McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, December 24, 1936, Image 8
McCORMICK MESSF.NGKR. McCORMrCfe, SOUTH CAROUNA Thursday, December 24, 1936
Washington 4-H
Club Meets
The Washington Jr. and Sr. 4-H
clubs held their monthly meeting
in the school Auditorium on Thurs
day, Nov. 19th, with forty members
present. Quite an interesting
Thanksgiving program was carried
cut. r
The lesson for November wes
“Cutting Garments by Patterns.”
Patterns were given to each mem
ber by which to cut their aprons.
Charts were shown, showing the
correct way to make a flat t'e
seam, cut, join and sew on bias
binding and the proper way of
working a button hole and sewing
on a button.
The girls started their yearly
record cards and were given sug
gestions of note book material.
The recreational hour was spent
in putting together a turkey puz-
« sle.
, Reporter.
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Willington H. D.
Club Meets
The Willington H. D. Club met
with Mrs. A. B. Andrews on Dec.
3rd, 1936, with 8 members present.
Our president, Mrs. C. T. LeRoy,
led the devotional; prayer by Mrs.
George Hemminger.
The club was asked to contribute
$5.00 for bonds to help support
the work of fighting T. B. The so
cial hour was enjoyed, was a
Christmas program. A poem was
read by Mrs. Robert LeRoy, and a
recitation by Mrs. C. T. LeRoy.
Miss Harvey demonstrated mak
ing fruit cake.
Mrs. Andrews served a salad
course with coffee.
The meeting adjourned to meet
with Mrs. J. M. Hemminger in
January.
Reporter.
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Treasurer’s Notice
The County Treasurer’s Office
will be open for the purpose of re
ceiving taxes from the 15th day of
September, 1936, to the 15th day of
March, 1937.
All taxes shall be due and pay
able between the 15th day of Sep
tember, 1936, and December 31,
1936.
That when taxes charged shall
not be paid by December 31, 1936,
the County Auditor shall proceed
to add a penalty of one per cent
for January, and if taxes are not
paid on or before February 1, 1937,
the County Auditor will proceed to
add Two Per Cent for February,
and if taxes are not paid on or be
fore March 1, 1937, the County Au
ditor shall to proceed to add 3 per
cent for March, and if taxes are
not paid on or before April 1, 1937,
the County Auditor shall proceed
to add 4 per cent up to the 15th of
April, 1937, after which time the
County Treasurer shall issue his
executions for all unpaid taxes,
plus 7 per cent penalty.
The tax levies for the year 1936
are as follows:
For State Purposes 5 mills
For County Purposes 8 mills
For Bonds 14 mills
Constitutional School Tax_ 3 mills
Mt. Carmel School
District No. 1 2 mills
Willington S. D. No. 2 5 mills
Bordeaux S. D. No. 3 2 mills
McCormick S. D. No. 4
and Bonds 14 mills
Buffalo S. D. No. 5 4 mills
Eellvue S. D.-No. 6 10 mills
S. D. No. 7 00 mills
Bethia S. D. No. 8 8 mills
Bold Branch S. D. No. 9 —10 mills
Young’s S. D. No. 10 00 mills
YTdeman’s S. D. No. 11 2 mills
Milway S. D. No. 13 8 mills
FoMnson S. D. No. 14 6 mills
Dornville S. D. No. 15 2 mills
Bethany 8. D. No. 16 8 mills
Lyon’s 8. D. No. 17 8 mills
J T ib er S. D. No. 18 6 mills
v ernon S. D. No. 19 4 mills
Hum Branch 8. D. No. 24
and Bonds 20 mills
Consolidated S. D. No. 1,
Parksville, Modoc and
Clarks Hill, and Bonds, 17 mills
All male citizens between the
ages of 21 and 60 years, except
th^se exempt by la^, are liable to
a roll tax of $1.00 each.
The law prescribes that all male
citrens between the ac^s of and
55 years must pay $2.00 eemmuta-
tion tax or work six days on the
public roads.
Commutation tax is included in
property tax receipt.
T. J. PRICE,
; Treasurer, McCormick County.
Base Acreages Set
For 1937 Program
The base acreages to be used for
193 < operation of the New
Farm Program, as given in a state
ment from H. R. Tolley, Agricul
tural Adjustment administrator
Washington, are announced by
County Agent R. D. Saber. Soil-do-
oleting bases and soil-conservinc
bases for the Southern Region, to
which South Carolina belongs
briefly outlined are:
1. The soil-depleting bases, in
cluding the general base, and the
cotton, tobacco, peanut, sugar
cane, sugar beet, and rice bases will
conform to the 1936 bases, subject
to adjustments to correct inequi
ties.
