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r * Thursday, August 27, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER EIGHT for the ome bv A/ancy Hart BOXING AT MOTT’S SATOBDAY NIGHT, AOG. Rhubarb Dumplings Wash and cut the rhubarb in inch pieces, and rtew with little more than half its weight in sugar and just a little water. While it is cooking mix a flour battG|S5n the proportion of a pin: of flouts^a half teaspoon ful of salt, two ceabpoon- fuis of ’.aking powder, and a scant cup of sweet milk, then drop it by the spoonful into the ooiling rhu barb. The result is delicious. I2at hot with or without cream. Beet and Rhubarb Jelly This is a fine relish to serve with the meat course. Take equal parts of young beets, boiled tend er, and rhubarb sliced without peeling. Cook together until very tender, put through a sieve, then through a jelly bag. Measure the juice, and to a pint allow a pound of sugar. Heat the sugar in the oven, add to the hot juice and cook five minutes longer. Turn into heated glasses and cover when cold with paraffin. Rhubarb and Orange Cut the rhubarb in short lengths and cover with sugar for an hour before cooking. Then cook in a double boiler, with the juice of one orange squeezed over it, and no water. When tender, cool and serve. With Bacon To many American housewives there seems to be but one way of cooking and serving bacon—that is, cooked in a frying pan for breakfast, either with or without fried eggs. Yes—and there’s liver and bacon—served more often for a lunch or dinner dish now that we don’t have such hearty break fasts. But that is about the ex tent of many housewives’ bacon •repertoire. Here are some ways of adding variety to your bacon cookery. Sweet Baked Custard Make the same as the above, mixing 11-2 teaspoons sugar with the\egg and of course omitting the beef extract. Cucumber Salad Chill the cucumbers and slice them thin and place them on crisp, white lettuce leaves. Sprinkle over them some chopped pimentos and serve with French dressing. Melons You may, if you have patience, cut balls from watermelon with a French vegetable cutter. The balls should be carefully cut so that they will contain no seeds. If a French vegetable cutter is not a- 'vailable, then the watermelon pulp may be cut into solid little cubes, and used instead of balls. The balls or cubes are used in salads and in fruit cups. For a watermelon fruit cup, pile the chilled balls or cubes in des sert cups or glasses, sprinkle with a little lemon juice and powdered sugar, and serve. Or sprink^ with minced mint leaves and servfe:' For watermelon salad, put the cubes or balls on lettuce, crisp, white heart leaves, arid serve with French dressing made with lemon juice or with mayonnaise. Watermelon balls or cubes may be combined with other seasonable fruits in fruit cup or salad. It is delicious combined with peach, pear, orange and grapefruit. Balls or cubes of cantaloupe or honeydew are also good in salad or fruit cup, served iust as water melon would be. Occasionally a fruit cup containing so many fruits where there are hardly two pieces alike in each serving is good. One that I ate of that sort :iot long ago contained watermelon and can taloupe, peach, pear, red cherries, -white cherries, grapefruit, pineap ple, maraschino cherries and red raspberries, oranges and banana. It was really delicious. Sardines You have no idea how many varieties of sardines are to be had Come to Mott Brown’s Shop, near the ginnery, in McCormick, Saturday night, August 29,1931, and see a good boxing bout between Frank Haskell aiid Grady Cunningham. Frank says he won’t be knocked down, and Grady says that Frank will be knocked down this time. We have a good referee, and special seats for the white people. “Shorty,” Johnnie Johnson, is going to play; “Poke Chops,” Bob Belcher, will sing, and three girls from New berry will dance, play and sing. Don’t forget the date—Saturday night, August 29, 1931; and the time, 8:30 until 11:30. Admission charges will be 10 and 15 cents. f MOTT BROWN, Manager. BOB BELCHER, Chairman. Washington School Opens September 7 Washington Consolidated School will begin 1931-1932 session on September 7, 1931, at line o’clock. The teachers are as follows: L. V. Mayer, Supt., Math, and Science. W. H. Wooten, Voc. Agriculture. L. B. ‘^earce. French, History and Coach of Atheltics. Miss Annie Jackson, English and Science. Mrs. Oe Alva Roundtree, 5th, Gth and 7th grades. Miss Minnie Jackson, 5th, 6th and 7th grades. Mrs. L. V. Mayer, 3rd and 4th grades. Miss Margaret McKinney, 1st, and 2nd grades. X New r Vegetable Pest Is Spreading In The South / FRANK PARKE] STSCK2H1DS1 PENSIONS Today every man who served in any of our wars before the World War is receiving a pension. Soon all the World War veterans will be on the pension roll. Employees in the civil service of the Federal Government now get pensions at the* age of 70. Most states pro vide pensions for dependent mo thers. Many states have old-age pension systems. Nearly all school systems now retire aged teachers on pensions. Many industries pen sion old employees. Firemen, po licemen and other municipal em ployees in the big cities all get pen sions after a given term of service. Even A1 Smith is on the New York State Civil pension roll. Much of the worry of middle age would be eliminated if every