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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
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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.
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It means something to all these oeople
when you buy a War
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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
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Carolina Remnant Store M. System Store
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Fennell’s Jewelry Store Sears, Roebuck &. Co.
Farmers Ice &. Fuel Co.
W. E. Turner
Newberry Monument Co S. C. National Bank