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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, July 3, 1941 McCOKMICK MESSENGER r r T Published Every Thursday established June 5, f&OS EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Me- , Cormlck, S. €., as mail matter of the second class. I SUBSCRIPTION RATES: •One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 dreat Weevil Danger t farmers Urged To Poison Weevil And Pick -Up Squares. XOPAVdnd fo** Clemson, June 28.—Information gained from farmers, reports pub lished by the Pee Dee Experiment -Station, and field surveys made by AY. C. Nettles, extension entomolo gist, indicate that the boll weevil Is a menace to high cotton yields in the Coastal Plains section this year. In some sections of the state cotton plants are too large for early poisoning, but in some parts of the Piedmont much of the cot ton is yet small enough for effec tive presquare applications of the 1-1-1 mixture of sweetened poison. Mr. Nettles advises. A small per centage of farmers are equipped to dust and he cautions them to modify calcium arsenate dust and to use it sparingly so as not to in jure soil conditions or build up ■damaging plant lice infestations. “Sentiment is strong among thinking farmers for picking up squares and it is really surprising liow many farmers might follow this practice”, Mr. Nettles says. -“In late June three years ago, one farmer supplied the following plan snd data on picking up squares: One boy can cover four acres a day. Actual checkups have shown that a careful person can pick up S5 per cent of the 1 squares which -have fallen. So this farmer plan ned to pick up squares at least once a* week for three weeks. Counts showed that he was pick- -ing up 1200 live weevils, or grubs, to the acre, a large portion of which would emerge before July 4. “Farmers should give immediate thought to picking up squares as a means of weevil control, and the infested squares should be de stroyed by burning or burying under at least one foot of soil”, Mr. Nettles concludes. -txt- Livestock In Summer Need Special Care In midsummer livestock need careful attention, says County Agent M. A. Bouknight who makes these timely suggestions for July. Animal Husbandry 1. Keep hogs grazing on green forage. 2. Arrange to turn hogs on corn when it is in the glazed stage. 3. Reserve some permanent pas ture to be grazed by beef cattle in late fall and early winter. 4. Feed the workstock three times a day. 5. Change pastures for livestock if possible. 6. Provide shade and fresh water for all classes of live- -stock. 7. Observe the livestock for screwworm infestation and give treatment, if necessary. Dairying 1. Mow pastures frequently. 2. Destroy breeding places for flies, and use skimmilk-formaldehyde poison (3 gallons of skimmilk, 1 pint of 40 per cent formalin, 1 pound of sugar) in shallow pans to kill flies. 3. As milk production falls off, supplement pasture with balanced grain mixture. 4. Feed up to two pounds of grain daily to growing stock to maintain nor mal growth. 5. Keep milk or cream sold for manufacturing purposes in barrel or tub of cold well or spring water. 6. If retail milk producer with surplus at this season, dry off all low producing cows that are bred for fall fresh ening. Poultry 1. Keep mash before laying Liens; it helps to keep their bodies cool and stimulates egg produc tion. 2. Reduce feed cost by cull ing non-layers and not by reduc ing feed. 3. Keep a grain feed be fore the pullets and don’t start feeding a laying mash until the birds are at least five months old. 4. If troubled with roup or chicken pox in past years, vaccinate pullets when two to four months old. Don Robinson FORTUNES ideas If you want to make a fortune, all you have to do is think up some little idea which fills a need of millions of people. Lewis Waterman did it by in venting a fountain pen that wouldn’t leak. William Painter did it by devising the simple cap you see on pop bottles and beer bottles. Hyman Lipman made a fortune by putting a little rubber eraser on the end of a lead pencil William Gillette did it by making the first safety razor blade. There’s nothing to it—this mak ing a million dollars—if you run across the right idea and put it to work. Just look around your house. Think about how some lit tle step in house work could be made a little easier. Think of a way to speed up dish-washing. Whenever any job about the house irks you, think up an idea for making that task more pleasant. Somebody’s going to do some thing to rid us of present incon veniences, and you might as well be the one to make the fortune as the next fellow. were pretty much confined to the labor group, most of whom don’t have college degrees or engineer ing training. Yet over 2,000 men submitted ideas in that contest and about 1,000 of them were Eight Colored Men To Enter Training, 10th Dan A. Bell, president of the practical ideas—ideas which could i0C? - koaid of Selective Service, conceivably help Uncle Sam w T ith a : 1 } nounces eight colored men ripfpncA nrnaratv» .