Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thursday, June 25, 1931 SWAMP NEWS The “Swamps” are certainly needing rain. The crops are about Airied up. Miss Gladys Price spent Monday with Miss Isabelle White. Miss Jenny Lou Leard spent the past week end at Troy. Miss Mary Ruth Price has re turned home, after a visit with rel atives. Miss Dorothy Harrison is staying a*few days with Miss Louise Price. Mr. Joe Leard called in the home of Mr. York Sunday morning. Miss Mildred McNeil *iwls the week end guest of Miss Knsfce Cres- well. 1 Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Price and family called to see Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Rosenswike Sunday after noon. Miss Mary Browne spent Monday with her grandmother, Mrs. John Jolly. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bowen and family spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. S. A. McAlister. Mr. and Mrs. Vance Ellison and children spent Sunday with rela tives. This community was saddened over the death of Mr. John Banks. To his family we extend our sympathy. We are glad to write that Miss Louise Price is better and able to be out of her room again. Mr. John Bill Kennedy called.to see Mr. Joe Leard Sunday after noon. McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER EIGHT •txt- Raises Fine Crop Of Irish Potatoes. / MR. BUTLER MINER GATHERS 15 BUSHELS FROM THREE PECKS PLANTED Mr. Butler Miner of the ’Liberty Hill section of McCormick County presented the Messenger last Sat urday with nine Cobler Irish po tatoes that weighed a little over eight pounds, and stated that he had just gathered 15 bushels from his patch planted this spring with, three pecks of seed. No fertilizer was used on the patch. The land was good and the seasons suit able. Schedule Of Home Demonstration Work For Next Week Monday—June 29, office. Tuesday—June 30, Dowtin H. D. Club 3:30 p. m.; Wideman Recre ation Party in the evening. Wednesday—July 1, Plum Branch H. D. Club 3:30 p. m. Thursday—July 2, Willington H. D. Club 3:30 p, m. > Friday—July 3, Bellvue H. D. Club 3:30 p. m. Saturday—July 4, Holiday. IXI- S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Georgetown—C. & G. CagBgroc ery Store opened next to Peoples State Bank building. Easley — Okavcn Golf Course opened on Easley-Greenville high way. Camden — Palmetto Packing Corporation Resumed operations. Walterboro — Site purchased for proposed golf course. Walhalla — Main Street being improved. Walterboro — Paving three .miles of road from here to A. C. L. rail road crossing, completed. Columbia — About 200,000 tiny black bass and bream will be plac ed in lake being completed at Camp Jackson, near here. Greer — New service station op ened on Greer to Spartanburg highway. Conway — Paving underway on . this section of link of Route No. 40 extending from here to point near Union Church. Newberry — C. J. McWhirter re modeled front of two stores on Main Street. Sumter — Service station opened ik on corner of Main and Calhoun streets. Lake City — Miss Martha Turbe- ville opened clinical laboratory in v- office of Dr. Lynch on Main Street. Abbeville — Haskell’s Swimming Pool opened for season. Georgetown N. Sayed opened fruit and vegetable store in this city. ' Columbia Hampton tract, four and one-half miles from here, chosen by Federal Board of Hospi- fcahzation as site for new hospital. Whether Cotton Sells At 7 Or 11 Cents SUCCESS S. C. COTTON GROW ER WILL BE DECIDED WITH IN SHORT TIME I COLUMBIA, June 23.—“The suc cess of the cotton grower in South Carolina will be decided within the next few weeks and, with the un certainties of the market for cot ton next fall and winter, farmers who have not already prepared to produce food and feed for con sumption on the farm should do so.” This is the advice of F. H. Daniel, president of The Federal Land Bank of Columbia. He con tinues': “The farmer who gambles unnecessarily upon making a liv ing from cotton and nothing or very little else still has a chance to insure himself against the dis tress which he is quite sure to experience if the price pt cotton falls much lower v “There is much talk now about the effect of an acreage cut of 3 to 12 per cent this year, a 28 per cent decrease in use of fertilizer and under cotton and a poorer quality and the use of a smaller amount of dressing. There is al so the attitude on the part of many, frequently expressed in the query: ‘Why do I do this work? Tm likely not to get paid for it.’ “These factors have caused some people to estimate a yield of 12 million bales, before the cotton is much more than well out of the ground. They follow this esti mate with the prediction that a crop of that size will bripg an average of II cents per pound. Such predictions, it seems to me, are premature, and the farmer who uses them as an alibi for not put ting in food crops and additional feed crops during the next few weeks is taking unnecessary risks. The county, agricultural agents are urging farmers everywhere through out this state to plant more vege tables following the next rain and point out that there is still time to put in many field crops. This is sound advice, whether cotton sells at 7 or 11 cents. “Crops in general throughout the state are making splendid pro gress,” continued Mr. Daniel, “and they are being made cheaply. Preparations to poison the first brood of weevils with the 1-1-1 mixture—one gallon of molasses, one of water and one of calcium arsenate—promise to delay the multiplication of weevils this year and give cotton a better start than usual and this will contribute much to the production of a crop which will cost less than the selling price.” t\x For Best Answer On Profitable Use Of Side Dressing ATLANTA, Ga., June 20.