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PAGE NUMBER FOUR
NmOTICK or SALE
By virtue of a certain T>x Execu-
1 on directed by J. O. Patterson,
^ V >v.»n Clerk and Tre mrer of the
T'w r of McCormick, S. C., I have
1 vied open and will sell in front
<f the residence occupied by Dr
Oarnett Tnten on Main Street in
the Town of McCormick, County of
McCormick, State of S. C., on the
1st Monday in March, (the same
being the 6th day of March 1933)
the following personal property,
to-wit:
I Library Table,
1 Electric Table Lamp,
3 Rockers,
3 Center Tables,
1 Large Rug,'
2 Small Rugs,
1 Hall Rack,
t Pedestal.
' 1 Three Piece Wicker Suit,
1 Wardrobe,
3 Dressers,
1 Iron Bed, *
2 Wood Beds,
4 Dining Room Chairs,
1 Dining Room Table,
1 China Closet,
1 Buffet, ! *;
1 Cook Stove,
3 Kitchen Tables,
, 1 Safe, *
1 Refrigerator,
1 Writing Desk,
1 Singer Sewing Machine,
1 Wash Stand,
1 Willow Settee,
2 Pair Bed Springs,
Miscellaneous Small Items.
‘ The above property levied upon
and being sold as. the property of
VT. L. Acker.
Dated at McCormick, S. C., this
14th day of February 1933.
C. H. CRAWFORD,
Chief Police.
—3t.
National Meat
Story Contest
Is Now On
CITATION OF LETTERS
OF ADMINISTRATION
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of McCormick.
BY J. FRANK MATHSON, PRO
BATE JUDGE:
WHEREAS Rev. Leon T. Pressly
made suit to me to grant Miss Susie
Patterson Letters of Administration
of the Estate and effects of Mrs.
Fannie Patterson;
THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to
cite and admonish all and singular
the Kindred and Creditors of the
said Mrs. Fannie Patterson, deceas
ed, that they be and appear before
me, in the Court of Probate, to be
held at McCormick Court House on
the 24th day of February next, af
ter publication hereof, at 10 o’clock
In the forenoon, to show cause, if
any they have, why the said Ad
ministration should not be granted.
GIVEN under my hand this 7th
day of February, Anno Domini,
1933.
J. FRANK MATHSON,
Probate Judge.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS
AND CREDITORS
All persons holding claims against
the estate of R. B. McDade, deceas
ed, should present same to me duly
verified, and all persons Owing said
estate should make payment to me.
P J. C. McDADE,
Executor.
McCormick, S. C.,
January 30, 1933.—4t.
High school girls of this county
and throughout South Carolina are
to be given the opportunity to win
a university scholarship.
Local teachers of home economic
have received an announce
nenc of the 1S33 National Meai
Jtory Contest, in which the schol
arships, together with other prizes,
are offered to students writing the
best essays. This contest is spon
sored by the Natonal Live Stock
and Meat Board, which works
closely with the U. S. Departmen
of Agriculture and leading colleges
and universities, in furthering re
search and education on the sub
ject of live stock and meat.
The contest, the tenth annua
event of this kind, is said to be at
tracting wide attention throughout
the state on the part of girls who
are studying meat in their schoo
work. Hundreds already have en
rolled.
These enthusiastic students are
seeking up‘-to-the-minute informa
tion on the relation of meat to
health, the value of meat in the
low cost diet, the selection and
preparation of meat, as well as
facts about the industry from
national and world viewpoint. It
is stated that more than 100,000
home economics students have par
ticipated in this contest since its
inception.
The contest closes March 15. It
will be judged by nationally known
home economics authorities. Last
year the chairman of the judging
committee was Miss Frances Swain,
president of the American Home
Economics Association.
For purposes of competition, the
United States is divided into dis
tricts, South Carolina being in the
southern district. Winners in each
district are awarded universitj^
scholarships and other prizes. Last
year a South Carolina girl, Miss
Bertha McQueen of Easley was one
of the winners in the southern dis
trict.
South Carolina teachers, who
are cc-operating in every possible
way, assert that state-wide interest
in this contest increases each year.
They point out the excellent oppor
tunities offered by scholarships and
stress the fact that knowledge
gained in writing meat stories
should be of practical and perman
ent value to every entrant in her
future profession as a homemaker.
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Back-To-Land
Movement Needs
Wise Guidance
CLEMSON COLLEGE, Feb. 18.—
The back-to-the-land movement
now becoming general may, unle
WANT ADV.
