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Thursday, September 3, 1931
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER EIGHT
The Death Of
Mrs. Alice Ouzts
The sad news of the death of
Mrs. Alice Whatley Ouzts came as
a shock to her manv friends. Al
though it was generally known she
was critically ill, it was not thought
the end was so near.
At near 10:30 the gentle spirit
left its earthly tabernacle to be
with the God who gave it, Thurs
day, August 27, 1931.
She was of a kind, gentle and
reserved nature, never known to
speak unkindly of anyone. ^ She
has many friends beside^ her
numerous relatives who apurn
their loss. Earthly loss mri|t be
heaven’s gain. No one haS^ the
least doubt that gentle Alice sweet
ly sleeps with her Ma>:er. In early
youth she gave her heart to God
and she has served her Maker the
best she could. Although her
health has been poor for a num
ber of years whenever physically
able she attended her church.
Alice was a faithful wife, moth
er, daughter and friend. Her af
fliction and ill health seemed to
sweeten her life. She was very ap-
S reciative to her loved ones for
leir untiring efforts for her com
fort. Her faithful sister, Miss
Lenora Whatley, her loving daugh
ters. Azile and Ida Belle and her
mother was ill herself at the time
but was there to comfort her in
the last hours on eafth.
Her frail body that had suffered
so much pain, the brow had been
swept of all pain or trace of suf-
feriner by a hand mightier than
earthly power. There seemed to be
nothing but a satisfied, peaceful
expression. She has stepped from
darkness into light. It makes our
hearts sad to see our life long
friends leave us. but when a Christ
ian goes hon\e the sorrow is differ
ent to one who has never known
God We have hope. The Bible
says there is joy in the presence of
the angels of God when one sinner
repents. How much more joy it
must be when a Christian goes
home. The meeting, how sweet
where there is no parting.
Just a little over four years ago
the death angel came for the hus
band of Alice, Alexander Ouzts.
Just separated four years and re
united for eternity. May God bless
the two young daughters and help
them to follow the examoles of
their mother’s Christian life, and
may some day the family circle be
an unbroken band around the
throne of God.
Many friends gathered at the
home to try to comfort the bereav
ed ones, in their sorrow, but all
real comfort comes from God, and
* the sympathizing Jesus who died
for all. v
Just a few months ago Alice’s fa
ther went to his home beyond the
grave. To each of the bereaved
ones, sympathy.
The body was tenderly laid to
rest in the Mountain Creek ceme
tery, beside her husband, beneath
a mound of flowers, the silent mes
sengers of love from friends and
relatives.
Besides her two young daughters,
she is survived by her mother, one
brother, three sisters, aunts, uncles
and other relatives. May God sus
tain each of them in their sorrow,
and help them to all be prepared
to meet in a land where there is
nc -^-ting.
Written by a life-long friend of
Alice,
A. L. M.
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’ September
Farm Calendar
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THINGS THAT SHOULD BE DONE
TOTS MONTH
CLEMSON COLLEGE, Sept. 2.—
Reminders of important activities
in good farming for Septembf^^re
given below by Clemson specHHifts.
Agronomy
Vetch and ^Austrian peas are
cheap. Use them to grow your
next year’s fertilizer.
Quality in ginned cottop will pay.
Pick clean, store dry, gin carefully
and top your market.
There is phosphorus and potash
left over in your cotton fields;
plants oats and make use of it.
Horticulture
Keep strawberry beds free of
weeds and grass. Set some’ se
lected new plants.
Plant spinach seed in late Sep
tember for winter and spring use.
Sow turnips up to September 20,
Seventop for greens and White
Egg for roots.
Keep fall garden crops well cul
tivated and fertilized.
Study varieties and arrange for
trees for the home orchard for late
,fall setting.
Sow seed late in September for
“frost-proof” cabbage plants.
Agricultural Engineering
It’s not too late to build a trench
silo.
