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f i t&f BK*;-' THursday, December 18, 1950 McCVKMlC* v// t+tjK. Mci Page .Number Kou* m' s'-' S&Skl m- »•- * i'.V ,4 , -s' C^ocnn Ti’ancrslflnt. gently worked up and down to be season i ranspiani sure there ^ no 0 p ening left und 3 r ing Trees and Shrubs the place from which the roots o branch. After the hole is partial- muinv anviCF r.IVEN ON ly fllled ’ the soU must be wel1 SUBJECT tramped to bring the roots and the soil into close contact. If the earth The season for transplanting is very dry, water should be applied trees and shrubs has again arrived, before the hole is finally filled. Al and much interest is being mani- ter it has soaked away the balance tested in this line of exterior of the soil should be replaced, but beautification. Many garden lov- without any tramping or firming ers are going to the native woods of any kind after the water is ap- for trees and shrubs and trans- plied. If the work is being done planting them to the home in the fall it is well to make a grounds. This section of the state mound about the plant to prevent has many lively native plants wind from swaying it and loosen- which may be effectively used on ing it in the soil. This mound about the home grounds. These plants the tree should be used only in fall are adapted to our soU, so with transplanting and should be lev- care in transplanting and untU eled down as early as possible in they are well established in their the spring. If the plant is large it pew surroundings, they will give should be securely staked to serve results far better, than the more the same purpose. Mulching with expensive plants which are not coarse manure or straw will aid in suited to our climate or soil, cold countries by preventing frost Among the native trees, shrubs and from penetrating the ground too vines of this county which are deeply and in dry countries by suited to our home grounds are, holding moisture. Mice frequently the oaks in many varieties, maples, harbor under such a mulch and dm* poplars, black gum, birch, girdle the plants when other food beech, catalpa, cedars, hollies, dog is scarce. To prevent such, injury, wood, red bird, or Julas tree, wild collars of wire netting may be plac- crab-apple, ‘honey suckle, Haw- ed about the plant, or the earth thome, mountain laurel, grand-fa- may be mounded up about it with from these may be rooted or the mulch not coming within 2 or bayonet wool-bine, yellow jasemine, 3 inches of the .stems, oross-wire and Southern smilax. | The top of the plant must be There are many cultivated de- pruned somewhat in proportion to ciduous -shrubs and evergreens, the amount of roots that were growing hi this county. Cuttings destroyed in digging. This usual- frpm these may be rooted on ly means that one-half of the top grrinii plants secured and trans- should be cut away when the plant planted, either as foundation has been well dug and handled and plantings, in borders or hedges or three-fourths or more if it has This Week b Arthur Brisbane Fifty Miles, 10 Cents Welcome to Einstein Japan’s Mighty Growth That Strange Death Some very important news about a new engine comes from London. Op erated by gas generated from coke, this engine drove a truck weighing one ton, with 5G0 pounds of passen gers, fifty miles at more than twenty miles an hour, for a total cost of 10 cents. This Is not pleasant news for rail roads, already meeting competition j from automobile trucks that can’t run fifty miles for 10 cents. Professor Einstein, arriving in America, got a noisy reception and didn’t like it. His friends are mathe matics, astronomy, abstract thought. They don’t yell or push. Reporters found it difficult to ques tion Einstein, knowing well that only six men in the world could understand his answers to important questions, and probably no newspaper man is in cluded in the six. as specimen plants. Dr. Furman Lloyd Mulford, As sociate Horticulturist, United States Department of Agriculture gives the following instructions on trans planting deciduous trees shrubs. Transplanting Deciduous Trees And Shrubs (By Furman Lloyd Mulford, As sociate Horticulturist Office of Horticultural Crops and Diseases, Bureafc of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture.) been poorly handled. As far as pos sible this should be done by re moving whole limbs or branches rather than by cutting back the ends, in order that the general and shape or character of the plant may be kept. Failure in transplanting is most often due to the plant and es pecially the roots becoming dry during some of the operations. Success depends upon keeping the roots covered with wet moss, straw, or other efficient covering at all Deciduous plants are* ordinarUy times while moving and by keep- moved when dormant, or from a little before the leaves drop in the autumn until growth starts in the ing them in the ground when not actually being transported. If plants can not be put in their spring. With extra care they may permanent place immediately on be moved at other times. In the 1 receipt they