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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SEVEN Thursday, May 7, 1931 McCormick High School News i SPELLING CONTEST. Wednesday at fourth period a spelling contest was held in Miss Johnson’s room. Misses Kennedy, Rei$ and McCord, the English teachers, selected the three best spellers in each of the sections they taught. At the end of the period seven were standing. These spelled in Chapel Thursday. To Helgn Talbert, the winner, we ex tend the heartiest congratulations. She will represent this school in the county contest to be held here soon. The person that wins then will participate in the state con test at Winthrop. IttJBY WHITE. PERSONALITY. Personality is that which con stitutes distinction of person and the reflection of which every boy must have if he would be a man indeed, and every girl must have if she would truly be a woman. A strong personality shines some times in history like a bright star in the sky, and comes into this world, lives an unselfish life and does great things in countless lit tle ways. To have a strong personality, we must grow up to be strong against temptations, quick to make a noble resolve, slow to anger and patient in adversity. We must put on the whole armor of our being. We must be honest. We owe it to ourselves, to our neighbors, and to the world to be honest, for an honest man is the noblest work of God. And again, we must be hum ble, for in this great world, with all the majesty of nature ’round about us, the proudest man may even be humble. It will help us all our lives to be humble and to sit at the feet of those who c&n give us wisdom. It never helps us to pretend to kno^r the things we do not know. It is humility that has given the world its great est pride. Love to one’s fellow man shines in one’s personality. The best life that we can live is the life of love, a warm outpouring of the heart toward others and the nat ural drawing of the hearts of oth ers toward ourselves. We must be thoughtful in making others happy, let our hearts speak with truth, kindness and dignity. A strong personality reflects be sides these things, clearness, ambi tion, strength of will, determina tion, perseverance and courage. They are within the reach of all and are stepping stones to happi ness. They will win for every boy and girl a welcome everywhere and as Sir Francis Bacon said “Are Letters of Perpetual Recommenda tion.” Far back in the imagination of the world is the splendid figure of a man whose personality won for him a central glory in the great past. He is the everlasting figure of purity, of singleness of purpose of high and noble aim. He had gone out into the world true, brave, and pure and had let nothing evil come into his life. It was Tenny son's Sir Galahad. Like Galahad we must set a great purpose before us and follow it to the end. Let nothing mean, selfish or ignoble enter into our souls. Be brave, with the courage of David; be true with the truth of Washington; be pure with the pur ity of the Maid of Orleans and let our personality shine as Sir Gala had’s did. ALLEEN ARRINGTON. McCORMICK VS. PARKSVILLE. On Tuesday afternoon, April 28, the McCormick High School base ball team played Parksville on the Washington High School dia mond. It resulted in a victory for McCormick, the final score being 6 to 3. Both teams played good ball and the game was most inter esting. The lineup for McCormick was as follows: r. f.—Walker. c. f.—Talbert. 1. f.—Gibert. 1. b.—Bentley. 2 b.—McGrath, D. s. s.—Taylor. 3 b.—Schumpert. c.—Wiggins. ~\ ; p.—McGrath, J. T. subs.—Hendrix and Freeland. Tuesday May 5, McCormick meets Parksville on the home field at the McCormick High School building. Let’s everybody come out and help our team win. WELBOURNE SCHUMPERT. CHEESE’S BOX. Mrs. Blackwell: . "Leonard, the girls will never kiss you with that NO MORE or mice, after you use RAT-SNAP It’s a sure rodent killer. Try a Pkg. and prove it. Rats killed with RAT-SNAP leave no smell. Cats or dogs won’t touch it. Guaranteed. 35c size - I cake - enough for Pantrv, Kitchen or Cellar. G5c size - 2 cakes - for Chicken House, coops, or small building?. >1.25 size - 5 cakes - enough for all farm and out-buildings, storage buildings, or factory buildings. Sold and guaranteed by STROMS’ DRUG STOR^ McCormick, S. C. Tho ( government maintains a wenty-acre fur farm in the foot hills of the Adirondack mountains n New York, where methods of producing fur-bearing animals in captivity are studied. dirty face.” Leonard: "That’s what I figur ed.” E. C. Winn: "My daddy is an Elk, a Moose, a Lion, and an Eagle.” Bill Bracknell: "How much does it cost to see him?” Wilton Brown: "Hey, Mama! That dentist I went to wasn’t pain less.” Mother: "Why, did he hurt you?” Wilton: "No, but he yelled just like any other dentist when I bit his finger.” Robert: "Jack Hendrix is work ing with five hundred men under him.” Leonard: "What’s he doing?” Robert: "Mowing lawns in a cemetery.” Miss Bowles: "Can anyone tell me what makes the tower of Pisga jean?” Neil Ridlehoover: "I don’t know, or I’d take some myself.” James Lyon to Louise Davis: "Do you carrot all for me? My heart beets for you and my love is as soft as squash. But I’m strong as an onion for you’re a peach. With your turnip nose and your radish hair you are the apple of my eye. If you cantaloupe with me, lettuce marry any how, for I know weed make a pear.” The Lanier Literary Society held its regular meeting in the audi torium Thursday, April 30. The meeting was called to .order by the president and the following program was carried out: Installation of officers. Roll call by the secretary—Alma Faulkner. