants hold out as good as they have started, that some one will have to make some corn to beat them for the district and state prizes. xxx Veteran Players Seen With Arlen day among the hundreds drawn to This movement for the improve- this little village for the funeral ment of negro extension agents is services of E. J. Dennis, state sena- | sponsored by the Julius Rosenwald tor who died Friday, victim qf an ' Fund of which Alfred K. Stem is assassin’s shot. ! the director. An appropriation of Mingling with the throng were $15,000 has already been made by the Julius Rosen wald Committee for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the three schools. Each school will receive $5,000 or were also in Augusta one day last * from the South could not visit me lence in the wake of the shooting week. Mrs. Marion Winn leaves this morning for Lander College to aid the home agent with th? girls’ short course. this summer. I met them two down of the Berkeley, county polit- years past on visits there. ical leader which brought an al- I find a number have moved ready tense situation to -the dan- such portion thereof as may be needed . to pay the salaries of teachers, purchase of equipment, and other expenses. This move- and changes in a year; some have ger point, but the anticipated vio- jment has the united endorsement married. To these the newly weds lence failed to develop. I of the directors of extension and Candidate Dowtin was out in a prosperous future. this section week. electioneering last The 54 year old senator was our- i presidents of negro land-grant ed it is very warm here, ranging ied under the centuries old water i leges and is believed to hold far- from 97 to 104, and no breeze— oaks of the village cemetery. Floral reaching possibilities in the train- The W. M. S. met at the church many dying from heat. - We need offerings came from all parts of ing of negro extension workers for last Wednesday. * Very few attend- rain badly, crops burning up, har- South Carolina to be placed on the more effective service, ed. Our W. M. S. president has ( vest is at hand, berries are poor grave. ! The plan is to hold courses for been very faithful, but she has a crop on account of drought. | Governor Richards was unable to two to four weeks in the following sick child who requires much of I have a lovely 300 acre farm un- be present because of a previous subjects: Dairying; poultry; swine; her attention ai*d the vice presi- der cultivation, and it Is doing well, engagement, but numerous fellow cotton; soils; fertilizers and crops; dent, Mrs. W. R. Gilchrist, will take but like if we had rains. I have members of the state senate, and home gardening and fruits; agri charge of the society until the excellent tenants, been with me other public officials were at the cultural engineering; farm mach- child is sufficiently improved that twelve yesgrs, very dependable. •out-of-doors funeral service. jinery; home and community beau- his mother can resume her posi- My home is in the city here, 7j The senator was shot Thursday tification; rural sanitation and im- tlon. rooms and modem. Wish you as he stood talking to two friends provement; food-canning; dieting, We enjoy reading letters from were here today folks; we would on the streets of Moncks Corner,!selection, and the like; news writ- other communities. Since our picnic at some lake, our state has the county seat. W. L. “Sporty” ing and reports; extension meth- AT ABBEVILLE OPERA HOUSE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY The United States uses more* electricity than all the rest of the world combined. In 1800, when the United States had 5,000,000 population, Europe had only 150,000,000. Eight million dollars will be spent by the Texas and Pacific railway at Ft. Worth Tex., for im- ofovements. Ten thousands Mexican quail have been shipped to Kentucky ta replenish preserves in various parts of that state. Work on the Boulder Dam at the Black canyon will raise the water in the Colorado river so as to provide a lake 110 miles long. Nearly 150 different woven fa brics arc made from cotton. Canada’s cultivated lands have nultinlied ten Told between 1900 faiid 1926. Most tornadoes in this country move toward the northeast. The kiwi, a New Zealand bird no bigger than a hen, lays an egg eight inches long. home demonstration agent has 5,000 inland lakes. 'Tornley, a young man of the coun- aroused so much interest we all I hope my sick friends are rapid- ty, was arrested and charged with seem to know each other better, ly improving again, and those who the shooting. At the state prison and we hope to help make our are enjoying health will continue in Columbia where he was carried county paper one of the best in the to do so. | for safe keeping, he denied his fState. J 4 am sure your Baptist Rally at guilt. Qd« t including organization and demonstratidns; agricultural eco nomics, emphasizing farm man agement, co-operative marketing, and farm finance; and a special course for supervisers. The cours- Richard Arlen and a notable cast are seen in “The Light of Western Stars,” at the Abbeville Opera House, Friday and Saturday. Mary Brian, who played opposite Arlen in his first starring film, “Burn ing Up,” has the leading feminine role, and Harry Green, dialect comedian of “Kibitzer.” funnier than ever in chaps and cn horse back. “The Light of Western Stars” if another of those rousing outdoor action romances, like “The Vir ginian,” and, with Arten and Mary Brian, two of the chief plavers of “The Virginian.” in the leading roles, a sparkling adventure love story is assured. Arlen olays the part of a rough cowboy who tries to win Mary Brian with caveman tactics and fails. Then he applies the brakes, and wins. The story is one of Zane Grey’s most popular tales and, in novel form, enjoyed an universally popu lar reading. It is the first Zane Montana’s prison population has Grey story to be filmed with dialog passed the 700 mark, the largest and, now lor the first time, the it has been since the world war. gripping Western characters step j forward on the screen and talk. It a robin has made its nest in the describes the gripping period. o ' open mouth of a lion’s statue in a the West when banded outlawry Reading (England) garden, made its final stand against en- __ 1 croaching civilization. Fred Koh- C. S. Humphreys, mayor of Ma- ler and Regis Toomey, recently plewood, Mo., occupies an office seen in “Street of Chance,” are in in the City Hall on the spot where the cast. plowed corn fifty-two years ago. The elemented rhenium, discov ered by Noddack and Tacke, was named after the Rhine river. In religious ceremonies of Ti bet, human skullcaps are made into tambourines and thigh bones* into trumpets.