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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, December 9, 1937 mi W-'fr- is- Pi 'wmx'r'i.-' m VcCORMlCK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 edmond j. McCracken, 'Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick. S. C., as mail matter of the second class. HTTBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 *tx Months .75 Three Months .50 Sunday School Lesson BY REV. CHARLES E. DUNN Christian Fellowship. Lesson for December 12th. Revelation 21:1-7. ■■■■■faaaastwgwsgpnwBaMBwagxgBnnBinPBiBBWSBMMKWwwaaBBs U t PF l^ f r ' / I #1 ■~*r vjr iqi m if mi .^p m am H MM r» l > Vi* Golden Text: 1 John 1:3. There is a remarkable interest to day in church unity. People are perplexed by the presence of so many churches of different names and ideas. “Why don’t the denomi nations come together?” is a fre quent' question. Now this divided state of the Christian family is no new prob lem. You find it in the New Testa- , ment, in the story of the Christian Society in its beginnings. At first there was a fine spirit of united fellowship. But as the movement spread, serious differences arose. There were quarrels, bickerings, scandals. As a result the household of faith became divided much as it is today. Let us not assume then that the church was united in the first cen tury, that its divisions are modem, the fruit of the Reformation. As a matter of fact the church has never been completely united since the enthusiasm of the first days when the spell of Pentecost was upon it. Even in the mediaeval period, when she was at the summit of her pow er, there were heresies and threat ened schisms. Indeed it is inevitable that there should be many kinds of churches. The world is not at all homogene ous. There are many nations, lan guages, races, levels of culture. There are therefore many differ ing outlooks on life. But while fully recognizing these inevitable differ ences in accent and background, it is perfectly true that we have too many denominations, and, in many communities, too many churches. Therefore we should welcome such a splendid gathering as the epoch-making Oxford Conference last summer on Church, Communi ty, and State which reached a fit ting climax in the impressive ser vice held in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, when the Archbishop of Canterbury preached from that historic pulpit to a congregation of more than 4,000 Christians repre senting 45 countries. XXI High School Music Contest At Coker College Hartsville, Nov. 29.—Notices have gone out to the high schools of the state from the music department of Coker College announcing the fourteenth annual music contest for public school music students for April 12, 1938. The competition in piano, voice, and violin will be limited to girls in the junior and senior classes of the high schools, and the glee club contest to clubs consisting only of girls, and limited to a maximum of eighteen members. Prize awards will be made to first and second place winners in each cf the individual contests of non- transferable music scholarships of the value of $100 and $50 respec tively. The winning glee club will be awarded the Denny Cup and ten dollars in cash, and the second place winners five dollars in cash. The rules governing the contests require the specified compositions to be performed from memory, the work of the winners to be of suf ficient excellence to warrant an award, and that application to en ter must have been made prior to April 8, 1938. Virgil Smith, head of the depart ment of music of Coker College, is the director and will provide high school officials and individual con testant: with coir.plere information ahi-t the contests. A** mig mmmm xjie.- 5® ir:; m? CHEVROLET MOTOR DIVISION, G*nral Motors Sales Corporation, DETROIT, MICHIGAN .w .A nJ McGrath motor go. McCORMICK, S. C. Good Livestock Care Is Needed In Winter Winter calls for good care of livestock, says County Agent R. D. Suber, making these suggestions for December: Animal Husbandry Graze hogs on winter forage— barley, oats, or rye. See that the beef breeding herd has enough cheap roughages and cottonseed meal to prevent loss of weight.* Give sheep one-half pound of grain and all the hiy they will eat. See that all classes of livestoc': have shelter and bedding and pro vide extra bedding during cold snaps. Repair fences during spare time. Kill hogs for home use. Dairying Protect dairy cattle from direct drafts and from rains. Feed milking cows to limit of appetite, good quality roughages preferably silage and legume hay. Feed grain in proportion to milk produced by each cow. Give dairy cattle access to pure fresh drinking water. Graze cows not over two hours per day on winter grazing. Watch calves for lice. Produce quality products. Keep rest bams well bedded for a big supply of manure. Poultry Make the poultry house free from drafts. Examine the laying flock for lice and mites as an infestation of either ' will lower egg prdduction. Feed grain liberally to keep lay- ' ers in good flesh. I Get brooding equipment in or der. late coming into production, also those that show any indications of being sick.” Pointing out that sometimes con siderable trouble is experienced be cause of a large number of floor eggs, the county agent suggests that additional nests may help to correct this trouble. If cne nest to every four or five hens is already provided, the trouble may be cor rected somewhat by darkening the nests. This can be done by making the nests deeper or by hanging some feed bags about 18 inches in front of them. If the birds still refuse to use the nests, it would be wise to put the nests on the floor until the pullets get accustomed to using them. “It is a wise plan”, says Mr. ; Suber, as a linal suggestion, “to i go into the house with a dim flash light or lantern after