FOR RENT—Two 5 room horn
heart of town, waterworks
lights. Reasonable price. Sec
J. L. Strother, McCormick. S r \
s c .
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE
MENT AND DISCHARGE
Take notice, that on the 14th day
of March, 1933, at 11 o’clock a. m.,
I will make a final settlement as
administrator of the Estate of Jno.
M. Bell, deceased, in the office of
the Probate Judge of McCormick
County, S. C., at which time I wiP
ask for a discharge. Ail persons
holding claims against said Estate
should present them properly at
tested before that date.
J. E. BELL,
Administrator.
McCormick, S. C.,
February 8, 1933.—4t.
Heavy Pigs
Grow Faster
The birth weight of pigs has an
Important bearing on the gains
they make in weight for the first
six months, the United States De
partment of Agriculture found af
ter observing 1,429 hogs at its ex
periment station at Miles City,
Mont., during the 5-year period,
1927-1931.
The department found that the
pigs varied in weight at birth from
J 1-2 pounds to 4 pounds, with
most of them weighing from 2 1-2
to 3 pounds. The study of the
pigs indicated that for each
pound variation In birth weight
there is a corresponding variation
of approximately one-tenth of a
pound average daily gain up to 190
days. In other words, a pig
.weighing 3 pounds at birth weigh
ed on the average 19 pounds more
At the end of 190 days than a pig
weighing 2 pounds at birth.
Run County Fair
Club members of Eaton county,
Michigan, managed the county fair
for the second year and made a
fine go of it without a dollar donat
ed. They did it mainly by furnish
ing their own amusements and in
ducing exhibitors to show for rib
bons only. A lot of people would
not believe it could be done, but
when the gate receipts were count
ed the 4-H boys and girls were act
ually ahead.
Everyone was invited to take part
m the show. Purebrsd breeders
were provided with classes and
mough entered to make a nice
;howing. Smith-Hughes students
were eligible to show in the open
classes. There were over 60 animals
;hown in these classes. Club mem
bers had classes of their own, and
Drought out 138 cattle, 103 sheep
•nd lots of swine and poultry.
There were 70 horses, colts and
ponies exhibited. The sheep show
was one of the leading attractions.
Good displays of canned products,
sewing, garden stuff, handicraft
and so on were made.
The second day the grandstand
was filled to overflowing for the
stunts. A big one was a horse
pulling contest, as it had been the
year before. A stone boat was used
and bags of sand weighing 100
pounds were used as the load.
Teams were required to pull the
load a given distance, sacks being
piled on until they failed.
Among the stunts were farmer’s
horse races, pony races, potato and
running races, milking contests, a
water fight, chicken flying, and so
on. The livestock parade was a cli
max and made a fine demonstra
tion of the extent and value of 4-H
club work in the county.
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It has been estimated that deaths
from tuberculosis cost the pepole of
the United States $1,500,000 a year.
wisely managed, throw many peo
ple from the frying pan into the
fi e, thinks D. W. Watkins, exten
sion agricultural economist; whe
says that it takes time, equipment
.Labor, and some money even to
o-,v foodstuffs ams that i
.he meantime people can starve on
.a. ms as well . .iu.es.
“One fallacy held by many cit
residents is that anybody can farm
but as a fact farming is today r
fficult and complex business,” Mr.
Watkins continues. *‘ihc cnance
for a family without proper equip
ment or experience to make even
food and feed supplies is remote;
and as for making money it is well
to take a look at the fact that far
mers received only 51 per cent of
pre-war prices for farm commodi
ties in January, 1933, and paid 105
per cent of pre-war for things they
bought.”
Mr. Watkins holds that it is not
a solution of city unemployment
merely to send people to farms. “It
looks ridiculous to bring out new
people from the cities and indus
trial centers to farms with the price
disparity that exists between farm
products and the goods that far
mers buy. The farmer wonders
why these people are not put to
work in cities making or distribut
ing the things he buys at 105 per
cent of pre-war prices rather than
coming out to join him in produc
ing at 51 per cent of pre-war prices.
The supply of farm labor available
in the United States January 1 was
127 per cent of normal v/hile the
demand was 54 per cent, making
the supply 236 per cent of the de
mand. In South Carolina the sup
ply was 112 per cent of normal, the
demand was 57 per cent, and tne
supply was therefore 196 per cent
of demand. Farm wage rates in
he South Atlantic states averaged
$11.16 per month with board and
$17.09 without beard . With farm
wages 74 per cent of pre-war there-
is nothing in working on the farm
as a wage hand except subsistence.
