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Thursday*'. March 3, 1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER EIGHT Citation Of Letters Of Administration ETATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick, BY L. G. BELL, PROBATE JUDGE: WHEREAS, Dan A. Bell has made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of Jno. M. Bell; THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular How A Town Put Men To Work (By Caleb Johnson) The way to end unemployment is to p\$t men back to work. Unem ployment is a problem which af fects everybody in every commun ity. It is up to all the people of each community, therefore, to take part in every intelligent effort to find jobs for those who need them, the Kindred and Creditors of the-j And the most intelligent effort of said Jno. M. Bell, deceased, th they be and appear before me, the Court of Probate, to be held McCormick Court House on 9th day of March 1932, next, after pub is sort that I know of is What ey dicRat Green Bay, Wisconsin. Any community, of any size, can organize for unemployment relief on the Green Bay plan. In that llcation hereof, at 11 o’clock in the town of 40,000 population, in one forenoon, to show cause, if any month more than 1,000 men and they have, why the said Admin istration should not be granted. town. In these instances, heads of agricultural organizations such as the Grange, etc., may be added to the working committee. Groups of farmers may pool to gether to pay for the services of a laborer, who can work one day or more on individual properties. A letter used by the Green Bay committee puts the case in concise language: “Dear Fellow Citizen: “The Green Bay Unemployment Relief Commission thanks you sin- Play Flat Rock School At Flat Rock school house, March 4, at 8:30 p. m., “The Coontbwn Thirteen Club,” will be given. Mr. Lou Prescott, coach of the minstrel, will preach a sermon in negro dialect. A number of songs will be sung. Everybody come, great things and lots of fun in store for everybody. Come help the boys out with their baseball equipment. Ad- { women were put back to work. Some of them had not had a job GIVEN under my hand this 23rd for two years There were 1,745, day of February, Anno Domini, out of work when the un ited ef- ' reasonable little jobs about your 1»M. , ,ort began. At the end ot a month Property, and he will be glad to be 1,023 ot these had been placed' in assigned to these tasks. If other permanent jobs and the rest all work comes U P requiring painters, had either temporary or part-time paperhangers, carpenters, won t jobs, so that there was nobody out y° u P lease cal1 the c “y HaU and of work in Green Bay except those unable to work, and the “floaters.” The Green Bay campaign start ed by the Mayor issuing a procla mation that all the whistles in the mission, 10 cents for children, ad- cerely for assisting to overcome the u l ts » 15 cents, great burden of unemployment in our city this winter, oy hiring a man to do your chores. This man will report at once to begin tms work in your block. Please treat him as a fellow-citizen asking not charity, but merely the opportun ity to earn a living for his family. Find things for him to do. You are entitled to his help in all of the Feb. 23, 1932. L. G. BELL, Probate Judge. -2t. fANT ADVS. FOR SALE—Henderson House and cit y would blow from 7:30 to 7:32 lots on Augusta street, $1,000.00. on morning of the drive’s start, John Rainsford, Edgefield, S. C. and a11 the bells in town would 2tpo. (ring. The fire and police depart- ■ 1 r:”- 11 “r 1 . ■ : ments used their sirens, and all ^ANYONE WANTING to buy, sell or autos came t0 a stop and ble y hanniness horns for two minutes. At 10:30 * ^PP 111688, this Commission will send the proper, dependable man to do the work,—a townsman out of work at the time. Let’s do as much of this work this winter as possible. Let’s create jobs and overcome unem ployment in our own city and bring Green Bay back to normal. We must all help. We must not let Unemployment spread laitner :ior wreck our community health and rent any lands, see or write M. L., B. Sturkey, McCormick, S. C. Itpo. CHANCE OF LIFETIME RELIABLE MAN WANTED to call on farmers in McCormick Coun ty. Wonderful opportunity. Make $7 to $12 daily. No experience or capital needed. Write today. McNESS COMPANY, Dept. P. Freeport, Illinois. -CAN SAVE YOU from five to ten dollars on your spring suit. 3- piece suits, Virgin Wool, $19.50, $23.50, $29.50 and $35.00. See my samples before you buy. Fit workmanship and quality guar anteed or money refunded. NASH, the Nation’s Tailors. J. F. Ed munds, Representative, McCor mick, 8. C. 'ULml . ■' FOR SALE—River bottom mixed hay at $13.00 per ton, at Bor deaux, S. C. Rich Cowan. 