body could look forward to a peace ful old age not dependent upon charity. Perhaps the incentive to thrift would be impaired, but I loubt that. And I believe that eventually some such system will be idopted everywhere. SEAPORTS Chicago got greatly excited a hort time ago when the Swedish freighter “Anna,” with a cargo of )arbed wire and sardines entered .he Chicago River with the Swed ish flag flying. It has long been Chicago’s dream to become a sea port. Chicago enthusiasts picture a deep-water channel from the St. Lawrence through the Great Lakes to the very heart of the United States. That is an engineering possibil ity, but whether it would pay is an other question. Ocean transporta tion is always a risky venture. Very few shipowners are making money these days. The demand s constant for greater speed and quicker “turn-around” between ocean terminals. The passage at the large grocery stores. There! through any inland waterway is are domestic sardines from Cali- necessarily slow. fornia, French sardines with and However, Chicago has set her without bones. Sardines that are ] heart on becoming a seaport and both skinless and boneless, sar- j wha t Chicago goes after she usual- dines in oil and sardines in tomato, j ^ S et s. sardines in tin and in glass, and PARALYSIS sardines in wine sauce from France. Then there are sardines from Port ugal and sardines from Norway, The East this year is having an other epidemic of infantile par alysis. The West is comparatively and for sandwiches and appetizers ; free from this terrible scourge. It is 4here is sardine paste that comes in one of the few diseases of which £l&ss Jars and in tubes. Jthe exact cause is still unknown to science, and for which no effective preventive measures have been de vised. Cure is uncertain, and com plete recovery practically unknown. While it cripples the bodies, es pecially the legs, of its victims, in fantile paralysis sometimes seems to sharpen the brain. Governor Roosevelt of New York was infected by this disease, which seldom at tacks adults, eight years ago. He is able now to walk without leg braces, with the aid of a couple of canes, while his mind is as active as ever. I know one girl who was infected in the 1916 epidemic who refused to b^ licked by her afflic tion and succeeded in estab lishing herself as a fashionable milliner, making annual crips to Paris. One of the nost seriously crippled boys I ever saw, a victim of paralysis at the age of seven, graduated this year at the top of his class in a western Tuniversity. It is small consolation to a mo ther whose child is deprived of its normal physical life by infantile paralysis, to realize that it still has a chance to develop its mental ac tivities, but there is always that ray of hope. SWAMPJNEWS Miss Mary Moss has returned home, after an extended visit to relatives in Augusta. Messrs. Samuel Leard and Press- ley and Klugh Purdy spent one day last week with their uncle, Mr. John Brown. Messrs, ioe and Cowan Young were dinner guests of Mr. Joe Leard one day recently. Miss Sarah Price spent last week with Miss Carrie Mae Rosenswike. Mr. and Mrs. John Creswell and children of McCormick spent last Sunday with Miss Kate Creswell. Miss Jenny Lee Leard called to see Miss Bell Leard Monday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Creswell call ed to see Mrs. J. C. Leard Friday evening. Add another to the worries of the truck grower. The vegetable weevil, a new hardy, strong flying insect which has a healthy appetite for a wide variety of common garden crops is spreading in the Southern States and is known to occur in Cali fornia, the United States Depart ment of Agriculture reports. This weevil is a small, grayish- brown beetle, about a third of an inch long. It was first found >n Stone County, in Mississippi, in 1922. Since then it has spread to many counties in that State as well as to Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida, and n 1926 was discovered in the vicinity of San Jose, Calif. The pest is a hardy flyer, and 'his makes it difficult to control its spread. Some of the plants which it attacks are turnip, cab bage, collard, carrot, mustard, pinach, beet, chard, radish, pota to, tomato, lettuce, onion, parsley, parsnip, chickv/eed, mallow, pig weed, dock, and milk thistle. Arsenical poisons will control the insect, but in such crops as let tuce the use of poison involves an element of danger. Poisoned bran bait as used for cutworms is part ially effective during May and June. X Poisonous Plants May Be Grown For Insecticides Notice For Bids For Transportation Pupils Sealed bids will be received un til 11 a. m. September 11, 1931, foi the transportation of pupils from the following school district: Willington School District No. 2 to De la Howe State School. Bordeaux School District No. 3 tc McCormick High School. Fiatwoods School District No. 7 to Sharon School. # Milway School District No. 13 to Greenwood High School. Robinson School District No. 14 to McCormick High School. Bethany School District No. 16 to McCormick High School. Lyon’s School District No. 17 to McCormick High School. Vernon School District No. 17 to Sullivan School. All bids shall be addressed to the County Superintendent of Educa tion, marked on outside of sealed envelope, “Bid for Transportation of Pupils in School District No. ” and shall be ^ opened at the hour des ignated in this advertisement. Bids will be opened and awards made by the County Board of Education, who shall have the right to reject any and all bids, and to readver tise for new and additional bids. W. H. PARKS, County Supt. of Education. McCormick, S. C., Aug. 25, 1931.