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■ -V • MESSENGER, McCO PA* UMBE] Iweet Potato Seed Selection And The Treatment Sweet potato seed stock should be obtained from productive strains of the desirable shape and .color, and should be harvested before frost occurs. Test each vine by splitting it at the crown, and dis card all potatoes from vines that show the characteristic streaks caused by wilt. A heavy frost'will cause a somewhat similar adpkr- ance of the vines. Store fhrafeed in hampers or crates separate from the main crop, or in a separate l>ank if no storage house is avail able. Just before bedding time, free the seed of all dirt and inspect carefully, throwing out all that show black spots or bad bruises Burn or bury all diseased potatoes, as diseases can be carried by stock and on feet of laborers. To disinfect sweet potatoes for ^surface-borne diseases proceed in the following manner: 1. Dissolve four ounces of mer curic chloride (corrosive sublimate) in one gallon of hot water in an earthenware or wooden vessel. Pour this solution into a clean wooden barrel of 50 to 60 gallons capacity. Add 31 gallons of cold water and stir thoroughly. Mark the level of the water. 2. If more than 10 bushels are to be treated, prepare a stock solution in the wooden or earthenware ves sel by dissolving one-half ounce of mercuric chloride in one quart of hot water for each additional 10 bushels up to 50 bushels. This solution will be used as directed under Paragraph 6 3. Fill clean wooden hampers or baskets, of a size that will easily go into the barrel, with the selected sweet potatoes. 4. Immerse each hamper of sweet potatoes in the solution for at least eight minutes and not over 10 jninutes. 5. As each hamper is removed from the solution, allow it to drain into the barrel and then bed the potatoes immediately. 6. After treating 10 bushels in this manner, add one quart of the stock solution prepared under i ]\/£arcll FciriH Gclldldcir 4116 and make them wide enough A MAN is as old—or as young— as his organs. At fifty, you cam be in your prime. * Why go along with “fairly good health” when you might be enjoying vigor you^aven’t felt for years? There’s a simple little thing any one can do to keep the vital organs stimulated, and feel fit all the time. People don’t realize how sluggish they’ve grown until they’ve tried it. The stimulant that will stir your system to new life is Dr. Caldwell’s syrup pepsin. It will make a most amazing difference in many ways. This famous doctor’s prescription is a delicious syrup made with fresh herbs, active senna, and pure pep sin. It starts its good work with the first spoonful. That’s all you need to dnve away the dullness and headache of a bilious spell, and rid the system of that slow poison that saps your strength. It’s better than a tonic for Urea bowels, and unlike habit-forming laxatives you can take it freely or give it to any child. And it isn’t expensive. Get some syrup pepsin today, and take a little tonight. Don’t wait until you’re sick to give your system this wonderful help. You can avoid those spells of bilioushess or consti pation. A spoonful every now and then is better than constant worry about the condition of your bowels, or fear of auto-ihtoxication as you grow older. Dr. Caldwell’s syrup pepsin protects the system. All druggists keep this preparation. SPECIAL $15.00 Plate, False Teeth, for $6.50 $50.00 Hecolite Plate, for $17.50 Guaranteed—Satisfaction or Your Money Back 30 Years Experience DR. N. S. EVANS, Dentist Broad and Eighth Streets, Augusta, Georgia PAINLESS PULLING EASY PAYMENTS Items'Of Interest # % From The Citadel Practice for the annual Citadel dramatic performance, the Pass- in-Review, has begun under the di rection of Captain C. F. Myers of the college faculty. The show will be given early in April. The final appointments of cadet officers and non-commissioned afficers were held on February 29. Tor the first time in the history of he college, the regimental com mander will have the rank of col- mel. Cadet T. M. Metz, of New 3ern, N. C., is the first Cadet Col onel. Cadet G. J. Hutto, of Reev- :sviTc, S. C., was appointed Lieu tenant Colonel and Executive Of ficer. Friday, March 4, was the birthday of General Summerall. Early in "he morning the entire Corps of Cadets marched to his quarters to pay their respects. Each Tuesday afternoon hereaf ter there will be a battalion parade held at The Citadel. The first and second battalions will participate alternately in the ceremonies., The rifle team has participated in several telegraphic meets recent ly. As yet the results have not been announced. With present intramural program over half completed, the First Pla toon of “A” Company is leading the volleyball league, and the Second Today’s Opportunity ' Doesn't Knock —ST TELEPHONES! If