Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thursday^ March 5, 1931 Ai ORM1CK MESSENGER,'McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SEVEN v'EEKI ^ ' r IFW >:OT LET LIGHT SHINE ON TY GOVERNMENT COSTS? Then there’s SOLOMON When asked to tell a natural rose from an artificial one Solomon was stumped. Had to send for a bee to help him out. Lots of business men, otherwise wise, are untaught in insurance matters. This agency knows the leal from the imitation and sees that its clients get sound, adequate protection in the Hartford. Frank C. Robinson Insurance Agency PHONE 66 .McCormick ^iner record of indus- 1 lists Items showing of capital, employ- nt />r labor and business actlv- ’ties and opportunities. Informa tion from which the paragraphs (The State.) Vhe Calhoun Times has been fir- :\S away for long years against the ;osts of the state government—the multiplication of commissions, “fat M salaries, legislative easy vir tue when it has come to increasing its own compensation, and other matters of similar purport. ‘ Understanding the situation in THINGS WORTH KNOWING Almost 600 languages and dia lects are spoken in Europe. New British warships wear a belt of armor fourteen inches thick. using honey in candy making, hoping to find out how to prevent its becoming dark and changing flavor when heated. are prepared is from local papers,, .... .. , usually of towns mentioned, and most of the counties. The State may be considered generally cor rect. Change the kind of bread you use from time to time. Instead of always serving white bread, have whole wheat, rye, raisin, or date bread, once in a while; make rolls of different kinds, com bread, bak ing powder biscuits, muffins, hom iny or graham gems, corn sticks, com pones, or even toasted bread. The.BEST Gray Bair Remedy is Home Made To half pint of water add one ounce bay rum, a small box of Bar bo Compound and one-fourth ounce of glycerine. Any druggist can put this up or you can finix it at home at very little cost. | Apply to the hair twice a week until the desired shade is ob tained. • It will gradually darken' Streaked, faded or gray hair and make it soft and firloeey. Baste will not color the scalp, is not atkky er antsy and does not rub oO» Tin darkens with use, and this tarnish protects the tin; therefore tin utensils should not be scoured simply for the sake of mnking them bright. When food dries or bums on tin utensils it may be removed by heating a weak soda solution in the pan and then wash ing it thoroughly. i ■ 'T-i ALL LIGHT CARS $6.65 WHITTLE BATTERY SERVICE 622 BROAD PHONE 1166 AUGUSTA, GA. Guinea fowl meat is increasing in popularity as a substitute for game birds such as grouse, part ridge, qual, and pheasant. Eyes examin ed. Spectacles, Eye Glasses, and Artificial £yes fitted without Drugs, Drops or Danger. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Optometristi 956 Broad Street Augusta. Ga. Serve children small portions of food so they can clear their plates without urging and without the feeling of being stuffed. Let them ask for second helpings if they are hungry. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE MENT AND DISCHARGE WalhajUa — Construction recent ly* completed on new Federal post office building for this city. Hartsville — W. S. Green to open dry goods store here. Walterboro —- W. H. Hickman opened new meat market in build ing next door to Glover’s Filling Station on Coastal Highway. Georgetown — Roberts Paving Company making rapid progress in paving highway from this city. Plans being prepared for paving Highway No. 40 between Conway and Yauhanna bridge. Allendale — State District For ester considering sites in this vic inity for proposed reforestation tracts. Dillon L. Domblut, merchant of Latta, opened modern depart ment store in building recently vacated by Fliesham Brothers at corner of First Avenue and Main St. Sumter — Alpert’s ready-to-wear shop on North Main Street re-op ened for business. Plans .being urged for construc tion of -southern soldiers hospital building in this state.—Lake City News. Cheraw — Federal Post Office Department appropriated $75,000 for construction of new post office building here. State Highway Department mak ing plans for construction of new bridge across Savannah River be tween ^McCormick and Lincolnton. Camden — Dry goods firm of W. Sheorn & Son moved from present location to building recently va cated by Rogers Grocery Store. Allendale — G. T. Grumpier op ened new and modern grocery store at 610 Railroad Avenue, next to stand occupied by S. Monkow. Newberry — New theatre to be opened for business in near fu ture. X Chevrolet Company • Report Heavy Sales Of Past Year On March 9th, 1931, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, I will render my final accounting as Administrator of the Estate of Sherman Tomp kins, deceased, in the office of the Probate Judge for McCormick, South Carolina, and ask to be for mally discharged as said Admin istrator. x ELI TOMPKINS, Administrator of the Estate of Sherman Tompkins. Bordeaux, S. C., JjTeb. 10, 1931.