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HcCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, July 1937 HcCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, IMS i EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner ^tered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C„ as mail matter of • the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 " - ' Close Rivalry In June Dairy Tests / ■ Clemson, July 10.—Close rivalry among individual producers and slightly lower herd averages mark ed the production records of 318 dairy cows on test during June, according to the report of C. C. Brannon, in charge of Advanced Registry testing for the South Carolina Experiment Station. Highest herd average was 51.38 pounds of butterfat per cow, made by 17 Guernseys in the herd of J. B. Guess, Jr., Denmark. Three of these cows ■were also in the group of 10 highest individual producers Other herd placings were: sec- ondy 49.76 pounds averaged by seven Guernseys of W. E. Verdery & Son, Orangeburg; third 48.14 pounds, 9 Guernseys, W. C. King Bishopville; fourth, 47.08 pounds 15 Guernseys, Pedigreed Seed Com pany, Kartsville; fifth, 45.46 pounds, 10 Guernseys, J. B. Roddey Columbia; sixth, 44.68 pounds, C Guernseys, L. E. Stroud, Great Falls; seventh, 42.50 pounds, 6 Jerseys, Neal W. Workman, New berry; eighth, 42.32 pounds, 19 Jbr- seys, Wheeler Brothers, Saluda; ninth, 40.10 pounds, 20 Guernseys Ware Shoals MIg. Co., Ware Shoals; tenth, 39.44 pounds, 6 Guemseysr^t. B. Caldwell, Chester. First place among individual was won by Boast Ormsby Bonna. Holstein in the State Hospital herd Columbia, with 69.61 pounds of butterfat. The records of tSie other nine cows among the 10 > highest butterfat producers did not differ greatly, ranging from 66.24 pounds to 63.5 pounds. Dry Weather Needed To Hold Weevils Down Clemson, July 12.—Weevil counts made by agents in the Coastal and lower Piedmont sections last week show that 23.4 per cent of the squares were punctured, while adjacent fields receiving early ap plications of the 1-1-1 mixture show an average of 7.9 per cent punctured squares, according to reports received by W. C. Nettles, extension entomologist. “Several reports of dusting to control weevils have come from the coastal section”, says Mr. Net tles. “It seems that some of the larger planters who failed to ap ply liquid poison early have re sorted to this method of reducing unusually heavy weevil damage. “Since practically every cotton grower knows of the danger of damaging soil conditions with ' large amounts of calcium arsenate, it is surmised that these growers were very careful. “Many farmers have ‘picked up’ squares in the central portion of the state to aid in controlling the weevil.” Insurance L 1 1 i.jt* ■ Fire Insurance And All Other Kinds of Insurance Ex- i / • cept Life. ) • ; HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK, S. <3. jC — := — L_.gg* DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examined Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. #56 Broad Street Augusta, Qa CHEVROLET MOTOR DIVISION, Genera! Motor* Sake Corporation DETROIT. MICHIGAN McGrath motor company McCORMICK, S. C. 3 JESTER’S CASH MARKET i Phone No. 25 We Deliver Main Street McCormick, S. C. We carry a full line of Fresh Meats at all times and are always ready to be at your service. We highly appreciate your patronage. Before selling your cattle and hogs, see us. We pay the market price for them. ^ Wildcat Reunion To Be A Colorful Boll Weevils Are Hatching Gathering Of Veter ans, August 8th and 9th, 1937 Florence, July 12.—The State Re union of the 5,000 South Carolina Wildcats will be a colorful event. The Committees in charge of the Water Carnival will offer three cups for the best divers, three for the best swimmers. A tempting plate lunch will be served the Vets and their Ladles at this event. The Parade Committee will offer three prizes in the following classes: Best Commercial Float, Best Or ganization Fl^at. Best Commercial Car, and Best Private Car. The Street Dance Committee reports great plans for an outstanding -Insing feature of the great Wild cat Conclave. The Memorial Services will be held on Sunday, August 3, at 3:00 P. M. at which the Governor will make the Memorial Address. A showing of flashes of action, the World War Actions of the 81st Di vision will be shown at 5:00 P. M. Sunday, August 8. A reception to the Visiting Ladies by the Auxiliary of the American Legion, and a smoker to the Veterans will be Sunday features. Monday, August 9, the Business Session will be held at 9:30 A. M. followed by the Water Carnival, Parade, and Street Dance. All Veterans of the 81st Division are invited to this, their Reunion, and be sure to bring along your Ladies. The Wildcatters cordially invite their Comrades in Arms of other Units to join with them in this great gathej*ing of Veterans. In fields of old cotton the first generation of boll weevils have be gun to emerge. The young weevils are active in their work as evidenced by the number of fresh ly punctured squares. In some places the infested squares ready to hatch weevils are numerous. R. D. Suber, County Agent. xx Civil Service Exam inations Announced The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open competitive examinations for the following positions: Senior motion picture director, $3,- 800 a year; motion picture specialist, $3,200 a year; and junior motion picture specialist, $2,600 a year; Forest Service, Department of Ag riculture, and Social Security Board. Assistant clerk-stenographer, $1,620 a year, (for the blind, ex-! perienced in the use of Braille and | Braille machines), Office of Edu cation, Department of the Interior. All States except Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Washing ton, and the District of Columbia have received less than their quota of appointments in the apportioned departmental service at Washing ton, D. C. Full information may be obtain ed from the Secretary of the Unit ed States Civil Service Board of Examiners at the post office or i customhouse in any ritv which ha ft post office of the first or second class, or from the United States ( Civil Service Commission, Wash- ^ ington, D. C. Enjoy the pause that refreshes at GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. Greenwood, S. C. 