someone has a job for you, / can h* reach you? If cus tomers have orders for you, can they call you? Do you invite business by having a telephone? Or does bus-lness opportunity pass you by— because you have no tele phone? Opportunity won’t walk around to your door these days. It’s too easy to tele phone—either you or some one else. Make sure it’s YOU. Order a telephone installed TODAY. SOUTH CAROLINA CONTINENTAL TELEPHONE COMPANY The Value of the Telephone Is Greater Than the Cost Platoon of “H” Company is pacing Notice Of Application the play-ground league. ^ Paragraph 2, and fill to the mark ed off 32-gallon level with bold water. Repeat this process after eacl} 10 bushels until 50 bushels have been treated. Then if more potatoes are to be treated, discard the old solution and start with a fresh solution as directed under Paragraph 1. 7. Bed the treated seed in ground where sweet potatoes have never been before. If manure is used in the hotbed, be sure it comes from animals that have not eaten sweet potatoes or vines. Caution! Mercuric chloride is a deadly internal poison but is not lurious to the hands. Keep the lution covered to prevent humans or livestock from drinking it. Do not use treated sweet potatoes for food. In discarding the solution, pour it into poms soil so that it will be absorbed immediately. Use only glass, earthenware, 0£ wooden vessels for holding the sqflftion. Treatment of Seed— Immerse for 5 to 8 minutes in a solution of formaldehyde (com mercial 40 per cent) made by dil uting one quart formaldehyde in 50 gallons water. This solution may be used repeatedly without losing strength. Bed potatoes soon af ter treatment. X What Was The Doctor’s Secret? MAN MADE THE TOWN • # I ' . \ r (By Ruby Ayres) He was the grandest man in the world, young Dr. Rathbone. At least lovely Diana Gladwyn thought so, as soon as she got over fretting about his exiling her to the country for a rest from the social round. Not, of course, that she was in love with him. She was in love with Dennis—dear, fascinating, selfish Dennis, who had married the wrong girl. But Dr. Rathbone was “like a strong harbor,” and fie wasn’t like , the other men she knew. That was why. he caught her attention. That - was why she was desperately in- • terested in discovering what Rosa lie, the mysterious red-headed wo man, meant to him. Diana was to find it out at last i-—that and many other things she hadn’t suspected, including the ; ways of true love. Read this delightful love-story J&arting in The Messenger soon. for three rows of crops. Use two-horse machinery CLEMSON COLLEGE, March 7.— wherever possible and save labor To guide farmers in the essential f or growing feed crops. activities of March, R. W. Hamilton, txt- agronomist, E. H. Rawl, horticul turist, J. T. McAlister, agricultural engineer, and Alfred Lutken, en tomologist and plant pathologist, make the following brief sugges tions. Agronomy Make, save, and use farm man ures and compost in producing crops. ‘ Before buying fertilizer, study carefully the needs of your soil for plant food to feed the plants grown on that soil. Buy materials and mix fertilizer so that plants will be supplied with food most needed. The price of cotton next fall will probably be low. Plan to produce it at low cost. Read First Corrinthians, chapter 3, verse 6, and plan an acreage of food and feed crops accordingly. Horticulture Set out fruit trees that have not already been set. Boys And Girls Aid Grain Rust Pre vention Campaign \ Boys and girls, members of “Rust Buster” clubs in 15 Iowa and Min nesota countries located and help ed eradicate common barberry bushes on more than 200 properties last year, the United States De partment of Agriculture says. The barberry bushes are destroyed be cause they harbor black stem rust of wheat, oats, rye, and barley. This disease costs farmers millions of ■ dollars annually by reducing yields and quality of small grains. Locating barberry bushes in more than 200 places in the 15 counties is considered an exceptionally thorough piece of voluntary scout ing, as the eradication work has been going on for more than a de- Plant raspberries and blackber- cade and most of the easily found ries any time this month. ' bushes have been destroyed. Prune and spray fruit trees. Local and State educational in- Cultivate and fertilizer orchards, stitutions co-operate with the de- Plant salsify and parsnips now partment in making information for next winter. on barberry and stem rust avail- insects and Diseases able in the public schools. The work Remove bands from apple trees, | done by the boys and girls is con- scrape rough bark off, and kill the ‘ sidered highly important as the de- over-wintering codling moth larvae, partment can send workers only to Burn twigs severed by the pecan badly infested areas and must