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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOOTH CAROLINA Thursday, July 22, 1943 tfcGORMICK MESSENGER I* PafeUahed Every Thenday Jane S, ItM * l r*' EDMOND 1. McCRACKEN, Editor end Owner at the Post Office at Me- Oermlck, S. C., as mail matter ef the second class. f SUBSCRIPTION RATES: | One Year $1.00 ; Btz Months .75 Three Months AO Six Inch Sermon BY REV. ROBERT H. HARPER Bible Teaching on the Cost of Drinking. Lesson for July 25: Deuterono my 21:18-21; Proverbs 23:20, 21; I Corinthians 6:9-11. Golden Text: I Corinthians 6:9. The direction in Deuteronomy that parents should deliver a stubborn and rebellious son, “a glutton and a drunkard,” to the elders of the city to be stoned to death shows how utterly the sin of drunkenness was abhorred, but we shrink from the thought of executing a drunkard and from the thought of solving social evils by killing off the offenders. Why should the drunkard alone be punished in any way, when so many contribute to his woes? Let brewers, distillers, whisky dealers, voters and lax officers of the law give us the answer. The book of Proverbs sounds a warning' concerning the poverty a man may bring upon himself through drunkenness. It is easy to find sad examples of the tem poral ruin brought upon a man by indulgence in strong drink. But always one feels that only minor arguments are made in warning men against the tempor al ills of drinking. About a thou sand years after the book of Proverbs was written, the Chris tian apostle was concerned first for the souls of men as he wrote of several kinds of great sinners, including drunkards, .who would not enter the kingdom of God. Some of the Corinthian Chris tians had been such sinners, but they had regained their lost in heritance and had been cleansed and saved in the name of Jesus. Let our people everywhere unite in the purpose to put down a traffic that brings its worst dam age to the morals and souls of men. X PICKLES Another of our Food Conserva tion Methods is pickling—and no cellar or pantry is complete with out some of these pickles and relishes on its shelves. They are wholesome food only when prop erly made and have a place in the diet. They stimulate the ap petite and give zest to many a meal that might otherwise be commonplace. Here’s the caution though, adults should use them in limited amounts and they should not be served at all to children. Perhaps the most popular pickle is the “Bread and Butter”. It used to be eaten between butter ed slices of bread, hence its name. It is made from the once “lowly”, but, now the wartime “expen sive” cucumber. You may have many of them and you’d like to make some kind of pickle. Well, we recommend the “bread and butter” and green cucumber pickle to you and here’s how to make it; V Take 5 medium cucumbers, 3 medium onions, 1-4 cup salt, 1 cup vinegar, 1-2 teaspoon celery seed, 1 cup water, 1-2 teaspoon mustard seed, ginger, 1-4 tea spoonful tumeric and 1-2 cup white or brown sugar. You will wash the “cukes”, slice them in thin slices, peel and slice onions. Combine “cukes” and onions, add Salt and let them stand for two hours. Rinse well. Then heat the vinegar, water, all spices, and sugar to the boiling point. Add onions and cucum bers and stir and let simmer for about 5 minutes. Pack into steri lized jars, seal and process 15 miuutes. GREEN CUCUMBER PICKLE Gather cucumbers while crisp with dew, wash, being careful not to break the little black thorns. Soak in brine until next morning, using 1 C. salt to 1 gallon of water. Drain, rinse. Soak in fresh water 1 hour. Drain, soa^ in lime water 39 minutes, using /l tb lime to 1 quart of water. Drain, rinse well. Cover with boiling water and let them stand 5 minutes. Drain, wipe dry. pack in jars, fill half full of vinegar and finish filling with water. Close jar and let them stand until next morning. Re move a measuring cup of the liquid and replace it with a measuring cup of vinegar. Drain off all vinegar from the cucumbers, measure and to each quart add 2 C. of sugar, stir until dissolved, add a spice bag con taining 1 tb each of whole cloves, allspice, cinnamon bark and tsp. each of ground ginger and grated nutmeg. Boil five minutes, remove spice bag, pour in jars of cucumbers, process each jar 15 minutes. Seal. Matilda Bell, Co. Home Dem. Agent. ^ A SOUTH CAROLiH A strange place it would be — this State of ours—if our splendid 11,975-mile net work of improved highways suddenly ceased to exist. A great many communities would be isolated. 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All of us who Ih'c and work and pay taxes in South Carolina can take pride in our share of this highway system. . As fellow citizens, the Greyhound Lines have made a very large contribution in the form of license, fuel and operating taxes — but we feel that our greatest service is in putting the highways to work for the benefit of all who must travel, making near neighbors and good neighbors of all the communities we serve throughout the State. - (‘Too Many CooE^ Spoil tKe Broth’i .I. i ■■ Everything You Want To Know About The Waves And Spars ABOVE (‘•'HULLABALOO By LYTLE HULL THE GREATEST MILITARY BLUNDER OF ALL TIME STROMS CUT-RATE DRUG STORE Phone 95 McCormick, S. C. GREYHOUND LINES m IiiBlBil I i'llItiJSli FREE to every woman who wants to help win the war . . . . ( Get your copy now. 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