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Thursday, January 15, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA page number two New Farm Agent Reports For Duty Mr. Thos. W. Morgan announces that he has taken over the duties of county agent, of Aiken county, £nd is occupying the office in room 14 of the Bank of Western Caro lina building, formerly occupied by Mr. C. Lee Oowan. Mr. Morgan states that he will be glad for the farmers of the county to call by his office when in town, and asks them to call up on him at any time for his services when they are in need of him. Mr. Morgan comes to Aiken county with nine years experience in ag ricultural work, and is anxious to be of service to the farmers of the county.—Aiken Journal Review. A New Road To Prosperity (The Dillon Herald.) -. ‘ t '4 * »■* FOR YOU . FOR ME . . .• that / refreshing pause , Tune in on our radio program. Famous sports celebrities talk... An / all-string 31-piece dance orchestra. . .. Every Wednesday night... i* V ' v WSB or WBT Greenwood Coco-Cola ! Bottling Company v Greenwood, S. C. # ovbb Nine Million a day to ■■ TT TO -T- ■ AD O BT GOOD IT I'S ALL LIGHT CARS - WHITTLE BATTERY p-' f SERVICE 622 BROAD . PHONE 1166 AUGUSTA, GA. Auditor’s Notice Somebody is always starting something to take the joy out of life. A man over in McCormick county proposes a law that would prohibit the state -highway de partment from issuing an automo bile license to a man except upon proof from the county treasurer that the man had paid all taxes assessed against him and also a statement from the bank that the man owed it no money. But just what would happen if the general assembly could be in duced to pass such a law? * The au tomobile dealers would have to go, out of business and ninety per cent of the people would have to go back to walking. It would be quick way to restore prosperity in South Carolina, but The Herald doubts if the people want that brand of prosperity. The majority would rather live in the woodshed and suffer the pangs of hunger than to give up the motor car. There is no doubting the fact that the joy wagons have a powerful hold on the people. And South Carolina is not by itself. txt Schedule Of Home Demonstration Work For Next Week Everything * you want or need in a motor ear I will be at the following places on dates named to take tax re turns for 1931, on all personal property, by owner, trustee, guard ian, administrator, attorney, agent, etc. Office, Jan. 1st to 13th. Mt. Carmel, Jan. 14th, 9 to 12.» Willington, Jan. 14th, 2 to 4, p. m. J. C. Talbert’s, Jan. 15th, 9 to 10. Bordeaux, Jan. 15th, 10 to 12. J. J. Link’s, Jan. 16th, 9 to 11. Young’s School House, Jan. 17th, 10 to 12. Office, Jan./19th. E. M. Morgan’s, Jan. 20th, 10 to 12. Holley’s or Farmers Supply Co., Jan. 20th, 2 to 4 p. m. Ella Lagroon’s, Jan. 21st, 10 to 12. R. T. Mayson’s, Jan. 21st, 2 to 4 p. m. R. H. Quarles’, Jan. 22nd, 9 to 11. E. L. Hollingsworth’s, Jan. 22nd, 10 to 12. Plum Branch, Jan. 22nd, 2 to 5 p. m. Meriwether, Jan. 23rd, 10 to 12. Clarks Hill, Jan. 23rd, 2 to 4 p. m. Office, Jan. 24th, to 26th. Modoc, Jan. 27th, 10 to 12. Parksville, Jan. 27th, 2 to 4 p. m. Office Jan. 28th to February 20th. After that date penalty will be charged to those that refused to make returns. All male persons from 21 to 55 years are liable for road tax; all from 21 to 60 years are liable for poll tax, and should make returns if you don’t pay any other tax. C. W. PENNAL, Auditor, M. C. Monday, January 19, 3:00 p. m., Mt. Carmel-Willington 4-H Club at Mt. Carmel. Tuesday, January 20, 2:45 p..m., Rehoboth H. D. C. Wednesday, January 21, 12:35 p. m., McCormick High School 9th grade. 3:00 p. m., Bordeaux H. D. C. Thursday, January 22, 2:30 p. m., Bellevue H. D. C. at home of Mrs. J. B. Branch. Friday, January 23< 3:00 p. m., Parksville H. D. C. at home of Mrs. R. N. Edmunds. Saturday, January 24, 2:30 p. m., White Town H. D. C. at home of Mrs. Frank White. —IXt Thos. W. Morgan New County Agent Thomas W. Morgan, newly ap pointed Aiken County farm demon stration agent, Monday succeeded C. Lee Go wan, who recently resign ed atter having served in the of fice for the past several years.' Mr. Morgan’s appointment was made Public a month ago by Dr. W. W. Jong, director of the Clemson Ex tension Service. Mr, Morgan C6mes to Aiken high- y recommended, having been county agent at McCormick for the last seven years. He graduated from Clemson College in 1923, and taught two years as an agricul tural teacher in Orangeburg before going to McCormick. The departure of Mr. Gowan from Aiken will be regretted. He has done excellent work in the county, especially in building up the 4-H clubs. Mr. Morgan says that he will be Very glad for the farmers of the. county to call by the office when they are ill town, and urges them to call upon him for services when they have need of him. He is anxi ous to be of service to the farmers. Miss Mable Bradwell has accept ed a position in Mr. Morgan’s of fice.