The soil-depleting bases for in
dividual farms will be determin°d
by the county committees who wiP
take into consideration variation
among farms in size, number of
crop acres, type and productivity
of soil, topography, farming prac
tices, and acreages of the particu
lar crops normally grown. Base:
for farms which are similar in
these respects will be kept in line
and the total bases for all farms
in the county will conform to
standards established by the Ag
ricultural Adjustment Administra
tion.
2. Normal agreages of soil-con
serving crops also will be estab
lished for farms participating in
the program.
“These acreages will constitute
soil-conserving bases”, Mr. Tolley
said. “These bases will serve as a
yardstick to measure increases in
soil-conserving crops. They are in
line with requests from producers
for more rigid standards to meas
ure performance in 1937.”
The soil-conserving bases for the
Southern Region is the average
acreage of soil-conserving crops
over a representative period.
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Bright Spots
Barnwell, Dec. 12.—Hugh A. Bow
ers, assistant county farm agent,
reports an interesting contrast in
sweet potato production and prof
its. M. W. Wise, Elko, using native
Porto Rico sweet potato seed, plant
ed 1 1-3 acres. He had a yield of
100 bushels of U. S. No. 1 potatoes,
the market value of which is $100.
The cost of production was $47.10,
giving him a net profit of $39.75
per acre. H. L. Blume, Blackville,
using Louisiana Porto Rican seed,
planted three acres, which made
300 bushels of U. S. No. 1 potatoes,
worth $300. His cost of production
was $78.95, giving him a net profit
of $221.05, or $73.68 per acre.
Chester, Dec. li. — Hazelwood’s
Amelia 342758 topped the 38 con
signments of the first annual con
signment sale of the Chester coun
ty Guernsey Cattle Club on Tues
day, Nov. 17. This aged cow with a
record of 1G348 pounds of milk and
456 pounds of butterfat brought
$350 and was purchased by George
A. Shea of Spartanburg. The sale
totaled $5,515.
“Chester county breeders feel
that they have made an important
and successful step in Guernsey
breeding pregram for the county
and are making plans for the con
signment and fitting of better ani
mals for the second annual sale
which will be held on the same
date next year”, says M. C. Crain,
Chester county farm agent.
Walterboro, Dec. 12.—L. W. Al
ford, Colleton county farm agent,
reports that the best cotton yield
in the county and the best 4-H club
cotton yield were both produced on
the same farm. “On this farm most
of the land is planted to corn every
year and every acre is interplanted
with cowpeas, soybeans, or velvet
beans, very often two or all three
of these crops on the same land”,
says Mr. Alford. “This farm is one
of the very few in the county on
which the 1-1-1 poison mixture is
used against the boll weevil. These
facts together with good, thorough
cultivation and good seed are re
sponsible for these high yields.”
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Wintertime Is
Real “Stew Time
Stews, it is said, are best when
served to the accompaniment of
howling winds and wintry storms,
but whether or not that is true, cer
tainly the converse is. There is
something friendly and homey
about a well-made stew which dis
pels the outside cold and creates a
teeling of utmost satisfaction, re
gardless of the weather. On this
score, at least, wintertime is “stew
time.”
While all stews are cookea by
the same method, there are ways
to add variety so they may make
frequent appearances at the table
without risk of monotony. The
meat may be dredged with flour
ard browned in hot lard before
any water is added, thus making a
brown stew; or the water may be
added to unbrowned cubes of meat
for a white stew. A variety of sea
sonings and vegetables may be
used to make cm stev/ different
from another. The stew may be
cooked on top cf the stove, or naie
into a meat pie and cooked in tne
oven.
There will be many chill da'*'-
this winter ari you will want to
serve stews frequently. Pcrhap:
veu will welcome this unusual \
recipe as an addition to your colle'*-
tion. It is suggested by Inez S. Will-
son, home economist.
Lamb Stew With Cream
2 pounds lamb shoulder or breast
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons lard
2 small onions, sliced
2 cups tomato pulp or soup
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
1 cup thick sour cream
Paprika
Salt and peper
Have lamb shoulder or breast bon
ed and cut into 1 to 2-inch cubes.
Dredge these in flour and brown,
together with the onions, in hot
lard. Season with salt and pepper
and paprika. Add the tomato pulp
or soup and let cook slowly until
done, about two hours. Add water
only if necessary during cooking.
Just before serving, add the sour
cream and blend it well with the
sauce.
The Sanitary
Barber Shop
McCORMICK, S. C.
