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i cs^mncr Thirtieth Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. Thursdays April 14, 1932 11 Bethany H. D. Club Holds Meeting Bethany H. D. Club met on April 5, with nine members, one new member, and two visitors present. Club members are always glad to share the very inspiring and help ful information with visitors. The devotional and business part of the meeting was held by the president, Mrs. C. L. Williams. Our “Health Chairman” gave a very good article on “Springy Feet.” Look for your “Progressive Farmer” and read this article. It is good for anybody and especially the housewives who so often abuse their feet. The “Local Leaders” presented the lesson on cheerful kitchen,” as Mrs. Stallworth was unable to be present. The following points are the most outstanding: 1. Walls and ceilings—A smooth washable finish is the most suit able for kitchen walls because of being easily cleaned. Paint that has a glossy appearance and wall oilcloth are desirable, be procured in a variety of colors and designs, are durable and are easily kept. Oilcloth may be very satisfactorily used on old uneven walls. One factor which should influ ence the selection of color for walls is exposure. Dyk or very intense colors tend to make a room seepi smaller, while light and modified or grayed colors teem to make the same room larger. Colors suitable for kitchens having - a south-west or south and west exposure are grayed greens, grayed blues, or cool tans. Ceilings are best if of the same color as side walls, but slight ly lighter. Whether the walls are very light or medium in value de pends upon the amount of light in the kitchen. Whether the woodwork or trim is very light must be determined by the housewife who should consider the work to be done and the time and strength of workers. Furni ture of the same finish as the wood trim gives a very pleasing appear ance. 2. Floors—The ideal floor is one which is easily cared for aiid is easy on the feet of the worker. Linoleum may be procured in a variety of col ors and designs. A printed lin oleum is inexpensive and if cem ented down and kept varnished will last well and is easily cared for. When the printed linoleum wears it cah be painted and varnished and made like new. Inlaid linoleum is more expensive and should be kept varnished. 3. Windows—Should the view from your kitchen window not give jggu inspiration and a restful feel ing? Then the inside appearance of the window is determined by the curtains. Curtains should be of material easily laundered and not too long so they will blow in the way. The color may be determin ed, for walls as well as for curtains, by carefully studying the linoleum on your floor. Last, but not least in importance, is the rest comer, the housewife’s own place, with a rocking chair. Just before the meeting adjourn ed Miss Emmie Sheppard put on a kitchen contest. The two opposing groupcs tied. TXT Erskine Gollege Association To Hold Meeting AT DUE WEST TOMORROW EV ENING, FRIDAY, APRIL 15TH A district meeting of the Erskine College Association will be held in in Due West, Friday evening', April 15th. All Erskine College and Woman’s College graduates and former students now living in Greenwood, McCormick and Abbe ville Counties are invited and ex pected to attend this meeting. This is the 9th in a series of sectional gatherings throughout the South eastern States, and it is expected that a large number of interested friends will gather from these Counties around the home base of the College. At these meetings plans for the formation of the Erskine College Association are presented. This organization is the union of the Alumni Association of Erskine They can College and the Alumnae Associa- tion of The Woman’s College of Due West. Since the consolida- Ever See a Baby Beaver? m M Gray Owl, an Apache Indian who lives in the back country of Manitoba, is an authority on beavers and is shown feeding a “kitten.” Parker Pettigrew Fatally Injured FORMER BASEBALL PLAYER DIES MONDAY OF INJURIES IN AUTO MISHAP Suffering internal injuries late tion of the colleges it is but natural Sunday night when the automobile that the interests of the alumni in which he was riding overturned and alumnae should be co-ordin- at Starr, Parker Pettigrew, former ated. Prof. S. W. Rabb, of the Wofford and Anderson baseball Greer Public Schools is president star, died Monday morning at the of the Association, and he and Miss ! Anderson County Hospital. He was Ruth Boggs, of the Anderson City at first thought to have been only Schools will address the meeting slightly injured, but X-ray exami- and present plans for the organiza- nation revealed two broken ribs tion. x and one of these had punqtured Invitations have been sent to one of his lungs. His condition alumni and alumnae living in the . became serious early Monday above named counties. Supper morning and the end followed District Meeting Telephone Company MEETING HELD HERE YESTER DAY AT EUREKA HOTEL.