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/ Thursday, July 23, 1931 LEGAL ,.V4 % — SALE OF STOCK OF GOODS Pursuant to an Order of Court made heretofore in the case of ^ N. Brown and others, as Executors, etc., against J. C. Brown, as Execu tor, etc., et al, which case is pend ing in the Court of Common Plear lor McCormick County, the under signed, as surviving partner of the late firm of N. G. Brown & Son, yhU offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder the stock of goods now in the store room o$^N. G. Brown Si Son at McCormid^in the State of South Carolina, sale to be made on salesday in Au gust, being August 3rd, 1931, at the store room of N. G. Brown & Son, at McCormick, S. C. An inventory of the said stock of goods will be exhibited on the day of sale and all such goods as are contained therein will be sold. ^ Terms of Sale—Cash. J. C. BROWN, Surviving partner of the partner ship formerly composed of N. G. Brown and J. C. Brown, unde# the name of N. G. Brown & Son. July 22hd, 1931.—2t. McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA J Power Committee Is Investigating Rates Charged In State ASKS PUBLIC TO WITHHOLD JUDGMENT UNTIL THOROUGH INVESTIGATION AND RE PORT CAN BE MADE FPANK PARKER NO MORE RATS r 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 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 McCormick. S. C. WANT ADYS. V ; * -'C ■ * FOR RENT CHEAP—Seven room house with lights and water. See Mrs. J. C. Blackwell, McCormick, S. C. RIPE ELBERTA PEACHES at O. G. Calhoun’s orchard. Bordeaux. S. C., last week in July $1.00 per bush el, delivered; 50 cents at orchard. Jas. J. Link. CHILDRENS HAIR CUT for 20 cents at H. D. Wideman’s Bar ber Sliop, Augusta Street, McCor mick, 8. C. «p..i ■ »» FOR SALE—One Nesco Oil Stove with four burners, high shelf and boss oven in good condition at a reasonable price. Mrs. J. B. Har- mon, Jtv, , FOR TRADE, Corn for Oats—Will exchange on basis of one bushel com for two bushels of oats. J. W. Bracknell & Son, Plum Branch, 8. C. FOR SALE—One good set new buggy harness at special tew price. J. W. Bracknell Si Son, Pltftn- Senate. Theodore Burton of Ohio, Branch, S. C. WANTED—Through July and Au gust, large quantities of sound and well manufactured mixed Oak Cross Ties, delivered P. Si N. Yard, Greenwood, S. C. Will pay cash for ties as hauled in. 7x9—8 1-2 feet, 65c; 7x8—8 1-2 feet, 55c; 6x8 —8 1-2 feet, 40c. R. M. Winn, Plum Branch, S. C. 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. Cleanliness Is The First Rule Turkey raising, an industry which was almost wiped out a few Years ago in the East and Middle West, is staging a comeback as a result of modern methods of san itation. Turkeys raised under this new system are fed from clean, waste-proof feeders—never from the ground—and they drink from clean dishes, sax poultry special ists of the U. S. Department of Ag riculture. Yards are kept clean by covering the surface with grav el, moving buildings to clean loca tions from time to time, disposing of manure, and keeping the tur keys away from chickens. The young turkeys are raised on land -that has not been used for poul- for at least one year. ^OURAGS r*»rt)’*fse has been expressed that young men wealthy enough to own seagoing yachts should have he courage to sail their own craft n the ocean race from Newport, R. to Plymouth, England, especially wer the dangerous northern route. This surprise is voiced by newspa pers and individuals who regard courage as an attribute solely of the so-called “working class. That is a peculiarly American ?oint cf view. We have come to regard the man who does no use ful work, but lives on inherited wealth, as a feminized sort of per son, unfit to associate with “he- :nen.” The fact is that courage has nothing to do with wealth, occupa tion or social status. Brave men are to be found everywhere. GOLD ' Tlje great gold reef in South Africa, known as The Rand, is still producing as prolifically as ever, according to a recent report of the company which operates this, the world's largest gold mine. Since gold was discovered in the valley which the Boers called “Witwaters- rand," in 1886, more than five bil lion dollars of the precious metal has been taken out of this one group of mines. Two hundred thousand native workers and 22,- 000 whites are employed in the mines, which are now <fown 7,000 feet below the surface and show no sign of petering out. So long as the world’s trade is carried on with money which rep resents gold—and no other kind of money is of value in international commerce—there is need for a con stant fresh supply of the metal. SERVICE The suggestion that Atlee Pom- erene, former United States Sena tor from Ohio, shall run for Con gress in the Cleveland district where he lives, where there is a vacancy to be filled, brings up one difference between public life in this country and Europe. On the other side, when a man embarks on a career of public service he us ually remains in it, regardless of whether