should be put into the •astern half of the United States ground temporarily until the final they may be moved either fall or spring, whenever the ground-- is not too wet. On the Pacific Slope fall is best, because there is a longer time for roots to form be fore hot'dry weather comes. In the •older parts of the intermediate planting can be made. This is us ually called “Heeling in.” It is often a help in protecting the roots from drying out too rapidly and assisting them in coming into im mediate close contact with 'the soil to dip them in very dilute clay LEGAL SHERIFF’S SALE region only spring transplanting anc l cow manure just before plant- should be attempted unless it is ing, or even clay alone. possible to water the plants thor oughly in the fall, to mulch them to prevent the ground from freez ing as deep as the roots extend, and to protect , the tops by wrap ping or boxing so that the winter winds will not dry them out. In the warmer sections of the inter mediate region the longer before hot weather the planting is done, the better, provided ample water can be supplied. The secret of suc cessful transplanting is getting a TAX EXECUTION W. T. STROM, Sheriff. against LANKFORD & WOOD By virtue of a Tax Execution to me directed, I have levied on and will sell to the highest bidder, at Public Auction, within the legal hours of sale, at McCormick Court good root growth started before top ! ls J : n ay - of . . December A. D., 1930, the following growth makes too heavy demands | described property, to wit: upon the roots. In cool moist cli- All that tract or parcel of Land, mates the same care is not de- situate, lying and being in Wash- manded as in warmer or drier ones School District, No. 25, in mandea as m warmer or drier ones., the County of McCormick, South The soil must be of such a tex- | Carolina, and known as Part of the ture or so dry that there will be W. R. Parks Estate, and containing no danger of Its packing hard ? r n t^ 0 i„ a H n L° n ri e oH B “!! d ‘" g ^^? re enough about the roots to bake or East, by Public Highway; North, by become brick-like on drying. Light c. C.Osborne and W. G. Blackwell; soils are not liable to behave in West, by W. G. Blackwell; South, this way, and heavy soils will not, by L ^ vl ° d on^ndto bl told as the if they are sufficiently dry to property of Lankford & Wood to spring apart again after being satisfy the aforesaid Execution and squeezed tightly in the hand. ^Tlrmsr-Cash. The holes should be dug suffi- ] W. T. STROM, ciently wide to take all the roots Sheriff, McCormick County, without doubling them back, and | h l rlff ’ s ° ffice ' d£c deep enough to set the plant a lit- j 1..m m tie deeper than it grew before and CITATION FOR LETTERS still have 2 or 3 inches of good qf ADMINISTRATION new soil under it. The good top! soil should be saved for putting STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, back 'in the hole about the roots of County of McCormick. the plant; the subsoil should be B Y x iV™ T ^?, LL i, PI ? 0 ^ TE T J E DGE: . . . , , . « WHEREAS, Earle C. Jefferson taken away and be replaced by made SU it to me to grant him Let- good soil. Well-rooted manure ters of Administration of the Es- and ground bone or cottonseed fate of and effects of Mrs. Mona M. meal may be liberally mixed with ^thesE ARE THEREFORE to cite the earth about the roots of the and admonish all and singular the newly set tree. These should be kindred and creditors of the said well mixed with the soil but should J£ rs ; M * Jefferson, deceased, .. . ,. . . ... .. that they be and appear before me, not come in direct contact with the in the c ^ urt of probate, to be held roots. at my office at McCormick, S. C., The plant should be set not over J anua ry 3» *931, after publication * ^ , * thereof, at 11 o’clock in the fore- an inch deeper than it grew in the noon, to show cause, if any they nursery; the earth should be fine have, why the said administration and be well worked in among the granted. ... . . GIVEN under my Hand, this 16th roots.. These should be placed as day 0 f December, Anno Domini, nearly in the position they grew as 1930. is possible, care being taken* not L* Q. BELL, to lea,ve them in layers without McCormlcki Judge v •oil between. The plant should be h u-50 —2t The learned professor, supposed to supplant Newton, says the law of gravitation doesn’t act everywhere. Also, straight lines do meet, and, “the infinite universe” is not infinite. It i» all made of curves, and so comes back to the place whence it started. At least, that is how it sounds to igno rance, which asks Professor Einstein: “If the universe isn’t infinite, what is located outside of its boundaries? And if, as you say, there was a point in past history when time actually be gan, how do you explain that?” Professor Einstein says: “I explain it perfectly, but you can’t understand the explanation.” What can you reply to that? A mouse can’t understand a tele phone, although it hears the bell ring ing every day. In any case Einstein is a gigantic mathematical genius. No doubt about that, and he Is