‘-i-. iCpOl^ Uv For,. JaCkSOil O.l Thursday, July 10th, for a year’s INVENTING fascinating Inventing sounds like a fas cinating business when you talk to an inventor. I talked to one recently who has his mind so chock-full of ideas that he doesn’t know what to do with them all. And a lot of them are good, practical ideas, many of which have paid him handsomely. Ray Gross told me that he’s been inventing things ever since he was a kid in short pants and for many years now he has devoted all of his time to the exploitation of his ideas. For each successful idea he thinks up he has dozens which don’t work out—but he showed me a few recent ones which were enough to convince me that he has a whole trunkful of ideas that will pay dividends when he li.ids the right buyers. One I particularly liked was a phonograph record printed -on paper. He is selling that idea to advertisers so they can have a record pressed into their maga zine advertisements. When that goes into production, people will be able to tear an advertisement out of a magazine, put it on the radio and listen to a good re production of music or voice. Soon, when you spend a nickle for a magazine, it may include all the atest nmnbers on the Hit Parade! SUGGESTIONS book Mr. Gross has so many ideas which he hasn’t time to do any- hing about that he has assem bled several hundred of them into a book called. “Fame and Fortune in Ideas.” He hasn’t time to finish inventing a lot of them, so he just broadcasts the basic ideas to any one who wants to pick them up and put them to work. Such things as paper dust cloths, slot machine gasoline tanks, magnetic dust absorbers, self-cleaning pipes, vibrating erasers, automatic nail polishers, music page turners, mosquito electrocuters, fireproof money, and a hundred and one other ideas. Mr. Gross is one of America’s eading exponents of the “Never say can’t” idea which has been responsible for so many of the in ventions we have today. And the subject is of such great interest to him that he isn’t satisfied with merely inventing himself. He wants to encourage everyone else to invent. That’s the reason he prepared the book on the subject, and that’s the reason he started the American Bureau of Invention, which helps embryo inventors to make their inventions pay. CONTEST defense 1 don’t know how many thou sands of Americans have taken a crack at inventing during their life-time, but it’s hard to find any one who, when cornered, won’t admit having done a little tinker ing and thinking over an inven tion at some time or other. An interesting example of the scope of this interest was demon strated recently in a contest con ducted by the Revere Copper & Brass company. That concern, which is doing a lot of defense work, advertised a competition for ideas which would aid defense, and limited entries to men who worked with machines or metals. That meant that the replies the defense program. The winning idea was one to end accidents and death resulting from blind landing of airplanes and the government already is working on putting that idea, sGb- mitted by Eugene Phillips of Texas, to work. But the most interesting part of the response to that contest w&s not the ideas themselves, but the evidence offered to show that men working in our mechanical trades aren’t just pulling levers and dreaming. They are keeping their minds busy thinking up new ways to do things faster and bet ter—new ways to make America an even more desirable place to live and work than it is today. x Essay Contest Winners Given military training. They are Willie DeVaux, Will Ike Williams, volunteer, Willie (BuddyV Patterson, George Sulli van, Berry Gartrell, John Willis Jasper. Amos Harrison and James Norman. Alternates are Harvey Smalley, volunteer, Ralph Tatum, William Kelley, Willie