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Thursday, July 21, 1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA’ PAGE NUMBER THRES i 7a © MACCOURT MACt A CO «MC FELIX RIESENBERG V v v V .i SECOND INSTALLMENT Johnny with a smile, and held out I sewed on buttons, a scrawny hand to the strong fist iof the boy who l e aped up without effort, a ragged, desperate waif eyes. SYNOPSIS: Johnny Breen, 16 years old, who had spent all of his life aboard a Hudson river tugboat ^ . plying near New York, is tossed in- i with wet hair and shining to the river in a terrific collision But Channon Lipvitch was trium- j ness cut through him like a knife, which sinks the tug, drowns his ; nhant hnd nrnvpn bimqpif mother and the man he called f a -l pnant - He haci P roven himself, street was an endless show, a con stantly changing tapestry with hu man figures hung on fram e s of brick. As the mornings followed each other and his fame expanded, John Breen kept a wary eye for ruffians trudging to and from the river. His stay at the Clothing Emporium be came mor e and more perilous. The Grogan Gang was “laying” for him. He avoided the river front and kept away from the Bowery. Once, on a Saturday night, walking with Becka, arm in arm, and deep in the mysteries of river lore, for John told her ev e rything he could re member, he was suddenly confront- “You are staying by us, now, 1 Becka spoke to Johnny* smiling, her ! ed by a crowd of toughs, face close to his. T e ars welled in his | “That’s ’im! That’s tha fightin’ eyes. He was terribly tired; kind- kyke!” Set on from front and back he Johnny slept on a cot in the cor- . was unmercifully beaten, kicked BUSINESS CARD Chiropractic Health Office Dixie Highway Hotel .'Edgefield DR. A. H. MacALUSE, D. €. Hours: Daily—10 to 12 a. rn. and 2 to 4 p. m. Evenings by Appointment Lady in Attendance ther. Ignorant, unschooled, and with the hel P of circumstances. Be- ne r. He drifted off into oblivion, and mauled. Becka, screaming, ran h SL hjmself ash- fore one’s family and friends, brav-; exhaustion and exaltation crowd- ore, hides m the friendly darkness rv n virtnp i, . . .. , . ,, . of a huge covered truck-lonly to be e^ 18 f ^ ^ in Z back the e vents of the Previous kicked out at dawn—and into the) The L^vitch Clothing Emporium day and night , midst of a tough gang of river rat —“New and Second Hand”—was boys who beat and chase him. He jiot unlike the barge Cavalier in Da y s of bewildering comp e y escapes and, exhausted, tumbles in- loQC ,. < ^ u a e ’ n i followed on his establishment in to a basement doorway. Later, he sn ape, at least. the famil of chann0 n Lipvitch, as Sifltock snaS?d d ri„ S .STIf; 14 w “ a " lce llttle b T us ”f s Y buy ; a cousin irom the farm, for so padlock snapped down-and he .s ing and sellmg. In the back. Nesser, a malamud, advised. branching from a dark, narrow , . .. . . .. . ' . ! Slowly the river dimmed. Johnny hallway with a splintered pmei„ ' . , . floor, were th e work rooms lit by naked yellow gas jets and crowded ra , s ‘ e f °.V g : e A H during ten hours of the day with ed o4 the , river 4be • I i. j / r • Ghetto, nothing else. Becxa be- operators on pants and vests. Lid- I , . s , ,, came a dominant force in the ui- Vlt ch took in piece work on the. “ . £ Do vot , ,.. ruction oi h’s emotioiij. He buist less difficult parts of manufacture, | eC¥ hiring his help from the tenem e nts out 01 ms clothes, ms suong ooay trapped NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY “Becka! Becka!” “Yes, Pa.” / , “Vill you shud de vawter off?” “Papa, it is^ off.” “Vot you d e ll me, Becka? I’d don’d run? I heard it. I told you; vill you?” Channon liipvitch hobbled back through the basement, to the fear room. of the street. His stock did ''not never tired. He could lift Becka shuffled fppt ‘spoil, he bought cheap and sold at high up so she might reach the top bearded face -Lmin. 5 a profit, even when protesting with | shelves in the shop; she was often enmioni spvpvU"., t+ v„oo (vehemence that his loss was great, j needing things there, and th e n, Back of the two work rooms cam e | suddenly, he refused to lift her, but comical severity. It was an occas ion and Channon