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Thursday, May 28, 1931 Mt. Carmel A. R. P. Services McCOKMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER EIGHT Rev. W. S. Henry cl McCormick will preach at Mt. Carmel A. R. Church Friday, June the 5th, at eleven o’clock a. m., Friday even ing, at 8:15 and Saturday morning at 11:00 o’clock. No preaching Saturday evening. The paster will preach Sabbath .norning. The Lord’s Supper will be cele brated at the morning hour. There was a typographical error (I think) in last week’s Mt. Car mel dots. The preaching begins June the 5th—not June the 15th as was stated. Thank you. There will be no preaching in the Mt. Carmel A. R. P. Church on the fifth Sabbath, as the pastor is expecting to be at Due West that day. Yours cordially, LEON T, ?RESSLY, Castor. WANT ADVS. ‘CRAIN CUTTING—I have a trac tor-binder outfit and am in posi tion to cut oats and other grain lor the public. J. L. Smith,/Mc Cormick? S. C. S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW New'oerry — Peoples State Bank if South Carolina to open branch n/hi* • ity. Hemingway — Peoples State 3ank of South Carolina purchased Planters Bank of Hemingway. Myrtle Beach — Work progress- ng rapidly on construction of king’s Highway north from Ocean forest Hotel to North Carolina ine. Union — Whight-Baker Com pany moved to new quarters. Liberty — John Nalley purchas- to screen ugly, unsightly places and White Town H. D. Club Holds Meeting The White Town H. D. Club held its regular meeting on Friday, May 17th, at the home of Mrs. J. C. Jennings. The following program was car ried ut: Scripture reading, 10th :?sa!m. Lord’s orayer, by all. Roll call and minutes of last meeting read. ' Poem, by Mrs. D. White. Health article, by Miss E. Jen nings. A reading—“An Anthem” by Mrs. Herbert White. Mrs. Stallworth gave us a splen did calk on “Plant Screening,” how THINGS WORTH KNOWING Bermuda is a collection of cor al -islands. Goldenrod is almost exclusively North American plant. -FOR SALE—Deering Binder and good Rake in good shape, for $45.00. Can be seen at my home at any time. R. F. Freeland, -Plum Branch, S. C. FOR SALE—200 bushels yellow Com at $1.00 per bushel. 100 bushels Wannamaker Cleveland Big Boll Cotton Seed at 75 cents per bushel. W. C. Holley, Rt. 1, Plum Branch, S. C. FOR SALE—Cabbage, Tomato and Bermuda Onion Plants, $1.00 per 1000. Pepper, Sweet Potato and Bgg Plants $1.50 per 1000. Prompt abipment. Dorris Plant Co., Val dosta, Ga. • -SUMMER SCHOOL—Session June 0th-July 17th. Great variety College Credit Courses offered—Ex penses very moderate. For further information address Dean B. Y. Tyner, Winthrop College, Rock Bill, South Carolina. 1 » CITATION OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CJpunty of McCormick BYT,. O. BELL, PROBATE JUDGE: • WHEREAS, J. E. Moragne has made suit to me to grant him Let ters of Administration of the Es tate and effects of L. P. Moragne, THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to dte and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the mid L. P. Moragne, deceased, that ' they be and appear before me, in 4 the Court of Probate, to be held at McCormick Court House on June 9th, 1931 next, after publica- ' tion hereof, at 10 o’clock in the lorenoon, to show cause, if any • they have, why the said Adminis- id meat market from Cantrell Co. St. George — Plans underway to 'stabjish hydro-electric plant here Easley — Reeve’s Music Store moved to new location. Little River — 100 men employ ed in cutting right-of-way for In tracoastal canal link from Cape Fear River to here. Little Mountain — New vegetable canning plant started operations. Newberry — Lake Murray being stocked with game fish. Columbia — Paved highway eompleted between Charleston and Charlotte, via this city, Chester md Rock Hill. St. George — Book Club’s Public Library nifoved to new quarters in City Hall. Camden — Service* Station on West DeKalb Street opened for business. Chesterfield — Ruby Canning Co., ready to give contracts to those furnished with tomato seed. Walterboro — Blacksmith shop located between St. George and Cottageville highways, razed. Chesterfield — Rogers Stores placed orders with South Carolina packers for 90,000 cans vegetables to be distributed to their stores in the South. Kingstree — Home for nurses of Kelley Sanatorium opened on Academy Street. Columbia — This city picked as site fqr proposed Veterans’ Hos pital. Newberry — Willowbrook park opened. v jxx Senator J. J. Dorn Hurt In Car Wreck make them appear more attrac tive. We feel that her talk inter ested all, for we are trying to make our homes as beautiful as we can. Ice cream and cake were served by the hostesses Misses Nola and Evelyn Jennings. The club will meet at the home of Mrs. Harry Ream for our June meeting. After singing several of our club songs, we adjourned. NOLA JENNINGS, Publicity Chairman. txt Easy To Get Higher Cotton And Corn Yields Here The area cf the world which