George Hill, James Middleton, Joe Tillman Haskell, 3enn Walton and George Martin. txt Poultry Short Course At Clemson August 26-28 ciiuncBTI Ol'NCEMENJS SCHEDULE FOR BUFFALO. TROY AND BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCHES. Insect Damage Severe On Late-Planted Com Severe insect damage frequently occurs to the unfolding leaf fun nels of late-planted- corn, partic ularly in fields from which oats have been harvested, says Coun ty Agent M. A. Bouknight, ex- Buffalo—Sunday School every plaining that the insect eausino- Sunday morning at 10:00 o’clock. this damao-p i* h,p causing Preaching every 1st and 3rd I , 13 the eom-ear worm Sunday morning at 10:45 o’clock. anas snatter worm, tomato fruit Troy—Sunday School every Sun- worm, tobacco budworm vetch day morning at 10:00 o'clock. worm, and corn budworm Preaching every 2nd and 4th Farmers “ iV Sunday morning at 11:00 o’clock. . ain ! ei Planting their mam Bethany—Sunday School every C10 P cor n early have largely a- Sunday morning at 10:30 except voided this type of damage. Ur- on 4th Sunday when at 2:30 o’clock less very favorable conditions Preaching every 4th Sunday during Iate summer, when afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. ‘ | thls insect is abundant, late- Rev. Wade Kay, Pastor. McCORMICK BAPTIST CHURCH SCHEDULE Columbia, June 30.—Gilbert Hardee, agricultural student of the Loris High School, president of the Loris F. F. A. Chapter, and also president of the state F. F. A. Association, has been adjudged winner of the 1940-1941 essay contest sponsored by the South Carolina Association of Future Farmers of America in coopera tion with the Chilean Nitrate Educational Bureau. Over 450 es says were submitted in the contest. Young Hardee has been active in his F. F. A. work, and was state winner in the Individual Future Farmer contest conducted last year. He is at present time con ducting a supervised farming pro gram and holds the State Farm ers degree. The title of young Hardee’s es say was “The Plant Food Deficien cies of Crops Grown on My Farm and What I am Doing to Over come Them”, and in his paper he gave a complete description of his home farm, the crops planted on it, the effect of plant foods upon the growth and yield of these crops, the improvements needed in the cropping system, methods of fertilization of each crop, use of cover crops, farm manures, and soil management in order to make improvements. Hardee will be awarded a cash prize of $30 at the state F. F. A. convention in August and at the same time nineteen other cash prizes will be awarded in the con test, four prizes in each of the five districts. The winners by districts follow: Anderson District: Edwin Dun lap, Anderson School, Anderson; Edwin Cook, Fountain Inn School, Fountain Inn; James Campbell, Gray Court-Owings School, Owings; and Carroll Garrett, Fountain Inn School, Fountain Inn. Spartanburg District: Herman Clement, New Prospect School, In man; Wendell Guinn, Roebuck School, Roebuck; Lloyd White, Blacksburg School, Blacksburg; and Rogers Taylor, Prosperity School, Prosperity. Columbia District: E. M. Rollins, Pageland School, Pageland; James Branham, Camden School, Cam den; Kenneth Crout, Batesburg- Leesville School, Batesburg; and John Lewis Langford, Batesburg- Leesville School, Batesburg. Walterboro District: Festus Liv ingston, North School, North; Clemson, June 30.—Announcing the twelfth annual state poultr short course, which will be held at Clemson, Aug. 26-28, P. H. Good ing, extension poultryman, invited all persons interested in poultry production and poultry marketing problems to attend the three-day course of intensive instruction. “This course is arranged to give the busy farmer the greatest a- mount of information in the least possible time”, Mr. Gooding says. “There are no requirements for attending nor fees attached. The only expense will be getting to and from the college, and for meals, which may be secured on the campus for about a dollar a day. There will be no charge for lodging in the college barracks, but visi tors who stay in the barracks must furnish pillow, bed linen, and toilet articles.” Turning To Barley As Corn Substitute Clemson, June 23.