—4t, . ^ , , A group of 1,853 automobile salesmen who in 1930 sold 122,819 new cars and 192,589 used cars, an average of 170 cars .per man, is be ing honored this month by the Chevrolet Motor Company. They are members of Chevrolet’s 100-Car Club, made up of salesmen throughout the United States, each of whom sold one hundred or more automobiles in the last fiscal year. A medal symbolizing his achieve ment is being presented by Chevro let to each member of the group, and additional honors are being given the 242 who were the leaders. Four have been named national officials of the Club, 36 regional officers and 202 zone officials of the organization. The presenta tion of medals and installation of officers will occur during the month at sales conventions being held in each region and zone in the country. R. W. Wilson, Baltimore, sold an average of 1.44 new and used cars each day, including Sundays and holidays, in 1930 to lead the 100-Car Club, of which he has been named national president. His 1930 total sales were 353 new and 174 used cars, or 527 in all. This is said to be the largest number of automobiles sold at retail in 1930 by ay salesman in the world. Charles A. Ceppi, Syracuse, N. Y., in 1929 proclaimed that year’s world champion retail salesman, was second in 1930 with 321 new and 188 used cars, and becomes vice-president of the Club. R. M. Griffin, New Orleans, credited with 241 new and 15 used car sales, has been named secretary and J. P. Eden, Philadelphia, who sold 235 new and 157 used cars, was named treasurer. Each of the nine regional presi dents of the Club sold an average of 170 new and 70 used cars dur ing the year to take first honors in his section. X It makes very little difference what the other fellow thinks of you, because he will not likely tell you, but others. regards the expenditures there as waste or extravagance at the bung in comparison with the state gov ernment’s waste or extravagance at the spigot.. The Calhoun Times in dicates that it has not been im pressed by waste in the counties for the reason perhaps that the government of Calhoun county is practically speaking, above adverse criticism. The State rejoices that such is the case. We are confident if The Times says the affairs of the coun ty are economically administered that such is a fact. And that fact proves that a county government can be operated without measur able waste. If in one why not in twenty? If in twenty why not in forty-odd? Legislative delegations might see just how Calhoun man ages. Information is needed by the tax-payers of the several counties —information:, about their local costs. Through the co-operation of the Spartanburg delegation and the Spartanburg newspapers those people are getting some light on the inside. Why not extend that policy to embrace every county? * There is astonishing ignorance of local conditions even on the part of the most intelligent taxpayers. And there has been no disposition to lessen that ignorance. Just take, for example, the county “supply” bills. When the taxpayer reads in the papers that this county’s sup ply bill is such and such an amount he gets a notion that said amount represents the cost o county government. Richland’s “supply bill” is less than four hundred thousand dollars. In ad dition there are charges not in cluded in that bill—fixed charges so to speak—which aggregate million or more! We have no kick against costs if we are getting value therefor. We don’t want or expect anything worth anything for nothing; nor a good article for the price of an in ferior one. But until the taxpayers can look on the inside and see just how much and for what they are paying their money they have no opportunity of forming a judgment as to the value they are getting They are in the dark. Why not turn "on all the light? Cloudless weather is necessary in making photographic maps from airplanes.* Scandinavia’s only subway, in Oslo, carried 3,200,000 passengers in the first year of its operation, ending last January. Ripe fruit, such as peaches, when placed in a refrigerator, re lease^ heat, and so require more ice than articles of food that are not “alive/* Japanese oysters, which grow more rapidly and become larger than the American variety, are now being raised profitably on the Pacific coast. Motorcycles k mounted on skis are proving useful in Alaska. Tests indicate that adults can read medium-sized type more rapidly than large-sized type. Chicago averages more than 4,000,000 telephone calls daily. The average cost of gasoline in Bolivia is 65 cents a gallon. There are more than 3,400 spok en languages and dialects in the world. An intoxicating drink is made The United States consumes 60 per cent of the world’s fuel oil. House plants are not likely to thrive in a room where gas is ex tensively used for light or cooking. Proceedings of the London na val conference have been broad cast to Japan by means of radio beam. Six thousand young cherry trees have been sent to the Austrian national botanic gardens as a gift by Prince Takamastsu, of Japan. An iceless refrigerator designed for country districts that have no gas or electricity burns kerosene to