Clean, oil, and store cultivating
machinery.
September is haying time. Get
mower and rake in good condition.
Special mower attachments will
help handle heavy growths.
Plan to build rat-proof grain
storage buildings, tight enough to
fumigate for weevils.
Insects and Diseases
Clean out grain bins before har
vest and be prepared to fumigate
to kill grain insects.
Plow under tobacco stalks and
HASH EACH SATURDAY
Call around Saturday and give
our Barbecue Hash a trial—cook-
ed and served each Saturday by
City Market in the park in front
of Court House. Also try our
old fashioned, home ground sau
sage, pure pork or mixed.
Our motto is: “High Quality at Low Prices.*’
--CITY MARKET--
G. .B. SMITH, Prop.
Phone 18 Augusta St McCormick, S. C.
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WE ARE ALWAYS SCOURING THE MARKETS FOR BET
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TO OUR CUSTOMERS
WE GIVE YOU BELOW A LIST OF OUR SPECIALS FOR
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
RICE, Fancy Blue Rose, new crop, 6 pounds 25c
5c MATCHES, 2 five cent boxes • 5c
DIXIE CUP COFFEE, pound 20c
RIB MEAT, 3 pounds 25c
PORK and BEANS, Scott 16 oz. can, 4 for 25c
SALMON, fancy pinks, can 10c
TEA, Orange Pekoe, pound 45c
JELL-O, all flavors, 2 packages 15c
CARNATION MILK, 6 cans baby 20c
CARNATION MILK, 3 cans tall _* 20c
OLIVES, plain, quart jar 35c
PICKLES, sweet mixed, 24 oz. jar 20c
SALAD DRESSING, Dukes, pints 20c
SAUSAGE, Sunflower, large can 20c
BACON SQUARES, each 24c
BOLOGONA SAUSAGE, pound * 15c
BREAKFAST BACON, Dixie Special, pound 29c
HAM, boiled, sliced pound 38c
BROOMS, good 4-sew, each 23c
OCTAGON, Soap and Powders, 3 for 10c
Lowest Flour Prices In History
White Feather, plain or self rising fMl
48 pounds ^
White Feather, plain or self rising RCf*
24 pounds-i— wM*
No. 16 DIXIE STORES No. 16
MAIN STREET McCORMICK. S. C.
other crop refuse to destroy food
and immature stages of insects.
Remove dead and dying orchard
trees and limbs and burn them to
control insects..
Knock off ail diseased fruits af
ter harvest to aid in disease con
trol.
Prepare to treat small grains for
;mut control.
Requeen bees.
Animal Husbandry
Wash out the farrowing pens
with boiling water and lye before
jigs are farrowed.
Thoroughly cleanse the sow’s
udder with warm water and soap
before the sows are put in the far
rowing pen.
Try to raise as many of the pigs
farrowed as possible, for larger
itters are more profitable.
Keep sows and young pigs on
territory which is not infested with
worms.
Dairying
Sow small grain for winter graz
ing; it increases, the milk flow.
Feed some grain daily. Dry fall
pastures lack nutrients.
Dry up cows due to freshen in
October to allow fix weeks’ rest.
Cull boarders that won’t make
money for you this winter.
Plan to plant half to one acre
of oats and vetch for each cow, to
be cut for hay next May.
Poultry _
Dispose of early molting hens.
Keep laying mash before hens.
Remodel or construct laying
house before winter.
Select earliest maturing pullets
and put in permanent laying
houses.
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Fire losses gain, we read. In
other words, gain is loss and loss
is gain.
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School Bus Safety A Few Farmers
In The Forefront
(A. C. L. Ry., Bulletin)
Soon the highways will be teem
ing with motor buses laden with
orecious lives bound for the con
solidated schools.
There are none more keen’v de
sirous of seeing them safely tran~-
oorted than those charged with
^he 'n responsibility for selecting
competent drivers.
