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:».i5 XHi. iNKVVBKKKY SUM Signal Corps Photo Paratrooper Pvt. W. H. Higgins, Jr., drops in unexpectedly on his dad. Merchant Marine Capt. Hig gins, aboard ship at Naples. The son’s chutes and father’s ship were bought with War Bond funds. Buy War Bonds. U. S. I rroxury Departmoul MRS. TOMPKINS CASHIER OF LOCAL SOUTHERN BELL OFFICE Mrs. Ethel Eddy Tompkins has been made cashier of the local South ern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company taking the place of Miss Lucy Epps, who was retired by the company according to their custom after serving for more than 25 years. Mrs. Tompkins has been an em ployee of the Southen Bell company for a number of years and has been well trained for the position and brings to it the qualifications which will make for successful service to the company and the public. She is a native of Newberry being the daughter of Mrs. W. H. Eddy an the late Mr. Eddy and has lived here all her life COTTON GINNING REPORT Census report shows that 15,508 bales of cotton were ginned in New berry county, from the crop of 1044 prior to Jan 16th, 1945 as compared with 14,453 bales for the crop of 1943. AUDITOR S TAX NOTICE Returns of personal property, new buildings, transfer of real estate, poll and road’ tax, are to be made at the County Auditor’s office beginn ing: JANUARY 1, 1945 THROUGH FEBRUARY 28, 1945 All able-bodied male citizens be tween the ages of twenty-one and sixty are liable to $1 poll tax; all J persons between the ages of twenty- | one and fifty outside of incorporated K towns are liable to pay commutation tax of $1. All dogs are to be as sessed at $1 each. All returns are to be made by School Districts. Your failure to make a return calls for penalty as prescribed by law. PINCKNEY N. ABIAMS, County Auditor Home Demonstration By ETHEL L. COUNTS It is time now to pepare for brood ing some early chicks. Place your order for chicks early. The quality of chick you get is moe important than the price, of the chick. You can’t expect to get good strong chicks from blood-tested stock for a very low price. The “cheap” chick of poor livability is the most expensive one in the end. Have brooder house or coop and brooring equipment ready well be fore the date on which you get your chicks. Scrap, scrub, and thorough' ly clean houses, coops, feed hoppers and water containers that have been used before. Boiling lye water is one of the best cleansing agents. Be careful, though, in using it, and keep children away from it. Move brood er house to clean ground if possible. Check your brooder to see that it is in good condition and operating satisfactorily. Do this long enough ahead to order and install any new operating parts that may be needed. Have your feed for the chicks on hand. Keep it in rat-proof cans or bins. You will need about 7 to 8 lbs. of feed for each chick up to 12 weeks of age. If you have your own corn and wheat you may mix your starting ration by this formula— Start the chicks on it, and keep full feed hoppers before them all the time. * 50 lbs. yellow com meal 25 lbs. wheat shorts 15 lbs. cotton seed meal 1 lb. salt. When feeding this ration let the chickens out into the sunshine every day. Give them\ plenty of green feed. Keep fresh water before them. If you have skim milk give it to them. Start with good chicks, have brood ing equipment ready and feed on hand before you get your chicks. While you are brooding the chicks keep house or coop, hoppers and fountains, very clean. If they are on the ground, it should be clean ground with a good grazing crop, such as rape or rye, growing on it. 5* WILD LIFE SOUTH CAROLINA WITH PROF FRANKLIN SHERMAN HeAS-ckSMsok e6LLfes-mrt or zoouoov TRESPASS NOTICE — Trespassing any form—hunting, hauling wood, fishing—is strictly forbidden, on the lands of the undersigned and any violation will be prosecuted. Signed: H. O. Long, B. O. Long, J. G. Long, A. P. Werts, T. Blair Boozer, Guy Boozer, J. H. Bow ers, S. L. Porter. tfc LOANS ON REAL ESTATE AUTOMOBILES AND PERSONAL PROPERTY NEWBERRY INSURANCE AND REALTY CO. NED PURCELL, Manager TELEPHONE 197 Exchange Bank Building AT FIRST SIGN OF A c OV>D - *666 Cold Preparations as directed WE WILL BUY—Your burlap sacks or any kind of old rags, slso scrap iron and other metals. See W. H. STERLING. TRESSPASS NOTICE—All hunting or otherwise treepassing on the lands of Mrs. Pat Mitchell or Mrs. Claude Summer is expressly for bidden and will be prosecute under the law. 31-St There is more need fo Stay-at- Home parties now, and the old-fash ioned Taffy Pull is one answer to what to do at a Stay-at-Home party. Here is a recipe that will be easy on the sugar supply and will also make a good taffy: Molasses Taffy 1 c. granulated sugar 2 c. molasses 3-4 c. water 4 T. butter or margarine 1-8 t. soda 1-4 t. salt 1-2 t. vanilla Put sugar, molasses and water in a large saucepan or kettle; stir un til the sugar dissolves. Cook slow ly to the hard-ball stage (290F), stirring during the latter part of the cooking to ipevent burning. Remove fom the heat, add butter or marga rine, soda, salt and vanilla. Stir only enough to mix. Pour into a greased shallow pan. When cool enough to handle, form the mass into a ball with a spatula. Pull until it becomes light in color and cut into small pieces with scissors. Mrs. E. W. Gayle and twin daught ers, Agnes and Sally, returned to their home in Charleston Sunday, af ter spending several weeks here with Mrs. Gayle’s paents, Mr. and Mrs. Hack Wallace on Main steet. Mrs. Gyle and