Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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YlH.tr* fHs* vi4«<invMf IV MM IM ? O 4 « warn* ism. ii:> • trains ferlhg your corr.p^rt'ion 'you magazine (which tends to encour age reading rather than talking' asking if he (or she) prefers t }"i' T e the window shade higher or lower, or leaving your seat for r few minutes and pardoning your- r if as vou climb back and forth. The purpose is to get that extra insight which come- from hearing the voice and watching the speak- j ing manner of a stranger. i SECRETS ... enjoyment In many instances, according to —by scientific tests with 22 other summer suitings ... actually averaging 22% cooler! Special Palm Beach "open window’* weave lets more air in to cool you off. Resilient Angora mohair blended with other cool fibers makes Palm Beach keep shape and fit for years. Darker colors as well as light —all tailored smartly to im prove your appearance even on the hottest days. See them now. *19 F. E. FERRIS & CO. 752 Broad St. Augusta, Ga. .STRANGERS Whether to talk or not to talk my observations and eaves-drop- !o the stranger Mtting next to you pings, the t people who, reach the on a train trip is one of the ma- point of autually speaking to one j^r problems faced by many a another usually proceed into long 'rrv?b?r. conversations. They may begin In, general, the American public with matter-of-fact disscussions has been educated not to talk to of the weather, where they are strangers. But when you con- going, where they came from, etc., template the fact that the human but they soon verge off into pou- being sitting at your elbow is go- tics, personal matters or a thou- ing to be there for the rest of the sand and one other topics of mu- dav. it tak^s a person enuinp^d tual interest. with powerful. mental blinders to Such cbnversatipns are not only avoid recognizing the existence of stimulating from the viewpoint of that person. meeting someone who leads an On the other hand, if you do entirely different type of existence turn to your traveling eompanion than your own, but they often and offer some pleasantry about encourage a freedom of exnression the weather or the newspaper which one would never think of headlines, there is always the imbibing in with friends and uossibilitv that it will lead to a neighbors. Many a closely guard- more miserable trio than one ed family secret is blurted out toi merely made uncomfortable by si- sympathetic traveling compan- lence. For you may find that ions. vnu’* tampon*iy side-kick is the On our home grounds we cata- kind who will talk you to death, logue ourselves as being the type; one with whom you have nothing of person we are recognized as| in common, or nne who will meet bein^ by the people of our com- your gesture of friendliness with munity. Without being too aware an icy stare. of it, we stav within the pattern Thf’•efore, before heedlessly div- of that classification. But bn a ing off the deep end into a hum- trip with a stranger whom we will an relationship which will com- never see again, we can try out a pletely spoil your journey, it is new personality break away well to begin by going through a' as much as we like from our “at preliminary process of sizing-up. home” role. i feinting and finally opening your I Far too many people, it seems invasion of the other person’s to me, forego a very special type mind only after planning how of enjoyment by ignoring the you can make a hurried retreat if people they could meet on a train, the reception is not to your taste. If you strike up an acquaintance .with a stranger there is always APPROACH . . . insight the chance that you will be sor- The sizing-up process should oe ry—but, if the stranger passes done without conversation. The your preliminary sizing-uf) exani-1 usual process, according to ob- ination, it is a chance well worth servations I made on a recent taking, trip, is to take quick side-glances at your seat-mate when you feel ouite sure he or she isn’t looking. Of course there is always the danger that your companion may glance at you at the same time as you do and your eyes will meet. In that instance, the defense, seems to be to smile wryly and! quickly go back to reading I i % v - ”" - ‘Not more than 10 per cent of e land in need of protection a been adequately treated to te. Ninety per cent of the job is as yet undone.”—The 1943 An nual Report, Soil Conservation Service. newspaper pr magazine until con ditions become more favorable. In the sizing-up process you are usually able to determine whether your partner falls roughly into the classifications whicn might be interesting to you, or whether he or she reminds you oi one of those people you have spent your lifetime avoiding. In the latter case the matter is settled and you can go back - to your reading. In the former case, however, it is time to move on to the feinting process. Feinting is ordinarily done by a gesture of friendliness such as ot- Last Call Sounded For Mopping Cotton Clemson, June 19.