4tpo. DOG WOOD WANTED—For prices and specifications see J. E. * Haynes at the Block Mill, Mc Cormick, SC. ' 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* Qood 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 Saie-^ Cabbage and Bermuda Onion Plants all varieties $1.00 per 1000, <000 lots. 90 cents per 1000. Prompt shipment. .Dorris Plant Co. jValdosta, Ga. ; For SAFETY Buy Telephone Bond and Share First Preferred. Ask any ^telephone employee.—Adv. i ■rviSL’- , ; FOR SERVICE—Two year old Jer sey bull, at my home one mile west of Plum Branch on Sturkey’s Ferry road. Bryant Quarles. , 2tpo. Easy to Live to 100 ' Dr. Leonard F. Case of Los An- • geles celebrated his hundredth birth- | day by giving this rule for longevity: j^Bat and drink what you like, but • not too much.” Simple, what? Some 300,000 compounds of car- *fepn are now known. reports were broadcast over the lo cal radio station of the drive’s re sults. Noon lunches, radio talks, and preparatory newspaper stories told the town that Green Bay would have jobs for half of its unemploy ed within three hours. A Captain was assigned to each of the 500 city blocks, asking each resident for a pledge of two hours work weekly at forty cents an hour. As soon as the block drive was over, every employer in the town was personally contacted by phone, letter, or personal call of the un employment committee’s chairman. These men were urged to keep the same number of men they had on the payroll in 1929, if necessary by staggering the work, shorter hours, and so forth. The result was that over 700 men were called back to their old jobs. In spite of the fact that mild weather killed the usual snow- shoveling and street-cleaning jobs, the plan was successful. Every home, store and shop in the town was visited. A registration system and check up of addresses served to dis tinguish “floaters” from the resi dent unemployed. ' The Department of Wisconsin of the American Legion adopted the Green Bay plan, which is working with great success in that state, and in other cities throughout the country. It is not a self-operative plan, by any means, and calls for co-operation on the part of all the civic elements in a town, grouped around the Legion Post as a work ing pucleus. The working body consists.of the Legion’s unemploy- Ss$ committee; local newspaper publishers; the Mayor; local organ ized labor executives; manager of local radio station; presidents of the service clubs; chamber of com merce president; advertising club presidents; heads of industries; bank executives, and so on. Cards bearing the official seal of the City of Green Bay were used to identify workers, who were given introductory letters. Employment was provided for men and women regardless of leg ion affiliation, race, color, pr creed. Unemployment was the only quali fication. Willingness to work was the only test. Any town can do what Green Bay accomplished. It calls for organi zation and effort. Your Legion post is a natural nucleus. If there is no post in your town, one of the 30,000 branches of organizations affiliated with the American Fed eration of Labor is the rallying point. This plan calls for no discussion, no argument about theories or poli tics. Nobody can object to giving work to those who are not working now. The effort is repaid in more than moral satisfaction. It means that those now hoarding money will spend for normal necessities when the spectre of unemployment is removed. In communities where civic ac tivities are small, where the popu lation chiefly serves an outlying agricultural district, this plan may be widened to take in the farms There is room on the land for those men who cannot find work in the “Do not engage anyone except ‘The Man in the Block’ to do snow- shoveling or other small jobs this winter. Do not pay any wages to anyone who does not show you his card from this Commission. You agree with us that we should keep this work for our own townsmen, and married men first. The man who comes to do your work must have a card from this Commission upon which will be the seal of the City of Green Bay. Pay nobody else. The rate is 40 cents an hour. The agreement is not less than two hours.a week, for the winter months. Your man will collect once a week on Saturday. “Again we thank you for assist ing us to relieve distress in our city, and won’t you please continue to co-operate .with your city, ^y hav ing all of the work possible such as modernizing, improving, repairing, painting, etc., done this winter and done by men obtained from the City Hall.” sxt SERVER Mustache Cups— Few under 25 have ever seen the mustache cup which used to be such a popular present for Father at Christmas time forty yearp ago. The cup differed from ordinary ones in being about double in size and containirffli a litUe shell inside of the cup which prevented the walrus-like mustache into the mocha. The point is that one can still buy such cups. One would think the best place to find them would be on the top shelf