.WEEKLY BULLETIN
S.C.Game ^Fish Association
"Iftnc Siaiewide G-operaiion Game.
Jish 4 Joresi can bcMaitrialh^
increased for ineBencjUofJUl.
Regular And
Reliable Service
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TAKE HIM DOVE SHOOTING
Ladies And Children
Cordially Invited
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The Sanitary Barber Shop
takes this method of extend
ing to ell cf its customers and
friends the best wishes for a
Merry Christmas and a Hap- ^
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Drippings Ideal
For Flavoring
Saving the meat drippings is a
habit with thrifty housewives, and
a wise one, too, for meat drippings
car be used to add the distinctive j
flavor to otherwise bland and unin- ;
teresting foods. Most vegetables
are improved by the addition of
merit drippings as seasoning. And
what would gravy be without tha':
delicious meat flavor?
Th'' meat drippings usually con-
'i'- L of fat. moisture, and flavoring,
e’though lb's depends to a great
nt on the kind of meat from
v’nch they come. Ham and bacon
d Ippings, because cf their charac-
t'-istic flavor, frequently are used
f r flavoring vegetables, and hot
1 "ads, such as muffins and corn
l ’-'ad. It is said that meats cooked
! ’ • braisinnr. such as a pot-roast or
JT-viss steak, make the best gravies
1 • d sauces, as each time moisture
is added and cooked away, the
(rippings become that much
browner and the gravy that much
more delicious. A roast, cooked as
it should be, at a low temperature.
will produce drippings of a light
color, but the brown color and
caramel flavor which everyone likes
in gravy may be obtained by al
lowing flour to brown in the drip
pings before any liquid is added.
If you want to find out what sort
of fellow a man is, take him on a
dove-shoot. There is no surer way
of taking a man’s measure. When
the first dove flies over, his mas
querade drops off, and his real
qualities exhibit themselves. He
stands cut as either a pot-hunter
and gluttonous blackleg, or a man
with true sporting sensibilities. “I’m
going to take Bill on a dove-shoot
tc see whether I want my sister
to marry him or not,’* a friend
laughingly remarked to me. And
I can’t imagine a better touchstone
of gentility. •
The ethics of a dovc-shoct are
based on common courtesy. All
of us have met the chedp skate who
claims every dove in sight, hollers
fraud, and makes himself hoarse
advancing alibis. And some of us
have met spariel-owners who per
mitted their retrievers to filch
doves from the unguarded blind of
a neighbor. When a shooter gets
his bag, or enough to meet his re
quirements, he should retire and
give a less-favored hunter his
stand. If he is a gentleman he will.
And to abandon one’s stand and
“inch up” on a neighbor and dis
turb his shooting is not only unr-
cthicnl but damnable.
Perhaps the finest thing about a
dove-shoot is the pooling of vhc
birds and the equal division there
of among all the shooters, irrespec
tive of the contributing shooter’s
bag. That is a beautiful and gener
ous custom. If a man takes advan
tage of some pretext to run off be-
fCi.e pooling his birds where such
pooling is the accepted practice, he
should be blacklisted for successive
shoots. Don’t let a fellow who does
that marry into your family — if
you can help it.
Now that the hunting season is
wide open, members of the Game-
and Fish Association have a chance
to show what they stand for,
whether they mean business or not.
It should be the bounden duty of
every member of the association!
to observe hunting season and bag
limits. No man who wilfully and
habitually disregards bag limits or
engages in pre-season shooting has
a right to retain membership in.
the association. Such a man should
be outlawed by his chapter and
boycotted by his friends. No right-
thinking landowner wants a game
outlaw or r jtorious pot-hunter
on his property.
If members of the association 1
wcnM take summary action toi
break up game lawlessness and dis
courage gluttony in their various
communities, their irfluence would'
be felt throughout the State. Such
lawlessness may be checked by
remonstrating with the offender, by
refusing to hunt with him, or by
reporting him to a game warden.
And this should be done regardless;
of: how important or influential a
man is. No man in South Carolina,
should be big enough to disregard:
the game laws and get by with it-.
Doves are plentiful this season,
but in many localities quail are ex
tremely scarce. They have become*
u* ^reasingly scarce during the past
few years. Good: roads, fast auto
mobiles, automatics, and the rec-
Inmmation of waste areas have*
made serious inroads on the most
gallant game bird in the world.
The balance is turning definitely
r ainst him. In common justice the
v .i plugged automatic should be il-
1 alized in partridge-shooting as
i has been in dove-shooting. Let’s
da it. Two barrels 6«ght to bo
enough for a imhtlemani
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