he keeps on climbing the ladder from one office to a higher one. If he loses his seat in the British Cabinet he is content to contihue as an ordinary Member of Parliament. Thus at the present time there are two former Prime Ministers in the House of Com mons, Lloyd-George and Stanley Baldwin. Two men who had been Presi dent of the United States served later in Congress; John Quincy Adams in the House of Representa tives and Andrew Johnson in the after being a Senator went back to the House, to be elected Senator again later. But the usual Amer ican custom is to retire from pub ic life rather than take a “lower” office than the one last held. HAPPINESS Dr. C. E. K. Mees, research di rector of the Eastman Kodak Com pany, thinks people were happier as a rule when they had fewer nodern improvements. Of course, Dr. Mees 'is right. Happiness has nothing to do with money, possessions or comfort. No body can confer happiness; it must '.ome from within one’s self. These hings which we lump under the reneral term of '“improvements” merely give the individual more ime in which to pursue happiness All of those things do not make 'appiness, however. The only source of happiness is in fitting me’s self into the social scheme in juch a way as neither to interfere with the lives of others nor to be interfered with by others, and to find something congenial with which to occupy one’s leisure time. \nd that is, I am convinced, easier to do now than it ever was before. JEFFERSON Thomas Jefferson’s home, Monti- sello, at Charlottesville, Va., has COLUMBIA, June 20.—Advocacy by Dr. John Bauer, of New York City, matipnally known economist, of an effective and continuing con trol of public utility properties in South Carolina, and the statement from The South Carolina Power Rate Investigating Committee to the effect that its findings will be judiciously determined upon ;-acts were the outstanding features of the week’s activity of the newly appointed Power Committee. Dr. Bauer, in addition to address ing the committee and various oth er interested groups on the electric situation in South Carolina as he sees it, was in consultation and counsel with the Power Committee and its attaches for two days. He generally approved the program of the committee and its preliminary outline of work and the scope of its proposed investigations. The following is the statement given out by Tom B. Pearce, Chair man of the Committee: “It has been brought to the at tention of this committee that cer tain criticisms have been made of it and of its purposes. The com mittee welcomes and urges con structive criticism and suggestions from every citizen of the State. Certain definite duties are de legated to this Committee by the General Assembly. It is charged with the power “of investigating rates charged consumers of elec tric current, and whether or not public utilities and power compan ies are receiving more than a fair, equitable, and reasonable income upon its or their investments.” An appropriation of $50,300.90 was set up for this work and ma chinery was authorized for all in vestigations to be made by the Committee. The result of its find ings is to be reported to the Rail road Commission, the Governor, and the General Assembly on or before the third Tuesday in Janu ary, 1932, and the Railroad Com mission is directed to provide rea sonable rates to be charged elec tric consumers in this State based upon the findings of this Com mittee. This committee and its members are interested in finding if the electric consuming public of South Carolina is receiving a fair, equit able and reasonable rate or rates. The committee will see to it that investigation arising out of such a determination will be fair, thor ough and impartial. Recommendations of the com mittee will be made upon the re vealed facts, and these facts only. Realizing that it has a tremend ous job ahead of it, the committee asks the people of South Carolina to suspend Judgment upon it and its efforts until it has had an op portunity to investigate the facts and make a report.” x South Carolina Leads In Road Work In June WASHINGTON, July 19.—During the month of June, according to figures available here today, South Carolina contracted for 449 miles of roadway at a total cost of $2,- 989,804, employing 5,389 workers. Virginia and Georgia were the only other South Atlantic states making such contracts. Georgia expending $310,000 with 48 miles and Virginia $694,201 with 78 miles. of brick made on his own estate. Few people today realize what a many-sided man Thomas Jeffer son was. He was a successful farmer, a leader in scientific re search, an accomplished musician and linguist, and the inventor of the first scientifically-designec plow-share, of the swivel chair and the foldnig buggy-top, among oth er things. His greatest achieve ment, however, was the drafting o. the Declaration of Independence and his devotion of the remaining fifty years of his life to the effor: to establish the principles of indi vidual liberty