cool its contents. During the brief tulip craze in Holland in the seventeenth cen tury, the rise and fall of the bulb ruined many a family financially. A woman’s union has been form ed in Egypt to help girls obtain in dustrial jobs. They receive free instruction, food and clothes for a period of three years. txt When a Queen Dies If the queen in a colony of bees ta 0 Mexteo SaP ° f the CentUI7 dies 111 the winter or early spring, as sometimes happens, a frame or a THE JOY OF BEING AN EDITOR Getting out this paper is no pic nic. If we print jokes people say we are silly. If we don’t, they say we are too serious. If we clip things from other pa pers, We are too lazy to write it down ourselves; If we don’t we are stuck on our own stuff. If we stick close to the job all day, We ought to be out hunting up news. If we do get out and try to hustle We ought to be on the job in the office. If we don’t print contributions, We don’t appreciate true genius; If we do the paper is filled with junk. If we make a change in a fel low’s write up, We are too critical; If we don’t we are asleep. Now like as not someone will say We swiped this one from some other paper. WE DID. —Preston (Minn.) Republican plus Scripps-Canfield Bulletin. X In making fruit salad, cut the fruit in small, shapely pieces. Do not stir them about or they will look mushy and unattractive. Any sorts of fruit that combine well may be used, depending on the season. Fruits for salad are not sweetened; those for fruit cup, used as an appetizer or a dessert, usually have a little sugar sprink led over them before serving time. X Of course you can’t expect your narrow-minded friends to take a broad hint. X There is nothing quite as inter esting as interest, when it is com-* ing your way. , A halibut weighing 720 pounds two of brood may be added to the was once reported as a catch from queenless colony, not only to in- the Atlantic. ^ crease its strength but to provide The first school for girls financed y oun * brooci from whi , ch tbe be f by Chinese in China was establish- can rear a queen. Unless the col ed in 1897. I ony is quite strong, any queen it may rear probably will not be of The island of Jan Mayen, be-1 much value in building up the tween Greeland and Spitzbergen, _ . .. . & - • has been annexed to Norway. | colon y f° r the honeyflow. It is better to unit£ a weak, queenless The great Cullinan diamond | colony with another that is queen- when found weighed more than right, caging the queen in the hive dupois ^ a day or two to prevent her bemg killed. Both colonies should be Death' Of Marjorie Belle Coleman A zinc mine near Miami, Okla., smoked vigorously while being un- once was given away, later being ited; or the weak, queenless colony $250 000 $1 ’ 000 ' ReCently 11 br0Ught may be set on top of the queen- right one with a sheet of newspa- A light weight building tile, re- I P er between, which the bees will cently invented, may make it pos- soon eat away, uniting themselves sible to build skyscrapers higher gradually. Beekeepers iq the North than the present limits. ,, , . ,, ^ ottcn buy queens from southern Norway’s whaling expeditions to ^ ree ders early in the spring. This the South Seas have obtained more plan is better than having the than 1,000,000 barrels of oil in this queenless colony rear one, as it is season’s catch. The purple raspberry is the re sult of crossing black and red raspberries. The average length of a rural free delivery mail route in this country is thirty miles. important that much reared at this season. x brood be We do not see the sun rise un til about eight minutes after its appearance, owing to the time Furman Club Will Write High School Seniors Of S. C. GREENVILLE, March 3.—Offi- taken for the light to travel to the K ers f nd „ an advis ° r y board forthe earth. One of Pennsylvania’s boasts, as revealed by the department of ag riculture, is that the state leads all. _ others in the manufacture 0 f I " us Secretar y John G. Koit recent- Greater Furman club, an organiza tion composed of all Furman uni versity (students and alumni, were chosen by the retiring officers of the club in conference with Alum- pretzels. iy. The officers are James Dew, accidents are due to intoxicated drivers. Automobiles in New York city p 1 f esident ; Horace Bomar wreck $18,000 worth of lamp posts pa ., anfc>ur ^’ vice-president, and each year, and 60 per cent of these Walter Martin, Tifton, Ga., secre- tary. The advisory board is com posed of James Culbertson, Wood ruff; Tom McAfee, Greenville, and A street In the Latin quarter of I B en Ashcraft, Charlotte, N. C Paris, where he waged many polit- T ^ e Greater Furman club was ical battles, has been renamed f or or ^ ani 2ed several yeais ago to help the late Rene Vivani, wartime h^ 1 ^ e growth of * urman, and premier of France. the offlcers elected recently plan P 1 to send out letters to high school Urging that captains be retain- I seniors a11 over the southeast. ed in sound pictures, a^ specialist in problems of the deaf points out g ee( J L oan Flllld that there are 13,062,000 persons in the United States with defective