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Thursday, June 30, M32 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH' CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER EIGHT Mr. R. L. Boddie Thomas W. Morgan - Died Sunday Writes Dr. Epting FUNERAL AT PLUM BRANCH MONDAY MORNING Mr. Robert Lee Boddie died at his home near Parksville early Sunday morning. He was 67 years of age and had been ill several months. He is survived by his wife and four daughters and two sons, as follows: Mrs. Ruthella Brown, Mrs. J. B. Jennings, Mrs. Bill Wilkins and Mrs. H. F. Walls, and Messrs. Billie and Rallie Boddie. Funeral services were conduct at Plum Branch Methodist Church at 10:30 o’clock Monday morning by the Rev. O. L. Orr, and interm ent made in Plum Branch ceme tery. J. S. Strom’s service in charge. Veterans May Renew Policies TERM INSURANCE MAY BE RE NEWED FOR FIVE-YEAR PER IOD-REINSTATEMENTS ALLOWED INVITES 1 McCORMICK LEGION NAIRES TO HIS HOME AND OFFICE Dr. C. K. Epting, Commander of Thomas Jefferson Lyon, Jr., Post, No. 19, of the American Legion, on Monday received the following in vitation from Mr. Thomas W. Mor gan, formerly of McCormick, but now of Aiken: Dr. C. K. Epting, McCormick, S. C. >ear Ot. Epting: Please tell all the boys that we are expecting a full delegation of them down for the Legion Conven tion during the week of July 4, and that I am expecting them to make my office and house their head- quarters. With best regards, THOS. W. MORGAN, County Agent. Aiken, S. C. -txt- Farm Price Situation Remains Unfavorable World war veterans who have been carrying term insurance pol icies may renew them on July 1 for another five-year period with only a slight increase in rate, ac cording to announcement received yesterday from the United States veterans’ administration bureau in Greenville. Previous announcement was to the effect that all stich policies would have to be converted or dropped. The rate for the next five years will be slightly higher, M the veteran will be charged for the age as of July 1, 1932. The difference will, in most cases, be about 50 cents on a $5,000 policy. This announcement will be gen erally welcomed, as the term type of policy has been immensely pop ular. The new law also provides that veterans whose term insur ance has not lapsed moi^ than five months may renew their policies by payment of all back premiums. % AH ex-service men who do nor carry government insurance in any of its form, whether term or other feAtUfes, and desire to take out same, can do so by passing a phy- ' sical examination. SWAMP - NEWS Miss Sara Price spent the past week end with Miss Carrie Mae Rosenswike. Sorry to report Miss Rosenswike has been sick. Mrs. Ernest Brown was the guest of her mother,* Mrs. J. L. Jolly, Monday. Mrs. Mattie Crawford is spending .some time with her niece, Mrs. J. C. Leard. Miss Dot Harrison of Utopia is visiting Miss Louise Price. Mr. Wilton Browne spent Satur day night with Mr. Louis Jolly. John Adams spent Sunday with Brown Leard. ,Mrs. Parrie Reagan was seehig her brother, Mr. J. C. Leard, one day the past week. _ v# Mr. Tom Alton and others Mr. Vance Ellison Sunday. After so much rain, the farmers In this community are very busy. The young people of the A. R. P. church enjoyed a social Friday night at Troy school house. Games ' were enjoyed until a late hour. Miss Annie Chiles called to see Mrs. Mary Price Friday morning. Miss Frances Rush was a visitor in the “Swamps” one day recently. Miss Lorraine Leard was a visi tor in Abbeville Monday evening. Tony. XXX Death Of A Colered Man CLEMSON COLLEGE, June 25.— Prices received by farmers for May were generally lower than for April, the only exceptions indicated in re cent reports coming from the Bu reau of Agricultural Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture being small seasonal increases in prices of eggs, Irish po tatoes, and fruits and vegetables, advises D. W. Watkins, assistant director of the Extension Service. Cotton at five cents per pound is about 41 per cent of the pre-war May prices, hogs also selling at 41 per cent. , Other comparisons cited by Mr. Watkins show horses at 43 per cent (mules are about the same), corn 45, wheat 47, wool 50, oats 52, eggs 62, hay 70, Irish potatoes 70, beef cattle and veal calves 71, lambs 74, milk cows 75, butter 84, live poultry 103, and all groups combin ed 55 per cent. Some prices (in cluding those on poultry, vege tables, and butter) are seasonally lower now than in May. “Farmers’ costs of production are far more stubborn about coming down than are the prices of farm products,” the economist points out. “Things farmers buy are 112 per cent of pre-war, or one per cent lower than in April. Farm wages are abou$ 95 per cent of pre-war. Retail fertilizer prices are a little above pre-war although