—That farmers in various parts of the state are turning to barley as a partial sub stitute for corn is indicated in re ports from county farm agents and others. “We are especially pleased with the barley crop”, says Colin Mc- Laurin, Marlboro county farm agent. “Fanners are reporting good yields. Some have quit corn and others indicate their inten tion of switching to barley for an other year.” “For the past few years we have tried out barley in a few demon strations, which have all done well”, County Agent J. M. Eleazer reports from Sumter, another Pee Dee county.) “This year our pro gram planning committee thought we were ready to advocate barley as a general crop. We therefore pushed the planting of it, and several hundred farms have it now. It is making uniformly good yields—higher than we could ex pect- from corn and at about a third of the cost, and we feel that this new crop has assumed a per manent place in the county.” From the coastal area Beaufort’s county agent J. E. Youngblood re ports: “A recent statement by one of the state’s leading seed breeders that he was surprised himself to learn that barley did as well as it did near the coast is emphasized by the showing of that crop in Beaufort county this year. Despite far from ideal weath er conditions barley in three Charles Rivers, Ridgeland School, j demonstrations on the farms of Ridgeland; Loyal Hutto, Williston-■ W. A. Campbell, F. R. Ford, and Elko School, Williston; and' Brays Island Plantation produced Thomas Hartzog, Barnwell School, j satisfactorily, and these demon- Barnwell. Pee Dee District: Jimmie Skin ner, Ash wood School, Bishopville; John Brogdon, Manning School, Manning; and Randolph Willis, Johnsonville School, Johnsonville. strations will influence more bar- Leonard K. Simpson, Pastor. planted corn is often a failure. For small roasting-ear patches, Mr. Bouknight advises a quick maturing variety on a productive soil with adequate fertilizer to in sure vigorous and rapid growth. An arsenical poison, similar to Sunday school every Sunday that for controlling the tobacm Dukes! 1 Superintendent 10 ^* S * budworm ^ has given promising re Preaching at 11 o’clock a. m. suits m South Carolina on small and 8 o’clock p. m. every Sunday, casting-ear patches, but it is not Baptist Training Union at 7 to be considered for large aerp o’clock every Sunday evening. J. 1 ge acre Fred Buzhardt, Director. Prayer meeting every Wednes day evening at 8 o’clock. Come, let us worship together in all of these services. ages. NOTICE OF ELECTION Whereas more than one third of the qualified electors and more than one third of the resident freeholders of Bordeaux School PLUM BRANCH CHARGE Preaching Appointments: . . Asbury Church—First Sunday, District have petitioned the Coun- 11:09 A.M. ty Board of Education for an Republican Church—First Sun- election, it is ordered that the day, 4:00 P. M., also third Sunday, tru stees of Bordeaux School Dis- 11:30 A. M. trict hold an election on the 8th St. Paul (at Plum Branch)— day of July, 1941, at Bordeaux Second and fourth Sundays at school house to determine whether 11:30 A. M. a special tax of two additional Sunday School at Republican— mills shall be levied for the pur- Each second, third and fourth pose of paying past due indebted- Sundays at 11:00 A. M.; on the | ness and operating expenses. first Sunday at 3:00 P. M. Foster Speer, Pastor. PREACHING AT BORDEAUX Preaching at 4 o’clock the first Sabbath afternoon of each month. The services are held in a room adjoining Cade’s store. All in vited, children and adults. S. W. Reid, Minister. Those favoring the levy shall vote yes and those opposing shall vote no. The polls shall open at 3 a. m. and close at 4 p. m. E. P. BENTLEY, Supt. Of Education. June 18, 1941.—3t. To relieve Misery of COLDS PLUM BRANCH GROUP OF BAPTIST CHURCHES. Geo. P. Lanier, Pastor. Try LIQUID TABLETS SALVE NOSE DROPS COUGH DROPS ‘Rub-My-Tism” - a Wonderful Liniment 666 Plum Branch—Preaching. 11:30 m., 1st and 3rd Sundays. Sunday I School, 10:30 a. m., each Sunday, o’clock. Training Union, 6:30 p. m., each BRADLEY A. R. P. CHURCH Sunday. W. M. S., 3 p. m.. Wed- Afternoon service on the first, nesday after 2nd Sunday. Dea- third and fifth Sabbaths at 3:45 cons’ meeting, 7:30 p. m., Friday P- m - before 1st Sunday. Sabbath School on first, third Quarterly Conference, written and fifth Sabbaths at 3:00 o’clock, reports from all departments, 1st You are invited to worship with Sunday in Jan., April, July and us. October. Observance Lord’s Supper—Each 3rd Sunday, following quarterly conference. Parksville—Preaching, 7:00 p. m. 2nd Sunday and 11:30 a. m., 4th