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 SERVICE and there Is no additional charge for service out of tows J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, S. C. The Girl Who Was Plain B, ETHEL HEWEY © McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. ORMAN HARDY opened the door to B. N.’s office, stuck his head in, and remarked: “I saw that girl.” B. N. looked up over his spec tacles. “How is she? Do you think she is all right?” “No.” Norman was extremely in different. “No, she’s a dumb-bell. I didn’t hire her. She’s as homely as a rail fence.” “I don’t care what she looks like, if she can do the work,” B. N. mum bled. Norman closed the door and went upstairs to his office, where his own girls were anxiously awaiting his return with the verdict. For Bessie—their beloved Bessie —had just married and gone away to live, and her place had not yet been filled. It had come to the point, however, where they must have a girl for Bessie’s chair. Norman had interviewed a dozen or more applicants who came in an swer to his “ad” in a morning pa per. All of these applicants had been sent away. Then came a letter from Julia, neatly penned, carefully grorded, brief, concise. Norman had taken it to B. N. im mediately and B. N. suggested that Norman call on Julia on his way back from lunch. “There’s your girl, I guess,” he had prophesied. “That letter sounds like business.” But one look at Julia had con vinced Norman that she was not the girl. Back in his office, all eyes were focused on him. Lenora’s question ing eyes followed him till he felt compelled to answer. “Absolutely nothing doing,” he told her in an undertone, but Jes sie’s straining ears had caught the words. “Didn’t you hire her? What’* the matter? What does she look like?” she asked, all in one breath. “She is the ugliest creature I ever saw,” Norman said. “Her face is a mess, and her clothes don’t hang together; she’s fat and sloppy, and—oh, well, I didn’t hire her, any way.” “I’m glad you didn’t,” Leonora said, sympathetically. “We’d all hate the sight of her, I’m sure. We don’t want anybody in here, who isn’t good-looking, do we, girls?” Meantime, B. N., who, as office manager, claimed the privilege of hiring or firing as he saw fit or felt the urge, took it upon himself to call upon Julia Foster. Julia had said in her letter that she was a graduate comptometer operator, and that was just what the cost department needed to keep up their extensive records which re quired so much computation. He found Julia. He hired her. What did it matter if Norman didn’t like to look at her? Perhaps he’d put more time on his work if he didn’t have so many good-looking girls around him. For Norman was young, and Nor man was fond of good-looking girls. He couldn’t, or, at least, he didn’t, conceal the fact. So Monday morning Julia was there. The girls of the whole office force each took one look and dis appeared, to gather, as if by some silent call, in the dressing room, where they discussed Julia in ex cited voices. She was all that Nor man said, and more. Julia did look dumb! There’s no question about it. Norman was a little overcome when he was informed that she was coming, but by the time she ar rived he had recovered his aplomb and had arranged for her to have desk room at a long table in the nearly empty room at the head oC the stairs. Julia made no 'comment at this, but began her work quietly and ef ficiently. At the comptometer, she was a clipper. Neither Norman nor the girls was willing to admit her efficiency, and all with one accord piled the work on to her. All com putations of over two figures were given her to do, and the poor girl pounded that machine almost un^ ceasingly from morning till night. At night, her shoulders sagged and her eyelids drooped. She was unmistakably tired. But she was plain, homely, born to work. That’s all she could do, so why shouldn’t she do all she could of that? Not one of the girls would have con fessed to jealousy, yet any one of them would have given half her kingdom to possess the ability that Julia had. Day after day, for nearly three weeks, they continued to persecute her. Not once during this time did she utter a word of complaint. No matter what they brought her she did it and said nothing. One day, however, Lenora’s sense of justice came to the surface. She informed Norman that Julia wasn’t so bad looking when one got used to her. “She is really not so bad, you know. She seems pleasant, in spite of her plainness.” “And you know as well as I do,” she added, “that she is doing all the hard work of this department. It would be more fair of us to give her a chance at something else.” “You win,” sighed Norman. “It isn’t fair to Julia, I know, and I am getting used to her plainness. She has brains» anyway.” The next morning Julia occupied Bessie’s chair.