(By Henry S. Johnson, Secretary
S. C. Bankers’ Association.)
KEEPING A JUMP OR TWO
AHEAD
“I’ve decided that successful
farming, like successful manufac-
Driving a school bus. loaded to turing or merchandising, is a mat-
capacity with younc people who t of keeping a jump or two ahead
- - of what the consuming public
wants,” says Lewis Le Conte, who
has put diversity plus into farm
ing an old ante-bellum place that
has long been in a branch of his
distinguished family. The farm is
in Rithland County, and was once
the center of a system of big
plantations that were devoted to
cotton growing. The place has
been in the family since acquired
originally by grant. There are 700
acres in it still, but only a small
portion is cultivated by its present
^OutM^d..spirit, is a task to be tak
en sfeflously. Unless the driver is
thoroughly alive to his responsibili
ties and capable of meeting em
ergencies as they arise, accidents
are likely to occur which will sad
den many homes.
It is doubtful if all drivers real
ize the hazards to which they are
exposed when on the highway, be
ing more imminent now than ever
before on account of increased
traffic and the ever present ex
pansive trucks requiring such a
large part of the road.
Parents and friends of the
school children have a responsib
ility and can lender a real service
MNT K
MUSIC—Mrs. C. H. Fooshe will be--
gin her class in piano ona Sep
tember 7th. If interested see her •
at Mrs. M. C. White’s home' on
Monday and Thursday mornings:
from 8 to 12 o’clock.
LOST—One white gold wrist W&tcfe
Saturday night, August 29, orr
business square of McCormick. IC
found please return to Messengerr
office and receive reward.
Itpu.
FOR SALE—Pure Beardless Barlejr
at $1.50 per bushel. T. A. Dowtin,.
Troy, S. C. tf.
by closely observing the manner in P r °P rietors ’ who are Mr - Le Conte >
which drivers operate their buses, his mother and his sister,
and knowing something of the i “The first year after I came
habits and character of the driv- back (rom the war we lost $8 000
It has not been found satisfac- on cotton,” says Mr. Le Conte,
tory to leave the selection of the “Since then we have been recover-
driver in hands of the person to in the loss by jetting cotton al-
whom the contract is let, in cases & . . . ,
where this method is followed. i most a l° ne anci producing nearly
Bonds should be required of the everything else.” He produces
drivers to insure compliance with more than a score of cash products,
S' commissionersf 1 shall''adopt j whic h include milk and butter from
- a half dozen cows, about 1,000 frier-
But suppose Fire
should interrupt
Fire interrupts business
often stops a business
enterprise forever. Simply
because adequate reliable
fire insurance is neglected.
Are all your buildings and
stocks completely insured?
We represent the Hartford
Fire Insurance Company
which for more than a cen
tury has demonstrated its
ability to pay every just loss
promptly.
Call today for information
about a Hartford policy.
Paul J. Robinson
Insurance Agency
PHONE 66
McCormick
regarding the transportation of
school children.
The most imnortant law or regu
lation deals with requiring drivers
to stop at Railroad Grade Cross
ings. Absolute enforcement will
do away with disastrous accidents.
The code of rules quoted below
has been given a fair trial and may
be suitable for adoption by any
School Board:
1. A bus carrying school chil
dren must not pass a railroad
crossing until it has been properly
flagged. A railroad crossing is
oroperly flagged when the bus
comes to a complete stop at least
twenty-five feet from the track, the
captain gets out and stands at the
crossing until the bus has crossed
it. When no children are in the
bus, the driver must stop at the
railroad crossing, but need not get
out.
2. The principal in charge of
transportation will appoint a cap
tain for each bus. The captain’s
duty will be to assist the driver in
keeping order, flag railroad cross
ings, and perform such other du
ties as may be prescribed.
3. No driver has authority to
change the adjustment of a car
buretor, governor, or any other
part, unless in case of emergency,
and then he must report the
change to designated authority.