most welcome. In spite of earthquakes, tidal waves and restricted territory, census re turns show that Japan’s population is 64,557,000, more than 4,000,000 in crease in five years. Greater Tokyo, with a population of 4,968,000, is the world’s third city. Including colonies, Japan’s population is 90,000,000. >A great, powerful people, the Jap anese. What would be their number had they been able to spread unre stricted on our Pacific coast? Mysterious death, carried by the fog and killing scores in r Belgium, wor ries the British. Reassuring words, to the effect that it only injured those that were already ill or very old, are not convincing. In Yorkshire, near Grosmount, ten cattle are found mysteriously dead in the fog, with symptoms that look much like those of the Belgian death fog, which also killed cattle. Could it be—one guess is as good as another—that the recent shower of meteorites brought with it from dis tant space some poisonous substance that, reduced to powder by contact with the atmosphere, floats about in the fog and Is carried into the lungs? Meteorites bring us iron, copper, gold. Why not arsenic or a worse unknown poison from some vicious interstellar neighbor? Russians are now’ accused of send ing us “gas generator” anthracite coal for $1 a ton less than it costs to produce. That probably is guess work. We don’t know wiiat is costs Russia to produce coal. You will be told by the ignorant and those that reject real science in favor of some substitute that “germs and microbes” are all nonsense, every thing being “in the mind.” The authorities of a hospital had no such theory, fortunately. Five patients died, strangely, immediately lifter op erations. Investigation show'ed that a sterilizing machine, employed in the operating room, had insufficient steam heat, and streptococci and staphylo cocci on operating room linen passed through it unharmed and killed the patients with whom they came in contact. Mr. Hyde, secretary of agriculture, says that government lending money to buy human food is “perilously near” the dole. On the other hand, allowing many people to be hungry might bring you “perilously near” to dfcngferous rioting or something worse. The dole is humiliating to those that receive, expensive to taxpayers that provide. The British, grown wise by watch ing the mistakes of others, know that the important thing is to keep human beings fed. Then you can manage them. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts wants the government to establish a five-day week in government service to help the employment situation. Industrialists have learned that the eight-hour day is possible and bene ficial. Year In and year out men will do more good w’ork in eight hours a day than they would in ten hours a day. Perhaps It will be discovered that men can do more work In a five-day week lifetime than on the old plan. ((2). 1930. by Kins Feature* Syndicate. Inc.) This Week b Arthur Brisbane Money and Guns To Boycott Italy What Is Health? The Worst Hatred Two things are powerful in this country, money and sawed-off shot guns and other paraphernalia of the gangster. Mr. Thaw escaped easily from the Matteawan hospital for the criminal ly insane some time ago. He had money. From the same hospital recently es caped six supposed maniacs, some of them convicted murderers. Three gun men released them, defying the state, overpow’ering the guards. It is suggested that Mussolini may be compelled to take the advice of the big three concerning Italy’s navy, etc., by cutting olf her credit. The big three, as you know’, are France, Great Britain an<f the United States. If they arrange, as suggested, to refuse all loans to Italy, Mussolini might find it difficult to survive. On the other hand, something might happen that w’ould hurt the feelings of the big three considerably more than Mussolini’s Italy has ever hurt them. With Mussolini down, chaos, fol lowed by anarchy and disagreeable consequences, might develop. The big three should know that one Russia in Europe is enough at a time. A girl from Iowa and a boy from Missouri are selected as the “health iest boy and girl in the nation.” The girl scored 99.7 out of a possible *100 points. The boy scored 98.7. Such scoring, or course, means lit tle. Life and health depend primarily on heart, kidneys, lungs and nerve force. The lungs can be developed, heart and kidneys can be protected. Nervous energy can be built up somewhat, but you get most of it at birth. Voltaire, as a baby, had fits, and if it hadn’t been for a kind-hearted Catholic priest, who showed his moth er how to take care of him, putting him in hot water when the fits came on, he would have died as a baby. In stead, having wonderful nervous force, he died in Paris long past eighty- after a tremendous triumph, in which one of his plays was produced. The populace took the horses from his carriage and dragged him home. He had worked furiously all his life. Health goes deeper than pink cheeks and sparkling eyes. The worst of all hatreds is religious hatred. In one of 1 the recently ea* tablished Balkan