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Thursday, July 23, 1931 McCOhnIICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA' PAGE NUMBElt THREfc AS SUNLIGHT Ji l VUNI IN on our rodio program SUpiccc, *!l-*tring orchestra. Grantiend *'Rlc« liftervlewlft# v<drld celebrities., • Every Wednesday Night o WSB ATLANTA, GA. GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Greenwood, S. C. IT 'HAD TO BB GOOD TO GET WHERE IT 19 J 8 ATS DIE Made $2100 Last Year On A 60-Acre Farm K ILLS RATS Restless CHILDREN C HILDREN will fret, often for n< apparent reason. But there’s alwayi Castoria! As harmless as the recijM on the wrapper; mild and bland as il tastes. But its gentle action soothes s a youngster more surely than a mon powerful medicine. That’s the beauty of this special children’s remedy I It may be given th€ tiniest infant — as dften as there is need. In cases of colic, diarrhea oi similar disturbance, it is invaluable. A coated tongue calls for just a few drops to ward off constipation; so does any suggestion of bad breath. Whenevei children don’t eat well, don’t rest well, or have any little upset—this pure vegetable preparation is usually all that’s needed. ... i and mice—that’s RAT-SNAP, the SOUTH CAROLINA FARMERS 0 i^ reliable rodent destroyer. Comes - - - in cakes—no mixing with other food. Your money back if it fails. 35c si7e - 1 cake - enough for Pantry, Kitchen or Cellar. 65c size - 2 cakes - for Chicken House, coops, or small buildings. S1.25 size - 5 cakes - enough for all farm and out-buildings, storage SHOW HOW TO MAKE FARM LIFE INTERESTING AND PROFITABLE On a p'ace five aiiles from Or angeburg beside the road to North, Fred N. Culler has been showing Well-Cured Hay Rarely Burns how farm life in South Carolina buildings, or factory buildings. CASTORIA so do mice, once they eat RAT- SNAP. And they leave no odor be hind. Don’t take our word for it —try a package. Cats and dogs won't touch it. .Rats pass up all food to get RAT-SNAP. Three sizes. 35c size - 1 cake - enough for r. Kitchen or Cellar. c size f t cakes - for Chieken 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 McCormick, S. C. ALL LIGHT CARS $6.65 WHITTLE BATTERY SERVICE 622 BROAD PHONE 1166 AUGUSTA. GA. 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. ;an approach or attain the idyllic -.tate. In the place there is only 63 acres of land. “I cleared $2100 last year and I .expect to get through all right :hte y'jar,” says Mr. Culler ,a mem ber of an 6ld and numerous family of Orangeburg County farmers. Across the road from him is the home of Edgar Culler, his cousin, who is a member of the State Highway Commission and one of the biggest-scaled farmers in this section. Fred Culler doesn’t boast, but he declares that he has found intensified handling of only 60 acres much more satisfactory than the cultivating of several hundred acres in the traditional way of cotton and croppers, as he farmed for a long time. The key link in his present op erations is poultry, which he does not treat as just hens and chickens and eggs. He uses poultry as a medium for disposing of what he grows for sale on his farm. And he purposely grows scarcely. any thing for sale that cannot be fed to his flock of hens. ‘T get $3 to $4 a bushel for grain . . . when I market it in the form of storl "' Then we might have lost eggs,” says he. And most of what ’"I" 5 „^f; he sells is so marketed. But he hasn’t what commonly would be called a poultry farm. The base of his operations is his 63 acres of land and not his chicken houses and their occupants. He cultivates those sixty acres with the view of Sold and guaranteed by STROMS’ DRUG STORE McCormick, S. C. Tuesday is better than Monday for a wash ,day. fi day is needed in most homes to straighten up the house after Sunday’s relaxation, to look over the clothes, mend them when necessary to prevent larger tears, remove unusual stains, and put the white clothes to soak. Then an early start can be made on the work on Tuesday. ily she had gotten up to get some thing in another part of the room and escaped. You’d have to go a mighty long ways to find a hap pier woman than Mrs. Senn, whom none of her neighbors would deny present standing as a master far mer. “We, my children and I have made a go of Jt, and come out ahead in all but one of the years since my husband died about nine years ago,” says she. “The one year was 1930, when we would not have lost money but for the hail- Cof. 