—Aiken Standard. X Health And Profits In Home Gardens THE more you see of the new Ford, the more you realize that it brings you everything you want or need in a motor car. • • • And at an unusually low price. Its substantial beauty of line and color is ap parent at a glance. Long, continuous service em phasizes the value of its simplicity of design and the high quality that has been built into every part. The new Ford accelerates quickly and it will do 55 to 65 miles an hour. It is an easy-riding car because of its specially designed springs and four Houdaille double-acting hydraulic shock absorb ers. It has fully enclosed four-wheel brakes and the added safety of a Triplex shatter-proof glass windshield. Operation and up-keep costs are low and it has the stamina and reliability that mean thousands of miles of uninterrupted service. See the nearest dealer and have him give you a demonstration ride in the new Ford. Check up every point that goes to make a good automobile and you will know it is a value far above the price. The New Ford Tudor Sedan LOW PRICES OF FORR CARS ri\ to F. O. B. Detroit, phu freight mnd delivery. »mmU rott. Vou mm pmrekesm m Ford en eemnmmlcml terms tkrem^k lip Ford Finer*** Flent of the Umloorsmi Credit Company, CLEMSON COLLEGE, Jan. 7.— That demonstration gardens prov ed to be a big factor in the recup eration stage for the contestants in 1930 is a conclusion drawn from the reports that are now being checked by the Extension Service, which conducted this contest. An outstanding illustration of this is revealed in Mrs. N. L. Couch’s report and statement. She sold $764.39 worth of products, canned 203 quarts, and made 1870 servings for a family of six from her 1-4-acre. “I have gotten much pleasure out of my garden,” she says. “Really, I have had a health garden that has meant much to me and my. family. Not only does it keep us healthy, but happy as well. | No more will I be without my = mostly raw vegetables, and milk. It wasn’t long until they were nor mal.” ■ : * 4 “I have tried Xo haye a garden the year round,” says Mrs. W. S. Creech, Olar, who made 1429 serv ings for a family * of 14, canned 624 1-2 quarts, and sold $121.10 worth of products from her 1-4- acre. “I never go to the store for anything that I can grow in my 8. C. WEEKLY i South Carolina Leads INDUSTRIAL REVIEW The following record of indus trial activity lists items showing investment of capital, employ ment of labor and business activ ities and opportunities. Informa tion from which the paragraphs are prepared is from local papers, usually of towns mentioned* and may be considered generally cor rect. Advertiser compares favorably with weekly papers that are published in larger and wealthier towns in the state. Now, will, not the local business interests assist us in mak ing the paper a greater factor in 1931? We want the stranger who reads The Advertiser to get a fav orable impression of the town and county in which it is publish ed. Will you not help us to ac- garden and I sell lots of my can- complish this worthy aim?—Edge- ned stuff through the winter.” field Advertiser. Mrs. M. Griffin, Rock Hill, had a 1-4-acre garden in town from which she cooked and sold enough j The Child’s Allowance products to pay for an operation for one member of the family,, made 2003 servings, and canned Child specialists believe that 271 quarts. Easley — Street traffic signal in stalled at corner of Main and Table Rock Streets here. Cheraw — Contract for grading Highway No. 9 between this place and Chesterfield let recently. Chesterfield — Highway between here and Pageland to be hard-sur faced soon. Newberry — Z. F. Wright pur chased old Klettner home on Cald well Street, and will erect brick home for Methodist parsonage. Bishopville — City water tower painted recently. Pickens J. E. Ward opened new garage and repair shop in building formerly occupied by Smith’s Garage. Walterboro — F. E. Dunham of Peoples Water Service Company, having warehouse and work shop erected at rear of power plant. Bishopville — Construction of 1.