4. Buses are designed for use in
transporting children to and from
school, and should be confined to
that purpose. No exceptions shall
be made without official permit.
5. Unless instructed by the prin
cipal, the driver must not permit a
pupU to leave the bus at any sta-
tlon4fother than his regular stop.
6. There shall be no jumping on
or off a bus, or hanging on the
steps or any other part of the bus,
while it is in motion.
7. Loaded buses must not be run
over twenty miles per hour, and
operated at least seventy-five yards
apart.
8. Drivers must be clean in their
personal appearance when driving
a bus in which children are being
transported.
9. The use of intoxicating liquors
at any time by a driver will be con
sidered sufficient cause for dismis
sal.
10. Drivers will be required to re
port daily to the principal all mis
conduct of pupils on bus.
11. No bus shall be driven by any
person other than a regularly em
ployed driver.
sized chickens a year, several fruits
and even flower bulbs. He has
been selling about $1,000 worth a
year of Queen Anne jonquil bulbs.
The flower had been growing on
the place for decades and it came
back into high popularity a few
years ago. He is trying out pheas
ant and wild mallard duck raising.
£ flock of geese is maintained, as
well as a dozen hives of bees.
‘ “What Southern farmers must
realize is that they are subject to
world-wide conditions in greater
degree probably than are any oth
er producers,” says Mr. Le Conte
who adheres to the studious tra
dition of his family, from which
several famous thinkers derived.
“We must keep abreast those con
ditions. from the starting point of
the market in the nearest towns
and cities lO the remotest places
where things of ours or like ours
are produced or consumed. We
must keep a jump or two ahead of
changing conditions.” And that’s
what he endeavors to do.
FOR SALE—Le Conte Pears for-
preserving, pickling or canning.,
at 75 cents a bushel at Middleton's:
Packing House, Meriwether, S. C.
2 tpo..
CHICKENS WANTED—Fryers, at.
market price—any number. City-
Market, McCormick, S. C.
FOR SALE— Deering Binder andr
good Rake in good shape, for-
$45.00. Can be seen at my home
at any time. R. F. Freelands,
Plum Branch, S. C,
Invents Hand
Auto Signal
(Index-Journal, August 7, 1931
Greenwood, S. C.)
PAUL WILSON HAS ONE THAT-
SOLVES PROBLEM FOR THE:
MOTORIST
TURKEYS HELP THIS FARMER
Netting $500 to $600 a year from
a flock cf them-, turkeys have been
the key with which W. H. Moody
Jr.., near Kline, S. C., has solved
the problem of adjusting general
farming to recent conditions. He
operates a 3-horse farm and still
makes cotton his principal cash
crop.
“But in recent years most of ?ny
profit has come from turkeys,” say.
Mr. Moody. He has grown 125 tc
150 head of the bronze type an
nually. Last year the money cos
of rearing the flock of that year
vas $201.34 which included $45 for
home-grown feed. He grossed
$631 from sales of turkeys in the
fall and kept enough to produce a
’arger flock this year. He sell;
his best turkeys for breeding stock
irid gets $5 to $12 a head for these
12. Drivers must observe all com- 1 Others he ships north in dressed
The best way to appreciate the
home town is to leave it once in a
while. . . *
monly accepted “rules of the road.”
13. The driver must not leave
he bus while the motor is run
ning.
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Fiddlers’ Convention
Pleases Large Crowd
The Fiddlers’ Convention held at
he high school auditorium here
Monday night was pronounced by
many as the best ever held in this
section and was attended by the
largest crowd ever to attend these
anqual events. Many from Green
wood, Abbeville and Lincolnton
were in attendance. The proceeds
amounted to $66.00, a fourth of
which goes to McCormick school.
Supervisor W. O. Graves, manager
of the convention, was very much
pleased with the co-operation of
those on whom he had called to
help with the entertainment and
he hopes to have a bigger and bet
ter convention next year.