wholesale prices of materials especially nitro gen-bearing materials are consid erably under pre-war. The farm er’s inability to buy is reflected in the fact that the tonnage of fert ilizers sold in South Caroilna is lower than for any previous year since 1903. Mules are far cheaper, being worth about 45 per cent of the cost in the earlier period. In general, manufactured or ' highly processed goods or goods shipped long distances are higher than things produced nearby or with lit tle fabrication. Staple foods like flour, pork, and com meal are much cheaper. Win spite qf the cheapness of staple foods, the farmers’ lack of buying power practically requires that they grow their own supplies, cease buying other things and get along somehow with less of every thing so long as the unequal basis of exchange exists. By way of partly alleviating the lowered standards of living, farm people must during the depression give more emphasis to such activities as carpentry, blacksmithing, and vari ous household arts to provide re pairs, equipment, and goods for living that are preferably purchas ed in more prosperous times. Club work has gotten results, and big ones in Arkansas. .That is why. the work is so popular. Boys and girls see it as one of the best ways to improve their positions, to earn some money, to see a little of the world, to be “somebody.” So they have gone into club work with a will. Note the report of the state champion local club for last year. It is the Lebanon club of White county. It numbers 43 members; 39 are boys. Ages are 10 to 19. Two local people served them as leaders. At the end of their year they were able to show an average return for their projects valued at $70.00 per member. Those boys, and girls won’t starve or go in rags! Here is the detailed record of their productions: Corn, 508 bushels $253.53 Seed—Cotton, 8426 lbs. 219.87 Irish potatoes, 572 bus. 331.60 Sweet potatoes, 598 bus. 354.02 Strawberries 335.85 Pigs, three purebreds 72.00 Gardens, 4764 lbs. 540.55 Canned goods, 2318 qts. 985.75 Savings on garments 30.27 Total $3,033.44 Every member made a complete report on their work, attended their county rally, and 18 attended the state camp at the college. The club furnished the county champ ion in corn, cotton, pig and sweet potatoes. The members made 66 demonstrations and had 14 meet ings in the year with an average attendance of 87.4 per cent. You can’t keep boys and girls like •hat down. Caution Dealers As To Federal Tax PENALTIES FOR MISREPRESENT ING TAX PAID Grant Morton, aged 40 years, of near town, died early Sunday morning, ’ following an illness of several days’ duration. Funeral services were conducted at Shiloh Church at 2 o’clock Tuesday after noon and interment made in the church cemetery. J. S. Strom’s service in charge. An archaeologist states th&£ un til about eighty years ago, almost all the known remains of ancient Babylon and Nineveh were in a lit tle glass case in the British muse um. J XXX Pieces of blotting paper found among papers of the fifteenth cen tury show that this method of dry ing ink was known at that early •date -IXX- New York Forestry More than 4,000 acres of forest trees have been planted on the home farms or on land acquired by 1-H club members in New York, re ports W. K. Williams, extension forester, United States Department of Agriculture. The first year’s work for a forestry club in New York is to plant 1,000 forest tree seedlings in a compact groups on ’and unsuited for agricultural crops, where no forest growth is now standing or where it has been cut off recently. The club mem ber also protects the trees from damage by livestock and keeps a record of the work done and the cost. The State of yesterday says, Those who had supplies of goods previous to imposition of the recent federal tax will have to be careful lest they subject themselves to se vere penalties in sales. Collector V. Q. Hambright is sending out a cir cular letter calling attention to the law which Imposes heavy penalties for representing that a tax had been paid upon goods which were in the stock of dealers before the imposition of the tax. The government is not attempt ing to regulate the price at which articles subject to the tax shall be sold, but it is in violation of law to represent that goods in stock prev ious to the tax have been advanced in price because of the tax. The following is the letter being sent out by the collector: “The attention of dealers and the public generally is invited to tiig, following appearing in the regula tions for the enforcement of the provisions of the revenue act of 1932: “Misrepresentation of Tax “Whoever, in connection with the sale or lease, or offer for sale or lease, of any article, or for the pur pose of making such sale or lease, makes any statement, written or oral, (1) intended or calculated to lead any person to believe that any part of the price at which such article is sold or leased, or offered for sale or lease, consists of a tax imposed under the authority of the United States, or (2) ascribing a particular part of such price to a tax imposed under the authority of the United States, knowing that such statement is false or that the tax is not so great as the portion of such price ascribed to such tax. