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Thursday, May 28, 1931
McCormick Route
Contract Is Let
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE
f;r TWO
(Anderson Daily Mail of May 22.)
Crayton Bagwell was yesterday
awarded the temporary contract
lor the hauling of mail between
Anderson and McCormick, accord
ing to Postmaster Julius Wana-
maker, who stated that the con
tract was awarded Mr. Bagwell for
$1,780 a year.
Bids for the permanent opera
tion of the route will be received
by postoffice officials through
June 16. The lowest will be ac
cepted and the contract awarded
lor the period from July 1, 1931,
to Tune 1, 1932. •
The star route is made neces
sary by the curtailment of the C.
& W. C. schedule which will, take
effect on June 1. The railroad was
released from its contract for car
rying the mails upon agreement
that the postoffice officials would
establish a star routs to care for
the mails between the two vowns
and stops along the route.
Under the new routine, mail
service between .Anderson and Mc
Cormick will be better than it has
ever in the past, .it is said mail
leaving Anderson at 6 b”clock in
the norning will reach McCormick
fcy 10. The return trip will be
started, at 3:30 in the afternoon, to
reach Anderson again around 7
o'clock. The regular star route
that has been in operation be
tween the two cities will be con
tinued. This carrier leaves McCor
mick at 7:30 each morning and
arrives at Anderson around 10:30.
He returns at 4:20 in the after
noon and arrives at McCormick
arouhd 7 o'clock.
'with the awarding of the new
contract there will be two mails
to McCormick each day and two
returns.
Will Preserve Tree
C '. V- v . • , * -. { x ,
For Posterity
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 26.—
A three-hundred-year-old tree in a
church burying ground at Falls
Church, Virginia, has been selected
by the Daughters of the American
Hevolution as the • second living
memorial of America’s past to be
preserved for posterity.
The National Society of the D.
A, R. has etnbarked upon a plan of
choosing one historic tree for
preservation each year by means
of a nation-wide referendum
through its state chapters. The
.trees are saved by tree surgeons,
whoie services are donated by for
mer Congressman Martin L. Davey,
head of the Davey Institute of Tree
Surgery.
The tree at Falls Church—a
tulip poplar with a foliage spread
*of 75 feet—has looked down up
on more than three centuries of
American history. It was more
than 100 years old when George
Washington, vestryman of the
church, rested in its : shade.
Crumbling tombstones, in desolate
dignity, speak mutely of the death
of all else that lived in pre-revolu
tionary days. The tree is. the on
ly living thing that was alive in
the hamlet of Falls Church when
Washington lived.
During the revolutionary war the
church was a recruiting place for
the Company of Captain Charles
Broadwater, a fellow vestryman of
George Washington. Captain Henry
Fairfax restored it just before the
Mexican war. but in the Civil war
it was used by Union soldiers, first
as a hospital, then as a stable. All
of its equipment was destroyed ex
cept the font, which pious hands
hid and saved.
In recent years the church has
been restored and today is a rep
lica of that in which Washington
worshipped. Located on the Lee
highway six miles south of the Key
bridge in this city, it is a Mecca
for visitors who come every year
from all parts of the nation.
State Asks For Bids
On Next Road Work
BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED ON
$6,500,000 OF HIGHWAY AND
BRIDGE PROJECTS ON
JUNE 9TH
Fairfield H. D.
Club Meets
The Fairfield H. D. Club met
Wednesday afternoon, May 13th,
at Fairfield School House at 3:30
with seven members present.
Mrs. Stallworth gave us a good
talk on plant screens, and she also
had a vine contest; then after the
meeting we all went out in the
woods to find different kinds of
vines.
Miss Ruth Young was elected as
a delegate to go to Rock Hill for
$he short course.
COLUMBIA, May 21.—Bids on
$6,500,000 of highway and bridg3
projects will be received by the
State Highway Department here
June 9, Ben Sawyer, chief high
way commissioner, announced to
night.
The projects total 502 miles and
include 148 miles of concrete pav
ing, 160 miles of bituminous pav
ing, 194 miles of grading and 13
bridges.
The projects follow:
Spartanburg county — Bitumin
ous surfacing of approximately 17
miles of route 56 from Pauline to
a point near Enoree river; con
struction of a 100-foot reinforced
concrete bridge over Holston
creek, a 125-foot reinforced con
crete bridge over Motlow creek and
a 350-foot reinforced concrete
bridge over South Pacolet river on
route 176 between Spartanburg
and Landrum.