'Arthur Woods, has just re turned from studying unemploymenl conditions in Europe, at the instance of President Hoover 103-Year-Old Flyer M»ss Mary C- Hartman, Philadel phia, decided she would not let an other century elapse without making • ftight producing as much as possible of his own food and he does produce much the greater part of it. The rest of his production is for his chickens, for which he buys those necessary feed ingredients he can’t produce, such as meat scrap. When there is an excess of it, he markets grain, but he plants nothing in the expectation of marketing it as har vested. He keeps a* flock of 500 to 700 white leghorn hens. He feeds 'icTWf h , . scho ° 1 a " d and rf at ' taining a high scholastic record as a student. At 24 he is recognized IrftBAiAM difference BETWEEN 6/ftLS NOW AND then is f/MTTHEV' USED To P^MiSE To MAm A Maw Am wow VltY THREATEN to . 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. ——■ H I I ■■■■■I mu— mil ■ No one has ever explained why speqeli shouldn’t be free, since* so littfc of it is worth anything. I |^NE REASON THERE S Wso many /hope CAPS obihe. Road this year IS SO MANY FOLKS HAVfNTj ANYTHING ELSE, TO WORK AT—- O ohem his grain and markets eggs throughout the year. He sells his eggs in Columbia, during most of the year to a single customer. “Five to seven hundred hens are enough for a 60-acre farm,” he says. “If I increased the flock beyond that number without add ing more land I would be more poultry-man than farmer and would have to buy much feed at times and have help in taking care of c!ie hens.” Mr. Culler was for long a general farmer. He then produced Cotton in the main. He gradually re duced his acreage to, the present minimum. Since 1920 he has pro duced no cotton. What he has done in the cultivating and soil improvement ways with his 60 acres is illustrated by the fact that this year he cut 45 bushels of wheat per acre. Last year he gathered 70-odd bushels of corn per acre. The $2100 he made on the year’s operations was of course in addi tion to his home, a modern one in a pretty setting, and the greater part of the food consumed in the i home. On the place he does ev erything feasible towards getting what he markets into the form :hat will yield him most. He mixes his own chicken feed a^nd operates his own hatchery, using surplus capacity for public hatching. He was the first to go in for com mercial poultry operations in that community. Now most of his neighbors have gone in for poul try. Among these are his cousins, Edgar and Hampton Culler, each of wjipp^,.cultivates several thous and* ^icres of land. Their poultry operations are on a similar scale, each of them maintaining flocks of several thousand hens. sibly the place, but for our cows. We still could replant for them; they saved us.” In addition to six plows of gener al farming, Mrs. Senn operates a commercial dairy and grows prac tically all the feedstuffs for it and for a large herd of hogs and a sizable flock of chickens. She and her children now milk over 30 head of grade and purebred cows and sell milk both wholesale and retail. Among the children are two boys both of whom have gone through high school and one through and another partly through college. The oldest, William Senn, helped with the place and served a milk route in Newberry while going through as an agricultural leader. Mrs. Smn expects to send both of her two daughters, who are younger than the boys, to college. “A lot of people advised me to sell the place when Mr. Senn died,” says Mrs. Senn. “I might have got more for it then than it will bring now. But I wanted to raise the children on the farm and preserve ths place for them. I didn’t know Proper curing of hay prevents loss from spontaneous heating, which annually destroys at least one-tenth of the harvested hay crop of the United States. The moisture content of hay well cured by the usual process is reduced from about 75 per cent to 20 per sent, at which point there is little danger of the hay over-heating in the stack or mow, but hay drawn in before it is completely cured, because of danger of rain or rush of work, is a source of danger be cause it may ignite spontaneously. If a burnt odor becomes noticeable, try to locate the fire pocket which has formed somewhere within the mow. This can be done by bor ing into the hay in different places ?.i» h n hollow steel rod or tube pro vided with a sharp cutting’ edge. If a section of the tube is very hot when lemcved and the core of hay in« it appears burned, this indi cates a fire pocket. In case of a fire pvkH- remove the hay at once, lut first provide fire-extinguishing •pparatus o.’ water, as there is al- .vajs'ounac r that the sudden ad mission of air to the pocket may cause flame? to break out. Y The cost of illness There is another thing that is as sure as death and taxes—sickness. The average American man is ill once a year; the average