—The winners in the $1,500.00 south-wide contest among farmers for the best answers to the question “How does a top-dressing of 100 pounds of muriate of potash help cotton pay extra cash,” were announced today by officials of the N. V. Potasn Export My., Inc. From among the thousands of 'etters received the judges selected the following winners for South Carolina: J. W. Dunn, Route 1, Camden; R. C. Pittman, Routfe 1, Taxahaw; M. B. Rucker, Pelzer; T. C. Keitt, Newberry; J. M. Shealy, Pomaria; N. B. Dulin, Bowling 3reen; T. L. Grambling, Orange burg; Mrs. A. M. Smith, Route 1, Ridgeland; L. J. Browning, Route 2, Union; R. B. Goodgion, Will- iamston; Ruth Ellington, La France; Joe Ballenger, Route 3, Inman; Sara Drennan Craig, Lan caster; Shelor G. Harbin, West minster; V. M. Johnson, Route 1, 3reer; Ralph Sullivan, Route 3, Simpsonville; Alton Gibbons, Tur- beville; R. P. Bullock, Route 5, Greenwood; Mrs. Bertha Lee Wynns, Route 1, Branchville; Clifton W. Galloway, Route 2, Hartsville; Mrs. R. D. Brownlee, Route 3, Honea Path; and Mrs. F. V. O’Dell, Route 2, Eeasley. The judges of the contest were ’eading agronomists of the state colleges and experiment stations. They decided that Mr. J. W. Dunn of Camden submitted the best answer for South Carolina. Dr. Gilbeart H. Collings of Clemson College represented South Caro- Una as a judge. txt Only twenty years ago it was supposed that tomatoes were of lit tle or no food value and merely added color and flavor to meals. THINGS WORTH KNOWING Old medicinal gardens of Japan date back at least 702 A. D. Vulcanized rubber, such as old tires, is used as a basis of printing inks. A new compound and process for making sponge rubber has been in vented. Hamburg, S. C., once the term inus of the country’s first long railroad, is being rebuilt. of themselves placed in their tombs ;o serve as substitutes in the fu ture world in case cf destruction ol their own ^odies. Raising pumpkins in a cornfield !s an idea that the white settlers n this country learned from In dian warmers. In the days of the Roman empire many sight-seers journeyed to Sgypt to view the ancient statues And pyramids. Enrollment in Chicago high schools for the second semester in creased more than 9,000. Dr. D. B. Wilery, surgeon on a Pacific ocean line, spends his spare time writing short stories. A home-made movie projecting machine provides Perry, Okla., a town of 3,500, with its talking pic tures. The root system of a mature sequoia gigantea, familiarly known as big tree, is said to spread over an area of two to three acres. The art of stenciling is very old, probably having been first used by whe Japanese. Louisiana produces one-half of the United States rice crop. The Library of Congress receives regularly 392 newspapers. Boundaries of four states come together at corners of Utah, Ariz ona, New Mexico and Colorado. Second-hand stores are rare in Paris and most French cities be cause the government operates pawn shops. A petrified hardwood forest, pronounced perhaps the largest and oldest of all such forests, has been discovered in the San Juan basin of New Mexico by a Yale orofessor. The latest development in flour bleaching is said to be the utili zation of color-removing ensymes. Chopsticks made of bamboo grown on a certain hill near Hang chow are famous throughout all China. Two hundred newly discovered varieties of mushrooms have been found by a scientist returning from Costa Rica. A rattle meter, which locates superfluous noises in automobile factories. The United States fur industry will send exhibits to the interna tional fur exposition in Leipsic, Germany, this summer. . Test in which guinea pigs and rats were fed on watermelons show that these melons contain a good deal of the valuable food factor known as Vitamin A. Som<i of Hertz’s original appar atus. used in the discovery of radio waves, is preserved in the German Museum at Munich. More than 600,000 birds have been banded for indentification and study by the United States bureau of biological survey. More than 400 insects injure oak trees but none has been found which seriously injures the Cali fornia Sequoias. All-aluminum truck tanks are now being built. Cancer is seldom, if ever, found among full-blooded American In dians. ^ Production of citrus fruits in the United States has practically doub led since 1920. Ships of twenty-four nationali ties carried their goods through the Panama canal last year. ****-5f********ve-*********^*^. Happy Ending to % | “Odds and Ends” * * * By RUBY DOUGLAS ❖ * * The native home of the banan^ is not known, though it is now raised in every tropical and sub tropical country. Chickadees are the acrobats of the bird tribe. There are 3,000 harbor craft in the waters around New York city. Museums in the United States are having more than 32,000,000 visitors a year. Villisca, la., voted to have Sun day movies in its third election on the subject. A device to help control the thickness of electro-plated deposits has been developed. A survey of seventeen indus tries places, rubber manufacturing fourth in