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McCORMIGK UcCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday A Established June 5. IMS EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Intered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. Cm ns mail matter of the second class. I SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 ' Biz Months .75 Three Months .50 Sunday School Lesson BY REV. CHARLES E. DCNN per bushel. Our average yield for 1936 was 39.3 bushels per acre for six demonstrators and an average cost of 41 cents per bushel.” Judging from such reports, farm ers in the state would do well to follow the example of the 4-H boys. The clubsters in the county just referred to would have had much lower yields if they had planted on those fields remaining after all the most productive land had been planted to the main cash crops. txi New Soil Saving Area Located In Calhoun Co. Abraham a Man of Faith. Lesson for May 2nd. Genesis 12:1-9. Golden Text: Hebrews 11:8. The story of Abraham is attrac tive to the highest degree. He has been well called “a mighty idealist” who represents ‘‘one of the turn ing-points in the fortunes of man kind.” There are many reasons why he Clemson, April 26. — Establish ment of a new soil erosion control demonstration area of approxi mately 25.000 acres in *Calhoun county. South Carolina, is an nounced by H. H. Bennett, Chief of the Soil Conservation Service of the U.' S. Department of Agricul ture. The new area, which include:? all the upper part of the Halfway Swamp watershed, was selected in cooperation with the South Caro lina State Soil Conservation Ad visory Committee, the State Ex tension Service, and the State Ex periment Station. It is planned to appeals to us. His name, which means “father of a great multi- ^ establish headquarters for the new tude,” reminds us that he is honor- project at St. Matthews. ed as the sire of the faithful people of God in their long and tragic pilgrimage. Then, too, he was a rich man who enjoyed unbroken prosperity. Such good fortune ob viously makes a strong appeal in a day like our own when we are suffering from the effects of a long-continued depression. And Abraham is also distinguished for his generosity. Think of his beau tiful hospitality toward the three mysterious, angelic strangers who unexpectedly put in an appearance “by the oaks of Mamre.” Note also his liberal attitude toward Lot, his selfish nephew. But more important than Abra ham’s generosity is his sturdy faith. As James tells us, he “was called the Friend of God.” His life was rooted in fellowship with the eternal. He “believed,” writes Dr. Henry van Dyke, “in a God who was not lower but higher than himself, a God of purity, of holi ness, of truth, pf mercy.” While those about him were worshipping idols Abraham reverenced and served the true God. hidden from human eyes. But note that his life was a severe trial of his faith. He was tested in the crucible of adversity. At the beginning of his career the Lord bade him forsake his home, and settle in an unknown land to the west. And “he went out, not knowing whither he went.” But a more grievous trial of Abraham’s trust was the call ro sacrifice his dearly loved son, Isaac. Here we find illustrated the _ ®ld truth that man’s extremity is lYIaklll^ (jrOOCI t fOgrCSS God’s opportunity. When it seemed certain that Isaac’s life was to be snuffed out, Providence intervened and he was spared. Located approximately in the center of the Upper Coastal Plains region of South Carolina and eas ily accessible by improved high ways, the area is ideally suited for demonstration purposes, with land conditions representative of those throughout the Plains region, it is explained. Intensive cultivation of cotton, com, and small grains, has been practiced on the long uniform slopes which predominate in the area with the result that soil ero sion has become a serious problem. Nearly three-fourths of the topsoil has been stripped from approxi mately 10 per cent of the land by erosion. In cooperation with farmers in the area, the Service will demon strate practical methods for con trolling soil erosion. These methods will include retirement of steep slopes fro—*, cultivation, introduc tion of systematic crop rotations and strip cropping, use of cover crops, seeding and planting of pas tures, and other soil and water conserving measures. The new demonstration in Cal houn county is the sixth to be es tablished in South Carolina, and brings the total of Service demon stration areas to 158. Other South Carolina areas are located in An derson, Greenville and Spartan burg, Newberry, York, and Lancas ter counties. -XX- Sweet Potato Program 4-H Club Boys Show Lessons About Corn Clemson, April 17.—The sweet potato program of the Extension Service is progressing in a most satisfactory manner, according to A. E. Schilletter, who returned re cently from a field trip in connec tion with sweet potato work. Schilletter states, for example, Clemson, April 24.-In 1910 Jerry Kft J. E DaRant ot Lynchburg Moore a 4-H club boy, produced I wh ° constructed three flue-neated 328 bushels of com on one acre.! hotbeds according to Extension His fame spread not only in South ’ b . edd f d .i 1 1 5 . Carolina but throughout the na tion. Since Jerry, now connected with North Carolina State College, made FTH CAROLINA Thursday, April 29, 1937 Real Va Show Cows NOTICE OF SALE Clemson, April 19.