— MANY ATTEND (Abbeville Press and Banner of April 7th.) Genoa, Nevada’s oldest settle ment, had a 1930 population of 216. x f Morgan*8 Successor I will be served in the dining room of the Associate Reformed Presbyter- within a few hours. The untimely death of Mr. Pet- ian Church, at Due West, at seven tigrew, who was only 28 years of o’clock, Friday evening. After ‘ age, is deplored by his many friends supper the business meeting will. in the Starr section and in this take place. Dr. W. L. Pressly/j city. Chairman of the Local Committee is ably assisted by Mrs. W. P. Greene, of Abbeville, Prof. J. S’. Agnew, of Bailey Military Academy, at Greenwood, and Mrs. Leland BOyce, of Due West. Presbyterian College and Erskine College will play baseball in Due West, on Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock. This game was originally scheduled for Clinton, but the Pres byterian College authorities have kindly agreed to play this game in Due West so that visiting alumni and alumnae might have the op portunity of seeing an interesting ball game before the banquet in the evening. x Hill-Drop Planting Saves Cotton Labor Myron. C. Taylor, prominent New York banker, has been elected ChatrJ man of the U. S. Steel Corporation^ succeeding J. P- Morgan, CLEMSON COLLEGE, April 11.— Four plants per hill, in hills spac ed 12 inches apart in the drill has given highest yield of cotton 'lur ing the past five years, according to tests conducted by the South Carolina Experiment Station,” says J. T. McAlister, extension agricul tural engineer, who notes that die practice of hill-dropping is becom ing more common. Results will vary, he thinks,with different var ieties. “By setting the planter to drop four or five seed per hill every 12 inches,” Mr. McAlister explains, “considerable saving dan be ef fected in labor for chopping, and if seed are good a much more uni form stand should result. With the hill-drop method of planting, cultivation can be started just as soon as the grass and weeds ap pear. By covering these small weeds subsequent hoeing can be essened, whereas under the old method of chopping to stand, the weeds generally get a good start be fore all the crop is chopped out and close cultivation begun. “Many improvements have been made during the past few years in planters for hill-dropping. These should be investigated and tried out to determine just how they operate. Some devices tend to scatter the seed, especially when hills are plac ed close together. A planter that deposits all seed in a distinct hill is much more desirable.” IXJ The canvasback duck can fly at a speed of almost 100 miles an hour. He was in company with Cecil Seigler at the time of the accident His companion was bruised, but not seriously injured. He stated that upon attempting to round a curve at Starr, Mr. Pettigrew lost control of the machine and it overturned. Mr. Pettigrew was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Pettigrew of Starr. After attending the schools there he attended Wofford college where he stood high in athletics. Follow ing graduation he played baseball in the Carolina Independent league and gained considerable note as a semi-professional player. He later became associated with his father in business and later entered busi ness for himself. j Besides his parents, the deceased is survived by two brothers and one sister, William and H. E. Pettigrew and Miss Edna Pettigrew of Starr. Mr. Pettigrew was a member of the Starr Lodge, A. F. M., and was a steward in the Methodist church there for a number of years. - The funeral services will be held at 4 o’clock this afternoon at ^he Starr Methodist church with the Rev. R. C. Pettus officiating.. The body will be laid to final rest in Cross Roads cemetery. The active pall bearers will in clude Fred Jones, Joe McGee, Her man Rainey, Walter Hayes, Hugh Agnew and Levis Herron. Members of the Starr Masonic lodge will serve as honorary escort.