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When “moth balls” are composed
entirely of naphthalene, the most
common ingredient, no ingredient
statement is required by the Feder
al Food and Drug Administration
to appear on the label, although
the administration sees no objec
tion to 'lie statement, “Active In
gredient 100 per cent.” But if they
consist of naphthalene and an in
ert ingredient, the label must bear
a statement to show clearly the
presence of the inert substance.
onn and for these he netted 32
cents a pound in 1930. He has lit
tle invested in equipment for them
but he buys most of the feed given
the turkeys while growing up.
“I am going to inc-case the flock
to the point where turkeys wil
count more than cotton does witk
me,” says Mr. Moody, who is Ur
Uve-at-home type of farmer.
A 4-BROTHERS CO-OPERATIVE
Four Dowtin brothers, farming
adjacent places in McCormick
County, have surmounted recent
conditions by co-operating in the
marketing of variety products,
chiefly eggs, they produce in addi
tion to cotton and grain. One of
them kept books on an average
flock of 685 hens during a recent
year and found that he earned
$1200 to $1300 on his poultry, even
after allowing pay for the time
he gave to that part of his farming.
One of the brothers goes to market
for all four once or twice a week.
They have cut cotton acreage about
one-third. A total of about 800
acres of land is in their farms.
Card Of-Thanks
Paul B. Wilson has invented art
automatic hand signal for auto
mobiles and the patent for it is:
pending with the Patent Office in
Washington.
It is a simple process that is the
operation is simple enough* because
all an automobile driver has to do
is press a button, and an inflated?,
gloved hand does the rest, but the
invention required a year of experi
mental work by Mr. Wilson before
he perfected it.
The Patent Office has writter*
the following description of the in
vention: “The primary object is-
the provision of a signal wherein,
x pneumatically operated hand is:
controlled automatically to tnake
visible certain signals ' for traffic
control, the mechanism being un
der control of an operator of a mo
tor vehicle as the control lever is:
in convenient reach when driving
che vehicle.
“Another Object Jhe provision
the
the r
of a signal wherein the pneumati
cally controlled hand can be ilium—
inate^mutomatically when, extend-
signal so -as to render the
haWd visible when issuing traffic
signals, the hand being collapsible
and drawn into a container from
signaling to non-signaling posi
tion.
“The operation is effected, by a .
suction at the intake if an intern
al conbustion machine and such
suction is controllable by a hand
member within convenient reach, of
the operator so that quick actiots
of the signal can be had and Use
desired signal for oncoming or
following traffic assured.’*
The Patent Office also refers, to
the device as “neat and attractive
in appearance, strong, durable and
inexpensive to manufacture and in-
tall.” ' .
In a little plainer English, Mr.
Wilson has invented a signal wMcist
: operated by compressed air by
jc pressing of a button near the
teeiing wheel. This releases a
•ed glove which is inflated and at
night it is illuminated and of
course gives a danger signal. The
ievice is two and a half. inches in
iiameter and 3 1-2 inches long.
Mr. Wilson says he already had
ordered machinery for manufac-
;ure of the devices, part of wfricfi
already has arrived, and will or
ganize a stock company at an early
date. His car. is equipped wrtfi
one of the signals and is attracting
much attention as it shows the-
red gloved hand at street corners.
One beauty of the device is, Mr_
Wilson says, that it can be worked?
without the driver of a car worry-
: ng about pulling down the window
to hold out his hand. When the
button is pressed the red glow
does the rest.
Well, anyway no one has blamed
General Sandino for the cross word
puzzle.
We wish to express our deepes,
appreciation to every one who wa;
so kind and thoughtful to us dur
ing our sad beravement in the
death of our beloved wife and mo
ther. May God richly reward each
one of you, is our prayer.
R. M. Wiley and sons,*
Melvin and Miller.
Notice To Public
Notice is hereby given that aKU
bills heretofore made' with the City •
Market should be paid to G. Bli
Smithy owner of City Market.
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