—Records from a recent Dairy Herd Improvement Association report indicate that grazing crops are very profitable, statistics showing that on a herd grazing three months on a mixture of oats and rye the tester rated the growth and available grazing as good, but on a herd grazing on ly two months on the same crop mixture the rating was only fair. The two herds had approximate ly the same number of cows in milk and the same percentage of ! dry cows, with similar milk pro duction per cow. But the report shows that there was a wide va riation in the feed costs per hun dred pounds of milk, the cost of roughage and grain per cow, and the returns per cow above cost of feed. In reaching a conclusion from the records, C. G. Cushman, dairy specialist of the Clemson College Extension Service, declared that if the second herd, which had beer, grazed only two months, had been provided with more abundant graz ing and for three months instead of two, the dry feed from the barn might have been cut down, thus effecting a further total saving in feed cost. In the monthly report of the Dairy Herd Improvement Associa tion, the extension dairy specialists offer the following timely hints: 1. Allow the permanent pastures to get a good start before the herd is turned on them in the spring. 2. Remove all manure from the barn and lot before hot weather to keep down fly breeding places. 3. Sprinkle lime in bams and lots after manure is removed. 4. Be very careful to cool and refrigerate the milk. —x- fhat enviable corn club record, thousands of club boys throughout the state have been making ex cellent yields of com. Of course of sweet potatoes in early March, had already pulled 42,000 plants April 6 and had 62,000 additional Diants ready to be taken from the bed. He calls attention also to the fact that T. L. Gramling, Orange burg farmer, had many plants ready for setting April 7 and was that 300 bushels of Louisiana sweet potatoes were bedded in Clarendon this season and that seven flue- they have not approached Jerry :‘ hen h ‘* m i oth > er Moore’s record, but they have been | from » h '<; h many plants will be producing two to three times their' available (or distribution to other county average. These boys pro-' S r '’ we ' s - duced their corn not on left-over rn further illustration of the fields but on productive land. They Progress of the sweet potato wor c went about their corn raising in a "Ports fr0 ™ C!are " d °" a!u1 business-like manner, selecting Horry counties. F. M. Hast, Claren- good corn land, using good seed county fain, agent, reports of adapted varieties, fertilizing in telligently, and practicing proper cultivation methods. ,. , . . .. . . ^ In 1936 South Carolina club boys heat ^ hotbeds and se oral ma- out on 1214 corn demonstrations nure-heated hotbeds were con- on 1274 acres of land which pro- ( fructed. Several farmers are going duced 43.208 bushels of corn, an baclt to sweet potato production, he average of 34 bushels per acre. The states after having been out for value of that corn was $40,587.16. several years, and he believes that One county agent in his 1936 Clarendon county may regain Its report declares: "Corn is grown title of the sweet potato county of chiefly for home use, and when So ^ th . . Car T ol i na f „ c y it its iiquallv v. M. Johnston, Horry county -arketed^hrough hogs. Our county farm agent, states that his office “e-age has dropped during recent has handled this season 516 bushels vlars to around 15 bushels per . of Louisiana sweet potato seed that Irll However we had three five- i went to about 50 growers. Plants cere com Improvement plots in | from these beddings vdll set many t935 that averaged 32.5 bushels per; acres of sweet potatoes m Horry acre at an average cost of 44 cents j :ounty. Another Large Peanut Crop In Prospect Growers are planning to produce another big crop of peanuts this year according to a spring outlook report issued by the Bureau of Ag ricultural Economics. Farmers were reported as plan ning a two per cent increase in acreage above that harvested in 1936. Average growing conditions would yield a crop slightly smaller than in the last two years; but conditions as favorable as in 1935 and 1938 would yield the largest peanut crop on record. Unusually large quantities of peanuts were crushed for oil dur ing the past two years; even larg er quantities are being crushed during the current 1936-37 season. This unusual demand for peanuts, together with improving consumer purchasing power, has resulted in substantially higher average prices to growers during the last three seasons. Average prices to growers on February 15 were fully one cent per pound higher than on the same date in 1936. Prices of cleaned and shelled peanuts, f. o. b. cleaning and shelling plants, were quoted recently at from 114 to 2% cents a pound above prices a year ago. With another large crop in pros pect, it appears that crushers will again have to take large quantities of peanuts, if prices are to con tinue at the levels prevailing in re cent years, the Bureau’s report in dicates. WANT ADV. FOR SALE—Bermuda Hay, at $14.00 per ton. Also baled oat straw. S. L. Britt, R. 1, McCormick, S. C. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of McCormick. In the Court of Common Pleas. Federal Farm Mortgage Corpora tion, Plaintiff, against Fred L. Bass, J. M. Brown and W. T. Brown, Defendants. Pursuant to judgment .of the Court and a Decree of sale in the above entitled cause, I will sell at public auction on Salesday in May, 1937 (the same being the 3rd day of May) in front of the Court House Door, in the City of McCor mick, County and State aforesaid, during the legal hours of sale, on terms specified below, the follow ing described real estate, to-wit: All that tract or parcel of land located,. situated, lying and being in Washington School District, County of McCormick, State of South Carolina, containing 32.93 acres of land, according to a plat of survey made by J. M. Bussey, Surveyor, on the 18t. day of De cember, 1918; copy of said plat now being on file with the Federal Land Bank of Columbia. Said lands being bounded on the North by lands formerly of R. A. Buchanan, now C. F. Osborne; on the East by lands now or formerly of W. N. Elkins and road to Prices; on the South by road to Prices, which sep arates it from lands now or former ly of W. R. Parks and lands former ly of T. G. Talbert, now of Mrs. W. C. Hollie; on the West by lands formerly of T. G. Talbert and R. A. Buchanan, now of Mrs. W. C. Holiie and C. F. Osborne. A cash deposit of five 15%) per cent, of the highest bid, unless made by the Plaintiff, or its At torney, will be required as evidence of good faith, said deposit to be applied on the bid should there be a compliance therewith. No deficiency judgment being asked, the right thereto being ex pressly waived, the bidding will close at the completion of the same. TERMS OF SALE; CASH; Pur chaser to pay for papers and stamps. J. FRANK MATTISON, Master for McCormick County, 3. C. April 12, 1937.—3t. NOTICE •V' iW FREE! If excess acid causes you Stomach Ulcers, Gas Pains, In digestion, Heartburn, Belching, Bloating, Nausea, get free sample doctor’s prescription, Udga, at Strom’s Drug Store. FOR SALE—One good mule, 9 years old, in good condition, for $125.00. Charles Freeman, R. 1, McCormick, S. C. WANTED—Young man experienc ed in Men’s Clothing, good pay and opportunity for advancement, per manent work for you if you will work. Apply Clothing. C o Index- Journal Co., Greenwood, S. C. Several thousand early tomato plants of different varieties. 30c. j pr. hundred F. O. B. here. J. R. I Garnett, Plum Branch, S. C. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. IN THE MATTER OF THE COUN TY BOARD OF COMMISSION ERS OF MCCORMICK COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, AGAINST MAUD D. WATKINS. ET AL. TO MAUD D. WATKINS, RUFUS MINER, HENRY C. MINER, LULA STAPLETON, E. W. HUGHES, E. WOFFORD HUGH ES, DEFENDANTS, AND KATH RYN HUGHES PATRIDGE, BER NICE HUGHES, MARGARET HUGHES, AND CHARLES HUGHES, INFANT DEFEN DANTS: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NO TICE, That the County Board of Commissioners for McCormick County, South Carolina, intends to condrmn a parcel of your land situated in the aforesaid County and State, containing in the ag gregate one and one-fourth (1 Vi > Acres, and being more particular ly described and indicated by a map hereto attached ana by stakes upon the premises, for the purpose ci building a public road from the Town of McCormick to connect with State Highway No. 20, at a point about two miles South of said Town of McCormick. YOU WILL TAKE NOTICE FUR THER, THAT a meeting of the County Board of Commissioners of McCormick County has been call ed to be held on the 15th day of May, 1937, at the Court House for said County, at McCormick, South Carolina, at 10 o’clock, a. m., to condemn said parcel of land above described for the purpose mention ed and to fix the compensation to be allowed to you for the taking of the said property, at which time testimony will be taken and all in terested parties will be heard. TO KATHRYNE HUGHES PAT RIDGE. BERNICE HUGHES, MARGARET HUGHES AND CHARLES HUGHES AND THE PERSONS WITH WHOM THEY RESIDE: TAKE NOTICE THAT it is neces sary that some suitable and com petent person be appointed as Guardian ad Litem to represent you, the said minors, in the above proceeding and, unless you apply for and have some person appoint ed as Guardian ad Litem for you, the Probate Court of McCormick County, South Carolina, will ap point some suitable person as such Guardian ad Litem. WITNESS our hands and Seals this 17 day of April, 1937. W. O. GRAVES. (L. S.), County Supervisor, H. E. FREELAND, <L. S.) f J. L. JENNINGS, (L. S.), County Board of Commissioners, McCormick County, South Car olina. ATTEST: J. O. PATTERSON, Clerk of Board. April 17, 1937.—2t. Insurance Fire Insurance And All Other Kinds of Insurance Ex cept Life. HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMIGK, S. C. WINN'S MARKET MARION WINN, Prop. INVITES YOU TO CALL t Quality Meats Groceries Fresh Vegetables Delivery Service. Phone 18 Augusta Street. McCORMIGK, S. C. 253 CE CREA Try Our Freezer Fresh Ice Cream. 10 delicious flavors to choose from. Ice Cream Sandwiches 5c Giant Paddle Pops 5c Double Ice Cream Cones 5c Banana Splits 15c 15c Pint 29c Quart. Curb Service. DORN’S CASH STORE * T. M. DORN, Prop., Phone No. 61 Augusta Street. McCORMIGK, S. C. \ KIM mt WHY SO PEYicLER ABOUT NATURAL SODA UNCLE NATCHEL? i. M •i m m WELL SUH it’s got plenty o’ nitrogen It’s quick actin’... Crop gets it right away. It’s got de vital impu’ities. An’ best of all, it’s jes’ plain natchel food fo’ cotton an’ cawn. T;-' CHSLEA* ftTRATE of p*o»v<rr of •'*' V UK Ml I® 1 ’* 9 CHILEAN ' NTRATC of SfltVL NATURAL AS THE GROUND. IT COMES FROM. Experience Service Facilities Those are the Important things in measuring the worth of a funeral director, and should be borne in mind when you have occasion to choose one DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICH and there is no additional charge for service oat of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, S. C.