—Ander son Record of Tuesday. -X- County Spelling Contest May 13 The McCormick County spelling contest will be held at the McCor mick High School Friday after noon, May the thirteenth, at 3:30. Each school is asked to send con testants from the fifth through the eleventh grades. XXX Card Of Thanks We wish to express our sincere appreciation and heartfelt thanks to our good friends who showed special kindness to us at the opera tion of our little girl, Lois Mae Goff. Also to Dr. Workman and Dr. Scurry for their kind services. May God bless you all. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Goff, A District Sales meeting of Dis trict No. 1 of the South Carolina and Georgia Continental Telephone companies was held here yester day. The speaker of the occasion was Mr. McKinnon, of Kansas City, Missouri, Supervisor of Service Sales. The meeting was held in the office of the District Manager and a luncheon was served at th Eureka Hotel. Those present were: Mr. R. O Randall, General Manager; Mr McKinnon, of Kansas City; Mes srs. R. L. Knell, W. D. Wilkinson T. R. Gallman and Wilbur Nabors; Misses Bessie Williams, Annie Lee Hagen, Eleanor DuPre, Essie Lee McCord, Mary Chalmers, Eliza beth McCord, Mrs. Margaret Kay and Mrs. Frank Fleming, Abbeville; Miss Inez Caldwell, Messrs. John Campbell and Ernest Tollison, o Laurens; Mr. R. H. Bryant of Foun tain Inn; Mrs. C. H. Robuck, of Woodruff; Miss Emma Rankin of McCormick; Miss Alice Moore and Mr. J. B. Strickland of Toccoa, Ga.; Mrs. Lenora Hoover, of Lavonia, Ga.; Miss Susie Glaze and Mr. J. W. Givens of Washington, Ga., and Mr. H. H. McKinney of Lincolnton, Ga. XXt Winthrop Graduates Back For Conferences (Clipping from The Johnsonian, the weekly publication of Winthrop College, for April 9.) Following a custom established last year of having Seniors ex change with Winthrop graduates who are out teaching, a number of old Winthrop girls are now on the campus, having been “relieved” of their duties by Winthrop Seniors. These girls who have come back for conferences and, observation are: Mattie Louise Appleby, Sarah Bol and, Mildred Bradford, Gladys Bul lock, Thelma Burnside, Vivian Bur roughs, Elizabeth Davis, Mattie Mae Few, Margaret Fuller, Mary Garri son, Leonora Gladden, Allie Hasty, Ruth Hendrick, Gladys Kelly, Jean Klugh, Sara Knox, Louise Langley. Thelma Miller, Ruth Murchison, Virginia Parker, Margaret Proctor Lucile Sutherland, Dorothea Tay lor, Mary Thurmond, Jessie Trow bridge, Sara Williams and Sara Lipscomb. The Seniors who have gone out to take their places are: Eulalie McLaughlin, Von Allen Glasscock, Elizabeth McFadden, Virginia Simmons, Hettie Joe Pace, Sara Fields, Sarah Rikard, Eliza beth Stowe, Annelle Crouch, Vir ginia Baskin, Margaret Allison, Ruth G. Hamilton, Mildred Kirk patrick, Bonner Lipscomb, Felicia Ervin, Ruby Cheek, Joyce Kellette, Julia Bell Ackerman, Mary Agnes Crews, Elizabeth Bransford, Mannie Lee Edwards, Frances McSwain, Virginia Bolton, Thelma Mooney- han, Frances Langley, Laura Con nor, Martha Tanner, and Marjorie Keller. 8 Pages — All Home Print Washington Future Farmers Hold A Father-Son Banquet DELIGHTFUL BANQUET AND AF TER DINNER SPEECHES ENJOYED The boys of Washington school entertained their dads at a delight ful banquet Friday night, April 3. The eatables consisted of a chicken stew prepared by the champion chicken stew chef, Ward Robertson. In addition to the eats, the guests were entertained by after dinner speeches by the boys and others. The program was as follows: “Welcome Dads and Visitors”—By Patrick Robertson, President of F. P. F. Chapter. “The Chilean Nitrate Company’s Co-operation with Vocational Agri cultural Students”—By H. E. Save- ley, Manager Chilean Nitrate of Soda Bureau, Columbia, S. C. “What Our Class has Done and is Doing”—By Pete Lankford. “Vocational Agriculture — Its Growth in South Carolina Since 1917 and Benefits to Farm Boys”— By W. H. Garrison, Assistant State Supervisor of Vocational Agricul ture. “Vocational Agriculture’s Place in the Rural School”—By L. V. Mayer, Superintendent Washington High School. Toastmaster—W. H. Wooten, Ag ricultural Teacher. \ Democratic Clubs Meet Saturday, 23 TO RE-ORGANIZE AND ELECT OFFICERS AND DELEGATES TO COUNTY CONVENTION, TO MEET MAY 2ND Number-,45 Mrs. Fannie LaGrdtie Dies Suddenly Mrs. Fannie Dorn LaGroiie of Wells Street, Greenwood, died sud denly Sunday night at 9 o’clock- She had retired about 8:30 in hei- usual health. In a short white she called her son, with whom she* was living, to her bedside. It was. soon realized that she was suffer