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Business. ' Introduction of program by new president—Elsie Langley. First talk—^Qualities we admire in our friends—Katherine Brown. Second talk—Friendship between great men—Bill Dowtin. Poems—Elizabeth McAlister. Special music—Martha Lang. Debate—Resolved—That you may be judged by the friends you keep. Affirmative—Margaret Burnside and Wilbur Reames. Negative—Virginia Freeland and Sam Price. The judges decided in favor of the negative side. Jokes—Jack Coleman. Current Events—Lucy Franklin. Critic Report—Eugenia Langley. BETTY WORKMAN. LEGION PROGRAM A SUCCESS. The meeting of the American Legion held at the high school building last Thursday night was in every way a success. Every one thoroughly enjoyed the pro gram. After a wonderful play, given by boys and girls of De la Howe, the Artillery Band played several mili tary pieces, after which several visitors made short talks. Among them were: Mr. Dan Lewis from Clemson College and Commander A. Stanley Llewellyn, head of the Legion. Perhaps the most stirring thing was when the audience arose and bowed their heads while a member of the band blew "Taps” in mem ory of the boys who gave their lives for their country. Another visitor was a little boy from De la Howe whose father had been wounded in the war and who died last Christmas. He wore the Commander’s badge throughout the program and sat among the distinguished visitors. At the conclusion of the pro gram the band played "The Star Spangled Banner,” after which we marched out by another military piece. How To Make Perquisites and Wages Horse Parasite Notice Of Election Log Houses The farmer who lives in a sec tion of the country where cutover land is being brought into culti vation or in any locality where timber is readily available can construct inexpensive and useful buildings, both permanent and temporary, from logs and poles. Loghouse construction was well un derstood by the pioneers, but—like other primitive arts—its principles are not so well known today. Far mers’ Bulletin 16S0-F, The Use of Logs and Poles in Farm Construc tion, may be obtained from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. X Onion smut can be controlled by applying a formaldehyde solution in the row with the seed by means of a drip attachment on the seed er. Use 2 fluid ounces of 37 to 40 per cent formaldehyde solution (or formalin) to a gallon of water, ap plying 1 gallon to about 370 feet of row. A peculiar thing about onion smut is that the fungus attacks the plant only in the young seedling stage. Smut does not attack plants grown from sets. Seedlings grown on healthy soil until they are 3 or 4 inches high and then transplant ed into the field are not attacked by onion smut. — t Xt Owners of land in Georgia, under the Georgia plan of fire protection, carried on by the State Forest Ser vice with the co-operation of the Federal Government under the Clarke-McNary act, find it possible to keep down fires in their tim ber for 3 to 10 cents an acre a year. Districts are organized with 10,000 acres, or more. Firebreaks are built, telephones installed, watch towers manned, and picked men respond to fire alarms. Last year less than 1 per cent of the protected area was reported as burned over, as against a reported average well above 20 per cent in' unprotected sections. x Cake icing can always be made successfully by using a double boiler and a dover egg beater. In to the top of a double boiler 1 cup of granulated sugar, 4 tablespoons | of cold water, 1 egg white, and a ! pinch of salt. Commence at once beating over boiling water until the mixture looks like ordinary boiled frosting and is almost thick enough. Take from the stove, add 1-2 teaspoon vanilla, and continue beating until right for spreading. If too thin the icing can be cooked a little longer; if too stiff water may be added and the whole re cooked. If chocolate frosting is wanted, add 2 1-2 squares of melted unsweetened chocolate when tak ing the icing from the stove. For caramel icing make caramel sirup and substitute 2 tablespoons of it for 2 of water and make the icing in the usual way. x L- before washing a sweater, meas ure it and write down the dimen sions. After it is washed and rins ed, spread it, back side down, with sleeves outstretched, on several thicknesses of clean, soft material. Shape it according to the original dimensions. Turn occasionally un til dry. X Someone has said that "Thrift is telling your money where to go, while shiftlessness is asking your self where it went.” The beginning of any month is a good time to start a budget. X Try strawberry pie or tart, made with a baked shell filled with fresh ripe strawberries, over which is poured a sauce made from a cupful of extra juice thickened with 11-2 tablespoons of cornstarch, sweeten ed to taste. X Commercial fertilizers won’t give satisfactory results in the garden unless the soil is well supplied with humus and moisture. Turning un der green crops or coarse manure will furnish humus and increase the moisture-holding power of the soil. X The belief