Lipvitch, certain of his ground, determined to cor rect his daughter. Conversation, in the rear living-sleeping room, came to a stop; the loud voices quieting while the splash of running water sounaed from without. “So, you told it li e s to me on Shabbas?” He bristled, but Becka, more voluble than her father, instantly replied. “It’s in back, Pa. Don’t be so suddent with calling me a liar. It*s in the house in back. I hear it splashing, like you.” But Channon Lipvitch was right. Water was splashing, if not in their apartment, then n e ar by. Ha, lie was right; his ears were not stuffed up. Water taxes were ever in his mind when faucets flowed. “Veil,” he said, “sud id off, vy don’d you? D e ll me, who iss making sooch a splasch on Shabbas?” He was a strict man with his family— in the presence of visitors. The girl,* big for her age, and V plump, with an almost premature development, laughing and gig gling, climbed through a rear win dow of the Lipvitch home, the liv ing, sle e ping, eating-room in back of the Clothing Emporium—New and Second Hand. She had to make a high step, a very high step, for* they were on the basement floor, and the sills were high. Her skirt was tight and long, in fact, as sh e stretched one leg through the window, the other was uncovered far above the knee; a plump shape ly leg. the kitchen, small and dark, open- J climbed up himself and found ing to the living room in the rear, nothing. At one side of this, back of a sink, | John had achieved a prime re- i CtPTOify 1 ^ /z / •OUC.M is OLO OCu* c w m:-. i-iSsa i WKl to the corner crying, “Moid e r, per- lice!—moider!—perlice!” Her fran tic screams were heard for a block and a cop, povidentially near, rushed to the scene in time to save John Br e en from complete annihil ation. Becka supported him, carried him home, a bloody battered glad iator. Becka was his nurse, tended him, washed his cuts and bruises, and got raw beefsteak from Mrs. Yartin for his blackened eyes. Sh e sat on his couch and cried over him, caressed him, her hero. And so the months went by in a smother of smells and chatter and continuous struggle. As the summer waxed to its full- e st heat and high humidity thick ened the air with oppressive damp, the Lipvitch family moved out of their back room into the rear area of the tenement. Here, with their mattress e s close together, they lay gasping through the nights. John prone on his back, gazed upward on clear nights at a slit of heaven. Frequent domestic arguments sounded back and forth down crowded light shafts and weird fan cies filled John’s mind as he fretted through th e hot nights amid the close incest of the efty slums. (CONTINEUD NEXT WEEK.) X S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Growing Fall Potatoes Requires Special Care CLEMSON COLLEGE, July 16— An important factor in the iive-at- home activities of many gardeners is the growing of a fall crop of Irish potatoes, says A. E. Schillet- ter, extension horticulturist, whose suggestions for success may be briefly stated as follows: Select as moist, well drained, and fertile piece of soil as possible. A branch bottom clay ^ loam soil is probably the best. Break the ground thoroughly several weeks before planting time, and harrow every week or 10 days. Lay off deep rows three to 3 1-2 feet apart, using a turning plow or a shovel. Put 800 to 1200 pounds of a high grade fertilizer in the drill, and with a bull tongue mix thoroughly with the soil. Plant July 10 to 30 in upper STATE ^ SOUTH CAROLINA, South Carolina, July 20 to August! County of McCormick. 10 in middle South Carolina, Au- BY L - G BELL, PROBATE JUDGE: gust 1 to 20 in lower South Caro BATTERIES FOR ALL LIGHT CARS $6.65 WHITTLE BATTERY SERVICE 622 BROAD PHONE 1166 AUGUSTA. GA. CITATION OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION He was suddenly confronted by a crowd of toughs. to save plumbing, was the bath room. And the back room, the home of the Lipvitch family, where they ent e rtained their friends, ate their meals, and slept, stretched the full seventeen feet from party wall to party wall. Here father, mother, Becka and th e twins, Mur iel and Constance, the latter just Becka, standing on tiptoes, her a e 0 wa k> were