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» Thursday, August 6,1931 McCOhidlCK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA’ PAGE NUMBER THREE WHITE’S AUGUST SALE OF : DRAPERIES IS HIGH QUALITY and LOW PRICES in furnishings for every room in the home feature this sale. Convenient Household Club terms with many months to pay. Freight prepaid to railroad points within 200 miles. 7r7:<. J B, WHITE & COMPANY AUGUSTA, GEORGIA ATS DIE ! mArkwino* TTnw RpttPl* tion t:m0 and cost are retitlc ^ ^ nd y ear 10t onl y as things OllUWlllg ± u much second and third grade pro- meat and grain products th£ Farming Is Done duce finds Frp*' •• d* once they eat RAT- SNAF. And they leaTe no odor be hind. Don’t tahe our word for it —try m package. Cats and dogs! w\ to *et h RAT-SNA^Ahre“Siz^! JUDGE BY FIVE-YEAR AVER- (By Henry S. Johnson. Sec. S. C. Bankers’ Association.) MT. CARMEL NEWS (Received too late for last week)) THINGS WORTH KNOWING 35c sise - 1 cake - enough for AGE* 5 . SAYS YOUNG GOING Gantry, Kitchen or Cellar. 65e size - 2 cakes - for Chicken Bouse, coops, or small buildings. $1.25 size - 5 cakes - enough for nil farm and out-buildings, storage hnDdings, or factory buildings. Sold and guaranteed by STROMS’ DRUG STORE McCormick, S. C. ALL LIGHT CARS $6.65 WHITTLE BATTERY SERVICE €22 BROAD PHONE 1166 AUGUSTA. GA. i FARMER. “A fault with much farmer thir'dng, and some other kinds, is that it does not take in enough,” says A. Danzler, a young farmer who *?as rapidly expanded his op erations neaf Eutawville, in Or angeburg County. ‘T never adjudge a year’s operations by a *.jingle pro duct or those with a single product by a single year’s results. I con cisions as to one by, as a rule, five- 1 year averages.” Thus he^ells you he dropped the growing of tobacco. He nade a profit on it two years, lost money on it two, and broke even one; whereupon he decided it was too risky. He holds on to the growing Most small pitched voices. birds have high- Parrct among regions. :nea" is natives of some ordinary diet tropical A day on the planet Mercury is Qcjual .,0 about seven of our days. like that we arket in those areas.” think of in connection with all- h vegetables are earned by no- year home living but as co all kinds | tor trucks e rom *he Charleston of vegetable products as well,” says j area as far north as Baltimore. Mr. Montgomery. “We are going! Mr. King, ike other big growers, to can and keep for winter use | Tarrant Scott has returned home of vegetables, still ships produce large quantities of all sorts of from an extended visit in Green- via steamers and railroads to far fruits and vegetables, and probab- wood. Marion Tarrant of Green- northem narkets. “But an in- ly neats also, especially by-pro- WO od accompanied him home for a creasing proportion of our produc- * ducts of hog killing that have to ’ 0 ng visit. Mon is sold, delivered and paid for be thrown away unless consumed Miss Nell Simpson of Florence here on the farm,” says he. quickly. We are going to put up i S the charming guest of her sister, “I am holding on to my land and stuff for supplying our tenants as Mrs. Smith Scott. t n-o^ose to keep it and work % well as our own homes.” Each of Miss Ruby Smith of Greenville says *Mr. King, who glories in tile eight co-operative owners of i S enjoying a much needed rest at j York s‘ate would c uming. as did his forebears., the cannery operates eight to ten j the home of her mother, Mrs. Cora medical publicity. “Prices have been pretty low, but f plows. Stuff will be canned for igmith. ! don’t think land values haVfe been non-members on a fee basis of 5! Mr. Otis Black spent the week The most important use of mi- depressed around here. Nature is 1-2 cents per number 2 can, which end in Mt. Carmel. Mrs. Black ca is as an insulator in the elec- sider remits from all and make de- 1 not makin S land . of - his inelpdes the cost of the can. and children and Mrs. J. R. Tar- j laical mdustry. sort and there is increasing ^ con- The cannery has 3 retorts of , ra nt returned to Beaufort with him mmption of tjje kinds of products medium pressure and a capacity of Sabbath afternoon. New Orleans now has a street for which our rich soil and climate about 3000 cans a day. The equip- j Miss Gladys Scott is visiting Miss paved with green cement and an- .are best suited.” ment was bought at second hand Carolyn Tarrant in Greenwood. other edged with red. and, with'its setting up. cost be- Misses Reba Wells and Sallie T. EDITOR DANIELS