that weevils emerging from weevily seeds that have been planted can live long periods in the bean field or garden and infest the ripening crop is false, says the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Al though it is better not to plant in fested beans or peas because the weevils have injured the food con tent of the seed upon which the seedling plant depends for its first rapid growth, planting seeds con taining live weevils will not cause infestation of the ripening crop. Board is the most valuable as well as the most common perquisite for farm laborers, according to a survey by the Bureau of Agricul tural Economics. Lodging stands next. Other perquisites which noncasual farm laborers received were fuels, dairy and poultry pro ducts, meats or meat products, flour or meal, vegetables and fruits, privilege of keeping livestock, feed or pasturage for livestock, garden space, garage space, and use of em ployers’ horses or mules and of tools and vehicles. The perquisites of casual farm laborers were sim ilar, but formed only 23 per cent of the total remuneration compar ed to 40 per cent for noncasuals. The bureau found that noncasual farm laborers receive lower aver age daily wages, $1.55 based on a 30-day month, and perquisite values, $1.01, than do casual labor ers, who receive $3.18 and $1.27 res pectively per day they work. The casual laborers 4 average earnings for the season are of course con siderably lowered by their periods of unemployment. X Improper handling of freshly cut seed is often responsible for poor stands of potatoes thought by growers to be the result of poor seed, says the U. S. Department of Agriculture. If you don’t intend to plant freshly cut seed immed iately, store it in open crates or spread it out thin on the floor and turn it over every once in a while until the cut surfaces are dry. The storage of freshly cut seed in sacks, barrels, or bulk is dangerous as it may generate sufficient heat to in jure its vitality or cause it to de cay. An absorbent such as land plaster or flowers of sulphur helps to dry the cut surfaces. Don’t ex pose freshly cut seed potatoes to direct sunlight. • IXT Most farmers judge the effect of green manuring by the quantity and quality of the succeeding crops, but failure to produce an increase in crop yield can not al ways be blamed to green manuring, says the U. S. Department of Ag riculture. Both temperature and moisture of the soil greatly influ ence the decomposition of green manure. Lack of moisture, as well as temperatures lower than about 65 degrees Fahrenheit, retard growth of the bacteria. Experi ments have shown that under the best conditions succulent green manure was nearly all decomposed in 7 days, but at low temperatures more than 14 days were needed. IXI Poultry manure is a good fertil izer for the farm garden, but it is so rich in nitrogen that it may bum the roots of shrubbery, trees, flowers, or vegetables if placed in direct contact with the roots or spread on the surface in consider able quantities. Don’t apply more than 8 or 10 pounds to 100 square feet. XXt Raspberries, like other small fruits, are dependent on an ample supply of moisture in the soil. The soil should be tilled and should be supplied with humus not only dur ing the growing and ripening of the fruit but also while the canes are developing. Some gardeners mulch their raspberries to a depth of several inches with straw, leaves, or green hay. X The first gain in farm population in the 10 years <for which annual estimates have been made by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics was made last year, when 1,392,000 persons moved from cities to farms. The net movement away from farms was 151,000 persons, but a normal increase of 359,000 births over deaths on farms brought the total farm population on January 1, 1931, to 27,430,000 persons, as compared with 27,222,000 the year preceding. tXt Put all young livestock on clean, safe, well-drained pastures away from older animals other than their mothers. Keep them away from areas that were occupied by older livestock last year if these areas have not since been sown to new crops. Older animals usually harbor and may show little evi dence of them. Young stock are very susceptible to worm infec tions and the effects of worms are often cerious. X Foresters planted trees on more than 21,000 acres of national forest lands last year. 1X1 It’s a great life if your constitu tion can stand Sundays and holi days. Prevention For School Trustees Prevention of parasites and parasitic diseases in horses depends on sanitary measures, says the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Do not overstock the pasture. Heavy stocking means more manure and a higher concentration of parasite eggs and larvae. Sloping hillside pastures are better than level ones, since rain and snow wash most oi the manure off. Rotate pastures, when this is possible, and also the kind of stock to be pastured. The parasites of cattle, sheep, and goats are not transmissible to horses as a rule, and vice versa. Keep stables clean, remove manure often, and change bedding frequently. Feed the horses from boxes raised well off the ground and from overhead feed racks. Don’t spread fresh manure on pastures. Reduce the fly nuisance by storing manure in closed containers, or by using fly- raps or other preventive measures. X To prevent objectionable