rely twig girdler. on volunteers to locate bushes in Grow corn as far as possible many parts of the territory, from last year to control billbugs j The eradication campaign is and borers. j bringing results. Losses from stem Control cutworms with poisoned rust in the 13 North-Central bran mash. ' j States where barberry eradication Dust tobacco plants with arseni- is now in progress have decreased cals to control flea beetles. from an average annual loss of 57,- A change has been made in the prescribed Citadel uniform, requir ing cadet officers to wear gilt chin-straps on their blue caps. X Amy Edmunds Dead Amy Edmunds, colored, 63 years of age, and wife of Charles Ed munds, died March 2, at her home near McCormick. Besides her hus band, she leaves several children. Burial was made at Springfield Church, Sunday, March 6, at 2 o’clock. G. P. McCain’s service in charge tXI Red Cross Garden Goes Across Big In Darlington County For Charter Plow under leaves and shucks in pecan groves as an aid in scab control. Spray potatoes with Bordeaux when first leaf spots appear. 000,000 bushels of wheat for the years 1916-1920 to an average an nual loss of approximately 9,500,000 bushels during the period 1926-1! and much of the decrease is ^0, Plant wilt-resistant tomatoes, tributed to the barberry eradica- such as Marglobe and Break-O’ tion work. In this period, mil- Day. lions of barberry bushes were des- Agricultural Engineering troyed, many of them where they Cut stalks and trash with disc could have caused severe rust harrow before plowing instead of epidemics if left growing. There burning. are many bushes remaining in the CLEMSON COLLEGE, March 5.— A five-acre year-round garden, planned primarily to furnish vege tables to meet the demands of the Darlington Red Gross chapter in 1931, resulted in a gross profit of $967.31, gave material assistance in the work .of the Red Cross, served as an object lesson in community co-operation, and showed the value of a good garden even under ad verse weather conditions, says A. E. Schilletter, extension horticulturist. Simple canning equipment at a to tal cost of $97.00 made possible the saving of surplus produce ^that would otherwise have been lost. This Red Cross garden idea was fostered by the Darlington Kiwanis Club, the two-fold idea being to furnish vegetables for the relief work of the Red Cross and cash Tor additional Red Cross activities. Co operation of the county farm and home agents was secured, and ar rangements for land and supervis ion were made with Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Flowers, whose farm being situ ated on a prominent highway made the garden a sort of public dem onstration. A total of 67 plant ings including 31 vegetables was made from March 11 to November 1, by the operators. Notwithstanding that it was mid-March before the work was actually begun and that the mid summer and fall drought dwafed the growth of many things and made impracticable the planting of others, especially for fall and win ter garden, the results were out- The undersigned will on the 15th day of March, 1932 make applica tion to the Secretary of State, at Columbia, S. C., for a Charter for McGrath Motor Company, a Cor poration with its principal place of business at McCormick, S. C. Its general nature of business will be the operation of a general auto mobile garage, buying and celling of automobiles, motor cars, trucks, tractors, motors, new and used cars; also the buying and 'selling of auto parts, including the buying and selling of personal property of every kind and description, whole sale and retail, operatioh of farms, buying and selling of farm produce, buying and selling of real estate, borrowing and loaning money and taking security therefor and the doing of any and all other things usually customary in the operation of a general automobile garage and repair shop. The capital stock of the said Corporation will be One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, div ided into ten shares of the par value of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars each. MRS. KING McGRATH, MRS. HETTIE McGRATH, Corporators. McCormick, S. C., March 9, 1932. Public Sales 5- i criwether-Clarks Hill News Items Miss Mary Neoma Eckard spefit the past week end in Augusta with her cousin, Miss Virginia Fox. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hines spejifc Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. 1^ Hines. Miss Alice Bunch spent Saturday- night with Misses Billie and Claudia Bass. Mr. W. E. Kellar, Warlick Kellar i and Eubert Eckard spent Saturday afternoon in Augusta. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Eckard and son, Eubert, were the dinner guests Saturday evening to Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hines. Miss Virginia Fox of Augusta spent Saturday with her cousin. Miss Mary Neoma Eckard. Miss Claire Rich spent Saturday afternoon with Miss Annie Martha Ryan. \ Mrs. L. H. Hines spen't Saturday afternoon with Mrs. D. E. Eckard.