THINKS BACK tween $600 and $700. It will en- Cade were called to Anderson v on j The world’s deepest oil well. TO DO’S AND DEDUCES A LES- farm families making use of professional duty Sabbath. drilled in 1929. is in California and SON THEREFROM. to provide, from their own lard- Mrs. Gary McLain is a Charles- | is 9,350 feet leep. “In less than ten /ears from tow ers - a balanced dietary the year ton visitor this week. j Legislation pending in New control radio of Irish potatoes, though his re turns have varied widely. Yet he people who buy farm 'and at )r es- romKL HEADACHES NEURITIS * NEURALGIA, COLDS Whenever you Ha^fc some nagging ache •or pain, take soriife tablfets of Bayer* AsptrtcL Relief is immediate! There’s scarcely ever an ache or pain that Bayer Aspirin won’t relieve—and never a time when you can’t take it. ' The tablets with the Bayer cross are -always safe. They will not depress the heart, or otherwise harm you. Use them as often as they can spare you any pain or discomfort. Just be sure to buy the • genuine. Examine the box. Beware of imitations. • Aspirin is the trade-mark of Bayer manufacture of monoace ticacidester of saKcyikacad. finds that during a period of five years all told he has made "ome money on potatoes He is getting aw.ay from cotton.' “It is the one thing I never have made money on,” he declares. He is expand ing his truck growing operations, especially sweet potato production. “I have sold sweet potatoes for as much as $2.29 a bushel and as lit tle as $1 a bushel; yet I can make money on them at 75 cents a bufchel ent nrices will be selling it to short- Miss Price spent one night last Italy has extended tax e^emp- , week with Mrs. H. S. Cason. tions now enjoyed by heads of righted men at large profit,”, "aid HAIRY PRODUCTS-GREAT AID Miss Julia Cade is spending some large families to pension^! civil Tcseofius Daniels, former Secretarv NEWBERRY COUNTY time with Mr. and Mrs. John Dru service employes, or their vndows. of the Navy, in a recertt editorial FARMERS. Cade in Greenville. , in his Raleigh News and Observer. , ‘ Dairy products yielded New- , Mr. Barnard Smith of Charles- Results of chemical research are He sees nothing “hopeless” in ieen- *, berry County farmers a total of ton is visiting his little daughter, | being published in the world’s sci- sus showings of large drops in land over a half million dollars las L > jean, and his mother, Mrs. Mary entific journals at the rate of values as bf 1930 compared wlth | y ear * M says T. F. Cooley, the only flmith. about 100 articles a day. the values of 1920. For he remem- county dairy husbandry extension , Miss Martha Connor, Mr. Willie bers that something similar lap- a S en t in South Carolina. It was Hester and Master Lawrence Hes- ' The mineral mercury ias ap- peend in the 1890’s. largely because of dairying In that ter, Jr., went down to Charleston proximately 1,000 uses/ “Older oeople will remember the action that the Borden people de- , Saturday. Miss Connor will visit or less,” says he. So he is putting P an ic 1894-98,” he wrote. “Crops ; c i ded locate in the city of New- , Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Connor for j Making patchwork quilts was a in 25 acres of sweet potatoes this did n ot bring the cost of oroduc- berry thair South Carolina plant several weeks, but Mr. Hester and widely known art in Egypt as far year. It has not been a good year ^ion and the price of land went'* or drying milk. “Over 400 New-: Lawrence, Jr., will return this week, back as 900 B. C. for vegetables; yet Mr. ~ Danzler down#to the lc*vest on record. Peo- j berry County farmers now produce Mrs. Alex Mitchell and son will ac- ates that he' cleared better than Pic were afraid to buy it at one- dairy products for sale, most of ^ company them home for a visit. fourth or less its former value. Ttitbem selling sour cream,” Mr. $100 an acre on eight acres of green ieas. A significant advance in aircraft sour cream,” Mr. Mrs. T. H. Seabrook and daugh- | is use of a chemical cooling looked then as if it never would Cooley states. “There are 25 td 30 ; ter, Mrs. Inman Griffin and daugh 1 - fluid in place of water. Hi" is a variety farm He took come back .... At that uime -yheni dairy herds of commercial sizf n ter and Mrs. Carrie Connor and over the main part of it the fam-|P ri ces reached bottom, the. late the county aqd the average small Mrs. W. H. Horton were Calhoun Th3 heat cf arctic waters is said ily place cf 110 acres, "from his fa- Senator