daughters, were accompain- ed to Columbia by Mrs. Wallace, where they ought a plane for Char leston. ' Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. DeVore and daughter, Mrs. Elliott V. Dawkins, moved to the Wiseman Hotel last Saturday where they will make their home for the present. THIS I KNOW Mrs. J. R. Grigsby, Gaffney, S. C. I dpn’t know when we’ll get more eras. Or permits for new tires. I don’t know howl long my shoes will last, Or when my sugar stamp expires. I don’t know what will next be taxed. Or what may come about. I don’t know just how many things We’ll have to dd without. ThereVe so mafriy things which I don’t know, They fill my mind with care. I shall list instead, the things I know And seek for comfort there. I know that winter is on the wane, Her rule is almost o’er: That spring will gently come again And knock on nature’s door. I know that yellow bells and jon quils, Will clothe the earth anew. The birds will fill the air with song And skies be azue blue. This, too, I know within my heart, The Ruler of nature’s span, Will in His own time set aright The ways of mortal man. I know that love will conquer hate; That force can never stand, Against the glory, might and power, Of God’s avenging hand. LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE Commonly called “Loggerhead,” and “Butcher-bird” both of which names are close to accuracy, but it is often quite erroneously called “French Mocking-bird.” About the size of a catbird, cardi nal and mockingbird but is not close ly related to any of those. Often seen perched on phonewires or posts along highways. Appearance and markings somewhat like mockingbird but shorter tail and white of the wings is in two separate bars, (not one large white patch as in mocking bird). A black patch or “mask” across the face. Bill hooked like that of a hawk. It is found throughout the state and stays throughout the year; it or the closely related subspecies known as Migrant Shrike may ndfet in South Carolina ;this point is not yet clear and it would require collecting specimens in all seasons for several years, which we have not done; the few which we have taken, chiefly in winter, have been the loggerhead shrike. When flying it usually swoops to ward the ground, flies level and low, and then zooms upward to its new perch. From its perch you may see | it fly down to ground and thresh about in the grass. A student wonderingly brought me a grasshopper impaled on a locust- thorn; said it had evidently stuck it self on the thorn in its flight,—nc, that was the work of loggerhead shrike,—it habitually impals grass hoppers, other large insects, small birds, lizards, small snakes, mice, etc., on thons of trees or bushes or on the barbs of wire fences. It ap parently does this under an impulse to store food for a time of scarcity, but we do not know that it return-, in after weeks or months to devour its store. Sometimes you may find a dozen or perhaps a pint, of insects and other victims thus “crucified” by this bird. It hals only a squeaky, errattic "song,” which does not in any way resemble the rich song of true mock ingbird. It is our only specie-, of bird which has the habit of impaling victims on thorns. Most of its victims are of destructive tendencies and thus log gerhead shrike should, we suspect, be properly considered as a beneficial species, though we have some reser vations against it on account of the small birds which it kills. MRS. HUNT RESIGNS AS SUPER INTENDENT OF REEDY RIVER BAPTIST ASSOCIATION NEW Mrs. Walter H. Hunt, who has been superintendent of Woman’s Missionary Union of the Reedy Riv er Baptist association since 1913, has recently resigned on account of ill health, according to notice in the Baptist Courier. Mrs. Hunt served as superintendent of the associational W. M. U. for 31 years continuously with the excep tion of one year, 1918, when she served as vice-president of the West ern Division, and her tenure of office is the longest terrrf of service of any superintendent in the state. Mrs. Hunt not only has this rec ord for service in the W. M. U., she has also been president of the Wo man’s Missionary Society of the lo cal First Baptist church for more than 48 years ,and has taught the young women’s class in the Sunday school of this church for a like per iod. She is a devoted worker in church and civic betterment activi-' ties ,and her friends and associates regret that her health is such that she is foced to retire from active sevice as the association W. M. U. president, and express the hope that she shall soon regain her health. If you are interested in birds log gerhead shrike is one which you should know. B Interes dub wor following purchase! sey calv Robert ( Mr. and ] Ruby Fr Mr. and Charles C W. D. Cn communil A Jers It means something to all these oeople when you buy a War '"y I * \ . >1 When you buy a War Bond, it affects a great ^nany people. FIRST, it buys weapons for the American boys overseas. SECOND, it encourages our fighting allies, by demonstrat ing that the American people are in this scrap to the finish. THIRD, it brings cheer to the starving and oppressed in Nazi-occupied territories, because it means a quicker end of hunger and tyranny FOURTH, it discourages Hitler and Tojo—and is a punch at the morale of the German and Japanese home fronts. Newberry Ins. & Realty Co. E. B. PURCELL Gilder & Weeks “The Right Drug Store’’ Newberry Creamery R. M. LominackjfHdwe le$a& tfEl BACKING THE ATTACK | Carolina Remnant Store M. 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