severity rate of accidents and seventh in the frequency rate. Antelope, racing an automobile, were shown by the car’s speedom eter to be going at a maximum speed of slightly over forty-five miles an hour. A British archaeologist has found that he can sometimes locate the buried remains of ancient Roman camps by pounding on the ground 1 and listening for the difference in sound. rxt- Before they knew how to make pottery, Indians of the southwes* used woven baskets for water jars and cooking vessels. No native American bird hai exhibited the aggressive tenden cies of the Asiatic mynas, which flourish wherever introduced. A Cornell university professor points out that the farmer who stocks a farm pond with fish can produce 150 to 200 pounds of meat annually. Mr. and Mrs. Parker Give Party On Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Parker entertained very delightful ly with a party at Millwood Camp, Calhoun Falls, S. C. Swimming and fishing were en joyed and later a delicious dinner was served under the trees. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Misses Lillie, Dollie, Susan Parker, Virginia Lanier, Catherine Heffernan of Augusta, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rheney of McCor mick, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Rheney and daughter, Jean, of Miami, Fla.; Messrs.. Jim Rheney of New Lon don, Conn.; Jesse. Jim and Bill Parker of" Calhoun Falls and Joe Harden of Miami, Fla. txt Farmers, ranchers, and hay deal ers buy and sell large quantities of hay in the stack. This method of buying hay is most common in the Western and Great Plains States, where much hay is produced in valleys where it is impractical to weigh it. A new leaflet issued by the U. S. Department of Agricul ture, Measuring Hay in Stacks, gives the best rules for measuring both oblong and round stacks of hay and for computing the volume and tonnage. You can get this Leaflet, No. 72-L, from the Depart ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. X Buckwheat—where it grows well —is a first-rate crop to sow on land where corn or some other crop planted last spring has not made a stand or has failed for some reason. Prepare the seed bed for buckwheat the same as you would for corn. It may be plant ed as late as early July. IXt A well-equipped closet planned for a child so that he may easily and comfortably hang up his own clothes will be far more useful in teaching order than many scold ings on the subject. There should be low hooks within his Teach, plenty of hangers that can be put on a closet pole to keep garments from wrinkling, a shelf for shoes, I slippers, and rubbers, and a def inite place for caps and hats. A mat just inside the door on which children can stand when taking off their rubbers will save much tracking up of the house. And a small broom, which is to be used , when dirt is brought in accidental- j ly, also will teach cleanliness and ! order. Some families even label each hook and section of the chil dren’s closet with the name of the ************************** (CopyriKht.f G LORIA TANNER had won a lit tle closed car in a raffle that had been held in the village. “It is a direct answer to my suppli cations,” she said happily to her mother. , “For weeks I have % been casting about in the air, searching a way to carry out an idea for building up a business I have conceived.” “Well—what has the car to do with it?” asked her mother. “Everything,” announced Gloria. “I shall call my profession—Odds and Ends! I shall advertise myself us a person who will attend to all the bothersome little odds and ends of the daily routine of a household—and, with my nice little new car, I shall he able to carry on a big business.” “I don’t understand,” persisted her mother. “I have never heard of it.” “Of course you haven’t. Neither has anyone else.” Gloria knew all the petty household needs, from going for the wet wash at half-past eight in the morning to col lecting the rolls from the bakery on Saturday night. She made out her list of housekeep ers to interview and ascertained what the*ir needs might be in the way of odds and ends. She gave them a week ly price to be charged for having all these errands done. For instance, Mrs. Smith had a washing that had to be delivered to the laundry at seven o’clock on Monday morning and called for at 8:30. thus making it possible for her clothes to be hung on the line by the maid-of-all-work by nine o’clock. Gloria decided that she must suggest this idea to about live other women so that she could make the Monday morn ing trip profitable. Then, at twelve o'clock, noon, she made arrangements to call at tbe school house for four different children who were too young to walk all the distance and get back to school by one o’clock. Their moth ers wanted them to have a hot lunch hut could not take the time to go for them. There was a weekly visit to a neighboring market where fresh fruit and vegetables could lie purchased. She managed a list of eight house keepers who wanted' this service. At the end of two months Gloria found herself having all she could pos sibly do. “My dear. I had no idea how many people would need this kind of serv ice,” her mother said one night when she arrived home with packages of vegetables and fruits, some picnic out fits, a pair of shoes that had been half- soled, a tire from a bicycle she had taken to he mended, some mason jars, a bundle of