Ransom used all his salary j her d i3 being improved and on- Falls visitors Saturday evening. be a source of energy greater ther upon returning from the as Ambassador to Mexico and any larged. The development has Mr. Ii^man Griffin of Americus, World War, having served in the other money he could obtain to heen of much help to farmers in i Ga., spent Sabbath night at the A. E. F. in France. “I had to sacri- buy farm lands. People raid he i adjusting themselves to recent con- home of Mrs. Carrie Connor. Mrs. than Jiat from Niagara. Heating and cooking stover fice oractirallv everything I had was foolish in buying "and when ditions. Many a one of uhem has. Griffin and baby, who have been which use /aporized paraffin o when I went to war,” he says. He crops brought such low prices. .... been saved by cash money, though visiting here for several weeks, re- P 10 duce heat are now used in Eu- h-i* 97ft tn innH If his heirs had sold the land rc ‘ ; usually of large amount, com- turned home with him Monday. rope. has added 270 acres to the land . , , * holdings that came to him from his bought in 1894 in 1917-18-19 they in regularly from products of father and is thinking of expand ing still more. Current economic would have been rich.’ Monday Mrs. W. A. Scott, Mrs. Charles his cows, which help a lot in build- | Bowyer and Mr. Robert Scott wpre ing up soil. Prices received for I Edgefield visitors Monday after- conditicns do not frighten him at FORMER SCHOOLMA’M MAKES A milk and cream have gone down, ;ioon. all. GO OF BIG-SCALE VARIETY “One year we get high prices or; FARMING, big crops and, now and then, both, and then feel terribly aggrieved if the next year’s results are not as good. The same applies to par- but not nearly so much as have cotton and grain prices.’ Television in color is far more complicated and costly than tele vision in monochrome, and is likely Tames Boyd and to wait much lon ? er for Practical Mr. and Mrs son, Julius, of Greenville, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Boyd Sabbath afternoon. Mrs. Lofton Jones and son, Lof- use. ■m BOWELS nesd watching It was with a good deal of tre- pidation that Miss Annie Keels THREE YOUNG ^SINESS MEN turned frem teaching school and ACCUMULA TE FARM LANDS. doing home demonstration work Near the ,county seat of a mid- ton, Jr., Mrs. Mary Smith and lit- ticular products. If we lose money to the directing of a big farm near Soutl1 Carolina county ohat was Tit j tie Jean and Mr. Herman Smith on one, we get blue a.bout it, even Rembert in Sumter County about! ^ nificall y b£ the boll weevil three visited in Slberton, Atlanta, and though other products be profit- ten years ago. But she has made y° un = business men, acting as other places last week, able. I try to think in terms of a go of it and got lots of fun P arLners > began buying and oulti- Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Watson, Miss- at least five years and of all things ! keeping apace of farming develop- vatin £ more 01 tess abandoned ’ es Lura Jean and Virginia Watson I produce. And I try to reduce ments. She is an outstanding farm lands about four years ago. were Willington visitors Sabbath, risks by growing everything that machine farmer in her section. In Tile y started with $800, with which Mr. Theodore Tarrant of Green- I believe can be sold at a profit 1 1930 she used tractors in cultivat-j ^ ey bought and restored a 100- wood is visiting Mr. Robert Scott ing .most of her cotton and, accord- pl ac e. ^ e y now have oyer, Jiis week. ing to close bookkeeping by a bro- 1200 , acres * Wlth onl y a little in ~ | Mrs. Cecil Gilliam, her sons, ther-in-law, the production cost of crease ^ their capital investment.; Harold and Billy, and Miss Juanita the lint she got was less than 3 ■APP aren tly> they are on the rpad Curtis "pent Sabbath in North cents a pound. Miss Keels goes in 1 * 10 wealth through buying, culti- Carolina with Mrs. Gilliam’s bro- for diversification as well as for va tl n 8 intensively and improving oher and amily. risks in erowine nerishable nro chines. She, produces much far ™ s ^ h + i0h . a fe . w years ag ° a1 ’ Messrs. Harrison and Pressly of risks in growing pensnable pro ^ ^ a cannery she most all their neighbors rated as Abbeville were Mt. Carmel visitors raises hogs, too. Finding the fam- ^ 10 P^ e ss- They maintain a beef 1 ast Thursday evening. Most animals are darker in color above than below, and this “coun ter-shading” serves to make chem less conspicuous