- 083 miles of State highway and 5.4 mile^ of bridge work contract ed for under $65,000,000 bond pro gram since first contracts let May 20, 1930. Practically all work com pleted. Pickens — Snlith’s Garage moved to building formerly occupied by Ray Lynch opposite Methodist Church. Columbia — Broad River Power Company ordered by Supreme Court to resume operation / of street railways in this city. Allendale — Pastime Theatre remodeled and repaired and Vita- phone installed recently. X A Small Farmer Fighting Through Newspaper Reflects / The Town a pocket allowance works best when it is in no way dependent on work done to help in the house, but is given in order to train the child in the use of money. Help in sim ple tasks should be expected as a matter of course, and an allowance It is said, and with much truth, of some sort given also as a mat- that a newspaper reflects the town ter of course. Do not use the al- in which it is published, so far as lowance as a means of discipline, the progressiveness of the town Find other ways of teaching obed- goes. A neatly printed, well edited ience or other necessary lessons, newspaper which is liberally pat- Very unusual tasks may be paid ronized as an advertising medium for, if the child would otherwise by the local merchants, indicates have a continual sense of drudgery that the community is enterpris- connected with everything around ing and prosperous. On the oth- the home. For example, dishwash er hand, a carelessly printed and mg is something everyone should poorly edited paper which carries help with. Everyone makes dishes practically no local advertisements, dirty. Window washing, painting, indicates that the town in which mowing the lawn, cleaning the cell- it is published is lacking in enter- ar, and similar occasionaljasks, of- prise and progress—is dead/ in oth- ten a little heavy for a child, may er words. rewarded by definite pay, just Help us to make The Edgefield °s one might pay an outsider to do COLUMBIA, Jan. 7.—Perhaps no better instance of grit, energy, and perseverance in working out a new salvation for the small farmer who formerly staked his all on cotton can be found in Richland county than that of James H. Lever on Columbia, Route 3, who has turned from -cotton to the cow, hog, hen program, and who is already con vinced that cows, pigs, and chick ens will make him single-handed an easier living than he has ever had before. On his small farm of 41 acres Mr. Lever used to plant 15 acres of cotton. This year he plant ed no cotton. Last year on two acres he made one bale and lost perhaps $25 on the venture; where as he would have made 80 bushels of corn and 15 bushels of soybeans, which would h^ve brought in say $125 at a total production cost of $35 or less. He is convinced that ■'■'ybfcc.ns are the salvation for jma:r T farmers in his situation who furring to livestock, for says he: “soy'ce?-' grazing saves labor, my sakes. rpd c’mense.” Last year . he planted six acrcn of B’loxi soys in corn, gathered the corn, and grazed six head of ari some hogs and other animals 'or tv/r months on these beans. Five Guernsey and Jersey ao ' * grade heifefls are being grown on this year for sale and two cows are milked regularly. Two brood sows will be supplemented by two more to furnish a supply of pigs for feed ir°r. This year he fed 21 nigs usin^ ''ome bought corn, and cleared $105.58 above all costs even with corn at high price. He has also 45 Red hens and is saving 63 of this year’s pullets to enlarge the flock. On these 45 hens.a strict record shows nearly $i ner year per hen for ^bor and profit. In his pig feeding venture thi* vear he had for partner his son James, a 15-year-old clubster. to whom belonged 11 of the 21 pigs. With a self-feeder which the coun ty agents and livestock specialists advised and helped build. James’ j 666 also in Tablets 11 pigs were fed continuously on — : - == In Quality Of Cotton CLEMSON COLLEGE, Jan. 5.