—Time to mop your | cotton in the Piedmont Section ot 77 , ■ ,T*' 1 Sa "Cr .i \ \ f , \ • */ / MODERN ^LASSES N. CREDIT =1KVVV.': ' v. y Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Registered Optometrist in Charge 826 Broad St. Augusta, Ga. South Carolina, is now ripe, says W. C. Nettles, entomologist of the Clemson Extension Service. A sufficient number of weevils is present to damage cotton if ex tended rainy weather occurs later in the season, Mr. Nettles finds. Most of the cotton has reached the stage where early poison should be applied. Detailed instructions will be found in Extension Circular 253, “How to Produce the Largest Prof itable Yields of Cotton Per Acre.” This circular is avaiable from county agents or the Publications Department at Clemson. Before THIS WAR IS OVER, there may be only two kinds of people in America... 1. thoso who con still got to work In ovtomoMos, 2. thoso who wo forced to walk. If you want to be in the fortunate group who will still be riding to work in automobiles, join Gulfs Anti-Breakdown” Club today. How do you do it? Just come in for Gulf*a Protective Mainte nance Plan! This plan was conceived by experts in car care. Gulf developed it because car maintenance is a most important dvi^pi job. (The Government says civilian car maintenance is one of the services essential to winning the war, because 8 out of 10 war workers use automobiles to get to work.) f ^ Here's 6ulf'$ Protective Maintenance Planv. w— . v <•« £ * * * * vi** Buy Your Furniture From J. S. STROM I Easy Payment Plan. No Carrying Charge. McCormick, S. G Dog Clinic For Rabies In McCor mick June 24th \ There will be a dog clinic for treating dogs against rabies in McCormick on Saturday, June 24th, beginning at 11 o’clock. Don’t neglect your dog and let him go mad later and bite some member of your family. The cost will be about the same as last- year. G. W. Bonnc-tte. County Agent. McCormick, S. C. X Local Post Office To Close At 12:00 Noon On Saturdays y * Vl tt/yuteests tpu* 'LL I VANGEX. points! . w.intfnmce Plan In* GULF'S ^ fericants induct wear. oa” and GuMwtoe. w* Sit C^u* r.v'' %}' It site ichts (jOuAy ’^coupons! AIR-FILTF^ and and radi»t<" iL ^ m^es g« burn more ***• A v - dean ph£« mere** power; r £j Oaaolmn power* the offodr. • • Don’t watte a dropl “> Get afipouitw&it \ ♦ ( n3 AtqsiiA, GULF STATION! ' TO HELP YOUR G ’Dealer do a thorough job on your car, make an a ^ointment. Phone or speak to him at the station. \ lien you should encounter no delay when you get Gulfs Protective Maintenance s,- Plan... 15 services in all! Better car cai^ • ’to auo/cC BreaActowns tt/no/routf Postmaster J. E. Bell stp.tes that effective Julv 1, 1944, the local post office will be advanced to an office of the second class, there fore. the clerks will be on a fortv hour work week and the Post Of fice Department has directed him to close the office at 12:00 o’clock on Saturdays and to remain closed until 8:00 o’clock Mondav morning, therefore, there will not be anvywindow service at all on Saturday afternoons and Sundays altho. th£re will be a clerk on duty to dispatch outgoing mail that is deposited in the "drops” properly stamped, but mail not properly stamped cannot be dis patched. because the stamp stock will be locked and no sales made at all. Section No. 436 of the Postal Laws and Regulations reads in part as follows: “Post Offices oi the first and second classes shall not be open on Sundays for the purpose of delivering mail to the general public, but this provision shall not prevent the prompt r - livery of special-delivery mai ’. The clerk that is on duty ^ i Sundays will dispatch such moil in the lock boxes as he has tin' to, but there will be no other de liveries except as stated regard in.; special-delivery mail. ORDER STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County Of McCormick. A .PETITION having been filed by more than one-third of the resident electors and a like pro portion of the resident free hold ers, over the age of twenty-one years, of School District No. V, McCormick County, requesting an election to pass upon a special four mill levy for said School Dis trict, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Trustees of the said School District hold an election in said School District for the purpose of determining whether said special four mill levy shall be collected for school puposes, the election to be held on June 27, 1944. It is further ordered that notice oi Isaid election be given by publish ing notice in the McCormick Mes senger for two weeks and posting I notice thereof in at least three public places in said School Dis trict for the same length of time. [ At said election the Board of Trustees of said School District shall act as manager and only qualified electors of said School District shall vote in said election. DONE this the 8th day of June, 1944. i COUNTY BOARD OF ED UCATION. THOS. R. TALBERT, J. M. BROWN. Trespass Notice All forms of trespassing a~e hereby strictly forbidden on the Manganese Mine property North ; 0 f State Highway No. 43 and i South of Persimmon Branch m 'the Town of McCormick, S. C. CHEROKEE MINING CO., By J. G. Dorn. McCormick. S. C., June 12, 1944.—3t. X- Don’t look now, but that bandit sneaking down your cotton row is Billy Boll Weevil. Blitz him with out mercy. Barbecue I will serve a barbecue and hash dinner to colored people on the lot next to Mr. Frank Dilla- shaw’s Filling Station on Satur day, June 24th, cooked and man aged by John DeVore. Dinner will be ready at 12 o’clock. And will sell barbecue meat and hash to white people who come for it, or will deliver it anywhere in town, in my containers. COOT WARREN. McCormick, S. C. «L.