American woman nearly twice as often; the child of school age twice as often. These are figures taken from a study made by the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, which is coming to the end of a five year study of the economic aspects of the prevention of disease and the care of the sick. These illnesses total about 130,000,000 every year. Their direct cost in money is com puted by the Committee at $3,105,- 300,000. This is a huge cost, reckoned either* in terms of time lost or of money expended. The cost would be huge even if we could foresee just when we will fall ill, just Dow serious the illness will be, or just how long it will last. None of those things, however, can be fore seen, and to all the other burdens that illness imposes upon us must be added uncertainty. Uncertainty exists not only as to appearance and character of illness, it is even more a factor with relation to cost. No problem enters into the daily lives of Americans that is more serious than this. Medical facilities in the United States are adequate in the aggre gate, perhaps. The committee has found-that 1,500,000 people devote their full time to medical care. There is one physician to every 126 A I A Woman “Master Farmer” Sees No Gloom in Farming Several years ago, The Progres sive Farmer designated Mrs. Carrie Senn, a widow, “the master far mer of Newberry County, South Carolina.” Last year a mid-June hailstorm almost annihilated Mrs. Senn’s growing crops. About five years ago, she accidentally con tracted the rare disease known as “rabbit fever” and it still puts her abed during several weeks once a year: Once when she was ill in bed a high stqrpi wind blew off the top of a chirhney *above her *and the brick tumbled through the roof and celling into her, room, most of them falling upon the bed. Luck- much about managing a farm. But, inhabitants. Over 7,009 hospitals I went ahead and we have gotten along &11 right and expect to do so in future. It has been great for the children and I’ve enjoyed it.” Diversification is the rule with Mrs. Senn in her farming. “We are selling something all the time and we produce almost everything by way of food and feedstuffs that is consumed here in the home and m the place,” says Mrs. Senn, whose enthusiasm for farming and farm life hasn’t waned a bit. Non-Farmers See Investment Worth of Low-Priced Agricul tural Land It is exiomatic that folk in non farming lines are usually the first to see clearly the sound investment vvorth of farm lands during per iods of economic recession. Many a ’awyer and business man laid the foundations of a fortune by buy ing up farm lands in the 1890’3, when farmers themselves were prone to think that the price of land would never again turn up ward. Sign of a recurrence of what happened :'n and following the tortuous nineties is in a recent selling experience of one of the land banks. In the last few months this bank has disposed of eight farms in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. The farms went to w he following: 2 to barbers. 1 to a dentist. 1 to a groceryman. 1 to a post office clerk. 1 to a lawyer. 1 to an operator of filling station. 1 to a farmer. If the same farms had been sold twelve years ago it is probable that seven of the eight would have gone to farmers. If sold hereafter on a rising market farmers are apt to be the principal purchasers. There is such a thing as being so close to the trees that you can’t see , the forest. have 900,000 beds, which would give every ipan, woman and child cm and one-half days occupancy a year. But neither physicians nor hospitals are evenly distributed; there are places that have too many, and many more that hr.ve uoo few. by Purification Any physician will tell you that “Perfect Purification of the System is Nature’s Foundation of Perfect Health.” Why not rid yourself of chronic ailments that are undermin ing your vitality? Purify your en tire system by taking a thorough course of Calotabs,-—once or twice a week for several weeks—and see how Nature rewards you with health. Calotabs purify the blood by acti vating the liver, kidneys, stomach and Dowels. Trial package, 10 cts. Fami ly package, 35 cts. All dealers. (Adv.) 666 LIQUID OR TABLETS Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first day, and checks Malaria in three days. 6 6 6 Salve for Baby’s Cold. LEGAL .. I MASTER’S SALE * STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. , Court of Common Pleas. MRS. MARY E. DEASON, et al. against MRS. LIZZIE ELLA MOSS, et al. Pursuant to judgment of the Court a;id a decree of sale in the above entitled cause, I will sell at public auction on Salesday in Au gust, 1931. the same being the 3rd day of August), in front of the Court House door, in the city of McCormick, Countv and State aforesaid, during the legal hours "of sale, on terms specified below, f he following described real estate, to wit: “All of thos a certain pieces, par cels or lots of land situate, lying and being in Town of McCormick.