sheltered, skirts lifted unnecessarily high, In liv i n S room there were two peered across th e narrow area be- beds » c °ver e d by colored spreads by tween the buildings. Through a day and shoved against the wall ■broken window pane she saw a boy farthest from the windows, to get splashing over a rusty sink, under awa y from the night air. Becka a tap of running water. He held and tw* 113 slept on one of these a piece of hard yellow laundry soap and Mr - and Mrs. Lipvitch occupied and was working up a lather / his other. With the advent of Jhair and face w e re streaming wet. J °hnny Br e en a cot. from a near- The boy caught a glimpse of her, by second hand store, was placed his eyes were wide with fear—blue bene ath one of the windows, eyes. She smiled at him. Then i Channon Lipvitch, like the heads she turned hurriedly, h e r skirts up of many families • preponderant on over her knees—her stockings were the female side, felt himself ov e r- new and she made the most of the shadowed by the growing impud- occasion. Breathlessly she jumped once of Becka added to the volu- down into th e Lipvitch living-room.! bility of Mrs. Lipvitch. A shrewd grew b y telling and the fame of “It’s a boigler,” she declared, al- general in a trade, he was limp in John Breen took on added stature, most fainting. Tremendous ex- the hands of his wif e and daughter. I Fighting kept his mind alert and citement prevailed in the Lipvitch To him trade was art; it was life, made him wary, while dim thoughts home. and life depended upon the teem- of things beyond the tenem e nts, of “Quick, Pape, quick.” Mrs. Lip- ing, crowding multitude who wide avenues and great mansions, vitch and Mrs. Yartin were urging swarmed and squirmed in the al- crossed his consciousness in dreams! r~nd helping the reluctant Lipvitch leys of the town—it was a good John learned that millionaires were quisite for worldly success. He was known four and fiv e blocks away as “Fighting Lipvitch.” He became a celebrity, nothing less, elevated above the boys on the street; on a par, in fact, with young men four and five years his senior in point of ag e and a decade beyond him in worldly lore. The Grogan Gang, out for revenge, cruised the Ghetto. John Breen, with brass knuckle dusters in his pockets, a reckless light in his eyes, fought when th e re were no more than two or three, and took to his heels before a gang. He rather liked fighting, it added to his popularity. He began to absorb the philosophy of the Ghetto, the kindly brotherhood of those who live within the pale. He also absorbed a tremendous stock of self-conceit and confidence. Once he hit a rash young man such a terrific crack, th e blow landed on his chin, that the victim lay for a half hour unconscious. The story The following record of industrial 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. at window. Suddenly the place, this city, so full of custom- in the city, powerful, kindly, and water stopped. Lipvitch, in the ers always close at hand. j immens e ly rich, looking about for r.rea, caught a glimpse of ^ boy’s on th e Saturday afterooon of worth y daughters of Israel. He lace at the broken window. The Johnny’s introduction to the city sus Pected that miles and miles be etle man, he was a head shorter his reception in the back room of y° n d them lay vast territories un- than his wife, struggled to com- the Clothing Emporium took on the ,:!X Pl ore d. jnand his voice. Ho did not look proportions of an event. Johnny’s lormidable in his black silk skull story, given amid greedy mastica- cap. ms fcatur e s worked con- tion of seed rolls and gulps of tears *. ulsively. ^ and lukewarm coffee, thrilled the “Vot iss! Vot iss! He exclaimed company with a sympathy grown business, that is, every phase of it excitedly. The boy looked harm- quick through th e age-long perse- but the receipt of wages. John lay i-n frightened. ‘Vill you come cution of their race—a sympathy awake at night reviewing the bitt e r «udt?” Lipvitch screame^. “Or if leading to monumental works of struggle and worked the harder by you don’d, I I cal polize!” charity within the city. Tears day. He arose at five-thirty, an “Papa, it’s only a boy.” Becka was coursed