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McCUKMIUt MESSKNUEK, MeCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, April 6,1944 CONSUMERS QUALITY BABY CHICKS Banfed and White Rocks, Rhode Island and New Hamp shire Reds. Hatches off each Toes. & Fri. 100 - $12.75 50 7.00 25 ... 3.5J Add 50c for postage on 100, 40c on 50, and 30c on 25. Ail flock bloodtested. Con sumers Chicks are U. S. Ap proved. Place orders in ad vance. CONSUMERS HATCHERY AUGUSTA, GA. Owned and operated by Con sumers Seed Co., Augusta’s Leading Seed Store. (Pwidcnah Pvt. Oliver R. Walker of Wash ington, D. C., has returned after spending a furlough with friends and relatives in Troy. Mr. W. H. Hester of Mt. Carmel was among the visitors here i Tuesday. Mrs. W. E. Rheney has returned to her home here, after an ex tended visit to relatives in Miami, Fla. Mr. Alvin J. Willis, R. M. 3-c, of the U. S. Navy, spent several days the past week here with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Willis, ol ^ Troy. AT FIRST SIGN OF A 666 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS ,JU \ ! KY J. GOWN Sight Specialist Eyes Examinee Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. P5B Broad St-repr Auensta r>* INSURANCE Eire Insurance And AI Other Kinds of Insurance In eluding Life Insurance. HUGH C. BROWN. MeCORMICK. S C Mr. Herbert Rheney of Miami, Fla., is spending the week here with his mother, Mrs. W. E. Rheney. Rev. L. K. Simpson is to deliver the inspirational address at the spring meeting of the Edgefield association at Little Stephens Creek Baptist Church today. in Atlanta, buying mares and mules for his salestables here. -X- Misses Nora LaGroon and Eve lyn Reed of Augusta, Ga., spent the week end with the former’s parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. T. La Groon, of near town. Chief Petty Officer J. P. Wells, U. S. Navy, and Mrs. Wells, with their two children, Jackie and Brenda, of Norfolk, Va., spent several days here last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Giles. Mr. Wells’ mother, Mrs. J. C. Wells, of Plum Branch, re turned to Norfolk with them fora visit. Mr. J. L. Smith spent Monday Jennings-Wilkie Miss Arline Jehnings and Mr. Ray Wilkie were quietly married on Sunday afternoon, March 26th, at the McCorlnick Baptist pas to- rium with the Rev. L. K. Simpson officiating. Only a few relatives and friends witnessed the im pressive ring ceremony. Mrs. Wilkie Is the attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim B. Jennings of McCormick. Since her graduation from the McCormick High School she has held a posi tion with the J. L. Bracknell Store in Plum Branch. For her wedding she wore a beige suit with brown accessories and her corsage was of yellow orchids. Mr. Wilkie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wilkie of Plum Branch. He holds a position with the J. S. Strom Furniture Store here, where he and his bride are at home with her parents. X — Young’s H. D. Club Meets & men, who are as follows: Citizenship, Mrs. Janie Bell Long, Finance, Mrs. An»el Talbert, Membership, Mrs. T. O. Young, Education, Mrs. J. Thos. Wiley; Health, Mrs. R. C. Young, Music and Recreation, Mrs. J. C. Young, Publicity, Mrs. J. C. Young, Legislation, Mrs. D. A. Young, Beautification, Miss Willie Young, Agriculture, Miss Eva Young, Religion and Welfare, Miss Alma Young. After delicious refreshments the club adjourned to meet with Miss Willie Young in March. X LYTLE HULL CONGRESS—KEYSTONE OF LIBERTY Young’s H. D. Club met with Mrs. J. Thos. Wiley, Wednesday, 1 Feb. 9, with 9 members, one visi tor and Miss Bell present. Miss Bell gave a very useful and helpful demonstration on Home Dry Cleaning and Pressing. This should be very helpful to all of us as we wish to make each garment last longer. Officers had been elected at a previous meeting- who are: President, Miss Alma Young, Vice President, Miss Willie Young, Sec. and Treasurer, Mrs. Ansel Talbert. The president appointed mem bers for the departmental chair- / I ^ % tw ‘Jj Remember — You Always Save At... ■ fi :. :li % I. m J :).. \ , fii&Ui d GALLANT-BELK COMPANY , CAROLE KING ORIGINALS FOR JUNIORS “Puppy Love” A reaHy “doggy” print ... of Nanking Rayon Crepe, with a short fitted jacket of Sweepstake Spun Rayon. Firefly < Red with British Tile Blue or Grey Mist, Tropic Green with Mecca Tan or Mid way Sun. Sizes 8 to 15. 18.95 pins, handed in colorful Coolie Linen (rayon and cotton). Pretty ruffles a- dorn Mary Muffet’s “Dine ’Til Dawn.” Cocktail Crepe in bright mid-winter col ors. ‘‘Town ’N’ Country,” the famous Mary Muffet Classic now in rayon gab ardine. 9-15. m l-AO 8594-C 3-8 >73. | -tog . wD'?*: Second Floor . ylu : ji '1 V 66 99 CROSS MY HEART \ Princess line jacket of Butcher Lyn ray- l6n with rayon jersey criss-crossing and plastic buttons. With contrasting bright Rayon Acetate Jersey block-print skirt. In Jet Black with Red, Royal or Rally Green, Grey with Feather Red, Cana dian Royal or Rally Green. Sizes 9 to 15. $12.95 Second Floor LOVELIER THAN EVER . AND AS GOOD AS EVER .. THE NEW PRINTZESS COATS FOR EASTER 1944 They’re the kind of clothes vou love to m/ wear and wear. Beautiful, thorough bred styles that will stay smart for as long as they live and that’s a long, long time. $37.50 Summer Charm Pattern No. 8594c — A puffed- sleeve bit of charm to be worked up in bright, gay polka-dotted cotton for spring and mid-sum mer wear—the contrasting belt- and-suspender trim puts this simple frock into , the unusual class! |t Pattern No. 8594c is designed for sizes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 years. Size 4 requires 2 yards of 39-inch material; 3-8 yard contrast, i Mother’s puffed sleeve frock. Pattern No. 8594 can be had in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 40. Size 14 requires 3 yards of 39-inch material; 1-2 yard of contrast. MARY MUFFET’S EASTER CUTIES AT GALLANT-BELK 19.95 — 17.95 — 14.95 Smartly ready for early and late party ing. ‘'Parlor Trick" in Cocktail Crepe (rayon), fastened with Chinese hat PRINTZESS JR. DEBS $29.50 Sizes 9-15 The very essence of Spring is in ibis Printzess Coat for gay young things! But for aB its soft and charming air. r? it holds to tlie Printzess credo of top- notch tailoring and top-notch fabric, tested for longer wear and beauty. — Second Floor Name P* !