which that grea. Shower Of Frogs Fell In Anderson During A Storm The Anderson Independent of Tuesday says, it has never rained the proverbial cats, dogs and'pitch forks in Anderson,* but little bull frogs did come peppering down out of the clouds during the rainstorm Saturday afternoon. , Most of the frogs smote the Trouod in the southeastern section sf this city. Some were killed by .he shock, but most of them were merely stunned and hopped jubil antly away upon regaining their composure. The frogs were about the size, of mall horseflies, according to T. R. Keith, of Roberts street. “After he storm my little boys, William and James, gathered up about a hundred of them and put them in a tiny pond,” he said yesterday af ternoon. “This is not the first time I have known such a thing to happen,” he continued. “Many years ago when I was a boy living at Walhalla there came a shower of frogs one summer afternoon. I went out and captured hundreds of whem.” The frog rain may sound fantas tic, but such a thing is possible and docs happen, according to sci entists. The explanation is simple. Winds of cyclonic intensity some time sweep across bodies of water in which there are tiny frogs. Thousands of these frogs are swept up into the clouds and whirl ed about like little chips. After tearing through the heavens for many miles, the wind, which is ac companied by clouds, runs into a hot or cold area. Here precipitation occurs and the frogs come swishing down with the rain. In addition to frogs tadpoles, fish and crawfish have been known to come showering down out of the clouds. , txt GREENWOOD, S. C. Now Playing Joan Crawford Neil Hamilton and Clark Gable in “LAUGHING SINNERS” SATURDAY, July 25th Buck Jones in “THE TEXAS RANGER” MONDAY and TUESDAY July 27th-28th „ Edmund Lowe Victor McLaglen El Brendel , and Greta Nisscn in ‘WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS” WEDNESDAY. J-iv 29{h “STEPPING OUT” with Reginald Denny Charlotte Greenwood Cliff Edwards and Leila Hyams PAGE NUMBER EIGHT Hunter Knifes Mountain Lion In Close Combat With Mrs. Stallworth At The Short Course By effectively using his hunting knife, Gene Holder, a Biological Survey hunter on the Elk Range in ^i^na, won a “hand-to-claw’ > ‘ combat with a wounded mountain, ’ion last winter, Ben E. Fost-r,. leader of predatory-animal and rodent contorl work in th e Arizona district, reports to the Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture. Holder’s dogs had treed the mountain lion, so situated that he thought it would slide over the canyon rim below after being shot, thus making recovery of the skin impossible. He therefore placed himself between the treed lion and the canyon so as to check the falling body. As he pressed the trigger his foot slipped on the snow, the bullet failed to hit a vital spot, and the wounded animal fell almos; upon him. Before it could be subdued with his hunting knife, Holder was severely bitten and scratched. It took him three days to get out on horseback to Flagstaff, Ariz., where he was treated by a physi cian for more than a‘ hundred wounds. -T Y T- Eggs Yield Easy Money CLEMSON COLLEGE, July 20.— An average production of 14 eggs per hen is shown in the June dem onstration flock summary for the 69 farms reporting before July 15 representing a total of 8,840 hens. The hens ate 22 cents worth of feed each and returned a total in come of 40 cents each, leaving an income above feed cost of 18 cents per bird for the month. Deducting the average monthly charge of 6.6 cents per hen for interest on in vestment, depreciation on equip ment and all other costs, except feed, according to records of pre vious years, the labor income per hen for the month was 11.4 cents, says P. H. Gooding, extension poul- tryman. Among the record keepers the following poultrymen in the vari ous classes received the highest egg production from their hens: Backyard flock class, Mrs. J. B. Hill, Kathwood; farm flock class, Mrs. C. L. Kennedy, Sharon; and commercial class, W. B. Nickles, Hodges. In the calendar record class, C. B. Simpson, Rodman, nade the best record with 15: White Leghorns which laid an av- arage of 23.5 eggs each for th : lonth. v, Organize Corn Club State (Contestants McCormick County ladies assist ing the Home Demonstration Agent ,Mrs. Nell A. Stallworth, at the short course, which opened at Lander College, Greenwood, yester day morning for a three-day ses sion, are: Mrs. H. O. Watson, Mt. Carmel; Mrs. Edgar Brown, McCormick; Miss Mabel Dorn, McCormick; Miss Marion Dorn, McCormick; Miss Jewel Patterson, McCormick; Miss Francis Rush, McCormick; Miss Annie Lovett, De la Howe; Miss Nina Edmunds, Parksville; Mrs. Bass, Parksville; Mrs. D. M. Black- well, Parksville; Miss Bety Ward- aw, Troy. x - HUMORETTES Forests Influence Amount Of Mois ture In The Air A demon taxi-driver whirled us into Fifth Avenue out of Twenty- third Street the other noon, just beating a red light, grazing a traf fic sign, grazing a safety zone, grazing a bus. A cop