hearing. Little Marjorie Belle • Coleman was born June 21, 1930. She was a. bright sweet child with beautiful blue eyes and dark hair. She had a winning way and brought sunshine to all with whom, she came in contact. She had en twined her little life around the heart strings of all her acquaint ances, so all loved her as their own. She took sick with cold February 20th, and later pneumonia develop ed, which was more than she could bear. About 1:28 o’clock on the morning of Feb. 24, 1931, the death angel came and bore her soul to God who gave it. All that loving and tender hands of father, moth er, and other loved ones, friends and the faithful doctor was done, but God saw fit to bring her short mission to a close. It was hard to part with one so dear, but we have the sweet assur ance that she is masking in the sunlight of God’s great love. On Wednesday, February 25, at 4:30 o’clock her little body was * laid to rest in the family square at Bethany. Messrs. R. J. Mann, Raymond McDonald, Ot { s and Gar ret Goff were pallbearers. The flowers placed on her grave were beautiful. She leaves to mourn her death, her devoted parents, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Coleman, grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Prince, aunts; uncles and cousins besides the lit tle playmates. Just a short while has passed Our hearts are sore As time flies we miss you more Your cheerful voice, your wel come face. No one can fill the vacant place But God alone can comfort, The hearts that mourn you here And our prayer is, To try to meet you in that better world. Only those who knew you Mar jorie, Can really understand, How we miss your happy smiles And clash of your dear little hand. A Friend. txi Card Of Thanks We take this means of thanking our neighbors for their thoughtful attentions and many kindnesses bestowed upon us during the ill ness and at the death of our dear baby, Marjorie Belle Coleman. May God bless each one, is our prayer. Mr. & Mrs. James M. Coleman. -X- Is Now Ready T , . „ . . The Messenger is in receipt of -. epr / Sy .I aS „ k "° Wn m EgyPt aS I the following telegram from Sen- ator Smith: Washington, D. C., February 26, 1931. early as 2400 B. C. Airplanes are now used in trans- Siberia ^ fr ° m ^ g0ldfieldS * I The Messenge^ The Blue river in Nebraska, it is asserted, is the nation’s most highly developed power stream. McCormick, S. C., President has signed appropria tion bill containing my two million dollar seed loan fund and money is now available. Department of agriculture advises me today ap plication blanks are being printed and will be forwarded next week to loan committees in each coun ty now being selected by doctor „ „ ^ „ . Long of Clemson College. Farmers A tall office building in Ham- desiring t(J make , oans shouId burg, Germany, is built to resemble keep ln touch with county com _ a steamship. | m itte es w h 0 can furnish detailed information as soon Texas University has a course in sleeping, designed to give ex hausted students enough sleep un der proper conditions. The only visible evidence of tions are ready. as applica- the interior contents of the earth comes from volcanoes and from digging deep mines and shafts. E. D. SMITH, U. S. Senator. -X Strange as it may seem, a man- Government scientists are ex- I sion never holds as much happi- perimenting with new ways - of ness as a small cottage. It is a good plan to reserve & small corner of the truck garden for a seed-bed. Plants of suck crops as lettuce, cabbage, cauli flower, and tomato will be more stocky if they are started in specially prepared soil and later transplanted. Good soil for a seed bed consists of 1 part of well-rot ted manure, 2 parts of good garden loam or rotted sods, and 1 part of sharp, fine sand. Let the manure rot thoroughly, but do not expose it to the weather. The addition of leaf mold or peat makes a heavy soil better adapted for the seed bed. X Farrowing pens should be sup plied with outside feeding pens or floors away from the pigs where the sows are fed. Make the put- side pen as wide as the farrowing pen, extending 6 or 8 feet beyond the building. If the sow is fed in the farrowing pen, she may crip ple or kill some of the pigs. A guard rail around the inside of the farrowing pen about 10 inches from the floor and 4 to 6 inches from the sides will tend to prevent the sow from crushing the pigs when she lies down. X Copper carbonate is the most satisfactory dust for controlling stinking smut, or bunt, of wheat, says the U. S. Department of Ag riculture, which has tested many fungicides for this disease. Copper chloride and copper oxychloride control smut but are too corrosive for general use in drills, the de partment found. I-I — Termites are often guilty of rid dling wooden foundations of build ings, the under surfaces of floors, bureau drawers, furniture in gen eral, stored paper, old shoes, and cotton fabrics and yarns. These pests also damage living fruit and timber trees, crops, and general vegetation. X Black locust develops rapidly in early years, an important factor i*. growing it for fence post timber