“Four groups of people might
reasonably consider going to the
arm to live: (1) Those with em-
oloyment in cities who can by lo
cating nearby in the country reduce
cheir costs of living; (2) those who
have something to invest and wish
at present low values to get estab
lished on farms; (3) those without
work and unable to live in the city
who have friends on farms to
whom they may go temporarily;
(4) those unemployed and destitute
who can go to farms to subsist
guided and aided by responsible or
ganizations or indivduals.
“People going on farms now
should have wise guidance as to
selection of lands, production en
terprises, and marketing possibil-
ties. Only in this way can the
movement be made to result in net
.>ain to individuals and to society.
A rural community that gains a
successful farmer through this
movement will be that much bet
ter off, whereas one that merely
adds a few families under condit
ions that make it impossible for
these famUies to succeed will be
worse off.”
TAKEN UP—One cow, which own
er can get by describing and pay
ing costs. Dr. C. K. Epting, Mc
Cormick, S. C.
Lack of ice for practice does not
bother the hockey team of the
Denby, Mich., High School. It works
out on roller skates.
In eight years the University of
Southern California football teams
have scored 2,563 points against 417
by their opponents.
It is said that the game of foot
ball actually originated in Greece
in 500 B. C.
%DK
Deck tennis, which originated on
rans-Atlantic liners, is a good
game for any time of the year. A
ubber or rope ring and a net is all
.hat is required.
This American girl, Miss Yvette
Baker, entered the beauty contest for
Queen of the Festival at San Juan,:
Puerto Rico . . . and was awarded
high honor in the colorful pegeaut
which climaxes a gala week.
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Princeton and Dartmouth will re
new football relations November
11 this year. The 1933 game will
be played at Palmer Stadium,
Princeton. Another game is
scheduled for the same field No
vember 24, 1934.
New Distance Record
William Harridge, president, the
American League, predicts “a much
better balanced race” during 1933.
He points out the second division
clubs have been strengthened by
trades. The New York Yankees are
standing pat.
i,
William T. Tilden, 2nd, one of
the greatest of all tennis players,
now a professional, says he will re
tire from active play late this year.
He intends to establish a chain of
tennis clubs.
The country never lacks for
sports. In one section of the coun
try there is an archery tournament.
The baseball spring training camps
will open in another month or so.
Basketball is in full swing all over
the country. Billiards tournaments
are being held nightly. Bowling is
becoming more and more popular.
Court tennis is at its height. In
some sections dog racing is a great
sport. Fencing classes are to be
found in hundreds of gymnasiums.
Handball is as popular as ever. Ice
hockey matches are attracting
thousands each week. And so the
list could be continued.
Southern Hardwoods
Backache ..
bother yoti.
A nagging backache, with
bladder irregularities and
a tired, nervous, depressed
| feeling may warn of some dis
ordered kidney or bladder con-1
dition. Users everywhere rely
on Doan’s Pills. Praised for
| more thin 50 years by grateful |
users the country over. Sold by
[ all druggists.
DOAN!
Pill
Better ways of working southern
hardwood lumber are being sought
by the forest products laboratory
of the United States Forest Service
In response to requests of southern
organizations, four studies will be
made. The chief aims will be the
following: To provide consuming
industries with specific information
on working and machining charac-
eristics of the different southern,
lardwcod species; to find out
whether there is any better way of
seasoning hardwoods than that
iow used, particularly in the case
of oak; to determine the dividing
ine in size and grade between logs
hat pay their own way in logging
and milling under typical southern
hardwood conditions and those that
do not.
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THINGS WORTH
KNOWING
Flying 5,310 miles, England to
Capetown Africa, British flyers lead
by Squadron Leader Gayford, cap
tured the long-distance nonstop
record from the Americans, Board-
man and Polando whose mark was
5.012 miles.
most entirely from spruce pulp,
may be made from young pine
trees if experiments at the United
States forests products laboratory
prove satisfactory.
The ancient Chinese buried jade
carvings with the dead, in the be
lief that the stone was potent in
preserving the body from decay and
promoting its resurrection, explains
an anthropologist cf the Field
Museum.
The Aztecs of Mexico made a
fermented drink from the boiled
juice of the corn plant.
AD/ugenc
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AUGUSTA, GA. _
Dice used by Egyptians in Queen
Cleopatra’s time are exhibited at
the Field Museum in Chicago.
Fifty-six thousand persons signed
a petition favoring Sunday movies
at Corydon, England, but lost their
case by one vote in the city coun
cil.
Texas, with 37 per cent, is in the
cd among the nineteen American
ites that produce oil.