coasts the least illiteracy is west- -rn Europe. Scientists comprise 30 per cent of the men and women in “Who’s Who in America.” .Dust explosions are a hazard in some 28,000 industrial plants in the United States. A new electrolytic process per mits of the annual production of one ton of beryllium. The city of Prague, in Czecho slovakia, has a pawnshop which lends money on automobiles. Whether Alexander the Great was entombed in Alexandria has aever been fully investigated. There are 23.5 motor vehicles to each mile of road in the Ha waiian islands. Russian export trade in chemi cals is very active. Senator J. J. Dorn is up and about again, after being in an au tomobile wreck near Lexington Fri day night, in which he sustained minor injuries. He received a sev ere cut on the forehead and was fearful of internal injuries, but £n x-ray examination Saturday in Au gusta revealed no serious hurts. Senator Dorn was returning to his home here in the car of Sena tor Fred West of Abbeville, when they collided With another car near Lexington. Both automobiles were badly wrecked and.then the West car burned. They were forced to return to Columbia where they re ceived first aid before going to their homes. Mr. Dorn believes tration should not be granted. ^ ^ J ^ GIVEN under my hand this 26th‘^ht hghts Winded Mr. West and day of May, Anno Domini, 1931. L. G. BELL, Probate Judge. RE-CHARGE BATTERIES We are equipped now to re-charge all size automo bile batteries on short no tice and at very reasonable prices. Let us have your next job save you money and render real service. Williams’ Service | Station McCormick, S. C. » h '• Sheriff’s Sale Of Confiscated Property i Thirty-five cases of 1-2 jgdllon iruit jars, to be sold one casfe dt a time to highest bidder; .. j •» One Cross Cut Saw, Two Axes, The above will be sold on first Monday in June, 1931, at the Mc Cormick County Court House, to the highest bidder, for cash, as I property confiscated at a still. W. T. STROM, Sheriff. lick, 9. C., also the driver of the other car, as the collision occurred on a stretch of straight road. When the hubs of the front wheels on the twp cars struck, both cars turned completely around in the road and turned over in opposite direction from which they had been traveling. Mr. West and the driver of the other car were only slightly bruised. x Shipment Of Nitrate Arrives In New Bags A new shipment of Chilean Ni trate of Soda has been received by M. G. & J. J. Dorn, Inc., local fer tilizer dealers. ; All of the stock is in new 100-pound bags. This handy size bag is an innovation in the in dustry for up to this year practi cally all of the nitrate from Chile was shipped in 200-pound bags. Besides being easy to handle, the new bag insures the arrival of the nitrate in better mechanical con dition. Orders taken by M. G. & J. J. Dom, Inc., show that local farmers are taking advantage of the new low fertilizer prices. They say that Chilean nitrate Is the lowest in price it has been for 25 years. X To make cinnamon buns or rolls, simply roll out your ordinary rais ed dough, cut with a large cooky cutter, brush the tops with egg, and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Do not use namon. Three pai one of cinnamon much cin sugar, to propor- That cotton and corn yields in this section of the State can be substantially increased was shown by the results of a demonstration conducted in 1929 on the farm of W. L. White, of McCormick, R. F. D., South Carolina and in 1930 on the farm of Mr. A. AT Holleman, of Plum Branch, S. C. Mr. White averaged on a field which did not receive any nitrate of soda 8 bushels of corn per acre. On an adjoining field which re ceived 200 pounds Chilean Nitrate of Soda he averaged 45 bushels of corn. The increase in yield due to the nitrate amounted to 37 bushels which netted him a clear profit of $37.34 per acre. Mr. Holleman averaged on a field which did .not receive any nitrate of soda 400 pounds seed cotton per acre. On an adjoin ing field which received 200 pounds Chilean Nitrate of Soda he averag ed 700 pounds seed cotton. The increase in yield due to the nitrate amounted to 300 pounds seed cot ton per acre. As a rule, southern soils are low in nitrogen. This is the reason that a small application of a quick acting nitrogen fertilizer, such as Chilean Nitrate of Soda, produces such profitable increases. X—> Cotton Farming Made Profitable By Growing ; Heavy Acre Yields Growing seed cotton at 2 1-4 cents a pound is the record estab lished in 1930 by twenty-two state prize winners, incliuJJ^g farmers, 4-H Club members, and students of vocational agriculture, in con tests conducted in nine of the lead ing cotton states. Careful study of the reports shows that low growing cost was obtained by heavy acre yields. It is readily understood that the la bor and other expenses were cut almost in half per unit when the yield of one acre was as much as the yield of two acres. Without exception the prize win ners