McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, February 18, 1932, Image 8
Thursday, February 18,1932
McCORMICK MESSENGER, MctORiVllck, SOUTH CAROLINA
CE NUMBER EIGHT
Calhoun Highway
WiU Be Paved
Into Abbeville
McCORMICK HIGHWAY EXPECT
ED TO BE IN NEXT LETTING
The Abbeville Press and Banner
of Monday, says:
The State Highway Department
through the passage of the West
Bill authorizing the department to
pave within towns of more than
2500 population which was ratified,
on Friday and was signed by th
Governor on Saturday will enabl
the paving of that stretch of the
Calhoun Highway between Abbe
ville and Calhoun Falls within the
city limits of Abbeville.
The full text of the act, now the
law of the state by virtue of the
governor’s signature, follows:
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
general assembly of the state of
South Carolina: That the state
highways designated by law /or
construction and maintenance by
the state highway department shall
include the sections of such high
ways lying within the limits of in
corporated towns of less than twen
ty-five hundred population and
that the said sections shall be
equally as eligible in all respects
to receive the attention of' > the
state highway department as are
e sections of the same highways
ng Wholly vfithout incorporated
ras. • *
Section 2. The state highway de-
partment v is hereby authorized to
construct and maintain legally des
ignated state highways within the
limits ol towns havipg more than
twenty-five hundred population
provided that in the case of any
such construction or maintenance
the buildings on either side of the
road shall average more than two
hundred feet apart, measured cen
ter to center: Provided, further,
That the buildings to be considered
in determining such average dist
ance shall include only places of
residence or business and not ac
cessory structures.
Section 3. Any and all construc
tion contracts heretofore awarded
by the state highway department
falling within the limitations of 1
and 2 hereof and otherwise con
forming with laws are hereby .rati
fied and approved.
Timely Pointers For
Home Gardeners
VEGETABLES MAKING GOOD
SHOWING.—SOME READY
FOR USE
Spring vegetable gardens in this
county are beginning to make a
good showing. Turnip greens are
plentiful, early cabbage are w^ll
advanced, English peas are bloom
ing in many gardens and lettuce
are nearly ready for the table. Ex
tracts from the February monthly
garden letter sent to the office of
the home and farm agent contains
Section 4. All acts or parts of acts information for all gardeners, «,nd
SPECIAL
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$50.00 flecolete Plate, for $17.50
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Broad and Eighth Streets, Augusta, Georgia
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Stores U1AIL 1
jIUKLU Stores
Specials For This Week End
Jewel Shortening, 8 pound pail 59c
Herring, regular Salmon size can 5c^
Grape Fruit, Del Monte, 2 No. 2 cans 25c
Cherries, Red Sour, pitted. No. 2 can 15c
Seed Irish Potatoes, genuine Cobler’s, peck 30c s
Our Mother’s Cocoa, pound package 10c
'Our Mother’s Cocoa, 2 pound package 19c
Grape Juice, Widmer’s, juniors 1 5c
Grape Juice, Widmer's, pints 15c
Grape Juice, Widmer’s, quarts 28c
Carnation Milk, 6 haby or 3 tall ^ 24c
Choice Evaporated Apples, pound 10c ,
Choice Evaporated Peaches, pound lOfc
Peanut Butter, 1 pound jar 15c
Peanut Butter, 2 pound jar 25c
Swans Down Cake Flour, package 27.c . .]
Pineapple, broken sliced. No. 2 1-2 can 13c
Lettuce, large head 7 1-2 e
Celery, large bunch 8c
Butter, Brookfield, pound 27c
Irish Potatoes , 10 pounds 19c
Oranges, each -1__ 1c
Grape Fruit, large size, each 5c
Pork Chops, pound 14c
Boiled Ham, sliced, pound 29c
Bologna Sausage, 2 pounds 25c
Pure Pork Sausage, pound 15c
Oysters, quart ^ 50c
Franks, Weinners, 2 pounds T 25c
Sugar, 25 pounds $1.17
Sugar, 10 pounds 48c
Jewel Lard, 8 pounds 59c
Fathacks, pound . 6 l-2c
White Feather Flour, 96 pound sack $2.00
White Feather Flour, 48 pound sack $1.05
White Feather Flour, 24 pound sack 55c
inconsistent with the provisions of
this act are hereby repealed to the
extent of such inconsistency.
Section 5. This act shall take ef
fect upon its approval by the gov
ernor.
Announcement was made Satur
day that the work would continue
uninterrupted and that Claussen
and Lawrence, the contractors, had
already received* instructions to
complete the contract. The depart
ment was prevented from paving
within the limits of the town
through a decision of the Supreme
Court and the recent act, not only
authorizes the paving but validates
the paving in towns prior to the de-
fcision of the court.