Cherokee county — Substructure
and concrete approach span for a
1,035-foot reinforced concrete and
structural steel bridge over Broad
river on U. S. route 29 between
Blacksburg and Gaffney, and grad
ing in preparation for hard sur
facing of approximately 8 miles
route 5, from Blacksburg to
Smyrna.
Union-Cherokee counties—Grad
ing in preparation for hard sur
face of approximately .12.5 miles
of route 11 between Jonesville and
present pavement south of Gaff
ney.
Anderson county — Grading in
preparation for hard surface of
approximately 13 miles of route 29
from Anderson to Alford’s bridge.
Pickens county — Paving with
plain Portland cement concrete of
approximately 18 miles of route
14, Pickens to North Carolina line.
Newberry county — Paving with
plain Portland cement concrete of
approximately 9 miles route 2
from Newberry city limits to Dead
Fall and route 192 (Newberry cut
off), and bituminous surfacing of
approximately 7.5 miles, route 391,
from Prosperity to Saluda river.
Greenwood County
Greenwood county — Bituminous
surfacing of approximately 15.5
miles route. 10 from end of pres
ent pavement south of Greenwood
to McCormick county line.
Laurens county — Bituminous
surfacing of approximately 11
miles route 15 between Laurens and
‘Princeton.
McCormick county — Bituminous
surfacing of approximately 15.5
miles route 20 from Parksville to
Savannah river.
Clarendon-Williamsburg * coun
ties—Bituminous surfacing of ap
proximately 34.06 miles route 26
from present pavement south of
Manning to present pavement near
Kingstree and route 261 from
route 26 near* Wilson via Greeley-
ville to route 17, and approaches
to bridge over A. C. L. railroad
south of Manning.
Colleton county — Bituminous
surfacing of approximately 12
miles routes 303 and 32 from Wal-
terboro to Green Pond and grading
of approximately 3.70 miles route
32 from Asheboro to Green Pond.
Bituminous Surfacing Here
Beaufort county — Bituminous
surfacing of approximately 1$
miles route 33 from Bluffton via
Hardeeville to Jasper county line
and route 170 from route 33 douth
of Hardeeville to U. S. route 17.
Chesterfield county — Bitumin
ous surfacing of approximately 28
miles route 35 from McBee via
Jefferson to North Carolina state
line.
Chester County
Chester county—Grading of ap
proximately 8 miles route 5 from
route 97 at Nitrolee to route 9 at
Fort Lawn.
Clarendon-Florence county —
Grading of approximately 22 miles
route 4 from route 26 near Alcolu
via Tubeville to Olanta.
Colleton - Hampton counties —
Grading of « approximately 11.5
miles route 63 from Islandton to
Varnville, also approaches to Lit
tle Salkehatchie river.
Hard Surface Route 6.
Lexington county — Grading in
preparation for hard surface of
approximately 8.5 miles route 6
from Lexington via Red Bank to
Udmund. ,
Aiken county — Grading of ap
proximately 21.5 miles routes 2f5
and 4 from route 78 near Mont-
morenci to Kitchens Mill at Edisto
l river, thence to Orangeburg county
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line hear Springfield.
Saluda-Newberry c ou n 11 e s—
Grading in preparation for hard
surface of approximately 0.6 miles
approaches to Saluda river bridge
at Chappels on route 392.
Contest Promotes ,
Farm Beautifica
tion Program
The beautification of the ex
terior of the farm home has seem
ed so important in several States
that bankers and business men
have offered substantial prizes
for the best improvements made.
The Rural Women, of Lincoln
County, Colo., started an improve
ment contest sponsored by the
county banking association and
the county home-demonstration
agent. The
and steps repaired, roof repaired,
screens repaired, junk and papers
properly disposed of, refuse cans
provided, old signs removed,- shrub
bery and trees trimmed.”
These suggestions were widely
circulated in the county in the
form of entry blanks for the con
test, and many who did not actual
ly enroll in the competition were
stimulated to adopt one or more of
the “clean-up” hints as a matter'
of pride and community consci
ousness. .
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WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS
(Anderson Daily Mail.)
The arrival of woman as a wage
earner in all sorts of fields has
led man to a feood deal of perplex
ity during the last few years. No
where is 'this , perplexity deeper,
^ wmv contestants were and nowhere does it lead to any
divided Into two groups—those in more peculiar reasoning, than
a l-year contest and '.hose who ex- when the woman who holds a full-
pected to take three years to ac- time job also happens to be mar-
complish certain: improvements, ried.