of some little cor»er-roads general store, along side of ear-muffs, wristlets and other archaic manifestations of our forefathers’ taste. „ On the contrary, the best place to buy them is about five minutes walk from Times Square. Several 'Shops on Ninth Avenue and 42nd Street carry them in stock—and sell scores of them every month, they tell me. A Hobo’s Paradise— As soon as the ground had been cleared for the new Radio City, or whatever the name is going to be of Rockefeller's new development in the heart of this city, numerous hobos without a place to sleep swarmed on the open space. , They found plenty of scraps of wood with which to build fires, both to keep warm at and to cook their “slum,” and were undisturbed for several weeks, or until the struc tural steel began to arrive for the new buildings. Then they were ousted. Their temporary home was prob ably the most expensive site on which tramps were ever allowed to camp. Even the police let them alone, as it was not a public park. X A church just constructed at Dortmund, in Germany, has a con crete framework and walls of dif ferent colors. Best Hens Lay Well Flock Records Show CLEMSON COLLEGE, Feb. 27.— Mrs. W. C. Salters of Tillman, whose backyard flock of 29 Rhode Island Red hens averaged 23.4 eggs, made the highest record in that class of poultry demonstrators l«.st month, says P. H. Gooding, exten sion poultryman. W. A. Stephen son of Belton made the highest record in the farm flock, his 290 White Leghorn hens averaging 21.5 eggs each. Jn the commercial flocks R. W. Gaddy of Greenwood had the highest record, his 588 White Leghorn hens having aver aged 14.8 each. In the calendar flocks R. H. Middleton of Clarks Hill made the best record, his 1,077 White Leghorn hens having aver aged 16.9 eggs each. The summary for January shows that among the 114 farms report ing before January 15, representing a total of 20,935 hens, the average egg production was 10 eggs per hen. The hens ate 10 cents worth of feed each, and returned a total in come of 24 cents each, leaving an income above feed cost of 14 cents per bird for the month. Sub tracting from this the average monthly charge for interest on in vestment, depreciation on equip ment and all other costs except feed, approximately 6.6 cents per ben, the labor income per hen for the month was 7.4 cents, Mr. Good ing points out. IXt MY+IOME YOURS JpyBERTHAfDSON LAY Do you have trouble keeping the back buttons sewed on the chil dren’s underclothes and sleeping garments? Try removing the but ton, sewing a piece of narrow elastic in the current place, then sew the button securely to the end of the elastic. The elastic gives as the child bends, and as the threads are relieved of strain, the button stays in place. Many houseworkers have the un sanitary habit of shaking the dust mops out of the window, possibly thinking that it saves time. The time used in trotting to the win dow can be saved if the housework- er will use a fair sized piece of paper when the work of dusting the floors begin, placing it bn the floor at one side, dust that part of the floor nearest, shake the dust on, the paper, moving it as one goes' about the room. When the floor is clean, fold the paper over, put it in the trash basket, and save time, labor and earn the good will of one’s neighbors. If a little square of muslin is sew ed at the top of the baby’s stock ings just where safety pins are jsed to fasten them to the diaper, he stockings will give twice the service. When woolen blankets have worn ,hin, instead of discarding them, x>ver them. Silkoline is an excel lent material to use. Lay a blanket between two sheets of lilkoline in the color used in the room into which this “comfort” is to do service. Bind the edges, tuft with worsted about twelve in ches apart. A most satisfactory mfortable is the result and at no ^at expense of money. It may seem an extravagance at we feel we must match our ening gowns and our slippers, for 2 slipper does of course get soil- ’ more'quickly than the frock. Af- • several cleanings the slippers their color, but are never worn it. If taken to the shop where icy were purchsaed, they may be dyed a slightly deeper color, and ill be quite as attractive with the . r.me gown, or if they are very light to begin with they may be dyed a different color entirely. If the slippers were pink, they may be dyed red, or even a dark blue or purple, and if none of these are nfeeded, there is always black. And as every one needs a pair or two A Real American Charles M. Schwab celebrated his 7 0th birthday by working at his desk ►s Chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. He’s been a steel man j iince he started working for Carne- fie at 18, driving stakes. —txi- An Early Mayflower Students at State Teachers Col lege, Farmville, Va., have taken time by the forelock and elected Miss Medora Ford of Lexington