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tfcCOBMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thnrthy, April 13, 1944 CONSUMERS QUALITY BABY CHICKS White Rocks, New Hamp- es off e»ch Barred and Rhode Island shire 'Reds. Tues. & Fri. 10« — $12.75 S€ TM 25 3£1> Add 50c for postage on 100, 40c on 50, and 30c on 25. All 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. Mr. James Ben, A-S, tX. S. Naval Unit, South Carolina Medical Col lege, Charleston, has been spend ing a fdrlough here with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bell. Miss Henrietta Gilbert, student af Lander College, Greenwood, spent the week end here with her mother, Mrs. C. A. Gilbert. tan Fed! lave Points! Tech. Sgt. James Arrington of Port Jackson spent the week end here with his mother, Mrs. W. S. Arrington. Miss Gladys Brock of Feman- dina, Fla., spent several days last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Brock. it, Mrs. M. J. Futqueroh, in the home of Mrs. Jack Scruggs. Mr. K. E. White of Parksville was a visitor here Tuesday. Mrs. J. B. Smith spent several days last week in Atlanta and Marietta, Ga., visiting her daugh ter, Mrs. T. J. Haynes, and Mr. Hgynes. Mrs. Catherine Padgett and sons, Masters Jack and George Padgett, spent the week end in Clinton with her sister, Mrs. R. S. Truluck. Miss Irma Arrington of Charleston is spending some time here with her mother, Mrs. W. S. Arrington.' I Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Bryan and children, Delma and Howard, spent the week end with Mrs. Bryan’s mother, Mrs. J. B. Smith. Miss Evelyn Brock of Augusta spent the week end with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Brock. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Harmon of Bordeaux were visitors here Saturday. Apply NOW to your Ration Board for tho •xfra »vgar allofted you, to that you can 'Can as much of this Mason's fruit and bor< ry cron as possiblu. Pure Cane Su^ar AT FIRST SIGN OF A «66 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS Mr. and Mrs. Jack Scruggs spent the week end in Waycross, Ga., with their son, Mr. Jack Scruggs, Jr., who is a patient at the A. C. L. Railway Company Hospital. He is getting along very nicely at this time. Miss Audrey Loveless and Miss Ena Winsky of Anderson spent the week end in the home of Mr. and Mrs.-J. W. Loveless of near town. Mr. K. E. White of Parksville was a visitor here Tuesday. Miss Marion Hardaway of Au gusta spent the week end with Misses Gladys and Evelyn Brock. Mrs. E. E. Way land of Char lotte, N. C., and Mrs. C. D. Boyd of Andrews, S. C., are spending some time here with their moth- Mr. and Mrs. William Chambers of Waynesville, N. C., Miss Mamye Sturkey of Clinton, Miss Carolyn Hitt of the University of S. C., Columbia, were week end visitors of Mrs. Wessie S. Hitt. parents, Strom. &ttd Mrs. W. T. Sgt. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Yost of Ann Arbor, Mich., spent several days here last week with her par ents, Dr. and Mrs. Garnett Tuten, leaving Friday for a visit to his brother in Pittsburg, Pa. Miss Minnie Beth Brown of Au gusta spent the week end here with her parents, Sheriff and Mrs. W. L. Brown. Miss Doris Henderson of Colum bia spent the week end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Henderson. Jy LYTLE HULL Mrs. Ellie Jenning^ returned home Sunday from Greenwood Hospital, where she recently un derwent an operation for appen dicitis. Mrs. William Boyd has returned home, after spending a few weeks in Ruston, La., with Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Boyd. Mr. J. S. Dukes was able to come home Wednesday of last week from the Greenwood Hospi tal where he underwent an opera tion about two weeks ago. Miss Lillie Belle Rogers, student at Newberry College, Newberry, spent the w r eek end here with her mother, Mrs. Verna Rogers. Captain and Mrs. J. William Bradley of Camp Davis, Virginia, spent last week end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Bradley, and with Mrs. Bradley’s Remember — You Always Save At... 0 FARMER BILL Real spring wilf be along pretty soon and Farmer Bill will have to get down to plowing and seeding and he won’t have much time to spend on the daily chores. He will have to depend on the wife and Junior to do the milking, spray the apple trees, plant and cultivate as large a vegetable garden as they can handle, whitewash the fences and sheds, feed the pigs, cows Miss Lucretia Roper of Colum- and chickens, and keep the place bia spent the week end with her locking respectable — beside cook- parents, M_\ and Mrs. P. W. ing meals, cleaning house, look- Roper, of Troy Route 1. ing after the baby and preserving vegetables and fruit for the com- Mr. Edwin Bradley, A-S, V-5 ing v/inter. Unit, Newberry College, Newberry, | Last year Farmer Bill had spent the week end here with his George to help him, and together parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Brad- they were a hie to spread manure, ever produced and he’d got top prices for them. That crop was a God-send t(* Farmer Bill; he had paid off th*t loan at the bank which had beeit dragging along for years an<f which the bank had never fore closed because it had had faith i~i Bill. Everything depended upon thi; year’s “money crop,” and Bill and his wife were praying for an early spring and plenty of moisture i i the ground. Of course he’d hav’* to work harder than he did las’) year and for 16 hours a day in stead of 12 or 14. But he must ahead a little, and besides, th'3 nation must have food and mor r food—and who was he to put lw own interests above those of h‘T native land and the men wht were fighting for it. It was trv' he was using up the soil prett' .plow, keep