shirts from the Chinaman, stamps and envelopes from the post office, a suit of clothes from the tailor's. Gloria laughed. “What’s on the list since I left?” she asked. “Oh, Helen Moqrls is having a bridge Wednesday afternoon and wants tallies and some one to take her two small girls for the afternoon.” In the background—antfl&h farther back than he would liav^ JJkcd to be— was a rather doleful you£g man, Arthur Mudge. He and Gloria had been child hood sweethearts and even had a sort of understanding about being en gaged. One day he came upon her on the dirt road she often used because it was a short cut between her home vil lage and Hempstead. She was looking disconsolately at a very flat rear tire on her overloaded station wagon. “Kind-a flat, Gloria,” Arthur re marked as he parked his ow’n roadster just ahead of her. Gloria-laughed but she was tired and in a hurry and Arthur felt that G ere were tears close behind the sur face. “1 was just wondering what to do,” she said. “And along comes—the man who wants always t<» be near you when you are in trouble.” he said, pulling otT his coat and getting out the jack. “Yes—I know hut—” “Never mind, now dear. Get busy with the lock on that spare tire and we’ll have you on your way ir a min ute. This was not the time for me to say that.” In a surprisingly short time the new tire was on and Arthur was leading tne way toward home. Mean time, Gloria, driving mechanically, was fhinting. VVhy could she not get Ar thur—since she knew they would be married eventually—to go into her business with her. His real estate business was not so flourishing but what he could give her a hand. That night she called him up and together with iter mother they planned an extended business. “And eventually, Gloria?” he whis pered in her ear as they stood saying goodnight on the fragrant vine-cov- ered porch. “Oh—yes, eventually we’ll enter a partnership to last until ‘death does us part,’ ” she replied. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE MENT AND DISCHARGE On the 18th day of July, 1931, at ten o’clock a. m., I will make a final settlement and ask for a dis charge as administrator of the es tate of S. Caroline Strom. All persons holding claims should pre sent them before that day. W. T. STROM, Administrator. Tune 18th, 1931.—4t. Ancient Egyptians had portraits [person who is to use it. City Girl* Thriftieit Oity business girls hold the record for saving, according to a statistical survey of London, Birmingham and vicinity made by a large hank. Their reasons for saving are thrift for thrift's sake, provision for old age, the crea tion .of a vacation*'found, or go married. Of the girls interviewed in the cities 7.” per cent had savings u< counts, compared with oO per cent io t Ice country. The figures for *he men wore <»S per cent in the cities and 07 per cent in the country. LOST OR STRAYED—-One Black Mare Mule, age about seven years, weight about one thousand pounds. Missing since Sunday night, June 21st from plantation near Leesville. Liberal reward for her return or information leading to her location. W. K. Charles, Mc Cormick, S. C. EXCHANGE YOUR WHEAT for HIGH GRADE FLOUR—Ship us your wheat for exchange. If you pay freight on the wheat, we pay return freight on the floor. Write us for particulars. SPARTAN GRAIN & MILL CO. Mills at Spar tanburg and Landrum. 4t. ' PLANTS FOR SALE—Sweet Potato*; Porto Rica, Nancy Hall, Early Triumph and Big Sten Jersey Plants. Tomato, Cabbage, Ga„ Collard and Bermuda Onion Plante all $1.00 per 1000. Prompt Ship ment. Dorris Plant Co., Valdosta, Georgfa. 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. NO MORE HATS 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 - 1 cake - enough for Pantry, 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 factory buildings. Sold and guaranteed by STROMS’ DRUG STORE v McCormick, S. C. It may be that people who are continually blowing their own horn live in a perpetual fog. IXt The learn-to-swim campaigns are being started again. The best known way is to try changing seats in a canoe. x A newly invented ray will des troy whole armies, it is said, but think of the possibilities of a ray of intelligence. txt The man who is contented with his lot generally lets the weeds grow in it undisturbed. X The objection to a revolver is that it is always in a convenient place at the wrong time. X Most men who are successful as specialists make the rAistake of thinking they know all about ev erything. \ x When the head and the heart can’t agree, they ought to com- iromise on the hands and arms and go to work. Y Many of the girls feel that mo ther should have plenty of exercise and leave all of the work for her W do. X Eccentric Massachusetts woman, willed $50,000 to a neighbor. Moral: Love thy neighbor as thyself. TXT Golf looks like a silly game. The ignorant bystander never knows what you are driving at. txi If it’s a fair question, do you suppose these people who write advice to husband and wife for the newspapers were ever married? X— About one-half million acres of forest land in Wisconsin is still covered with .Mash from logging j operations, according to an in- ' vestigation by State officials, tho> Forest Service reports. This rJash often constitutes a fire menace for as much as 3 years or .'onger after cutting. Better protection for slash covered areas is declared nec essary to prevent disastrous foresu fires. - - .