The contractors are already near
ing the city limits and^ with fair
weather should have the road opep
within six weeks. An effort will
also be made at an early date to
secure the paving of the road from
Calhoun Falls to the Savannah riv
er. When this is done the entire
route from Columbia and other
points in lower South Carolina will
be paved. Although no announce
ment has been made it is expected
that the McCormick highway will
be in the next letting.
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Fairfield H. D.
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Club Meets
The Fairfield H. D. Club met Feb
ruary 10, 1932, with twelve mem
bers present and four visitors.
The meeting was called to order
by the president*.
/ Scripture, 61st psalm by Mrs.
Long.
Lord’s prayer in concert.
Several pieces read about George
Washington.
Song, “Nobody Knows the Trouble
I’ve Seen.”
Roll called, each answering with
the date of her birthday. ••
Reading of minutes.
Mrs. Stallworth gave a lesson on
selection and care of equipment.
Several useful and inexpensive
utensils were displayed.
The drawing of capsule friends.
Miss Pearl Robinson joined.
The next meeting will be at her
home.
Reporter.
XXI
Boll Weevils Are
Ready For New Crop
WILKES COUNTY FARMERS
ALARMED OVER PRESENCE
OF PESTS
No. 16 DIXIE STORES No. 16
Main Street McCormick, S. C.
Dr. R. H. Banks, prescription
druggist of fifteen years’ experi
ence, is now in'charge of our drug
department. A call will be ap
preciated.
MICK DRUG CO.
’Phone 48
Augusta Street McCormick, S. C.
WASHINGTON, Ga., Feb. 14.—
Not since 1920, the first year of
heavy boll weevil infestation in
northeast Georgia, have farmers
and allied interests been more con
cerned about the cotton pest than
they are today.
Unprecedented weather condit
ions have provided this enemy of
cotton production with an abund
ant and inviting food supply, with
liquids to his liking. With no tem
peratures low enough to drive him
into permanent hibernation, he has
been found hereabout in the open
in alarming numbers throughout
the winter. «
Unless all signs of an early spring
fail, a heavy infestation of weevil
and other insects that will prey on
all crops, will swarm as bees from
a hive to menace growing crops in
this section in 1932, it is predicted.
The boll weevil threat will be
combatted by the planting of not a
seed of cotton by some who are
holding their entire 1931 crop, and
do not intend to sell until another
season; by general reduction, now
estimated at 20 per cent by the
county agent, resulting from re
strictions as to acreage to be im
posed by the government upon
those farmers who will look to fed
eral financial aid, and a further re
duction by others who find more
profit in the lowly cow, hog and
hen than in King Cotton at 6 cents.
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The port of Guayaquil, Ecuador,
recently was declared “a clean
port,” free from bubonic plague.
will be especially helpful to Jiose
who are behind with their garden
ing. Information about hot oeds
and cold frames may also be ob
tained in the office^ of the home
and farm agent.
The extracts from the letter sent
out by Mr. A. E. Shilletter, Exten
sion Horticulturist, and Mrs. Dora
Dee Walker, Prod. Specialist, are as
follows:
Garden Work For February
Plenty of vegetables and greens
are essential to the oest health, es
pecially children’s health.
Millions of dollars would be sav
ed annually if every farm family,
including tenants, raised such
easily grown crops as turnips,
mustard, sweet potatoes, beans, etc.
It .is late to mulch strawberries,
but it is better to do it now than
have sanded berries.
If troubled with root knot or wilt
in tomatoes set plants^ on land
where tomatoes have not Jaeen
grown before.
It is not well to plant cabbage
or Irish potatoes on the same land
for many years in succession as the
soil will become infested with dis
eased that are difficult to eradicate.
Plant Lice: Small grayish green
insect on underside of cabbage and
turnip leaves. Treatment: Spray
with nicotine sulphate solution, us
ing two teaspoonfuls of the sul
phate (Black Leaf 40) and an inch
cube of soap in one gallon of water.
As soon as ground will do to
work, plant- the following vege
tables: Spinach, Mustard, Kale,
Lettuce, Carrots, Beets, Turnips,
Onion Sets, Cabbage, Cauliflower,
English Peas, Irish Potatoes.
Transplant to Open Field: Cab
bage, cauliflower, lettuce, and on
ion seedlings.
Make Plantings in Hotbed. Feb
ruary 1st to March 15th.
Tomatoes—Earlinanna, Bonnie
Best, Greater Baltimore, Marglooe.