down his cheeks as he re- hour before Lipvitch, and in the jigain climbling through the win- peated, “My mother is drowned, dark, murky room he slipped on his *rlow. “Her e , boy, come out to us.” m y mother is drowned!” The “oy, trousers, and with shirt in hand, A month in the Clothing Empor ium-New and Second Hand- found John Breen part of a routin e that included every phase of the Clearwater — Siminole mill lo cated in this vicinity reopened. Ware Shoals — New Saluda River bridge complet e d at cost of about $90,000 on Route No. 25, near here, opened to traffic. Union — Parker Repair Shop moved to 22 South Pinckney Street. Greenville — Tom Wofford of Laurens, open e d law office here. Newberry — Pur Oil Co., started work on new filling station on cor ner College and Harrington streets. Greer — Plans going forward in preparing new service station for Tire Exchange. Lak destroyed by fire, rebuilt and ready for business. Columbia x — Faust and Edens op ened new grocery and meat market at 1415 Assembly Street. Bamberg — Home Products Store op e ned recently In portion of A. B. Utsey’s place of business. Georgetown — Dedication serv ices held at St. Peter’s Chapel. Clearwater — Bath Mill re-open ed for business rec e ntly. Greer — L. R. Beaman new proprietor of filling station on Hill Street. Newberry — Four new signs to be erected on highways leading into lina. It may be necessary to vary these dates some, depending on weather conditions. The Lookout Mountain variety is the best.to plant except in those sections where other varieties have proven better for the fall crop. If possible, plant seed that has been carried over winter in cellars or cold storage, but spring grown potatoes may be used when the oth er kind are too high priced or un available. When small potatoes of the spring grown crop are used, plant whole potatoes, but sprout them beforehand. To do this, dry them in thin piles in a dry semi-dark place for 10 days to two weeks, spread them thinly on ground un der a tree and cover three to five inches deep with straw mulch, and water often enough to keep wet but not drenched. Still another plan is to spread the potatoes out thinly and cover with an inch or two of sand and keep this moist. When handled properly, sprouts will us ually start in two weeks. Plant as soon as the sprouts are an eighth to a fourth inch in length. Treat ing with ethylene chlorhydrin will also cause new crop potatoes to sprout rather early. Plant big pieces (about twice as big as is ordinarily used for spring planting), 12 to 15 inches apart in drill. Plant on a cloudy day if possible in a deep, freshly opened furrow so that the potatoes may be put in moist soil, and cover at once four to six inches deep. Cultivate across rows with harrow before seed come up if a crust forms or weeds and grass commence to grow. This is important, because a good stand cannot be secured if the potatoes must fight their way through a hard crust or have to scrap with weeds as soon as they show their heads above the ground Cultivate immediately after plants are up and often enough thereaf ter to keep down weeds and grass and to prevent a crust forming. X WHEREAS, A. B. Lyon has made- suit to me to grant A. B. Lyon and A. W. Lyon Letters of Administra tion of the Estate and effects of Thomas J. Lyon, Jr.; THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said Thomas J. Lyon, Jr., deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at McCormick Court House on 22nd day of July, next, after publication hereof, at 10 o’clock in the fore noon, to show cause, if any they have, why the .said Administration should not be granted. GIVEN under my hand this 6th day of July, Anno Domini, 1932. L. G. BELL, Probate Judge. MASTER’S SALE i e City — Brick warehouse Hog Feeding Contest Ends In Darlington ECONOMIC PORK PRODUCTION DEMONSTRATED AT HARTS- VILLE ROUND-UP She rapped and rattled the weath- ov, oy” of Mrs. Lipvitch and Mrs. ,ered sash. Yartin punctuated th e story. Mrs. “Id’s only a poy. Only a poy,” Blumgren, with large, wondering went to the Htt e red tub. In those mornings John worked hard and fast to get out on the city. Contract let for hard surfacing McIntosh, who produced road from B e