Awards were made on a basis of This perplexity has been both-
general appearance, condition of ering all kinds of employers lately,
house outbuildings, and fences, And a fair sample of the conclus-
plantlngs of flowers, shrubs, trees, Ion the perplexed employer often
and vines, and even the vegetable comes to is afforded In a large
garden. middle western city, where the
Among the suggestions made for board of education recently voted
improvements the Lincoln County , to discharge all married women
agent mentions the following in from its teaching staff and hire
reporting to the United States De- single women instead,
partment of Agriculture: i If there Is any reasonable theory
“Clean* Back yard, front yards, back of such a decision, it prob-
vacant lots, porches, garages, ably is the theory that the married
stockyards, roads, outbuildings. ! women are teaching just for the
“Plant* Trees, shrubbery, grass fun of it, or just to make a little
plots vegetable garden, flower gar- pin money on the side. The single
den ’flower boxes. woman, not having anyone to sup-
"Paint* House, fences, out- port her—unless, perchance, she
buildings, screens’ porches. I lives with her parents-thus has a
"Miscellaneous: Rubbish piles more valid claim on the job than
burned, insect breeding places de- her married sister,
strtyed, fences repaired, , porthesi Unfortunately, this one board of
education is not alone in this view.
Other cities have taken the same
action. Employipent managers in
some factories and offices have fol
lowed suit. And it is all rather
silly.
If every married woman who
held a job had a husband who also
had a job, it wouldn’t be quite so
silly. But that is by no means
the case. *
There arc today some six mil
lion men out of work in the United
States. A good proportion are
ir.air;ed and have families. And in
thousands upon thousands of cases
the only thing that has kept their
families from absolute want has
been the fact that the wives have
been steadily employed.
Thousands of girls and women
who work in factories are doing it,
not to earn pin money or to achi
eve a feeling of independence, but
to support their families while
their husbands remain unemploy
ed. *
The same thing is true of thou
sands of salesgirls, stenographers
and office assistants. And exactly
the same thing is true of many,
many school teachers.
In normal times it may be no
more than fair to give the prefer
ence to single women in passing
out jobs. But times right now are
far from normal. One would sup
pose that It would be more sensi
ble to replace the unmarried wage-
earners with married ones.
This move to oust the married
woman from her job is one of the
silliest of all -of the business de
pression’s products.
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A good rat dog is almost indis
pensable on a farm where ol<?
buildings attract rats and offc •
shelter for them. A small terrier
dog, especially Vhen taught to
hunt by itself, will Often keep a
farm entirely free ifnom Tats.
R
AT-SNAP
KILLS RATS
Also mice. Absolutely prevents
•dors frpm carcass. One n**Kmge
proves this. RAT-SNAP comes in
cakes—no mixing with other food.
Guaranteed.
35c size - 1 cake - enough for
Pantrv, Kitchen or Cellar.
65c size - 2 cakes - for Chicken
House, coops, or small buildings.
$1.25 size - 5 cakes - enough for
all farm and out-buildings, storage
buildings, or faetory buildings.
Sold and guaranteed by
STROMS’ DRUG STORE
McCormick, S. C.
Dodder, sometimes called “love
vine,” may cause a great deal of
damage to crops and should not be
allowed to remain in a field. This
parasitic weed is usually brought
on the Jarm in impure seed. In the
first season it generally occurs in
small, scattered areas. Such areas:
'should be first mowed and then
burned before the dodder goes to
| seed, if. possible, is the advice of
(weed specialists of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture. This
treatment will destroy the crop al
so on the mowed areas, but it is
the safest way to protect future
crops from infestation of fodder-
,The consumer who buys “Dutch-
process” or “Dutched” chocolate or
cocoa gets a produce that has.been
treated with an alkaline substance.
The treatment darkens the pro
duct, although the alkali is neu-
I tralized and does not appear in
the chocolate or cocoa* which has
an acid reaction. Becaiise this-
alkali treatment changes some
what the character of chocolate
end cocoa, the consumer is entit
led to know when alkalies have
beeft used. Under the Federal food
and drugs act, Dutched chocolate*
may contain no more than 3 parts,
by weight, of an alkali in eachi MH1»
‘ parts of cocoa nibs. . —