— South Carolina has the place of honor for the Southeast in the production of better staple cotton, according to data just released by the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics, showing that South Carolina has 48.0 per cent of her crop in the 15-16 to 1 1-16-inch staple class; North Carolina 39.5- per cent; Georgia 15.6 per s cent; Alabama 5.4 per cent. South Caro lina also leads North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma in per cent of eptire crop tender able on futures con tracts, 96.6 per cent of the South Carolina crop being tenderable. Alabama has only 58.5 per cent tenderable. These data show that South Carolina farmers are making more rapid progress in improving the quality of their crop than any oth er Southeastern state, says R. W. Hamilton, extensions agronomist,, who feels that this progress may be attributed to the fact that this state was the first to realize that its cotton was not meeting the require ments of its cotton mills and the first to make a concerted effort to produce that quality of cotton re quired by the mills. During the past five years more than 4000 farmers have entered the. South Carolina Five-acre Cot ton Contest for improvement of quality and yield per acre. This contest is sponsored by the South Carolina Manufacturers’ Associa tion, is conducted by the Clemson College Extension Service, and is encouraged by leading farmers, business men, newspapers, bankers, and progressive agencies through out the state. X Effective Advertising (The Spartanburg Herald.) Advertising is the newspaper’s biggest source of revenue. Cut it off and the press can’t carry on so well. Naturally the policy of the newspaper is to cry in a loud voice: “It pays to advertise.” But the newspaper is not alone in this praise for the printed word and picture is the greatest and cheap est advertising medium the world has ever known. Industrial and economic Readers have been convinced of the appeal of newspaper advertising for gen erations. No product, neglecting the press as an advertising medium, has ever carried on to stand in the charmed circle of nationally and internationally known products. This is an accepted fact. Man will never find a match for the printed word as an advertising medium. This city has recently been the scene of a number of sweeping furniture sales. Thousands upon thousands of dollars—cold,' hard cash—were spent in the houses conducting the sales. Officials ^de clare the receipts reached figures they never dreamed would be at tained. The sales were heralded in display newspaper advertising. Great pages prepared a region for great sales. Thousands read and came to buy^ And now an official of Sterchi Brothers says: “We are great be lievers in newspaper advertising. Firms that do not use the newspa-' cers are simply overlooking the- best and cheapest medium. It is' ^ard for me to understand how "r’ T firm expects to succeed, just there waiting for customers ^ walk in. You’ve got to tell them h oi't it. Newspaper advertising oays uiusually big dividends in Spartanburg. I want to congratul ate the two papers on their pulling power.” This official is right. The man who builds the best mouse trap will never see the world beat a path "■o his door unless he yells about his trap from the house-top. 666 is a doctor’s Prescription for COLDS and HEADACHES It is the most speedy remedy known Advertiser reflect a wide-awake, hem. Where the ready cash in a health garden. A few months ago progressive town in 1931. The mak- family is too small to permit any two of my children were under- | ers can hot do this alone. The pay, the spirit of teamwork can be A man who starts out in life to weight and they seemed to be very local merchants and business men so strongly developed that no work hit the high spots eventually has unhappy. I began to give them $0 go into low gear. , quantities of fruits and vegetables, must do their part. Some people need seem like drudgery, unfairly are kind enough to say that The imposed on unwilling shoulders. yellow corh, fishmeal, shorts, aftjj ! Try this: Heat an unopened can soybean grazing, while the other r' of salmon in boiling water. Make pigs were hand-fed. The son’s J' a boiled dressing such as you would pigs at 180 days weighed 48' use for cole slaw, or hollandaise pounds more than the father’s 13 sauce. Open the can of salmon very pigs, which at 10.25 cents pe~ carefully, wrapping it in a towel pound meant a profit of about $50 to prevent scalding the hands, and in favor of the new idea of self- pour the hot sauce over it. Chopped, feeding. : . 4 parsley may he added itdesirei^ *