Sunday. Sunday School, 10:30 a. m. each Sunday. W. M. S., 3 p. m. Wednesday after 2nd Sun day. Quarterly Conference, 4th Sunday in Jan., April, July and October. Modoc—Preaching, 3 p. m., 1st Sunday. Quarterly Conference, same Sunday in Jan., April, July and October. W. M. S., each month. Lord’s Supper, each quar ter. Bethlehem—Preaching, 3 p. m., 2nd Sunday. Sunday School, 2 p. m., each Sunday. W. M. S., 3 3. m. Saturday before 3rd Sunday. Quarterly Conference, 2nd Sunday in Jan., April, July and October, ord’s Supper, each quarter. Rev. R. E. Craig, Pastor. INSURANCE Fire Insurance And Al) Other Kinds of Insurance In eluding Life Insurance. HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK, S. C. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examinee Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. 936 Broad Sueei Augusta, CJ> METHODIST CHURCH SCHEDULE McCormick Methodist Church— Sunday School every Sunday *at '0:00 a. m.; Preaching at 11:00 a. m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sundays, and at 8:00 o’clock every Sunday evening, except 3rd Sunday even ing. Prayer meeting Wednesday even ing at 8:00 o’clock. Young Peoples Division every Sunday evening at 7:15 o’clock, except 3rd Sunday night when they have charge of regular preaching service at 8:00. Troy Methodist Church.—Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. 1st, 3rd and 4th Sundays; 2nd Sundays at 3:15 cppm P- m.; preaching 2nd Sunday 4:00 p. m.; 4th Sunday 11 a. m. The Epworth League meets 2nd and 4th Sundays at 8:00 o’clock. Rev. W. M. Owings, Pastor. ley next year in the county.” From the Piedmont come simi lar reports from several agents. “It is frequently talked among farmers that beardless barley will replace some of the corn crop an other year since they have that bailey can be profitably grown in the county”, says C. B. Cannon, Laurens county agent. “J. W. Tinsley, Laurens, thrashed from four acres of hooded beard- ^ hnrlpv 3R5 hnshpK npr nriP The ReV> R ‘ E ' Cralg mak es the less bailey J8.o ousneis per acie f 0 n 0Win g announcements concern- and from two acres of Marett’s ing the services at the churches in awnless barley he thrashed 39.3 his charge: LONG CANE A. R. P. CHURCH Services on the first and third Sabbaths of each month. Sabbath School at 2:30 p. m., Mr. Horace D. Brown, Superin tendent. Sermon by the pastor at 3:30 p. m. This church extends a cordial invitation to the public to attend these services. W. C. Kerr, ' Pastor. MT. CARMEL A. R. P. CHURCH Preaching, the 1st, 3rd and 5th Sabbaths at 11 a. m. Sabbath School every Sabbath at 10:15 a. m., Miss Lennie Covin, superintendent. Rev. S. W. Reid, Pastor. PRESSLY MEMORIAL A. R. P. CHURCH, McCORMICK. Preaching, the 2nd and 4th Sab baths at 11 a. m. Sabbath School every Sabbath at 10:00 a. m., Marshall Creswell, Supt. Rev. S. W. Reid, Pastor. bushels per acre. W. G. McDaniel, Laurens, thrashed from six acres TROY A. R. P. CHURCH Morning service on the first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 11 McCORMICK PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH SCHEDULE Sunday School every Sunday morning at 10 o’clock. Preaching on 2nd and 4th Sun day mornings at 11 o’clock. A cordial welcome to all. „Rev. J. W. Williams, Pastor. of hooded barley 65 bushels per o’clock. Afternoon service on the aC re.” ! second and fourth Sabbaths at ‘H. O. Long, who had 10 acresi 3: |% 0 b ^ l! s ch00l on the of Marett’s awnless barley planted third and fifth Sabbaths at 10 made a yield of 40 bushels per o’clock and on the second and acre”, says J. L. King, assistant fourth Sabbaths at 2:30 o’clock. agent of Newberry county. “On the {lf f b sabbaths °at Wclock^ a " d same land under similar weath er conditions he stated that a corn crop would have been a com plete failure. Good yields were made on other barley demonstra tions.” CEDAR SPRINGS A. R. P. CHURCH Morning service on the second and fourth Sabbaths at 11:15 o’clock. Sabbath School on the second and fourth Sabbaths at 10:30 McCORMICK CHURCH OF GOD Sunday School every Sunday morning at 10 o’clock. Preaching service at 11 o’clock every Sunday morning and preaching every Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock. Prayer meeting Wednesday night at 7:30 o’clock. Young People’s Service every Saturday night at 7:30 o’clock. A cordial welcome to all. Rev. W. L. Davis, Pastor. 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