halted him. Deliberately he took a big hand kerchief from his pocket. “Listen, cowboy,” he said. “On your way back I’ll drop this, an’ see if you ean pick it up wit’ yet teeth.” With this he motioned him on. J^e—“I hear Jones fell down on the state pharmacy examina tion.” Sam—“Yes, he got mixed on the difference between a club and a western sandwich.” Forests influence the amount of moisture in the air as well as con serve the water in the ground. Humidity records taken by the Pacific Northwest Forest Experi ment Station in a Douglas fir for est before and after the trees were cut indicated a remarkable differ ence in atmospheric humidity, ac cording to the Forest Service, Un ited States Department of Agricul ture. In the forested area the relative humidity fell below 35 per cent in only one-third as many hours as in an open area near by. After the forested tract was cut over, the atmosphere above it appeared to< become almost as dry as that over the open space. The tests showed that the removal of the trees in creased the number of hours dur ing which the humidity was below 35 per cent by two and one-half umes. -txi- Paradichlorobenzene For Moths Lawyer—And what was the de fendant doing meanwhile? Witness—He was telling me a funny story. Lawyer—Remember, sir, that you j are under oath. Witness—Well, anyway, he was elling me a story. been bought by the Thomas Jeffer- document promulgated son Memorial Foundation and re stored to its original condition. It is one of the most beautiful build ings surviving from our nation’s early days, and gains additional in terest because Jefferson himself was Its architect and it was built The Jefferson Foundation is now :aising a national endowment fund ,o provide an income for the main tenance of Monticello as a shrine )f liberty. I can think of no cause nore worthy of the contributions of every liberty-loving American. SPARTANBURG, July 18.—A Jouth Carolina Corn Club is being organized among farmers of the ;tate by S. L. Jeffords, extension igronomist with headquarters here, he membership to include any far- ner in the state five-acre corn contest who averages 60 bushels or nore per acre on his five-acre con est field. A certificate of member ship, signed by the director of the Extension Service and the presi- ient of Clemson College, will be is sued to each eligible contestant. This adult corn club will do much, Mr. Jeffords and others think, to increase interest and pride in high er and more economic corn yields. All contestants are being notified to this effect by Mr. Jeffords who announces that the checking of contest plots for membership in this club will be governed by the same rules as those for eligibility of cash prizes in the five-acre corn contest, the plots to be checked by the county fqrm agent and re checked by the district agent or the specialist or some competent per son designated by them. t x t One of the unsolved mysteries of life is how anyone can enjoy rest without working. Sa’e^mm—There, madam, that’s just what you want. This portman teau is colid leather—every inch of it solid leather. Shopper—But, my good man, I want a hollow one, to put things in! “Why, yes, my boy; you may have her.” “How’s that? Have whom?” “My daughter, of course. You want to marry her, don’t you?” “No, sir; I just wanted to find out if you would endorse my note for $100.” “Certainly not. Why, I hardly know you.” Barber—You are very bald, sir. Do you know what is the cause of it? Feddup—I don’t know, but I sus pect that my hair falling out had something to do with it. txt Card Of Thanks Paradichlorobenzene is a good home treatment for moths in up holstered furniture. Use 2 or 3 pounds of the crystals to one piece of furniture. Distribute them well over the upholstery and in the corners and cracks, and then cover the furniture immediately with old blankets, a rubberized bag, or a shellacked carton. If the room temperature is at least 70 degrees Fahrenheit 2 or 3 days will kill practically all the moths. If a room can be left vacant for a few weeks, moths can be destroyed by stopping up cracks in windows and doors md scattering 8 or 10 pounds of ,he paradichlorobenzene crystals over the floor on papers. I ■'Nvvtvv John R. Corn, Sirring, Col., wa« ehoftcsi head ot the Elks at its 1931 •aovmtioci. We want to thank our friends and neighbors in McCormick Coun- | ty for their many acts of kindness 1 during the recent illness of ou” husband and father. We can nev er repay you for your thoughtful ness, but pray God’s richest bless ings on each of you. Mrs. J. A. Crawford . . , and Children. Modoc, S. C» ntxx- Residents of the prairie provinces of Canada appreciate the value of trees for windbreaks, shade, anti wood. According to the Canadian Forest Service, 6,000,000 tree seed lings and cuttings were shipped to this region for planting last year. In the last 30 years more than 116,000,000 trees have been sent by the service to more than 100,000 applicants. Millions more have been bought from private nurseries.