* County of McCormick, and State 6f, South Carn!**^. fol lows: Lots Nos. Nine (9), Thirty-' One (31). Twenty-Nine (29), Thir ty (30. Twenty-Eight (28), Ten^ (10) and Eleven (11) in Block Eighteen, (18) of the said Town of McCormick, egch of said lots, being Fifty (50) - Feet wide and One Hundred and Fifty (150) Feet deep.” ALSO “All that certain tract or: parcel of land, situate, lying and being in. Town of McCormick, County of McCormick and State of South; Carolina, on State Highway No. 20* leading from McCormick to Au gusta, containing about Ninety (90) * cres. more or less, the exact acre/-. oee + o be detennmed, and bounded as fallows: On the North by lot nit from this property for Mrs. J. S. Deason* on the East bv lands of. M. O. J. J Dom: on the South bv ’ands of tr r ank P. Deason and ’ "n the West by State Highway No. 20.” ALSO . “All of that certain niece, parcel, ’ trqct or nlantation of land situate, lying and being in the County of McCm'mick and State of Sputh Carolina, containing Two Hundred and Two (202) Acres, more or less, '■'od bound>3 on the North tr* lands «"f M. G. T. T . Dorn and lands formerly of the Jennings Es tate; on the East by lands of M. G. p .- J. t. Dor n grid lands formerly of f he Jenninofs Estate: on the South bv lands °f the Barker Woods or Erskine College and rn the West by lands of G. E. Price and lands formerly of the Jennings Estate.*’ ^he above described lots will be . What can be done about that everybody in the United .• 5 States has sure and convenient ac cess to the medical care to which he is entitled? What can be dene about seeing that those who furn ish this care are adequately re warded for their labor? What can be done about seeing that the means of paying for this care are provided for all the people? In the four years which it has al ready put in upon its task such progress has been made that an swers to those questions will soon be submitted to the people of the United States. There is promise that the formula which will result will be workable. If it is, then one whole, and the highest bid realized shall be confirmed. The farm lands shall be sold in tracts, as ad vertised. Terms of Sale: Cash: purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. L. G. BELL, Master. July 14. 1931.—3t. Notice Of Tax Sale Under and by virtue of a tax execution directed to me by thp County Treasurer of McCormick County, S. C., I have seized the property described below and the same will be sold to the highest bidder, for cash, on salesday in Au- ization of our age will have' been made. X Fertilizer Efficiency , ^ , .. .. . . », gust, 1931, (the same being the 3rd of the great contributions to civil- j day of August,) during the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House Door at McCormick, S. C., and the proceeds will be applied to the payment of said taxes and the costs of seizure and sale. The property to be sold is described as follows: ** 4.1, ^ * i- » i One Hundred and Eighty (180) Methods of applying fertih w - Ac Ves 0 f land located in School Lis as well as the materials them- trict No. 4, of McCormick County, selves, have much to do with their S. C., bounded by landj of M. G. Sc efficiency. The U. S. Department J - P 01 ^’’ i of Agriculture offers these sugges- Estate of R L> smith, lands of John tions for applying fertilizers. Nev- | Moore and lands of the estate of D er let fertilizer come in direct con tact with the seed, but get some J. Wardlaw and W. O. oturkey and perhaps others. This being the . identical tract of land over which hf the fertilizer near the seed. Mix a mortgage was foreclosed, land fertilizer and soil together. Use a sold and sale to confirmed by the distributing machine that dis tributes the material evenly. If fertilizer is applied by hand as to a lawn—frequent light applica tions are usually better than heavy single applications. Don’t fertilize recently transplanted plants too soon or tdb heavily at first. Don’t expect the best results with fertil izers when the soil very dry. Court to John B. King, Executor, but no title has ever been maue thereto and said land formerly be longed to Mrs. Sarah G. Maltisoa and said taxes levied against said property in the name of Mrs. Sarah G. Mattison. Purchaser to pay for stamps. J. T. FOOSHE, Tax Collector for McCormick Coun ty, South Carolina. McCormick, S. C., July 15, 1931.—3t. ^