the birds go to rcost to see if certain parts of the roosting space are avoided be cause of drafts or other reasons. It may be necessary to place some of the pullets on the roost at night until they get the habit.” -xx- Centers Selected For Examinations -txt- Watch The Pullets In Laying Quarters “The poultry flock owner’s job is not over when the pullets are put into their laying quarters", says County Agent R. D. Suber, advis ing that if these pullets are to be most profitable, the owner must keep an eye on them from the time j they are put in the laying house until the whole flock comes into production. “It may be that some of the more aggressive pullets will keep others fought off from the feed hoppers” he continues. “In such cases, ad- j ditional feed hoppers may correct the trouble. In other cases, it might be well to remove some of the less aggressive pullets and put them in a pen to themselves. “It would be wise to cull out the slow-developing pullets that are Centers at which several hun dred candidates for positions with the South Carolina Unemployment Compensation commission will be examined were announced Dec. 4 by Dr. J. McT. Daniel, supervisor of examinations. The time for fil ing applications for the various positions open expired November 27. The supervisor said the examina tions would be held at 8:30 the morning of December 18 in public school buildings at each of the six following places: Rock Hill, Green wood, Columbia, Florence, Orange burg, Charleston. The examinations in the respective centers will be in charge of John G. Kelly, registrar at Winthrop college, Rock Hill; Walter W. Benson, principal of Greenwood high school. Green wood; A. R. Hafner, principal of University high school, Columbia; John M. Harlee, principal of junior high school, Florence; Fred S. Cox, principal of Orangeburg high school, Orangeburg, and George C. Rogers, principal of Memminger high school, Charleston. Doctor Daniel said six persons were working day and night as sorting and classifying the appli cations and that before December 18 all candidates for positions would receive formal “slips” by which they would be admitted to the examinations. All sections of the state are represented in the numerous applications which were on file with the supervisor when the time for applying expired No vember 27. Applicants will be examined for positions open under 21 different classifications, as follows: Assistant administrator, chief ac countant, senior accountant, senior accounting clerk, intermediate ac counting clerk, junior accounting clerk, office manager and person nel officer, senior clerk-stenogra pher, intermediate clerk-stenogra pher, junior clerk-stenographer, Junior duplicating machine opera tor, junior clerk-typist, senior clerk, intermediate clerk, junior clerk, junior file clerk, senior bookkeep ing machine operator, junior book keeping machine operator, tele phone operator, and recep tionist, senior field adviser, junior field adviser, direc tor of research statistics, statistic ian, and information representa tive. The advisory committee on per sonnel is Dr. G. Croft Williams, di rector of the school of social work at the University of South Caro lina, William P. Jacobs, president cf Presbyterian College of South Car olina, and J. H. Gaillard, secretary of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Columbia. xx Weekly Cotton Grade And Staple Report For South Carolina For Week Ending December 2, 1937 Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 4.—Since ear ly in the ginning season, the week ly reports issued this season have shown evidence of lower grades and shorter staple lengths for the 1937 crop than for the 1936 crop when this season’s report was com pared with corresponding reports for last season. The superiority of last season’s crop as regards grade is shown by the fact that Middling and higher grades include only 65 per cent of samples classed to date this sea son, as compared with 63 per cent for corresponding date last season. The superior quality of last year’s crop as regards staple length is in dicated by smaller proportions of the longer lengths this season. Staple lengths 1 inch and • longer comprise only 45 per cent of sam ples classed to date, against 60 per cent for similar period last season. Notice Any one wanting fur tags can get same from me. D. M. McGRATH, Game Warden, McCormick County. UJHYBOTHEft BRKE w 4mm Wm, V I zm Si B when Cl&isSSenS ' m&tiL /mit Guht IS 50 RICH • SO DIFFERENT 50 FULL OF GOOD THINGS/ CLAUSSEN’S wondrous Fruit Cake . . . made on an old-time home recipe, is litt rally crammed full of high grade nuts and choice fruits. For 96 years the preferred Fruit Cake. Order today. AT YOUR GROCER’S wm. i m G. i J crul ClauSSenS m JraitGahc^ 1 • ';*•-«r: r • *?W> ' ' ’s Department Store GREENWOOD, S. C. Offering the lowest prices on Ladies’ and Children’s Coats and Ladies’ Dresses. S16.50 and $19.50 coats now at the low price $9.95. $10.95 and $12.50 coats now at the low | price $6.95. Reduced prices on every coat and dress in our store. Big line of Christmas goods. Do your shopping early. Anderson’s Department Store Greenwood, S. C. JESTER’S CASH MARKET Phone No. 25 Main Street We Deliver McCormick, S. C. When you are in town be sure and come by our market and let us suggest your meat needs for you. We will give you your choice of meats. Prices are Reasonable, Meats the Best. We carry a full line of Fresh Meats at all times and are always ready to be at your service. Fresh Fish and Norfolk Oysters, Thursday, Fri day and Saturday. We highly appreciate your patronage. Before selling your cattle and hogs, see us. We pay the market price for them. We have reduced prices on pork and are offering it at the following prices: SPECIAL Pure Pork Sausage 20c Pork Chops 20c Pork Boast 20c Pork Ham 25c Pork Ribs 20c We grind sausage for the public.