as May Queen. -IXi- Diversification Brother Blank across the way Drives to his door about every day And calls to his wife, who is his pride, “Come on Sal, let’s take a ride.” Then Sal crawls in and they take a a spin Not caring much when they get back in For at home everything is going fine— The cows and hens, and also the swine. \ I They’ve all been fed there from the barn— On grains and hay raised on the farm He has enough for his cattle and all— Arid plenty to last him thru the fall. “Right scon,” you’ll say, “his profits are gone” • But milk and chickens and hens alone Bring in more than cotton ever would Even tho prices were very good. He started on his road of living at ease By planting such legumes as vetch, clover, and peas. This required lots of honest toil But resulted in greatly enriching •• the soil. 1 It took quite a time to learn the art To begin again and get a fresh start Their cotton had carried them far below And how much in debt you’ll never know. Finally Brother Blank took the ad vice of a friend And said he’d never plant cotton again So if you should walk into his field today You’d see plenty grain, corn, taters, and hay. All of his neighbors envy him so They’re almost tempted not to plant cotton any more They think if diversification can put Blank thru. It certainly ought to help them too. X Lee Talbert Dies Lee Talbert, colored, died at his home here late last Friday even ing, following a long illness. He was 30 years of age and had made his home in and around town prac tically all his life. He is survived by two brothers and four sisters and a number of other relatives. Funeral services were conducted at Shiloh Church at 2 o’clock Sun day afternoon and burial made in the church cemetery. J. S. Strom’s service in charge. C W EEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW The following record of indUstifal activity lists items showing invest ment of capital, employment of la bor and business activities and op» portunities. Information from which the paragraphs are prepared is from local papers, usually of towns mentioned, and may*be con sidered generally correct. of black slippers, sensible solution. that is a very Greer — Dixie Stores, dealing in groceries, opened in building for merly occupied by Self-Service Hat Shop. Williamston — W. P. Social Club moved into new quarters* just south of here on highway. Hampton — Interior of Parker and Stanley’s Store being remod- ele^. Greer — Central Cafe opened for business in building on Trade Street formerly occupied by Greer Cash Store. Fairfax — 1,328 pounds poultry sold during recent day by 21 farm ers, bringing return of $160. Pickens — Miss Lora Henderson opened beauty shoppe in Slim Porter’s Barber Shop. Sumter — Work of remodeling Rex Theatre progressing. Allendale — l'l63 pounds poultry sold durmg recent day by 22 farm ers. Pickens — Mt. Bethel community recently completed new church building located eight miles north west of here. Dillon — Ritz Theatre resumed full time operations. Car-lot shipment of poultry made from McCormick County during recent day.—McCormick Messenger. Oranization of 4-H clubs under way in county. — The. Bamberg County Times, Bamberg. Columbia—Improvements made at Imperial Theatre. St. George — Cream Station re cently opened at County Agent’s office. Columbia —About 500,000 pounds poultry shipped from State to New York and Eastern markets during month of January, according to Rhett Clark, County Agent. X TAX PENALTIES GO ON MARCH 10 Beattie Sends Notices To County Treasurers The Columbia State of yesterday says, no matter what the action of the sendee today on the veto by the governor of the time extension bill for tax payments, tax payers will be given until March 10 to pay 1931 taxes without increase in pen alty, according to notices sent out to county treasurers and auditors yesterday by A. J. Beattie, comp troller general. x The notices, issued with the ap proval of Governor Blackwood, were as follows: 1 “On account of the uncertainty as to the penalty to be collected in March, and regardless of the action of the legislature 0 nthe governor’s veto, it is deemed proper and just that taxpayers be allowed until March 10, 1932, to pay 1931 taxes without increase in penalty. “Accordingly it is therefore ord ered, with the approval of the gov ernor, and under authority of sec tion 851, volume 3, code of laws 1922, that no increase in the pen alty of 2 per cent already assessed be made prior to March 10, 1932, af ter which date such penalty as provided by law will attach, and you will be given due notice of same.” The senate has postponed action on extension veto until next Wed nesday at noon. The house over rode the governor’s veto Tuesday 73 to 21. That leaves the matter up to the senate. *-*- -txx- The two tribes of Indians k :ng in Maine send repres ti^es to the state legislature, from each tribe.