nnettsville to Society $2.68 per hundred and Hill. Lake City — G. L. Ssansbury op ening tire, tube auto parts and gas establishment here. Columbia proved. HARTSVILLE, July 16—At the Darlington County hog feeders’ round-up here July 13, first place was won by W. E. Anderson, who produced pork at $2.21 per hundred thus selling corn to his hogs at $1.60 per bushel. The round-up brought to a close the feeding demonstra tion and contest sponsored by David R. Coker of Hartsville, who con tributed $150 in prize money. T. E. Woodham, who produced pork at a cost of $2.29 per hundred and received $1.63 peV bushel for the corn fed, won second prize. C. E. Windham, who produced pork at $2.44 per hundred and sold his corn through the hogs at $1.75 per bushel, won third place. Lucas pork at received $1.58 per bushel for com fed, won fourth prize. A summary of the data secured STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick, Court of Common Pleas. THE FIRST CAROTIN AS JOINT STOCK LAND BANK OF COLUM BIA, A CORPORATION, against WILLIAM JOHN FRANKLIN AND ETHEL M. PERRIN. Pursuant to judgment of the Court and a decree of sale in the • above entitled caiise, I will sell at public auction on Salesday in Au gust, 1932 (the same being the Ist* day qf August), .in front of the Court House Door, in the city of McCormick, County and State aforesaid, during the legal hours of sale, on terms specified below, the following described real estate, to wit: , All that certain, piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and be ing in the County of McCormick, State of South Carolina, contain ing Fifty-Seven and One-Half (57 1-2) Acres, more or less, situate lying and being on the Public Road leading from Willington to McCor mick, S. C., about seven miles north west from the Town of McCormick, in Bordeaux Township, County of McCormick, State of South Caro lina, having such shape, metes, courses and distances as will more fully appear by reference to a plat thereof made by S. E. Rosenswike, Surveyor, November 12, 1906, and being bounded on the North by lands of Mrs. Lizzie Franklin; on the East by lands of Mrs. SalUe Talbert and of W. W. Wardlaw; on the South by Public Road and lands of Mrs. T. J. Britt; and on the West by lands of Estate of John De la Howe. This being the same tract of land heretofore conveyed to the said W. J. Franklin by Mrs. Josephine N. Mathis by her deed dated February 23, 1906, and re corded in the office of the Clerk of the Court for Abbeville County in Book of Deeds 29, page 702. Terms of Sale: Cash; purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. L. G. BELL, Master. July 13, 1932.—3t. in the contest shows that the hogs Imperial Hotel im- made an average daily gain of 1.88 ! pounds per day and that the aver- Hampton — Shipments of water-! age cost of pork production per'attended by about 150 farmers in melons from Hampton Co»n:ty , hundred was $3.64, with an average | terested in hog feeding and by A silk hosiery manufacturer ii using scented lubricating oils in spinning thread which gives tha stockings a pleasant odor. x One out of eight patents appliei for at the United States office in volve chemistry. 3,11; lApvitch announced, as if ter- brown eyes, cried in sympathy, street and then he idled about un started recently. Georgetown — Ring e l’s ment Store improved. Walterboro — Peoples Water Ser vice Co., installed wat e r main on Lemacks Street. Walhalla — George Wilson & , return of 68 cents per bushel of Depart- corn, says Prof. Starkey, who calls attention also to the fact that sev en of the ten high men in the con test used purebreds. He found contestants well pleased with prac tical results and with what they Sons remodeled building on Main had learned through the contest. 2-jbjy disappointed. He greeted while Becka dried his clothes and til the coming of Lipvitch. The Street and opened cafe. j Diui.vj the meeting, which was county agents from nearby coun ties, talks were made by D. Coker, Hartsville; Dr. W. W. Lon , Director of Extension Service; L. V. Starkey, head of the Animal Hu'--- bandry Division, Clemson College; A. L. DuRant, extension livesto c specialist; and J. M. Napier, Dar lington county farm agent. ~s V v-