odors and flavors in milk, if high-flav ored feeds are given, feed just af ter milking, keep the cows and bams clean, ventilate the stables, and aerate the milk. Prompt cool ing and storing of milk at a low temperature prevents undesirable flavors and odors from biological action. X Waffles served with crushed strawberries make a good dessert for this time of year. Add cream if you like, plain or whipped. Sweeten the batter a little more than usual. XXI Always iron with the thread of the goods and iron until the gar ment is dry. Otherwise it will pucker. To remove the shiny gloss on hems, tucks, or seams, moisten a piece of soft cloth in clear water, wring it dry, and wipe it quickly over the shiny surface. txi Do you know poke shoots? They grow wild in many localities. The young, tender shoots and tips of the more mature stalks are ex cellent as greens. Because of the slightly bitter taste, the first water is usually thrown away after the poke shoots have boiled a few min utes. Do not overcook them. Serve in any way asparagus is served. ix t Department of Agriculture mo tion picture films were among the first to go on the air in radiovis ion broadcasts. x Porto Rico used to be well for ested, but now wood is scarce even for home manufacture of simple furniture. tXt Soft drinks flow down the col lective American throat at the rate of about 11 billion bottles a year. X Shredding cornstalks to half inch lengths will kill about 99 1-2 per cent of the corn borers in the stalks. X Everbearing strawberries are especially suitable for the home garden. The plants are very hardy, their foliage is resistant to disease, and under favorable con ditions they produce berries until hard frosts occur in the fall. v By wasteful cutting and burning of timber faster than it grows, the southern pine belt is estimated by the U. S. Forest Service to be re ducing its forest wealth at the rate of $40,000,000 a year. It is held to be possible to reverse this process by promoting reseeding, keeping out fires, and by judicious timber cropping. 1 XT Experience is a hard teacher, but profiting by her lessons pays big dividends. tXt There may be an increase in child labor, as claimed, but not many parents have been able to notice it about the house. X On May 12th, same being the 2 Tuesday in May, there will be an election held in each school district in McCormick County for the pur pose of electing school trustees in the various school districts in the said County. In school district No. 4 there shall be three trustees elected. Two members of the pres ent Board of trustees in district No. 4 shall remain according to an Act of 1927. The remaining school districts in the said County shall elect three (3) trustees, all of whom shall be elected as provided by law. Act 1927. No. 288, except Plum Branch which shall elect 5. Said elections shall be conducted on same rules and regulations as democratic primaries are conduct ed in the said County. School trustees shall act as managers or appoint managers of the said election. The voting place of the respec tive school districts shall be at or near the school house in the said districts: polls open at 8 a. m., and close at 4 p. m. All returns of said election shall be filed with the County Board of Education in ten days after date of election. T. J. SIBERT* W. H. PARKS, County Board of Education, McCormick County. April 21, 1931.—3t. Street Taxes Due May 1st Street taxes are due and payable on May 1, 1931, at the office of the town clerk and treasurer or may be paid to Chief of Police, C, H. Crawford. Penalty will be add ed on June 1st to all not paid, without exception. Pay promptly and save penalty. C. K. EPTING, / Mayor. J. O. PATTERSON, Clerk and Treasurer. McCormick, S. C. April 20, 1931.—3 t . Schedule Of Services At Colored Churches Schedules of services at the Col ored Churches are as follows: Young Mt. Zion, Chappell, First Sunday. Old Mt. Zion, Epworth, Second Sunday. Bethany, McCormick, Third Sunday. New Hope, Plum Branch, Fourth Sunday. REV. J. F. MARSHALL, Pastor. Springfield, First Sunday. Ebemezer, Second Sunday. Shiloh, Third and Fourth Sun days. REV. DOUGLASS, Pastor. Zion Chappel, First Sunday. Piney Grove, Second Sunday. Bailey Bethel, Third Sunday. REV. W. S. MIMS, Pastor. Liberty Spring, Second Sunday. ' Mt. Moriah, Third Sunday. REV. WILLIAM PETERSON, Pastor. Cedar Spring, first Sunday. Shady Grove, second Sunday. Mt. Herman and Mt. Lebanon third Sunday. Carry Hill, fourth Sunday. REV. C. M. MIDDLETON, Pastor. St. Charlotte, First Sunday. Mt. Moriah, Second Sunday. Hosannah, Third Sunday. New China, Fourth Sunday. REV. E. D. TALBERT, Pastor. Grasshopper mice were so named back in 1833 in North Dakota be cause their fondness for grasshop pers was noted. X Experience is a valuable teacher, providing you don’t insist on grad ing the examination papers. ALL LIGHT CARS $6.65 i WHITTLE BATTERY * SERVICE 622 BROAD PHONE 1166 f AUGUSTA. GA. Eyes examin ed. Spectacles, Eye Glasses, and Artificial £yes fitted without Drugs, Drops or Danger. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Optometrist! 956 Broad Street .—- Augusta, Ga. It was formerly thought that chicks should not be fed until they are two or three days old, but the U. S. Department of Agricul ture says that recent experiments show it is better to begin when they are one or, at the most, two days old.. .. .4