—3t. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All persons holding claims against the Estaet of Henry Thom as, deceased, are required to pre sent said claims duly itemized and verified to the undersigned, and all persons indebted to said Henry Thomas, deceased, are required to make settlement at once with the undersigned. P. J. ROBINSON, Administrator of the Estate of Henry Thomas, deceased. McCormick, S. C., Aug. 26, 1931.—3t. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT The Law As To Doves When the boll weevil invaded the South the planters thought they were ruined. Then they learned to live with the pest. Now there is a chance that some of them will be able to help wage war against all the insect pests. This country uses an enormous quantity of insect poisons, some of which are import ed. Chemists of the United States Department of Agriculture are studying the possibilities of utiliz ing poisonous domestic plants, or of introducing foreign poisonous plants, as sources of insecticides. Pyrethrum and tobacco, two of our most effective insecticides, are ex pensive, and this country b de pendent almost wholly on Japan and Europe for pyrethrum. The chemists have found that three tropical plants—Derris, cube, and haiari—are promising sources of a new and highly effective poison rotenone. Experiments indicate that roten one is a double-acting poison more poisonous than pure nicotine as a contact insecticide, rivaling oyre- hrum in toxicity to many insects, ind showing some promise of re placing arsenic as a stomach insec- icide nonpoisonous to men or ani mals. . The 60,000,000 pounds of arsen ates this country uses annually re tail for about $7,000,000. If far mers can cultivate these tropical olants in the warm regions of the United States and in the Territories t may reduce the cost of fighting -he insect pests and also provide Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, as Administrator of the Estate of Henry Thomas, de ceased, will on the 21st day of Sep tember 1931, or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, will render his final accounting to th2 Probate Court for McCormick County, South Carolina, and ask said Court for a discharge as Ad ministrator aforesaid. P. J. ROBINSON, Administrator of the Estate of Henry Thomas, deceased. McCormick, S. C., Aug. 26, 1931.—4t. X- County Game Warden H. W. Bailey calls attention to the fol lowing which he received yesterday profitable crops in areas where cot- from State Game Warden A. A. ;on has ceased to be profitable. The Richardson: ! chemists are also studying other “The hunting, killing or taking of poisonous plants with the hope of doves not permitted on or over, at finding some that can be grown as or near any area that has been field crops in the temperate reg- baited with salt, with corn, wheat ions, or other grain, or with other feeds placed or scattered thereon.”. Mr. Richardson adds: The above is both a federal and state law and it will be well to let the public know that it will be useless for them to go to the expense of bait ing any fields to shoot doves. Af ter giving full notice to the public, if the law is violated, I expect you to prosecute the violator at once.” Card Of Thanks We wish to express our deepest appreciation to everyone who was so kind and thoughtful to us in our sad bereavement in the death of our baby and sister. May God richly reward you, is our prayer. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mosely , - and Family. When you can only stand by and wish. After a fire has deslroycd your home, you can only stand by helpless if there is insufficient insurance. BEFORE fire destroys both your home and contents insure them in the Hartforc' Fire Insurance Company. You will then have cause tc rejoice a Hartford policy provides you with sound indemnity in time of loss. We shall be glad to answer any question about insurance Paul J. Robinson Insurance Agency PHONE 66 McCormick It is not a good idea to rake dead grass of the lawn in spring. Leave it to decay and form a mulch for the new grass. X The cost of government has doubled in ten years but some think we are not as well governed as we once were. Once Led Army of Bums fllfe. S: .v; §, m ■ Hf m “General” Jack Coxey, the man who led the famous “Goxey’s * Army” on to Washington during •* the panic of 1893, is now running • for Mayor of Massillon, Ohio, with ; every chance for success. i -txr His 57th Birthday President Hoover yielded to the cameraman and stood for this photo graph the day before he celebrated his birthday on August 10. txt- On Way Around World; “Slim” and Anne, who started for' Tokyo, found traveling so- good, they changed their plans and intend ; to fly around the world, crossing j the Atlantic East to West. 1X1- An American Warwick - vvOCCvs MU Colonel Edward M. House, at 73, is back at his old trick of Presi dent-making. He is now busy pro moting Governor Roosevelt as sl Presidential candidate. -X- The baseball fan is back among us and the electric fan is on the way..