were careful in choosing the soil, seed, and fertilizer. In ad dition to the fertiUw* applied be fore planting, each contestant side- dressed the crop with 200 pounds Chilean nitrate of soda per acre, which was put out after chopping and before squaring. With present outlook for price this fall, jfarmers whose acre yields are low may find the pound-cost of growing the crop greater than the sale price. Experience has shown that low yields are caused from poor stands and nitrogen starvation. A hungry field of cot ton will pay its owner well for a good side-dressing of quick-acting nitrogen fertilizer. txt Meal worms are reared to serve as “meals” for birds, reptiles, and fishes, but they do well enough without meals themselves, and sometimes go nine months without food. Nine-tenths of the china made in the United States is made at East Liverpool, O. The Leipzig fair has been held twice a year without interruption for almost 700 years. New York home-making ex perts recommend molasses for children’s sweets because of its rich content of iron and calcium. A forty-ton stone bull which guarded the palace of an Assyri an king, 800 B. C., is now to stand in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. GREENWOOD, S. C. THURSDAY and FRIDAY May 28th-29th El Brendel and Fifi Dorsey in “MR. LEMON OF ORANGE” SATURDAY, May 30th George O’Brien in “SEAS BENEATH” MONDAY and TUESDAY June lst-2nd WILL ROGERS in “A CONNECTICUT YANKEE” WEDNESDAY, June 3rd Lupe Valez and Lew Ayers in “EAST IS WEST” Washington Tried Siberian And South African Wheat Notice Legionnaires Regular Meeting Regular meeting of Post No. 19 will be held in Legion hall on the second Tuesday night in June, June^ 9th, at 8:30. All members are urged to attend this meeting. Date of meeting was changed on account of commencement exercis es of McCormick School being held on June 2nd. C. K. EPTING, Comjnander. In thirty-two years the Lon don Mission Ship John Williams has steamed more than a milliofc' miles, much of the distance in the South Seas. There are almost 600 kinds of parrots. different The collection of animals % be longing to the London Zoo is valued at more than $175,000. The reindeer is the only mem ber of the deer family which has been completely domesticated. The beaver uses its flat tail as a rudder in turning quickly, and also as a prop or stool when a tree is being cut. California grows practically all the canning asparagus and 45 per cent of the table asparagus produced in the states. Railroad trains running to some of the English seaside resorts are now equipped with windows of “health glass” which transmits ul tra-violet rays. The United States has 4,000 fac tories that make ice cream. Meriwether Play Party June 4th The Asbury Epworth League, Meriwether, S. C., is giving a play party Wednesday night, June 4th. There will be plenty of fun and also ice cream, candy and other refreshments to be sold, the pro ceeds of which will go for the bene fit of the league. Everybody is invited to come. x Jumpin’ Jupiter! We can’t blame the lawmakers much when we look around and see some of the people the laws were made to fit. . The flying squirrel sleeps in the day and is active at night. X Rapid destruction of farm lands ly erosion is one of the* most im portant factors in farm abandon- nent in Mississippi, the Forest Service finds. Reforestation seems o be the best method of restoring much of this land to productive ise. Planting of trees on eroded fields and near the heads of gullies L o prevent erosion areas from preading into cultivated fields is ecommended. X The “cup” or cushion flat is rap idly replacing strawboard material Cor packing eggs for shipment. The cushion or cup protects the eggs from rough handling and decreases breakage. The pulp from which these flats are made is vidorless and the egg yolks do not absorb flavor from it as easily as from strawboard. Two of the cup flats placed back to back with the cups facing out are used in the bottom of each side of the case and one or two flats are used on top for pad ding. That George Washington re mained at heart a farmer through out his life we know from no less an authority than Washington himself, says the Division of Infor mation and Publication of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission. The evidence exists on nearly every page of the long row of diar ies in which Washington covered all his personal activities almost without a break from young ma- hood to the final days. He was not simply any kind of farmer, either, but an alert and progressive one. Even during the Revolutionary War he appears to. have kept his eyes open to farm ing methods in various sections of the country, and came home with the belief that Virginia farming had much to learn from methods in use in other States. In more than one of his letters to friends he comments on the Virginia habit of working farms to death, and notes the Virginia iar- mer’s failure to devote some of hu land to meadow