Sow one-eighth inch deep. Trans
plant seedlings 4 inches apart each
way in heftbed .as soon as large
enough, or to 3 inch pots. Trans
plant to open field in rows 3 feet
apart by 3 feet in row; if you plan
to stake and prune, otherwise,
plant 4x4 as soon as danger of
fjpst is over.
Peppers—Plant in hotbed March
1st to April 1st. Chinese Giant,
Ruby King, (sweet), Long Red Cay
enne (hot). Sow seed one-eighth
inch deep, one ounce of seed, 1000,
plants. Transplant in open field
about May 1st.
Egg Plants—Plant in hotbed
March 1st to April 1st. Sow seed
one-fourth inch deep, transplant
and handle like tomato and pepper.
Rows 3 feet apart, plants two and
one-half feet in the row. Black
Beauty is a good variety.
Please look on page 7 in Bulletin
No. 72 “Vegetable Gardening” ::or
information on how to prepare hot
beds and cold frames. Should you
not have this bulletin write for it
at once. Many grocery and hard
ware stores will soon have boxes of
;omato plants in their windows for
sale, mostly to farmers. It is hard
to understand why so many farm
ers are without hotbeds and cold
frames.
McCaslan.
Asparagus—Mary Washington.
Beans (Lima Pole)—Fordhook’s
Mammoth Podded, Seiva (small
butter).
B^ans (Lima) — Henderson’s
Bush, Fordhook.
Cabbage—Wakefield, Succession,
Late Flat Dutch, Copenhagen.
Carrots — Chantenay, Coreless
(Nantes).
Celery—Golden Self Blanching
(early). Giant ^ (late "•
coiiards, —> .Georgia, Georgia
Southern.
Corn—Stowell’s Evergreen, Coun
try Gentleman, Golden Bantam,
Adam’s Early.
Cucumbers — Improved White
Spine, Green Prolific Pickling.
Cushaw—Striped Crookneck, Yel
low Crookneck.
English Peas—Alaska, Thomas
Laxton, Laxtonian.
Eggplant—New York Purple,
Black Beauty, Florida High Bush.
Lettuce—Big Boston, Improved
Hanson, New York (Iceberg), Mig-
onette.
Mustard—Giant Southern Curled.
Onions—Yellow Globe Danvers,
Prizetaker, Multipliers, Australian
Brown, White Pearl.
Okra—White Velvet, Perkins..
Potatoes, Irish—Irish Cobbler
(spring), Lookout Mountain (fall)
Peppers—Ruby King, Chinese
Giant, Long Red Cayenne.
Pimentos—Pimento.
Radish—Early White Tipped
Scarlet, French Breakfast, Scarlet
Globe.
Spinach — Bloomsdale, Norfolk
Savoy, Long Standing, New Zea
land.
Squash—White Bush, Giant
Summer Crookneck.
Tomatoes—Bonny Best, Marglobe
(wilt resistant), Earliapa, Greater
Baltimore.
Turnip—Seven Top (for salad),
Extra Early Purple Top, Yellow Ab
erdeen, White Egg, Rutabagas, Im
proved Purple Top.
ix r
Fight Slugs With Lime
In Tobacco Plant Beds
Beniiie Matthews
Gets New Trial
Judge C. C. Featherstone of
Greenwood, who presided over the
February term of court in McCor
mick, at which Bennie Matthews,
negro, was tried along with Sim
Statum and Oscar Morse, negroes,,
on charge of assault and battery
of high and aggravated nature, has
granted a new trial for Matthews..
The three were tried together and
received the same sentence—3-
months each or fine of $50.00 each.
Mr. E. H. Miller, local attorney rep
resented Matthews.
IXt —.
Deaths Among
, Colored People
Jake Smith died at his home
near town on February 3rd, fol
lowing a long illness. He is sur
vived by his wife and two children.
Interment was made at Springfield
church cemetery on February 4th.
G. P. McCain’s service in charge.
Harriett Crawford died at her
home near Plum Branch on Febru
ary 10th, after a long illness. She
is survived by her husband and
several children. Burial was made
at Piney Grove church cemetery^on
February 11th. G. P. McCain’s:
service in charge.
John Tate, Jr., 16 years of age,
and son of John Tate, Sr., and wife,
died at their home in the Fork sec
tion on February 11th. Interment,
was made at Hosannah church
cemetery at 4 o’clock Friday after
noon. G. P. McCain’s service in
charge.
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Grow A Good Garden
CLEMSON COLLEGE, Feb. 13.—
There are many good varieties of
each kind of vegetable, says A. E.
Sci.illetter, extension horticulturist,
an wering inquiries as to the best
variety to plant in South Carolina
gardens. Some varieties, he states,
wi 1 do better in certain locations
thr u others, reminding us also that
a {_.ven variety will not always per
form the same under varying con
ditions.