the barn and cow shed clean, patch the fences, Miss Mary Fooshe, student at plant the “money crop,” cultivate Lander College, Greenwood, spent ant j harvest it beside doing the i fast what with the poor fertilizer the week end in the home of her miHQiig and helping a little with cou ld get nowadays—but ho parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. victory garden. But George Fooshe. Las gone now—he’s off some where in the Pacific, and occa sionally he sees and maybe reads Mr. Pal Roper of Augusta spent the week end with his parents, 1 a bout the farm bloc in Washing Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Roper, of t on an< ^ how the farmers are Troy Route 1. Mr. Edward Campbell of Green wood spent the week end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs G. E. Campbell. forcing up the price of food, and creating inflation, and compelling John Lewis and the poor coal miners to stop digging coal be cause they must have mere mon ey to buy the high priced food and more time in which to eat it. This past winter wasn’t very cold and the milk stock came Miss Miriam Edmunds, student at Queens College, Charlotte, N. C., spent the week end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. through all right—except for old. Edmunds. • Bossy who nearly passed out with pneumonia. The Vet’s bill was Mr. Bob Dorn, S 2-c, Norfolk, pretty steep but Bill made an ar- Va.. has returned after spending rangement to pay one-third cash a furlough here with relatives and an d the balance after the corn friends. and oats were sold in the fall. He lost a few of the late pigs arid one of the four pure blood Angus Heifers died. Not bad really—he’d taken much more of a beating Mr. William J. Jennings, Boat swain, 2-c, U. S. Navy, spent the week end here with his wife. the winter before—which was a long cold one; but he and George Mr. J. A. Young of Troy was a, had raised the biggest crops of both corn and oats the farm had visitor here V/ednesday. GALLANT-BELK COMPANY PALMOLIVE * OCTAGON GRANULATED 2 For 11c 5 Coupon Pkg. t * SUPER SUDS Lge., 23c Lge., 23c OCTAGON FLAKES OCTAGON .SOAP 2 For 15c 13 For 25c HONEYSUCKLE SOAP OCTAGON TOILET SOAP 5 For 21c 5 For 21c SPECIAL 3 1-8 Qt. Oven Proof MIXING BOWL OCTAGON POWDER 13 For 25c OCTAGON CLEANSER For Only 3 For 10c 40 OCTAGON COUPONS Sergeant Luther J. Andrew's of Jackson Air Base, Jackson, Miss., w 7 as here on furlough with his mother, Mrs. A. J. Andrews, the past week. would have to take that loss. Farmer Bill didn’t have much time to listen to the “news casters,” but he knew that tin city people had been persuad 1 that he was the cause of the high cost of living; and that smar, union labor leaders were able t-’* place the blame on him • instep 1 of upon the processors, the mid dlemen, and the manufacturer* who had to jack up their price; to meet the rising wages, short hours and the strikes. But all this unjust abuse ar T vilification didn’t slow Farmer Bill down. He had a job to d \ He was an American—in ever f sense of the word—and he w° * going to see his country through the war if it ruined his on! r means of support—his farm—ar l made an old man of him to boo 1 -. If he was paid higher prices fo? his crops—so much the better: but if not—it wasn’t going t> slow him down. Maybe the arm r could do without coal and steel— but it couldn’t get along withou”: food. Mr. W. W. Keown has returned from the University hospital in Augusta where he underwent an operation on one of his eyes a- bout two weeks ago. Private and Mrs. C. C. Morgan, Jr., visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. O’Neal, at Selma, N. C., last week before Private Morgan left for Ft. Meade, Md. Mr. J. J. Hester of Calhoun Falls was a visitor here Tuesday. Miss Ella Bradley Faulkner, stu dent at Winthrop College, Rock Hill, was here for the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Faulkner. Mr. Luther D. Weeks of Bowling Green, Ky., was a visitor with Mr and Mrs. O. B. Minor over the week end. Photogenic Elephant '.W'AWANW.V.: m Ifei mm :o i X'N , :**v.v>x sip pi liiigi ■ Miss Virginia Minor of Green wood spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Minor, of near town. Mr. Charlie Sanders, student at the University of South Carolina. Columbia, spent the week end here in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Sanders. “Jumbo,” king-sized mascot of a unit of the Indian air force, poked his pachydcrmic profile into this picture at a jungle airfield in Burma. E!ephant took advantage to insert his pu torial presence while camera man was trying for a shot of the Vultee Vengeances and Hurricanes of +he IAF in background. GALLANT-BELK COMPANY HOME OF BETTER VALUES GREENWOOD, S. C. Mr. D. C. Talbert was rushed to the Greenwood hospital Tuesday night of last week where he was operated on for appendicitis. He returned to his home'here yester day. Truman Committee Hears Edgar Kaiser ** Mmm Mr. and Mrs. Hal Harris, Jr., irmounce the birth of a daughter. Georgia Ann, on April 6th, at Overside Hospital, Charleston. Mrs. Harris is the former Miss Jackie McGrath. Capt. and Mrs. Jack B. Cooney announce the birth of a daugh ter. Toni Lynn Cooney, on April 4th, at the home of Mrs. Cooney’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Luke N. Brown. Capt. Cooney is with the armed forces in England. :? - ■ PS mm j -• -y*-*--'-fry-*. Edgar Kaiser, son of shipbuilding Henry Kaiser, shown as he testi fied before the Truman committee meeting in Seattle to investigate the breaking up of Liberty ships. Seated from left to right are Senate.* Harry S. Truman, Harley M. Kilgore and Mon C. Wallgren, Standing .eft to right: Sen. Samuel D. Jackson and Edgar Kaiser. - *•— r * ",