ing and medical aid called at once, but she was dead when the doctor arrived. It was determined that she died of heart failure. Mrs. LaGrone was 82 years of age. She was a loyal member of Mt. Vernon M. E. Church, where she united while very young. In early life she was married to Mr. James ‘ LaGrone of the Callison section. On account of illness in the home of the deceased, funeral services were conducted in Blyth’s funeral parlor at 11:00 o’clock Tuesday, and interment made in Magnolia cemetery, Greenwood. She is survived by one brother, Mr. Whittle Dorn, of Edgefield, and the following children: Messrs. L. E. LaGrone, Edgefield; D. T. LaGrone, McCormick; E. PI LaGrone,-Pleasant Lane; Z. R. La Grone, Greenwood; Mrs. A. C. Rush, Greenwood; Mrs. G. M. May er, Atlanta; and Mrs. A. M. Hancock, Greenwood; alteo a host erff grandchildren and greatgrand children. -txx- Under the rufes of the J)emo- cratic party, each Democratic Club in the County shall meet on the Fourth Saturday in April of each election year for the purpose of re organization and the election of officers and delegates to the Coun ty Convention. The County Convention shall meet on the First Monday in May at the county seat and shall be composed of delegates elected from the clubs in the county, one dele gate for every twenty-five mem bers or a majority fraction there of, based upon the number of votes polled in the first primary of the preceding election. Every club in the county is urg ed to meet and organize on Satur day, April 23, 1932, and appoint delegates to attend the County Convention, which will be held at the county seat on May 2, 1932, at eleven o’clock a. m. W. E. SHEPPARD, Club Member. X— Farmers Of Wash ington School Area Gardens And Health Easy In Carolina > • ■ ~ i - . - CLEMSON COLLEGE, April 9.— South Carolina’s climate, soil, and moisture conditions will permit Uoe good home gardener to produce vegetables to have a supply' for every day in the year, says B. H. Rawl, extension horticulturist, who names climate, soil, and moisture as three main requirements for* successful gardening. Mr. Rawl is convinced that Soot!* Carolina is a “best place" to for says he: “Man cannot happiness unless he possesses good health; he cannot have good heaRtfc unless he has good food of the right kind and quantity and at the right times, as may be'had in thin state through good home gardens.” 1 As to the values in vegetables Mf. Rawl explains: “Comparatively speaking it has been only a short, time since Science discovered the exact constituents or elements at vegetables which have the power of promoting growth and health. These important elements found in vegetables, and especially in leafy vegetables, are ‘vitamins.’ Experi ments in animal and human nutri tion have proved the importance cf vitamins for good growth anti health. In addition to furnishing the^o necessary vitamins, vegetables con tain minerals which the dietitians i agree are necessary in the develop- i BUY FERTILIZER CO-OPERATIVELY At a meeting held recently at Washington school, the farmers of this section decided to mix their ertilizer at home and buy the ma terials co-operatively. The meet ing was attended by seventy-five armers. Bids were submitted by several fertilizer companies for ma terials specified by the farmers. Most farmers are using a mixture composed of 800 pounds of acid phosphate, 400 pounds of sulphate of ammonia, 400 pounds of manure salts, and 400 pounds of lime for cotton. This will give a mixture analyzing 6-5-4 at a cost of $15.46 a ton. For corn they will leave out the manure salts and double the lime. This will give a 6-5-0 at a cost of $13.03 per ton. The International Agricultural Corporation of Augusta were low bidders and will supply all of the above materials, except twenty tons of sulphate of ammonia, which will be bought from J. W. Bracknell & Son of Plum Branch. Approximate ly 250 tons of materials altogether will be ‘ handled through the school’s agricultural department. jment of the body and the main- M ATE RIALS tenance of health. Likewise, the food specialists tell us that the- diet should contain a certain amount of bulky food. Vegetables meet these requirements in tb& form of woody fir he, or cellulose. Authorities in food and health* recommend the use of a supply of vegetables in the diet each day.’* IXI- Veteran Contralto | J i 't Ilf ^4 Frau Ernestine Schumann-Heink, . 70-year-old Americanized singer, had to cancel her concert tour because of i Serious illness in St. Louis.