countries four hun dred students celebrate a gathering by beating with heavy sticks all the Jews they meet and smashing windows in stores owned by Jews. A mob of 200 prevented the Cath olic archbishop of Liverpool from en tering Notre Dame convent to attend a prize giving. The convent windows are stoned, railings tom down and the archbishop pelted by the mob, but, fortunately, he escaped serious injury. A recent fire in a Catholic church in New York city is attributed to arson, as is another in New Jersey. Lady Astor gives a party and in vites only w’omen, thirty-six of them, who, says she, are the thirty-six most important women in England. And they are all workers in some field, scientists, doctors, government workers. Not one would be called by our American reporters ‘ a society woman” or anything approaching it. It would be interesting to print the pictures of those thirty-six women selected by Lady Astor and contrast with their faces the thirty-six most important women, if they could be identified, in the New York city’s “four hundred,” selected by Ward McAllister long ago. Which set of thirty-six faces do you think would show the moat intelligence? Dr. Miller Reese Hutchison has a new invention, and Hawks, our greatest air pilot at the momertt. ^ls experimenting with it. The importance of this invention, if Doctor Hutchi son’s hopes are realized, cannot be exaggerated. It w’ill take from the fumes of gaso line the deadly quality that poisons the air in great cities, causing occa sional deaths in closed garages. Any workman fighting against im proved methods, in machinery or any thing else fights against himself in the long run. Similarly any individual that fights against a new Idea also fights against himself. In Britain’s cotton Industry, as In certain lines of work here, workers refuse to do as much or even half as much as they might do if they chose. They call this “helping ths other man to get a job.” Mill owners in England offered in creased pay to their workers, almost doubling wages, if the men would at tend to eight looms Instead of ths usual four, which they could do quite well. The men say “no.” They want to do half as much as they can, so as to give twice as many men work. That idea will keep them poor and force in machines that will do mors than'men ever, dreamed of doing. To fight progress Is folly. UB. 1939. by King F**tur** Sjrndlcat*. 1*0.» ; REDUCTIONS Be sure to take advantage of the attractive reductions on high quality merchandise at our store. We have our prices down on the level with the price of cotton and urge you to carefully scrutinize the list below and call by and see the numerous other items we have for you at prices you don’t mind paying. Our store is headquarters for Christmas Gifts of every dercription for the youngsters and grown ups. Bring the children in and let them see the pretty toys. Among our hundreds of specials are: 1 lot Ladies’ all leather Sunday Slippers, $2.95 to $3.95 values __ $2.39 1 lot Ladies’ Sunday Slippers $1.49 pr. 1 lot Ladies* Sunday Slippers $1.79 pr. 10c roll Toilet Paper 3 for 20c Children’s 19c Hose, sizes 5 to 9 10c pr. $1.00 to $1.95 Ladies’ Hats 75c $1.00 Men’s Work Shirts 75c $1.00 Broadcloth Dress Shirts 75c $3.00 to $3.50 Men’s Black Sunday Oxfords pair $2.50 Ladies’ $1.00 Full Fash ioned Hose, Bemberg, pair 75c 1 lot Ginghams and Percale 5c 1 lot Outing and Cham- brays, 2 yds for 15c All Aluminum Ware from $1.00 to $1.25 Kettles, Percolators, etc. each 75c 50c Enameled Dish Pans for only 25c 75c Enameled Dish Pans for only 35c HEADQUARTERS $1.50 Gold Band Plates or Cups and Saucers, a close out, each set __75c Big heavy 15c white Plates, each 10c Men’s Drawers 39c Men’s Undershirts - 49c Men’s Unions, suit 85c Boy’s Heavy Unions pair 75c Boy’s light weight Un ions, 2 pair 75c $1.00 to $1.25 Sweaters each 79c $1.50 to $2.00 Sweaters each $1.19 Few extra good high priced ones less than they cost. 15c and 20c large Tin Pans, 2 for 10c 5c Tin Pie Plates, 3 for 10c 5c Tin Cups, pint size, 3 for 10c Boy’s $1.15 Overall Jackets, plenty of poc kets, only 75c 1 lot Ladies’ high top everyday Shoes $1 ?5 1 lot Men’s Scouts $1.75 1 lot Men’s $2.95 Work Shoes $2.00 A Real Bargain: FOR SANTA CLAUS SMITH’S 5 & 10c STORE Main Street McCormick, S. C. = B" 3E ATL EVERY DAY IN WEEK Since the decline in the price of cat tle and hogs we have reduced prices on all fresh, meats in order that our cus tomers may share in the benefits and enjoy good fresh meat every day in the week. Come to the market and shop in person or phone No. 19 and have us deliver your order promptly at no extra cost to you. Fish and oysters of best quality at prices you can well afford to pay. We are members of the give away club; ask us for particulars. Look at these low prices and pay us a visit: Choice Steak 20c Beef Roast 15c Stew Beef 12V2C Mixed Sausage, 20c lb. 2 lbs. for _ 35c Pork Sausage 25c Whole Pork Ham 23c Pork Chops 25c Breakfast Bacon .915c Cured Ham 35c Boiled Ham 55c Weiners 25c Balogna 25c Fish- — — 12V2C T. HOWARD SMITH’S MEAT MARKET : McGORMICK, S. C. * t \ * * ft ✓j