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both. “If a manufacturer or other ven dor misrepresents the tax, he is guilty of a misdemeanor and is lia ble to a fine of $1,000 and to im prisonment for a year. This pro vision is designed, among other things, to prevent a vendor adding more than the amount of the tax to the price of an article and repre senting that the increase is due to the tax.” New Cotton Found ation Fabric For Hooked Rugs Revival of interest in things colonial has suggested an advant ageous extension of the use of cot ton for making of hooked rugs. These rugs are inexpensive and attractive homemade floor cover ings whbse popularity has created a widespread farm home industry, es pecially in the South and New Eng land. Hooked rugs require a strong, loosely woven foundation fabric, a filler material, and a protective lining. For all three of these parts, cotton can be used. The United States Department of Agriculture recently undertook to develop a good cotton foundation fabric to overcome some of the drawbacks of the commonly used jute burlap xnd other foundation materials, and provide an outlet for more shortstaple cotton. Two promising cotton foundation fabrics were selected from a num ber designed experimentally. They were tested for tensile strength, thread count, weight per square yard, and thickness. These fabrics are similar in structure to burlap but stronger in the wrap yarns and ’ess likely to deteriorate from mois ture and sunlight. Complete rugs were also made in the laboratory on these foundation fabrics, using different kinds of fillers. In colonial days, the housewife made her hooked rugs from old clothes or hose or the piece box. But many rugs are now made of new material purchased in the desired colors or dyed to suit the pattern. Both ohe ready-ore- pared cotton fillers and cloth cut in narrow strips are used, and pro vide an additional outlet for cot ton. Cotton, fillers usually result in more beautiful and more dur- j -Lble rugs. A lining or backing gives added ; life to a hooked rug. It prevents* the rug from curling readily, gives it body, and keeps dust and grit from cutting the stitches, on the back of the rug. Any durable, close ly woven cotton, such as crash, denim, osnaburg, or canvas, is sat isfactory. X Keep Mash Before Hens When your summer suit is the winter one without a vest, then you are one of the great common people. , A region in the south Pacific ocean is so barren of life that whales and sharks lost in the sea desert starve to death there. CLEMSON COLLEGE, Tune 18.— Since the hen makes eggs from the feed she eats, the number that she can produce depends upon the amount and kind of feed given her, says P. H. Gooding, extension poul- tryman, who adds that about 80 per cent of the feed a hen con sumes is used for body mainten ance and from the other 20 per cent the eggs are made. Records on flocks have shown, he states, that eggs are produced at a profit dur ing the summer when the hens are fed a mash along with grain. Because of the tendency of most South Carolina farmers to stop feeding their hens in the summer when eggs get cheap, the hens lay fairly well during the spring months, with a low production for the remainder of the year. Through the right amounts and kinds of feed much can be done toward holding up production of the flock during the summer. As farm range does not supply the right kind,of feed in sufficient quantity to get efficient results, the flock should receive mash in addition to grain during the summer months. tXt First Cotton Blooms On Last Wednesday The first cotton bloom of the season was sent to The Messenger office on Wednesday, June 22nd. by Jim Wells, colored, who has a crop with Mr. T. L. Edmunds about four miles from town on the Ab beville highway. Jim is usually among the first to report blooms, •'nd for the past several years has ■'-cn first in the county to pick '”d gin a bale of cotton. blooms were reported by others ' - follows: Bill Walker, colored, June 22nd. George Talbert, colored, June nsrd. Messrs. Rallie Furqueron anc George Carroll, June 23rd. Mr. Walter Dorn, June 25th. Rev. R. E. L. Campbell, June 26th Mr. George W. Lindley, June 26th Mr. Calvin Spence, June 28th. Mr. D. L. Wideman, June 28th. Mr. S. D. Chiles, June 29th. Mr. Ed Coleman, June 29th, from sprout on last year’s stalk. 