and grazing, for the raising of cattle, as he had seen this done in the northern regions. On his own plantations Washing ton was forever reaching out for new and better seeds for planting. He imported new types of fruit trees and vines, even rare trees for the beautification of his grounds. He tried alfalfa, then known as Lucerne. But of chief interest was his effort to improve the quality of wheat grown in the United States. He reached into far quarters of the globe for experimental seeds. Tims, in an entry in his Diaries on April 10, 1768, we find: “Be gan also to sow the Siberian Wheat which I had obtained from Balti more by means of Colo. Tilghman, at the Ferry Plantation in the ground laid apart there for ex periments.” This, by the way, ho sowed with the famous “barrel plow’.’ of his own invention, a com bined plow, drill, and harrow. And he gives a minute account of the care he used in giving this seed from far Siberia a chance to show what it could do in Virginia. In 1785, after the Revolution, when he had returned to Mount Vernon and to his beloved farm ing, this zeal for experiment was with him still. In an entry in his Diary for August 30, that year, he records that “I planted in a small piece of ground which I had pre pared below the stable (vineyard) about 1,900 grains of the Cape of Good Hope wheat (which was giv en to me by Colo. Spaight), in Rows 2 feet apart, and 5 inches distant in the Rows. On Saturday, August 31, 1785, he notes: “The Cape of Good Hope Wheat, which I sowed on Saturday, was perceived to be coming up to day.” On September 1st, the fol lowing day, he “planted the re mainder of the Wheat from the Cape of Good Hope, leaving 230 grains to replant the missing seeds, and some that had been washed up by the rain; the whole number of grains given me by Colo. Spaight amounting to 2476; ^hich in measure, might be about half a Gill.” The painstaking Farmer Washington had even counted the number of these rare grains of his gift! On October, 1785, he sowed about a pint of Cape of Good Hope wheat, this time sent him by Mr. Powell of Philadelphia. By early November Washington “perceived that the Cape of Good Hope Wheat whk'i-I sowed on the 19th of last March had come up very well.’* Fpr nearly two years he had his eye on this South African wheat. By September, 1786, “the hands at Dogue Run had been employed in putting in about a bushel and a half of the Cape Wheat raised be low my Stables”—proving that the seeds there planted in August the year before had delivered the goods. What became of the new brand of wheat we do not know, for in not very long Washington was again called to the cares of state Cosmetics have been in use for when a devoted people unanimous- two centuries, it is said, but thatjly chose him to be their First doesn’t mean that everyone has President. But the evidence re gister, have you got a grass hopper?” This was just one of the many odd queries fired at Russ Pierce, property master at Paramount’s Hollywood studio in charge of sources of supply for thdf^hning of “Skippy,” based on Peifcy Cros by’s famous cartoon strip, and which will open at the Abbeville Opera House, Friday May 29th. “Skippy,” and his pals in the film version of Crosby’s comic strip child characters had to have a grasshopper. And the grasshopper had to hop. Even in California, in January, it is hard to find ’em. If you do. they are inclined to be logey. They just woTft hop in this kind of weather at all. The kids kept Pierce scratching us head. “I’ve never been beaten r et, and I don’t intend to be—by x grasshopper,” he stated. But he was worried. He xinda wished that Skippy had not showed up or the lot until a little later in the year, when grasshoppers are out hopping in the grass. An entymo- 'ogist helped him deliver che )ar dcular goods in this case. X > . Provide pieces of soft or partial y decayed hard wood—preferably branches with the bark on—foi your parrafe Parrots need to ex ercise, their bills and they also get jfrom the wood some fiber which ^eems* to be necessary to their di gestion. txt The worst thing about having a bad cold is that everyone you meet knows just what to do with it. X People who are all wrapped up in themselves usually make a mighty small package. learned to apply them. X When we leafti to know ourselves mains that when the destiny that directed his eventful and dramatic: life did grant him the opportunity Man and woman in Rushville, 111., courted more than fifty years before they married. They prob ably will find that the first one hundred years will be their hard est. as others know us, we may not b: ;to farm his beloved fields, he was; so proud of the things we hav done. X among the most progressive agri culturists of his day. X When the meek inherit the Grandma who used to snatch th lines when the family horse got earth, the job of running it will fractious has a counterpart in the * take all of the meekness out o£ back seat of any ; automobile. ; TtHem. _ .