* • End. WANT ADVS. FOR SERVICE—Two year old Reg istered Jersey Bull, at my home one mile west of Plum Branch on Sturkey’s Ferry Road. Bryant Quarles. 2tpo. r FOR SALE—Cabbage, Tomato and Bermuda Onion Plants, $1.00 per 1000. Pepper, Sweet Potato and Egg Plants $1.50 per 1000. Prompt shipment. DORRIS PLANT CO., Valdosta, Ga. Judge L. G. Bell, master in equity, made the following sales here Monday: W. K. Charles, attorney, against Wdde H. Palmer, et al, 84 acres, to W. K. Charles, attorney, for $2,- 370.05. The First Carolina’s Joint Stock Land Bank of Columbia, a Corpora tion, against W. C. Hollingsworth, 150 acres, to J. M. Nickles, attorney, for $351.00. John B. Harmon, against J. Thomas Moragne and J. B. Har mon & Company, 88 acres, to John B. Harmon for $300.00. The Federal Land Bank of Co lumbia, against J. R. Wilkie, et al., 76 acres, to W. K. Charles, at torney, for $500.00. J. S. Strom, T. J. Sibert and P. J. Robinson, as Receivers of The Far mers Bank of McCormick, S. C., against Florence Cunningham, 52 acres, to T. J. Sibert, receiver, for $100.00. HORSE SHOEING a specialty, and general repair work done on short notice and at right prices. Shop in charge of J. Zack Spence at my place at forks of highways two miles west of McCormick. Jamie L. Smith. HARDWARE—See us before buying your spring farm hardware of all kinds. We got it at right price. White Hardware Co., McCormick, S. C. • FOR SALE—Henderson House and lots on Augusta street, $1,000.00- John Rainsford, Edgefield, S. C. 2tpo. DOG WOOD WANTED—For prices and specifications see J. E. H^yhes at the Block Mill, Mc Cormick, S. C. HAVE YOUR CLEANING done at home by McCormick E$ry 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. Clfan and block hats, 35c each. W. E. Campbell, Proprietor, McCor-^ mick, S. C. FROST PROOF PLANTS For Sale- Cabbage and Bermuda Onidn Plants all varieties $1.00 per 1000, 5000 lots. 90 cents per 1000. Prompt shipment. Dorris Plant Co. Valdosta, Ga. J’' ==^. - .*■ ■ -'-vt—=> For SAFETY Buy Telephone Bond and Share First Preferred. Ask any Telephone employee.—Adv. LOST—One pair of tan kid gloves on streets of McCormick. If found return to Andrew Jennings, at Messenger office and receive liberal reward. Citation Of iLetters Of Administration Mr. J. T. Fooshe, tax collector, s anding, as may be seen by figures the following sales here f om the records. Use a two-horse middle buster with wide double-tree for laying off evenly spaced rows. Equip the riding two-horse culti vator with opener center shovel, fertilizer distributors, and disc bill ers to save labor. Plow terraces just before plant- upper Mississippi Valley area and these must be eradicated, the de partment says, to prevent rust spreading to regions from which barberries have been cleaned, and to retard the natural spread of the barberry bushes from seed scatter ed by birds. Total sales and deliveries to the r d Cross were $1174.44, and value < cacyjed or stored goods on hand ' cember 1, 1931. were $302.00, or a al value of $1476.44. The cost r ' production (seeds, plants, labor, r ’-tilizers, incidentals, land rent, c' preciation, etc.) was $509.13, leav- i a net return of $967.31. The c inning equipment, being still on ] md. is not charged against cost cf production. “The Red Cross garden,” says the report, “has demonstrated an ex cellent piece of community work on the part of the local service club, and shows the possibilities of co operation between service clubs, extension agencies, and farm fam- Monday: 1 acre, Plum Branch Gin Com pany property, to M. N. Sturkey for $68.48. 74 acres, Mrs. M. L. Lindley land, to O. G. Calhoun, by J. M. Gibert, agent, for $69.61. That offered as Gibert and Per ryman lot in town of Bordeaux; 190 acres, as, formerly Cheatham and Dendy, now W. K. Charles; 75 acres, as, Ellen Belcher et al, part of Robert Belcher Estate, was bid in by the county. ilies, in addition to demonstrating the practicability of the year-round garden and giving material assist ance to worthy causes such as the Red Cross.” STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. BY L. G. BELL, PROBATE JUDGE: WHEREAS, Nora P. Branch has made suit to me to grant her Let ters of Administration of the Es tate 'and effects of J. B. Branch; THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said J. B. Branch, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at McCormick on 24th day of March, next, after publication hereof,, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the fn J Administration should not be g: anted. GIVEN under my hand this 9th day of March, Anno Domini, 1932. L. G. BELL, Probate Judge*