•- ' Address Name of paper Pattern No. Size Send 15 cents in coin, (for each pattern desired) to— Patricia Dow Patterns 1150 Sixth Ave., New York 19, N. Y. What lucky people we are! We live in an atmosphere of complete personal freedom — tempered dur ing wartime, q£ course,. Jay a cer tain amount of necessary govern mental control. In normal times we can do about as we please just so long as we refrain from treading upon the toes of other free citizens. But we have an immense coun try of many diverse interests] climes and nationalities, and therefore a very difficult and in tricate one to manage. A law which might benefit one portion of this great conglomerate of in terests, might on the other hand be harmful to others; so our clever “founders”—looking far into the future—devised a system whereby every portion of the na tion could be represented at the seat of government to help make laws fair to one and all. The representatives of the va ried interests of the different parts of our land, naturally can not always agree upon laws and procedures—for the simple reason stated above. Wordy battles fre quently occur in the halls of our national Congress between mem bers who are trying to represent properly the districts from which they come. We can’t all go to Washington to sit around and see that we get a “square deal” for ourselves—so we agree locally upon a man to do it for us. He is us. Remove him from the seat of government —and you remove us. Then what would we have? We would have a president and his subordinate officers to operate a nation of 3,- 733,993 square miles with a popu lation of 130,000,000 people, and with necessarily but little inti mate knowledge of the million varied interests of this vast, com plicated, heterogeneous mass which we call the United States of America. So the biggest job on earth would become the business of one man, and if precedent meahs- anything, we would before long be following the same paths which must necessarily be follow ed by nations which place their affairs in the hands of a single individual. For no one man would be capable of making laws which would universally satisfy such a vast mixture as is ours; and only force could make us obey some of his rulings. And force means loss of freedom—that enviable state of being which can best be appreciated by those who have lived under, observed, or studied the opposite in foreign lands. And knowing all this—tli&e aro yet people who want to do awc.y with the keystone of our person al liberty — that political unis which makes the difference b - tween freedom and servitude—th Congress of the United Sta^e^ It wouldn’t make fnuch differ ence who the president was after that—he would have to be a dic tator. We can call one-man rulr by any name we like—but it is cf necessity “dictatorship.” Because if the citizens do not help him run the country through their representatives, he must do it a- lone, and as he sees best, and by dictation. Those who sincerely believe Mr. Roosevelt could manage the na tion best — ajpne; and those who for sinister reasons attempt to discredit our Congress to the point where the people will throw it out, should remember that Mr. Roosevelt cannot serve forever and that some day some one else will have to fill his place. An i that “someone” may be a man o; vastly different stripe: a man wb > would crush them after he ha l squeezed them dry. Beware of those who advoca*:^ in favor of throwing out our Con gress. We will be hearing mor j and more from them as time goes on. They are our enemies, th; enemies of our state, and the en emies of our Chief of State. x Invasion Rehearsal Causes Casualty ».«.w.X.X<*3W. , .v.y m < i m mm A British soldier who had trousers blown apart and bis legs burnt by an explosion charge walks ashore from a landing barge during a realistic rehearsal of invasion tactics that were carried out under actual battle conditions. He is one of the numerous casualties resulting from the massive invasion test maneuvers now being staged throughout England. FINAL SETTLEMENT GALLANT-BELK COMPANY HOME OF BETTER VALUES GREENWOOD, S. C. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, I County Of McCormick. In The Court Of Probate. Notice is hereby given that Marie Heath, Administratrix, ol the estate of Samuel Mims, de ceased, has this day made appli cation unto me for a final ac counting and discharge as such Administratrix, and the 2nd day of May, 1944, at 10 o’clock, A. M., has been fixed for the hearing ot said petition. All persons holding claims a- gainst said estate are hereby noti fied to present same on or by a- bove date. J. FRANK MATTISON. Judge of Probate, McCormick Co., S. C. April 1st, 1944.—4t. Old Containers Become a ‘Log Cabin’ '".as, - S'-* • T fm ET?" ~t§ m m : mi ' V . Tfit: m.. «\\ \ s ? mm m m a 11 lit What appears to be logs are actually the empty shipping container* in whiel. artillery shells reach the front. Two military policemen cf i a French Moroccan division find the containers to be utilitarian enousi* to provide them with the shelter they are building here, not far behinc the fighting line in Italy _ " ‘.I '• rf