The smaller the industrial plant,
the greater the accident hazard, is
the conclusion drawn from a re
cent study in Pennsyl
The volcano Mau
Island of Hawaii^
with new-fallen
mertime, even t
cal peak.
It is estim
canyon de
and widen
in a thou
State’s Cotton Quality
Is High, Says Report
CLEMSON COLLEGE, Feb.. Ig._
Of the 707,700 bales of 1932 cotton
ginned in South Carolina (as re
ported by the Bureau of the Cen
sus) up to January 16, 1933, 74.8 per
cent was of 15-16 inch or longer
staple, the corresponding figure for:
he United States being 56.3 per
cent.
This information issued, by tha
Division of Cotton Marketing of thb
United States Department, of Agr:'-
eulture co-operating with tha
Division of AgrciulturaL Economics
of the South Carolina Experiment
Station, shows that this state still
exhibits strength in its position as
regards the production of cotton of
he tetter staples, says W. C. Jen
sen, acting agricultural economist
of the station.
The figures are still preliminary,
but since nearly all of the cotton cf
.his state has been ginned, pract
ically all of the total state crop has;
been considered. Other figures in:
the report show that 76.6 per cent
of the state’s cotton was WhitOv;
Middling and above in grade, and!
that 99.1 per cent was tenderable
on futures contracts.
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Income Tax Men
To Visit Counties
AGENT TO BE IN McCORMICK
FEBRUARY 24
There has been very little varia-
in in the amount of meat con
fined a person in the United
Ftates in the last thirty years.
The single-span bridge now being
built over the harbor at Sydney,
Australia, is to be the biggest of its
kind in the world.
The mountain beaver is not re
lated to beavers that build dams,
but is a burrowing animal some
what like a woodchuck or gopher.
Newsprint, now manufactured al-
Chloroform
1831 by Leib;
Soubeiran in
ports were pu
taneously.
Wood impreg
is being used for
and interior decorat:
its unusual and attra
ance.
The bluefin tuna, whichi has al
most world-wide distribution, ap
pears in southern California waters
in June and leaves in September,
with no one knowing where the fish
fmm nr whpre thev
The itinerary of agents who will
visit the various counties and assist
individuals in making out their
income tax returns was announced
recently from the office of the
state tax commission. The agents
began their visits to the various
counties February 20 and will com
plete them March 15. One will re
main at a designated place a day or
more, and in a few cases where the
number cf returns are expected to
be large, two will be on hand to
aid in the work. The agents mak
ing the rounds will be as follows:
E. K. Lewis, R. B. Still, E. M. Gayle,.
A. H. W. Buggel, L. C. Dove, F. L.
Cooper, Jr.
The services cf the agents are 5
without charge to the taxpayer.
The following are the names of
the county seats and the dates on
which the agents will be stationed
there. They will be at the county
courthouse unless otherwise stated:
Abbeville, February 23.
Aiken, February 28.
Allendale, February 21.
Anderson, March 3 and 4, Plaza-
Hotel.
Bamberg, February 27.
Barnwell, February 20.
Beaufort, February 24.
Belton, March 2;\Ctty Hall.
Bennettsville, February 24.
Bishopville, March 6.
Camden, February 21.
Charleston, February 27 to March
15, 39 Broad St., Room 5. v
Cheraw, February 23, Ingram
Hotel.
Chester, March 8.
Chesterfield, February 22.
Clinton, February 28, The Com--
mercial Bank.
Conway, February 20.
Darlington, February 28:
Dillon, February 24.
Edgefield, February 25.
Florence, March 1 to'4.
Gaffney, March 11.
Georgetown, February 27.
Greenwood, February 27.
Greenville, March 6 to 15, Cham
ber of Commerce Building.
Hampton, February 22.
Hartsville, February 27, Bank, of
Hartsville .
£ingstree, February 25.
ncaster, March 7.
aurens, March 1.
ington, March 2.
ning, February 28.
rion, February 22.
neks Corner, March 6.
llins, February 23, Anderson;
hers Depository.
cCormick, February 24.
ewberry, March 3.
Orangeburg, February 22 and 23.
Pickens, February 20. S. C. State
nk.
Ridgeland, February 23.
Rock Hill, March 9, Peoples Nat’I.
nk.
St. George, February 24.
St. Matthews, February 21.
Saluda, March 1.
Seneca, February 21, City Hall.
Spartanburg, March 6 to 15.
r 'ummerville, February 25,. City
Hall.
Sumter, March 1 to 4.
Union, March 4.
Walhalla, February 22.
Walterboro, February 25.
Winnsboro, February 20.
York, March 10, \ J