to their enemies. A few years ago :ioo gardens paid as much as $500 a pair for certain rare blue parakeets; :tow these are bred so commonly they bring only about 310. that more often than at a loss.” t,MOTOR TRUCKS WIDEN MAR KETS FOR SOUTH CAROLINA VEGETABLES. “Motor trucks are reducing the An infant breathes about four times as frequently as an adult, Fifty nationalities are included, in the ranks of the national juara of Hawaii. ducts in South Carolina for out-of State markets,” says E. W. King, large scale producer of vegetables 1 y P lace of 435 acres Let Dr. Cald^U kelp whenever your tn Charleston County. Mr. King de- '1^ too small for cattle herd of nearly 100 head - t\ ln pointed to a ginnery .she put up that was paid for in three years and to a lot of costly but beloved farm machinery that is “almost oaid !or.” rhild is feverish or upset; or has caught votes around 250 acres to truck 1 ional acres Oi land. When asked * °lL simple iwesrription will make that fanning and gets from most of his her operations have fared, she bilious, headachy, cross boy or cirl land at least two crops a year, comfortable, happy, well in just a few harvesting his products, he some- healthy 1 re«ularihel ps^‘break^up” times employs 75 to 100 persons, cold by keeping the bowels free from most of them coming out from all that sickening mucus waste. Charleston to work for him when a D"flJ^l”re™ r rr| / of needed. He has been a coastal lv vin«*ttendciJ over 3500 births with- farmer all his life and used to be A LIVE-AT-HOME CANNERY SET «!ut loss of one mother or baby is a large-scale cotton grower, pro- GOING BY FARMERS I Sieved wiique in American me ica ducin g gea i s i an( j mostly, but he Nothing by way of edible food- battle of Or. Caldwell’s Syrup now grows no cotton of any kind, stuffj is going to be allowed co go jUepsin from your drugstore and He produces perishable stuff for to waste, whatever the market it ready- yo u^^fandly 1 ^ is long-distance markets only. prices be, on thi farms of a group •nben or constipated. “Formerly, we had to depend al- of substantial planters in the Wis- Svrup 1 »' * or 1,11 ages. It ttw; bo* el,; increases appetite luuhf* J».'#estioi» “ore complete. sAOF sOSld 6i$vT CAkS\ <4^ The new home for Louisiana’s Governors will resemble the White House m Washington. Five generations of ho Boggs family have operated a lottery *n Randolph oounty, Alabama. Santa Cruzz island, off ’ ho Cali fornia coast c t Santa Barbara, is t> 'to r ocked with -dk and deer. ' & • / r \ 1 v T>a. W. * Fa**VyLuxatw? most wholly on the far Northern acky district of Lee County. .The markets, such as Philadelphia, New group has sot up a small but real York and Boston,” says Mr. King, canning factory on the place of L. x. was difficult co dispose of otn- F. Montgomery, one of the group, ^ than first grade stuff in those and it is to be used primarily for • ' jedl)5erving,4qpd predicts for home 5,ooo ^ or GANTELOwPcd 'tV 1 ,AT HEN£Y M O 61 ^ j Mr. and Mrs.. Floyd Black and children "f Charleston, after a pleasant visit here, returned homo ast Wednesday. Mr. T. H. Seabrook spent Sab- Jaih night here. M~s. Seabroo' \nd Harrye acc^moanied him homo •ariy Monday morning. Rov. Chisholm Halladay .-pent ast Thursday in Mt. Carmel. Rev. xnd Mrs. Halliday will return v Mexico in the n"w ca* * T dT ; oh h" been bought for them by th < ' rf v rtof J. R. Young of An derson. This car will be quite a help to them in their work and French toast is an appetizin; also a help to others too. for a way to use up stale bread andjro- doctor is a long ways off there. vide a ™ in dlsh * or f r o ea t kfa , 3 “' lunch, or supper. Allow 1-2 to 3-4 ' tXT cup of milk to 2 eggs. Beat vhe Woman cut the corner too short mixture, salt lightly, and din in an automobile and upset. Short slices of bread int o it until well cuts invariably produce dire results, soaked. Fry in butter or well- -—: X seasoned fat in a heavy smooth The first n^wspap^r nuhiisK' J rmith of the Potomac river, th> Virginia Gazette, has been revived, in Williamsburg, Va. Y nq,.,, ^"Wts m North .aro-! “This Any man could bj as wise as The next time you think of an skillet. Use moderate heat and let naans that we are going Solomon if he had many wives alibi, remember that Adam blamed the toast become golden brown on ’itta ani Virginia. Thi .vansporta- to hve at Tome hroughout :he to drive from the back seat. Eve but didn’t get away with it. one side before turning. “Now trucks to us from :n- use. ^aro-