The following varieties of the
pri ncipal vegetable crops are nam
ed by Mr. Schflletter as good ones
for this state generally speaking,
though they do not include all the
good ones.
Beets — Crosby Egyptian, Detroit
Dark Red.
Beans—Bountiful, Giant String
less Greenpod.
Beans (Pole)—Kentucky Wonder,
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CLEMSON COLLEGE, Feb. 13.—
Black slugs or shell-less snails
which invade tobacco plant beds
and which may so reduce the stand
of young plants that the bed will
be-rendered worthless, may be kept
in check by close watching and by
the use of lime barriers or lime
dusting, says Alfred Lutken, exten
sion entomologist.
As the pests feed only at night,
and hide under clods and bard and
along the pile frames during Jie
day, the growers not familiar with
their habits are often at a loss to
account for the disappearance of
the plants, Mr. Lutken continues,
advising the following practice:
“Pieces of bark, limbs, leaves, and
large clods of dirt should be remov
ed from the beds and their sur
roundings. If pole frames are used
the dirt should be banked against
the sides so that slugs cannot hide
under the poles. It is necessary *o
keep a close watch over the beds
and at the first sign of damage
make a two-inch barrier of hydrat
ed lime completely around the bed,
just inside of the frame. Enough
lime must be used so that the sur
face will remain dry. Fresh iime
should’be applied often enough to
Teep the surface dry during each
night.
“If frequent rains make it im
possible to maintain the dry lime
barrier, fill a good dust gun with
hydrated lime and dust the bed
with about four pounds to each 100
square yards. The lime dust should
be applied during the early night
when the slugs come out of hiding.”
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Literary Society Meets
The Literary Society met Wed
nesday, February 10th. Valentine
day was used as subject.
Special music—Matilda Williams.
The origin of St. Valentine’s
Day—Lorenzo Sturkey.
Debate: Resolved, That St. Val
entine’s Day should be a holiday.
Affirmative—Maggie Lou Parks,
Claude- Workman.
Negative — Frances Robinson,
James Willis.
Music—Eula Caudle.
Jokes—James Dorn.
EUGENIA LANGLEY.
Reporter.
Charlie Callaham died at his.
home near McCormick Tuesday af
ternoon, following a short illness.
He is survived by his wife and a.
number- of relatives. Interment
was made at Springfield church
cemetery yesterday afternoon at 1
(yclock. G. P. McCain’s service in
charge.
FOR SALE—1,500 Bushels Improved
Porto Rico Sweet Potatoes for
seed at 90 cents per bushel f. o. b.
McCormick, S. C., in any quant
ity. Apply at McCoirmick Hotel.
Itpo.
FOR SALE—River bottom mixed
hay at $13.00 per ton, at Bor
deaux, S. C. Rich Cowan.
4tpo.
666
LIQUID - TABLETS - SALVE
666 Liquid or Tablets used intern
ally and 666 Salve externally, make
a complete and effective treatment
for Colds.
Most Speedy Remedies Known
DOG WOOD WANTED—For prices
and specifications see J. E.
Haynes at the Block Mill, Mc
Cormick, S. C.
FOR 1ENT—The Brown Store
Building on Main Street next
door to my store. J. S. Strom,
McCormick, S. C.
WANTED—Milch cows with young
calves, also veal calves. Pigs
and shoats for sale at reasonable
prices. Call or ’phone No. 1429
day or night. Jamie L. Smith,
Route 1, McCormick, S. C., forks
Greenwood-Abbeville Highway
two miles west of McCormick.
HAVE YOUR CLEANING done at
home by McCormick Dry Clean
ers, where you can get daily ser
vice. Now open for business at
the old pressing club stand on
Gold street. Good work and ser
vice is our motto. Alterations;
and repairs of all kinds. Clean'
and block hats, 35c each. W. E:.
Campbell, Proprietor, McCor
mick, S. C.
FROST PROOF PLANTS For Sale-
Cabbage and Bermuda Onion
Plants all varieties $1.00 per 1000,
5000 lots. 90 cents per 1000
Prompt shipment. Dorris Plant Co
Valdosta, Ga.
PERMANENT WAVES $1.95 and
$^.95. Phone 346, Oregon Beauty
Parlor, Greenwood, S. C.
For SAFETY Buy Telephone Bond
and Share First Preferred. Ask any
Telephone employee.—Adv.
Eyes examin
ed. Spectacles#
Eye Glasses#,
and Artificial Eyes fitted wKhonlr
Drugs, Drops or Danger.
DR. HENRY J. GODIN
OptomeyisU
156 Broad Street u— Augusta# Ga*
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