'Mr.'W. Floyd Cothran, June 30th. BUSINESS BOOM She was very well dressed, and. as she walked into the fashionable mil liner’s shop, the manageress herself came forward to serve her. “I see by your advertisement,” she said, “that you have just received two thousand hats from Paris.” “Yes, madam,” the respectful man ageress informed her. “Good,” said the girl, taking off her hut, “I wish to try them on.”—Pear son’s Magazine. Information Costly Judge—Fifty fine and driving rights suspended for two weeks. Culprit—Gee! Your honor, that’s some price to pay for finding the sales man was a liar. Judge—What do you mean? Culprit—Well, he told me that bus would go 90 and the best it was doing when the policeman nabbed me was 70. TROUBLE AHEAD a! <t>i *F ^ Friend—Little Boy Blue, don’t blow your sax. L. B. B—Why not? Friend—A neighbor is hunting for you with an ax. Keeping Up With the Time* Lady—You deal in antiques. Have you any Louis XY’s? Dealer—Yes, madam, we have a great deal. Lady—Well, I have a room com pletely furnished in Louis XV’s, and I want a real Louis XV vacuum cleaner. In Doubt , “My small boy asks me some inter esting questions,” said the serious man. "Do you object to that?” *1 don’t know. I can’t be sure whether lie’s trying to find out how much I do know or how much 1 don’t.” Vengeance Up to Date Neighbor—So you’re saving to buy nr: airplane? You're quite an ambi tion little boy. Johnny—Yeah. I wanna fly over your back yard and drop bricks on your kid. A Life Work Parachute Jumper—Oh. I don’t mind it at all, hut of course I'd bate’ to spend my life jumping from air planes. Friend—You probably will, some day.—Exchange. Musical Treat “What did you hear at the opera yesterday?” “All sorts of things. Smith U; go ing bankrupt. Mrs. Brown has dyed hair, the Whites are having a div orce.”—Passing Show. WHAT SHE GAVE UP (W w m “Yes, 1 know Marian married wealth; but they parted some time ago.” “She parted only with the husband, dear.” Standpatter “Doesn’t Jim ever get tired of his wife's continued sulkiness?” “I think not. He says when she's good-natured she sings.”—Boston Transcript. \ Plenty of Time Wife—You say you’re going to buy a car. Do you know the taxes are due next month? Hubby—Oh, I'll be back before then. Unanimous She—No! I can never marry you. All our family are opposed to you. He—But If you are not— She—I said all our family!—Stray Stories. VtftY, „ U&tW 6m MARY MARS-tlALL Printed dimity, lawn, eyelet em broidered batiste, fine voile, plain and embroidered organdie, wide- wale pique, are among the cotton materials used for the new evening dresses. Organdies, voiles and other sheer materials are sometimes made over sil slips but are often made separ ately so that the dresses themselves may be laundered separately. When the idea first started there were cotton dresses of the most formal sort, but at present most women regard chiffon and other silk sheer fabrics as more appropriate for formal wear, choosing cottons for the informal, practical sort of sum mer evening dress. Pure white is perhaps the most usual choice—but light pastels—es pecially shades of pink or peach— are close seconds, with pale blue, Nile green and mauve occasionally represented. It is possible to make very inex pensive cotton evening dresses. The sutypfp of the new fashion is in the nftto note of crispness which cotton gives to the summer evening ward robe. -IX* THINGS WORTH KNOWING Almost one-fourth of the people in the world speak Chinese. Pure iron can not be worked at temperatures between 800 degrees and 1,000 degrees centigrade. The sperm whale is the only one that spouts forward. Owls imported to Fiji from Aus tralia kill mice which destroy cocoanut crops. The total number of kinds of an imals now living approaches the 2,- 000,000 mark. Scientists of twenty-five nations have recommended that an inter national study should be made of the great valleys and canyons in. che ocean. Seasonal Worker Charitabre Lady—What were you, my poor man, before you came to this penurious condition? Lazy Lewis—I’m really a seasonal- worker, ma’am. I smoke glasses for «olar eclipses.—Vancouver Province. Summer Engagement He—But why, darling do you insist on keeping our engagement secret? She—Because, you silly boy, if It were made public, people would think J really meant te marry you. . Insurance statistics show that the life expectancy of a boy who lives in country is seven years greater than that of the city boy. X Railroads Help Fight Fires To or ‘vent railroad-caused fires ir the forests some of the railroad companies in the South are sending o instructions to their employees o clear rubbish and dry leaves f- m bridges, trestles, and other c r ’npany property and to guard -i-ainst engines throwing or drop ping fire. All train crews are urged :o keep a careful lookout ftjr fivi* md report them, promptly.. -- ‘ . J wm- l Y / v